num_pages: 20
description: One morning Ann Patchett woke up to find her city no longer had a bookshop. Surely she thought someone would open another. So she waited daydreaming all the while about the bookshops of her childhood: ones that valued books over muffins; where staff passionately introduced readers to new writing; where buying a book was a social experience. And then she decided to take matters into her own hands and open her own bookshop. A prize-winning novelist turned champion of independent booksellers Ann Patchett celebrates the joy of local bookshops.
language: English
title: The Bookshop Strikes Back
publisher: Bloomsbury