Whether they work in a specialist or general book shop, for a big corporation or an independent outlet, wherever they happen to be, you can always rely on booksellers to spring into action when they hear that fateful phrase: “I don’t know the title, but it has a blue cover... do you know it? .
Fun fact
Nobody – absolutely nobody – enjoys spoilers. By way of proof, in 2018 at Russia’s Bellingshausen Research Station at the South Pole, intoxicated engineer Sergey Savitsky stabbed his fellow colleague Oleg Beloguzov. The two men, both avid readers, had spent four years on the isolated base where Oleg would amuse himself by spoiling the ending of books Sergey was reading...
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