{"product_id":"9781529110128","title":"Bookish : How Reading Shapes Our Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Mangan, Lucy \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 13\/03\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529110128,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A bookworm's delight' Sara Collins | 'A gorgeous hug of a book – funny, warm and charming' Marian Keyes | 'Comforting, funny and moving' Sali Hughes | 'Lucy Mangan on books is like butter on toast: perfect' Caitlin Moran | [Mangan] makes for a wonderfully incisive critic' ObserverA love letter to all those who come alive when they pull a new treasure off the shelf, stay up late reading just one more page and pack their suitcases with clothes wedged between books instead of the other way around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom exploring the stacks as a student, to finding her feet as a bookseller-turned-journalist, falling for a fellow bookworm in an independent bookshop, escaping the doldrums of new motherhood and finally building a (book) room of her own, Bookish is the story of a life spent falling in love with reading. Bookworm author Lucy Mangan chronicles her years of buying, borrowing and hoarding everything from well-worn literary classics to steamy bonkbusters, gripping thrillers, young adult novels and other not-so-guilty pleasures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrimming with literary insights, wry observations and stellar recommendations, this book is an ode to the bookish places – from local libraries to bookstores big and small – and the stories that make us who we are.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54953803153781,"sku":"9781529110128","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529110128_b0d48287-4c39-4e3a-89ea-2fbad0182fcb.jpg?v=1759668431","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.live\/products\/9781529110128","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}