What a wonderful book. Fun, funny, entertaining. From the first page you enter the bookstore and you don't leave until you have finished. I love that!

This book is full of books! It is a story of books and a story of the life of a bookshop owner. It is joyous and charming, can can just about smell the books, the mustiness of the shop. It s wonderful! Not too long but just long enough to immerse yourself in this old bookshop and hope and pray you never have to leave.

Loved it and highly recommend it to all the booklovers of the world.

I, like many others reading this book I imagine, found Sotheran's and Oliver Darkshire though the twitter feed of the former as run by the latter. And this book, with chapters made up of loosely connected short tales and discussions, often reads in a similar way, at times entertaining, informative, moving, and always full of affection. I really enjoyed it! I dipped in and out and always found myself cheered and transported to another place.

What it most reminded me of was, rather fittingly, was of meandering through a secondhand bookshop, finding gems of knowledge and delight as you go.

And as for the end...my heart hurt a little, but mostly I felt happy to have had the opportunity to find myself in this little shop of bookish, but most importantly, human delights.

*I received a free ARC from NetGalley and the publisher*

Sotherans Books has a Twitter account that has become rather famous over the last few years - funny, witty, and casting an observational eye over the odd goings on of an antiquarian bookshop. Here, the man behind the tweets, Oliver Darkshire, takes the reader deep into the world of Sotherans. Funny, odd, and utterly charming - this book is enfused with a love of literature, and the smells of musty books emanated from this one - despite it being on my kindle!