Booker Prize Admirer Mugs

Hilary Mantel

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

Meet Me Outside St. Louis

Cut!

A man taking a bow

Sign in a bookshop window offers chance to meet the narrator of the audio book.

Kultural K9's.

Shakespeare's Brain

'Look Chaucer, there goes that rotten plagiarist Shakespeare again!'

Seamus Heaney

'My Alfa Romeo, My Alfa Romeo, where for art thou?'

Forrest Gander

"You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting to meet you."

'Of course it's sold so well, every time I hide my wife's copy she buys another.'

"What are you crying about? You're the one who wins all the awards."

"Has anybody seen my old friend Nelson?"

'I'm actually Farnsworth Huddleson the fifth. The first was an obscure character in a Dickens novel.'

"Bill says all the big bucks are in sequels these days."

'I've bought all your books online, can you sign my e-book?'

Slim's Baroque-Bach Saloon. I know you love classical music, Slim, but

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Dogs as bookends.

"I'll be Bach!"

'Book shop. Just browsing thanks.'

James Chadwick

'They're not just going to GIVE you a Nobel Peace Prize -- you have to FIGHT for it!'

The Tetterbys

Jazz Cans

A man polishes a giant wine bottle.

Holy Grail chalice on display. Knight says: 'I got it on eBay.'

Natural Selection on the Snow.

'No love, the public haven't voted you out. You haven't paid your rent.'

Woodrow Wilson

Christmas Theorbo

Mr Chuckster Old Curiosity Shop