Collecting Cookbooks Mugs

'Turns out it's not a recipe book after all!'

Unusual Romance

"Bill just does celebrity cook-books these days, that's where the real money is."

'Would that be rare, or medium rare?'

Cook in the cookery section.

''Mediterranean cooking', well we've got Jamie Oliver, Delia Smith, Gordon Ramsay and some Italian I've never heard of...'

Dave's How to Puke Book.

Chicken soup for the soul of the chicken in the soup.

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

A woman standing beside a stove full of steaming pots and pans.

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"Another dry scotch Manhattan, Mike. Make it a double."

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"Meet The Author"

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

'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.'

"Tonight! Author book signing." "Develop your inner raging bitch."

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

Woman blowing dust off book 'Desert Romance'

Rare Books

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

Characters jumping out of a book.

Great British Eccentrics.

Books: The Wit and Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge

"I did the math. If we want to read all of Proust in this lifetime, we have to start tomorrow morning."

Shop struggles to sell books about recession: '90 per cent off on all credit crunch books' (Titles incluude: Beat the Crunch! Who's to Blame? We're all Doomed!)

Do it yourself books.