Coincidentally I was reading this thriller as Holocaust survivors and the world marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. I found this a sobering coincidence. The action (the murder of an upper middle class young Englishwoman living in Germany to learn the language) is set against the sobering backdrop of 1935 Munich and the world of Brown Shirts…
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Just lately bookshops seem to have been invaded by a host of titles about . . . bookshops. Many of these novels are Japanese but some originate closer to home, such as Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Bookshop (1978) and Shaun Bythell’s Diary of a Bookseller (2017). However a hundred years before that, in 1917, Christopher Morley published his take on the…