How To Use Bookshop In A Sentence

This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
They grew up within walking distance of the countryside and spent much of their time either rambling or in the local bookshop. Times, Sunday Times
It is said that Scheiner, on hearing this in a Rome bookshop, turned purple and shook violently.
Haven't had a chance to visit the other newer bookshops in kl, since I'm hardly in m'sia and I don't come from kl. A Quick Guide to Bookshop Chains
By a stroke of luck I came across it in a local bookshop.

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I spent Sunday afternoon poking around an old bookshop.
I owned a bookshop and desired to expand the business.
Where to Stay guides are available from good bookshops everywhere.
In second-hand bookshops around Melbourne you can still find copies of his grandfather's sermons.
Madison’s Main Street is treasured for its art cinema and an independent bookshop that plays host to top authors and bejewels its heavy wooden cases with staff-scrawled book recommendations. Beauty and the Beach
He has worked as an editor, copywriter, lecturer, careworker, sheep wrangler, bookshop assistant and supply teacher.
This is the thing about second-hand bookshops. Times, Sunday Times
Small independent bookshops can't compete with the large stores.
A book signing will take place at Reids Bookshop, Cavendish Street, Keighley, on Saturday, December 6, at 3 pm.
But what of the secondhand and antiquarian bookshops? Times, Sunday Times
He was a prime mover in developing a new style of customer-friendly bookshops in the UK.
I trawled through bookshops, I searched for the perfect cup of coffee, I bought records by Ella Fitzgerald from the second hand record shop on the way to the Grafton Centre.
A friend of mine has a book which was published commercially in Malaya and which isn't even listed on Amazon, but he has been able to sell a goodly number in his local bookshops, despite that.
Austen's fictional circulating library, Clarke's, in Meryton may have doubled as a bookshop and stationer's, like the business of Thomas Wilson in Bromley, a market town ten miles from London. What Was Mr. Bennet Doing in his Library, and What Does It Matter?
Unfortunately time was against me and I didn't read as much of it as I probably should have done, so when I saw the pocketbook in a bookshop in Cardiff itself, I bought it immediately.
How can newsagents or bookshop managers possibly vet everything that they sell?
A bookshop's customer base might well change as a result of changing stock profile.
It is this large distribution network that keeps our first-hand bookshops in fresh stock.
By a stroke of luck I came across it in a local bookshop.
Mold Bookshop33 High Street, Mold, Flintshire CH7 1BQ, 01352 759879Among the usual modern fiction, classics and art books, there's a definite tendency at the Mold Bookshop toward travel, history and children's literature, reflecting the interests of owner Caroline Johnson. Independent bookshops in Wales
We're lucky to live next door to a large number of shops, restaurants and cafes, and - after we'd snarfed a triumphant breakfast of World Cup winning sausages, bacon and eggs - we made our way to search through the second-hand bookshops.
Ameche and Tierney are a handsome, appealing pair from their first meeting in a bookshop, while Charles Coburn (as scampish Grandpa Hugo) and Allyn Joslyn (as Henry's strait-laced cousin Albert) round out a fabulous supporting cast. John Farr: Laughing in Style: That Special 'Lubitsch Touch'
When they walked out of the bookshop Newman made a tremendous effort to carry on a normal conversation. COVER STORY
They can be had in second-hand bookshops for a few pounds, and in charity shops for pennies.
Anyway, I scoured a few bookshops to find good books on how to do your own plumbing.
The book launch itself was a study in Wellington writers and readers: equal parts present, they filled up the bookshop until there was no elbow room at all and the staff serving nibbles had to hold the trays high above their heads.
As the year draws to a close, a plethora of sports books is hitting the bookshops.
I have a friend who used to run a second-hand bookshop in the city.
He wanders the streets until he finds a rickety old bookshop with a'help wanted' sign in the window. Times, Sunday Times
Ann became a Catholic as an adult and entered the book trade working at a Catholic bookshop in Exeter.
On a recent blazing summer afternoon, in the cool vault of her underground office, bookshop director Francoise Simon sparks with enthusiasm about her stock of more than 4,000 books and her polyglot, horticulturally savvy staff. Gardens of Delight
The windows of the big chain bookshops are littered with junk that nobody with a reading age in double figures would want to read. Times, Sunday Times
In this last Anna had excelled herself, having an epileptiform seizure in the huge bookshop on the corner of the Leone IV and nicking the pharmacopoeia while people ran about for water. The Vatican Rip
On the doorstep are canoeing and a medieval castle, as well as bookshops galore and an ice-cream parlour. Times, Sunday Times
It's a puzzle with three sides to it," he thought, as he descended the crepitant stairs, "The Bookshop, the Octagon, and Weintraub's; but that book seems to be the clue to the whole business. The Haunted Bookshop
I'm proposing a bibiobibuli award for Malaysia's squidgiest bookshop (based purely on ambience - not on the range of books they carry) and nominations are now open. Archive 2005-11-01
Yes, yes, obviously I've an interest; obviously I'm hoping you're going to rush to the bookshop to buy mine.
When I randomly opened the first volume in the Charing Cross bookshop, this is what I read: Her complexion was exquisitely fair; and it was a disadvantage to her beauty that the fashions of the day obliged her to hide the color and texture of her fine silver tresses under a load of powder and pomatum. The most unusual book in your house.
`Darling Michael's given me a book token and I'm just wondering if I should drop into the SPCK bookshop and invest in a tome on prayer. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
The firm continued to publish books, and there was talk of opening a bookshop.
Nothing unusual in that, but what singles Doctorow out for special mention is that as well as the book being available in bookshops, it is also available to download - for free.
The castrates were, however, deadly serious in their pursuit of a paradise on earth, and Meek says he came across a history of them in a Parisian bookshop.
The bookshop has decided to branch out into selling software and electronic publications.
Many bookshop owners believe the future of the small bookshop may depend on the outcome of the case.
The company went public in 1992 and within two years was operating out of department stores and bookshops.
British bookshops and publishers said that such a deal would be unlikely in Britain. Times, Sunday Times
This German postcard arrived yesterday from the lovely Katja, a student of literature in Tampere, Finland; she found it in the university bookshop. Girls Go Postal! | Krawattennymphe
More than one in ten independent bookshops went out of business last year as the sector suffered its worst slump in a generation. Times, Sunday Times
Book sales as such became an incidental, minor percentage of daily turnover in this and other bookshops.
With its early 20th-century version of a Tudor timber-framed double front, the Hunting Raven Bookshop fits right in. Independent bookshops in south-west of the UK
I pressed him on whether he really did want to work in the bookshop or wanted to study instead.
No Arlott journey of the middle years was without a chart of secondhand bookshops, antiquarian caves.
These translations remain in the bookshops for a year at the most and are then remaindered.
A bookshop's customer base might well change as a result of changing stock profile.
I browse around religious bookshops and find so little that strikes a chord with me. Times, Sunday Times
He had started a literary bookshop in the 1930s.
In 1991, for example, there were no magnetised feet or disembodied voices in the bookshop. Times, Sunday Times
There was a festival atmosphere in UK bookshops as children eagerly flocked to snap up the latest tale.
Its central streets boast an eclectic mix of gift shops, boutiques, delicatessens, old-style butchers and bakers plus a high-quality art gallery and fantastic bookshop.
I recall well the thrill of finding in a Paris bookshop a definitive biography of the contemporary French king, Louis VII.
She has built up a chain of 180 bookshops across the country.
Bookshops this Christmas are piled high with short novelty volumes knocked off by their authors in a couple of hours flat.
However, when bestseller lists from the past three months were compared with figures from the market analysis firm Nielsen BookData - which collates sales figures from almost every bookshop in Britain - surprising anomalies emerged.
The bookshop has decided to branch out into selling various records and tapes.
While it is easy to imagine keeping a bookshop/library where Hemingway, Gide and Maurois constantly pop in for a chat and a biscuit to be some kind of ideal, unalienated labour, Beach's letters show that it was far more tricky than that. The Letters of Sylvia Beach edited by Keri Walsh
Now it contains some good bookshops and some shops that are tourist traps.
I have a friend who used to run a second-hand bookshop in the city.
A visit to any bookshop will reveal myriad self-help books promoting the use of mnemonics as a means of improving your memory. How to maximise your memory
Those handwritten appraisals of titles by bookshops are merely a sop to political correctness and their own egos.
If you told me five years ago that I'd have a book in the window at St. Marks Bookshop, I would have plotzed. Melissa Broder: And You Don't Stop: How I Overlooked My First Book
The joy of a second-hand bookshop is browsing and sometimes coming upon a treasure. Times, Sunday Times
This growth he put down to the general improvement in bookshop presentation and the wider availability of books in non-traditional outlets.
Madison's Main Street is treasured for its art cinema and an independent bookshop that plays host to top authors and bejewels its heavy wooden cases with staff-scrawled book recommendations. Beauty and the Beach
He trudged round London bookshops to sell his first books and also handled the distribution, hiring a minicab to make the deliveries. Times, Sunday Times
Once you have located the source of potential trouble, your next step is to go, not to the doctor, but to the bookshop to swot up your symptoms in a health manual.
In your free time, you can visit Blackwell's Bookshop, a world famous book store that made the Guinness Book of Record for having the most books in one room, the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology or take a punting excursion on the Cherwell or the River Thames, although in Oxford, they call the Thames the Isis. Pam Grout: Studying At Oxford Is A Great Excuse To Visit Oxford
A new bookshop had opened in the high street.
Rhyme and Reason 681 Ecclesall Road, Hunter's Bar, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S11 8TG, 0114-266 1950The narrow facade of Sheffield's only independent bookshop conceals two packed rooms of children's books and parenting titles that cover every conceivable aspect of childhood. Independent bookshops in north-east England
There is only one place better than a video shop, and that is a good second-hand bookshop.
He supports himself by working in the Left Bookshop downstairs, and writing the odd article for the quarterlies. THE WHITE DOVE
Saturday, February 07, 2009 bad day at the brattle worth seeing • A crane collapsed into the alley next to the Brattle Bookshop, critically injuring one crane operator and killing the other. Bad day at the brattle
My instant history of Galway comes to you by courtesy of Kenny's Bookshop.
So, today, I had a thunderstruck few minutes when I entered the bookshop, comprehending just how much chaff has been created by Dan Brown's bloody book.
Bookshop rummaging this afternoon, ended up with the exchange of $4.50 for a dog-eared tatty copy of Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard.
The advertising campaign should bring more people into the bookshops.
If you have a Borders bookshop within cooee of you (as I do, yay) you can donate good quality second-hand books to them. More Bushfire help
While still at university he helped to set up an organic food store, café and bookshop that was run as a co-operative. Times, Sunday Times
The Book is to be sold in Moscow bookshops and in other major cities in Russia.
Civil building Category ii: such as shopping mall, gymnasia , bookshop, hotel, office building, library, cultural and recreational center, museum, waiting room for public transportation and others.
So I offer the following condensations on the basis that they'll either inspire trips to the bookshop, or save you the bother.
The Film Institute is home to two cinemas, a specialist film bookshop, an education department and a bar restaurant.
Then we went to the bookshop for a mooch, and then we had dinner.
(A kick in the balls or arse would constitute this, and a kick in the balls is a well trodden part of humour) worth reading • Nora O'Neill at Bookshop Blog suggests using twitter to promote your bookstore. Archive 2009-02-01
The book could be sold in hotels and bookshops on the island and through Tourist Board offices here and overseas.
The Book is to be sold in Moscow bookshops and in other major cities in Russia.
Anyway, I scoured a few bookshops to find good books on how to do your own plumbing.
The bookshop where I bought my newspaper from had an " honesty box ".
In the information age, it is no more necessary to hunt down bookstores or bookshops in search of knowledge.
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But here, at the top, the lists suggest that library users and bookshop browsers are looking for similar things. Times, Sunday Times
Sooner or later you will have to go to a meeting with your editor or your agent, and more often you will have to go to the library and the bookshop for extended periods of blobbing around doing 'research' and drinking coffee and thinking. Archive 2009-06-01
With the exception of a few bookshop cognoscenti with whom he talked, his intelligence seemed strictly a private matter, existing for its own sake.
By pure chance he found the rare book he needed in a little second - hand bookshop.
The bookshop man told him it would cost around £20,000, so Daniel scarpered.
Which is why my heart leaps at the sight of one of them in a second-hand bookshop or charity store. Times, Sunday Times
Its entrance is a weather-beaten door sandwiched between an occult bookshop and a ritual shop on Vaughan Road.
Nothing spoils the pleasure of spending time in a bookshop for the frequent browser than finding a book too quickly.
It was just after eight when she arrived at the bookshop, rattling the knocker, clutching at Annie when she opened the door. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
Visit the bookshop or fill out a questionnaire to see what supplements you need to keep yourself in optimum condition.
The Laie in Eixample Dret is one of the baker's dozen of Barcelona's large independent bookshops that have managed to survive the first waves of the current crisis, and one of the reasons it has done so is that it was the first to install an all-day bar and cafe – with an outside terrace in the summer. 10 of the best literary haunts in Barcelona
Having been alone in a room for the better part of a year, I emerged into the world of festivals and bookshops with a wild look in my eyes.
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world. Vincent van Gogh
Then, an off-the-cuff remark by a bookshop owner who gruffly suggested she should write something of her own changed the course of her life.
It moves to an unnamed South American country, where its unheroic hero William, ostensibly running a loss-making British bookshop, is recruited as a spy and takes part in a coup.
I was down in Ennis visiting the in-laws at the weekend and I popped in to a small second-hand bookshop in The Market called Scéal Eile Books. Books Are Alot Like
Then there is the arty bookshop he is planning downstairs, and the adjustments that need to be made to the chairs in the patisserie.
A paperback edition is now available at bookshops.
By the time I encountered it, at the age of 12 or 13 I recall picking it out of a rotating bookstand, near the door of a bookshop in the Lake District, during one of those rain-sodden childhood holidays, I was already familiar with Clarke as the sober-minded chronicler of near future space exploration. The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction
In the information age, it is no more necessary to hunt down bookstores or bookshops in search of knowledge.
The word "magical" is one of the most overused words in travel literature, but it is the travel writer's ability to transform the everyday world with a genuine sense of the magical that alone justifies the existence of the genre and makes the loss of a great travel bookshop so particularly sad, even if an American film star never really fell in love with its owner. It's too soon to wave goodbye to the magical art of travel writing | Michael Jacobs
Graham came up the stairs to find me going all gooey over a bookshop novelty from America, containing a small garden gnome, a patch of artificial grass and a stand depicting a cottage garden.
But at this price it won't suit the casual bookshop browser. The Sun
Travelling Man32 Central Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS1 6DE, 0113-423 6461In the 20 years since Nabil Homsi opened his first comics shop in Headingley, the Travelling Man chain has matured to become one of the few independent bookshops to thrive in the face of the all-conquering Forbidden Planet. Independent bookshops in north-east England
Tourist tack is almost absent; instead, there are a number of delicatessens, a good wine bar, an antiquarian bookshop and even a shop specialising in period jewellery.
Try browsing along the reference shelves of your local library, or the humour section of the local bookshop.
He chanced upon a volume of Japanese poetry in a bookshop.
Which is why my heart leaps at the sight of one of them in a second-hand bookshop or charity store. Times, Sunday Times
And smaller books were not just available from bookshops: all cities and towns would have had pedlars or chapmen selling pamphlets from trays or baskets hanging from their necks.
It's the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs.
They can be had in second-hand bookshops for a few pounds, and in charity shops for pennies.
It's nice when a big book chain behaves like a local bookshop. Times, Sunday Times
I last met him by accident in Derbyshire where he had opened his beloved bookshop. Times, Sunday Times
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A huge selection of fiction and non-fiction from our two large independent bookshops. Times, Sunday Times
He is something of a bibliomane, and can frequently be found hidden in a second-hand bookshop.
Riverside Bookshop18-19 Hay's Galleria, Tooley Street, London SE1 2HD, 020-7378 1824The Riverside Bookshop offers a large, general range of new and backlisted fiction, as well as an extensive travel section with plenty of books about London. Independent bookshops in London
One of the best magazines we discovered was not at Frieze but tucked away on the bottom shelf of the bookshop at Tate Modern.
A new bookshop had opened in the high street.
Unreviewed and unnoticed, it can disappear from bookshops after six weeks. Times, Sunday Times
The book could be sold in hotels and bookshops on the island and through Tourist Board offices here and overseas.
The “courtyard” area of the bookshop is a cool green oasis with potted palms and a feng shui fountain. One Aw-some Day
Those books that were sold to the public were sold principally in department stores, not in bookshops.
Ann became a Catholic as an adult and entered the book trade working at a Catholic bookshop in Exeter.
Unfortunately, my nearest local indie bookshop is now 170 miles away. Why Old Hunting Books are Better than New Ones
But what of the secondhand and antiquarian bookshops? Times, Sunday Times
Austen's fictional circulating library, Clarke's, in Meryton may have doubled as a bookshop and stationer's, like the business of Thomas Wilson in Bromley, a market town ten miles from London. What Was Mr. Bennet Doing in his Library, and What Does It Matter?
As it stands, this is the model of a second-hand bookshop. The Times Literary Supplement
He chanced upon a volume of Japanese poetry in a bookshop.
When the coffee was done we split up and went our separate ways, Graham to the bookshop for a good browse and me off to the big photographic store at the other end of town.
They would foregather at weekends in their special meeting place in the bookshop, known as the Den. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
Anyone who wanders into a bookshop or looks through a publisher's catalogue is bound to bump into a new Companion.
The re-release of his entire fiction backlist will appear on shelves in bookshops this month.
Each time I visit a bookshop I see all those volumes blinking from the shelves like fishermen hunting for the left hemisphere of our brain, the fantastic side of our souls. MIND MELD: Recent SF/F/H Book Covers That Blow Us Away
It didn't quite work out like that: he has been a bank teller and a bookshop assistant, as well as an English teacher and an impoverished student.
Joseph had been tremendously excited when Patrick had strolled into the dusty bookshop that morning.
State of the Arts is sold in select newsagents and bookshops nationally.
Over the years, as the publishing world has burgeoned, and the reading public swelled, Premier Bookshop unfortunately remained the same size.
The author is to be congratulated that the book is evidently flying out of the bookshops in the shopping malls.
The publication of each new volume prompts fevered speculation on the story line and late-night queues of children outside bookshops.
Once this would have been passed under the counter; now it's on sale at leading bookshops.
'As the owner of a bookshop, when you see someone writing in one of your books you get a bit toey [touchy],' Ellis said. Archive 2007-08-12
There were both specialist poetry bookshops and general bookshops in university towns with reasonable poetry sections.
The woman in the bookshop certainly seems rather po-faced. Times, Sunday Times
Auntie May, who was the manageress of a bookshop, sent me supplies of new books and comics.
How can independent bookshops hope to compete when most bestsellers are cheaper through the chains and the internet? Times, Sunday Times
It was with tremendous excitement that I discovered Gay's the Word bookshop in the early 1990s. My favourite independent bookshop: Gay's the Word, London
Fascinating discoveries from second hand bookshops and chainstore threefertwos alike pile up on the shelves, taunting you with your laziness and their unreadness; novels that have been read are no better, merely taking up space as you slowly forget their plot and characters, destined to either be lugged from house to house as you move, or given away as fodder for Oxfam in its quest to become the Tesco of secondhand bookselling. August « 2009 « Squares of Wheat
Then we went to the cafe in Borders bookshop because I was needing a coffee fix.
The commentary on bookshops and the directory of such establishments is required reading for any librarian or bibliomane.
This magazine is still going strong today; you can easily find it in any bookshop or even in some of the magazine and periodical stands on the street.
I seem in the mood to read overlong pretentious epics - I really should go for a rummage in an airport bookshop or something and get it out of my system.
This is the thing about second-hand bookshops. Times, Sunday Times
Move interstate but always have it in the back of your mind to return one day, just to see if New Editions Bookshop is still there and to lay a drone pipe atop his grave.
Those books that were sold to the public were sold principally in department stores, not in bookshops.
What has so far been described is the idyllic situation where the bookshop owner is congenial.
The bookshop was operating at a loss.
Liz is out and about doing signings and publicity too, so you may catch her at a bookshop or event near you.
With no real capital to speak of, the bookshop launched itself as a publisher primarily with the financial backing of a local pearl merchant.
Ameche and Tierney are a handsome, appealing pair from their first meeting in a bookshop, while Charles Coburn (as scampish Grandpa Hugo) and Allyn Joslyn (as Henry's strait-laced cousin Albert) round out a fabulous supporting cast. John Farr: Laughing in Style: That Special 'Lubitsch Touch'
‘Well-endowed’ bookshops may debatably be, but they're no substitute for libraries which give free access to a wide range of books.
i don't dare look at cookbooks or i'd want them all!! animah - squidgy for kids opens up a whole new dimension anisah - that burmah road bookshop sounds wonderful and i must make a trip there when i'm next in penang - i love "preloved" books too! How Squidgy is Your Bookshop?
The bookshop was not quite as bounteous as its name suggested.
And like most other bibliophiles, my secret ambition is to earn a living from running the Perfect Bookshop - with squashy leather couches, warm wooden shelves, home-made cakes and, in my case, luxury yarns in the corner.
I browse around religious bookshops and find so little that strikes a chord with me. Times, Sunday Times
There is only one place better than a video shop, and that is a good second-hand bookshop.
They would foregather at weekends in their special meeting place in the bookshop, known as the Den. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
It's testimony to the success of the magazine that edition three is going to be available from an extensive list of stockists, rather than the three or so bookshops that sold the first one.
The only operational businesses in addition to the bookshop were a barber 's shop, a timber merchant's yard and a shabby garage. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
The categories of fiction and non-fiction are among the most immovable divides in bookshops and libraries.
You should be able to buy these books at a bookshop or borrow them from a library.
These arrangements with established publishers also make it possible to reach bookshops through direct sales representation.
This is a 6 storey bookshop that bibliophiles can spend all day and all their money in. What You Can Learn From "All A Twitter" by Tee Morris | The Creative Penn
He is warming to his central conviction: good bookshops can still make money. Times, Sunday Times
However could you possibly indicate in the next issue that the book is available in all good bookshops.
Robert Holding has been actively involved with Pacific Island publications since the early 1970s, and established the Polynesian (now Pasifika) Press and Bookshop in Auckland in 1976. Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand

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