The Grey Shelf

I retained the grey shelf in my book collection to share with you this week during our Persephone Reading Challenge. Some of the Persephones shown above will feature themselves when I blog about them, either as ones I have previously read and loved or ones that I will be reading, at some point this week. [...]

The Green Shelf

I have referred in the past to my burgeoning collection of the original bottle-green Virago Modern Classics. My green shelf photographed above is actually only about half of the ones I have so far collected with some double-backed and others in a pile elsewhere. I also have about another thirty Virago Modern Classics with modern [...]

The Black Shelf

Another colour-themed bookshelf for your bibliophilic voyeuristic eyes! Like the orange shelf, this black one is purely for the photo-op, but it is so striking that I am persuaded to create one in the future as a permanent addition to my personal library. Perhaps telling of the genre, most of the black books above belong [...]

The Silver Shelf

Previous posts have shown you some of my colour-themed shelves, which are a mix of titles all with their cover cover in common. My silver shelf is slightly different (and less exciting, I think) in its being devoted to one imprint, Penguin, and their silver modern classics. As a book lover I am a huge [...]

The Orange Shelf

Following the introduction of my white shelf I thought I would, in a creative spurt, temporarily add an orange shelf to my bookcases. I have always wanted an orange shelf and one day this will become a permanent addition but solely for your viewing pleasure -whilst I was in a bored and restless mood- I [...]

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