The Bookshop WomanNanako Hanada's life is in crisis. Recently separated from her husband, living in youth hostels and internet cafes, her work is going no better. Book sales at the eccentric Village Vanguard bookstore in Tokyo, which Nanako manages, are dwindling. Fallen out of love in all aspects of her life, Nanako realises how narrow her life has become, with no friends outside of her colleagues, and no hobbies apart from reading and arranging books. That's when

Expanded from Out of the Blue (2001)

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*

battling to keep the Time Police afloat in a sea of storms

where she's worked her entire adult life

is merely marking the arrival of winter and Christmas festivities

Drawing from three thousand years of religious traditions and world literature

she said - a holiday home for her and her family

Two husbands dead

A follow-up to the highly successful RHS Gardener's Quiz & Puzzle Book (29

full-colour stickers for every nature enthusiast

A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year

unmarried daughters of the upper classes