The Bookshop That Floated Away by Sarah Henshaw - ISBN: 9781472108050
Paperback
A floating bookshop’s bumpy journey: books, boats, and near-disasters abound.

The Bookshop That Floated Away

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  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    3 April 2014

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Summary

In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archaic quotes about Cleopatra’s barge. It asked for a £30,000 loan to buy a black-and-cream narrowboat and a small hoard of books. The manager said no. Nevertheless The Book Barge opened six months later and enjoyed the happy patronage of local readers, a growing number of eccentrics and the odd moorhen.

Business wasn’t always easy, so o…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472108050
ISBN-10:1472108051
Author:Sarah Henshaw
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Constable
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:3 April 2014
Weight:223g
Dimensions:198mm x 133mm x 18mm
Series:Tom Thorne Novels
About The Author

Sarah Henshaw

Sarah Henshaw is the proud owner of the Book Barge, the UK’s only canal-based bookshop, which is currently still in business somewhere on the water in rural Staffordshire, close to Stoke-on-Trent.

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