The Red Shelf

Do you like the red shelf? My mind isn’t entirely made up about it perhaps due to the disparity in heights and hues. I also have a larger collection of Vintage Classics and together they would make a striking colour & publisher shelf like my silver Penguin Modern Classics one. As for patterns, I don’t [...]

The Yellow Shelf

During my rainbow bookshelves series I have been conscious that I had no yellow shelf to contribute. For some reason I don’t own many yellow books (and yet have an abundance seemingly in other colours); what I do have can be seen below in a little stack, minus a copy of A Thousand Splendid Suns [...]

The Blue Shelf

So, what do you think of my blue shelf? Again, in honour of my colour-themed bookshelves, this shelf was a spur-of-the-moment creation for the photo-op. Perhaps coincidental, I notice that there are a number of enchanting reads on this shelf, all magical in their own way. I love blue and the gradation of the colour [...]

Bookshops 1.1

This isn’t the best photograph that I have ever taken and it also doesn’t do justice to the cavernous space of Foyles bookshop but I did promise an indoors image for my Bookshops series of posts. This is an appendix to my first post of the series. I love wandering around this shop, especially the [...]

The Pink Shelf

Purely for the photo-op but isn’t this shelf striking? I’m not sure if my head would hurt having this as a permanent fixture although I do love purple and pinks. On the pink shelf are a handful of Virago Modern Classics; some more Angela Carter; some seminal LGBT fiction; some erotica; some fairy tales secondary [...]

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