Bookish

<p><b>''A bookworm''s delight'' </b><i>Sara Collins</i><b> | ''A gorgeous hug of a book – funny, warm and charming'' </b><i>Marian Keyes</i> <b>| ''Comforting, funny and moving'' </b><i>Sali Hughes</i> <b>| ''Lucy Mangan on books is like butter on toast: perfect'' </b><i>Caitlin Moran </i><b>| </b><b>[Mangan] makes for a wonderfully incisive critic'' </b><i>Observer</i><br><br><b>A 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.</b><br><br>From 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, <i>Bookish</i> is the story of a life spent falling in love with reading. <i>Bookworm</i> 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.<br><br>Brimming 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.</p>