Niche Book Lovers Gifts

'A most powerful, moving and scary book - botanists will love it!'

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

'The history of Glue. It's impossible to put down.'

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

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

"There's something weird about Emily. She actually likes school!"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Victor Hugo

"Meet the author"

First Novels.

Reading my Critics

"Pssst! Do you have anything on American history?"

"And do you, Deborah Tannen, think they know what they're talking about?"

Second hand furniture.

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

Two books: 'The Joy of Cooking' next to 'The Joy of Dieting'.

Gen-Next Library

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

"I'm in a catch-23 situation."

Don Quixote

Wishing Well, Wishing Good.

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

"I try to write a little bit every day."

Screen Time vs Book Time

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

'As a famous writer, could you do something to help jumpstart my career?'

Congratulations! All that cramming paid off.

What Harper Lee's REALLY been up to all these years

"Hurry up with that dictionary!"

"The moral of the story, honey, is that being a celebrity does not make you a credible children’s book author."

"The library rejected your request to ban all books on cats and squirrels. But, to be fair, it was no dumber than all the other book ban requests we get."

"I recommend that you two find a way to spice up your shelf life."

The Beard in the Stone

The World's Biggest Book Club