Bookshop Banter Mugs

Staff Picks. Please Note: We are probably going to fire Brian

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

'HA Ha! One good idea doesn't make a genius!'

'It'll never work. I'm reading 'Of Mice And men' and you haven't even gotten through 'If You Give A Mouse A Cookie,.'

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

Monster Self-Help

Books - Cartoon Collections: HumorGraphic NovelsBlasphemy.

'Why am I not surprised that this section is always the most disorganized?'

Book Thief in True Crime Department

Man sees book flying in the Mystery section.

'I just read 'Moby Dick'...do you have anymore 'whale hate' literature?'

Books: Bartlett's Familiar Retweets

Books On Paper

'Dealing with Stress, Cooking for Forty and Nightmare Families. Christmas reading?'

"I'm looking for a book on how to raise kids easily, but I can't seem to find it anywhere..."

'Iambic tetrameter? Isn't that one of those conditions that's now an official disease?'

Meet the Oar-thor.

'I want something by Anais Nin... but not the naughty Anais Nin!'

Cookery/Bestsellers/Humour/Art.

'Self-help books for cynics'

"'50 Shades of Grey?' - Oh you mean the 'Guide to Modern Music...'"

Bookshop with Best sellers getting pushed into the Remainders basket.

'Got anything on happy marriages?'

"Randy, if you were stranded on an island, what's the one book you'd want to have along with you?" "Easy: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. It's got the perfect heft to knock coconuts out of trees." "Well, I'd like to have How to Get Off an Island, by Archie Macguyver." "That title's actually a metaphor for overcoming shyness." "We really should have our own book review show."

"I'll take this Feng Shui for Cats. And spare me the eye-rolls, please."

Spirituality.

'You'll find the book 'Corporate Discipline In Three Easy Steps' in the fiction department.'

Horror

'I didn't read your book, or see the movie, but my mother-in-law told me all about it!'

Books/How to get to the point/Volume 1

Fiction book sales.

I went to the book store, drank coffee, listened to some guitar player, talked to a friend, and forgot to buy my book!

Our Staff Picks

"Do you like Kipling?"