The Last Bookshop

Three and a half stars. Sometimes you expect to love a book. It appears to fit right in your wheel house. After all who doesn’t love books and books about books and bookshops? And yet….this one never quite grabbed me the way I thought it would. I loved all the info about books and the comments and re......more

*www.onewomansbbr.wordpress.com *www.facebook.com/onewomansbbr **4.5 stars** The Last Bookshop by Emma Young. (2021). Perth bookshop owner Cait's best friends have always been books - along with the rare souls who love them as much as she does, like the grandmotherly June. June's sudden interest in Cai......more

The best thing about ‘The Last Bookshop’ is its graceful articulation when discussing literature, coupled with an insider’s guide to bookselling, bookshops and running your own business. Certainly a very enjoyable read from these perspectives, but there’s a tendency to sentimentality and the book fe......more

What's better than visiting a quaint bookshop? Reading about one! Since a child, Cait Copper has always loved books- they've always been her friends. Now as an adult, she owns and operates Book Fiend, an independent bookstore located in Perth's CBD. It's the only remaining bookshop left open in the a......more

I devoured this book over three nights, all of them well spent in the aisles of Book Fiend and in the company of Cait Copper, whose selection of life drama was so well curated it begs a second reading. This is a deftly funny, deeply moving and uplifting story that weaves so many threads into one tight......more