The Bookshop That Floated Away
$28.50
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
3 April 2014
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 |
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| 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 |
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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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