After years of Pinterest boards, I have finally built my dream home library. It is not perfect – the next one will be. But it’s a good reason to show anyone interested in what the bookshelf of a bookseller and book layout artist looks like and how I got here. But before we get to my new creation, let’s take a look back at the shelf in my last apartment.
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5,00 €by Alan Bennett
One of England’s finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories.
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6,00 €And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
by Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler (Primary Contributor)
If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this…
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2,00 €by E.M. Forster, Oliver Stallybrass (Editor)
Frequently cited as E. M. Forster’s finest work, Howards End brilliantly explores class warfare, conflict and the English character.
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2,50 €A lip smackingly sour mash-up of blueberry and raspberry. These seriously sour gummy candy bites are ready to realise their wonderfully wild flavours of ripe forest berries.
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4,20 €Italian-inspired Almond Biscotti, packed with almond pieces and baked with pure coconut oil for a ‘buttery’ crunch without the butter.
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Original price was: 4,00 €.3,60 €Current price is: 3,60 €.A delicious cookie where the richness of almonds meets the joy of chocolate to form a scrumptious bouquet of flavours. Crunchy, filling and 100% natural.
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7,30 €UP-UP Dark Cherry is one of life’s tiny treasures combining the fineness of our insignia dark chocolate Single Estate 50% cacao content, alongside well-defined notes of candied sweet cherries
Bookish Lifestyle Products
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Original price was: 5,50 €.3,85 €Current price is: 3,85 €.An A6 pocket notebook featuring a quote from Jane Austen.
A lovely literature-inspired gift for a book lover.
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12,90 €A shiny little enamel pin badge parodying a classic book cover design.
A perfect gift for a book lover.
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27,90 €- 100 % plastic free
- CO₂ neutral production in Germany
- 60-80 % recycled glass
- 1 € to our drinking water project WASH’n’soul
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Original price was: 27,90 €.22,32 €Current price is: 22,32 €.- 100 % plastic free
- CO₂ neutral production in Germany
- 60-80 % recycled glass
- 1 € to our drinking water project WASH’n’soul
Books&Cookies blog
Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary
Some time ago I stumbled upon a book called Top Ten: The Best Books According to 125 Writers. As the name suggests, it listed the top 10 books of 125 authors and from that created the ultimate top 10 list. I thought it would be good reading inspiration, mostly for classics. And so in September, I started from the top – with Anna Karenina and from there to Madame Bovary.
A Bookseller’s Bookshelf. Part 1: Sorting and Assambling
As I just finished a major renovation and built a bookshelf in my new apartment, it feels fitting to share the origin story of my home library and the very conscious process of sorting my books and other belongings with the help of Marie Kondo and Döstädning (Swedish Death Cleaning).
