Booksellers, bookstore groupies: Rejoice! The U.K.’s
bestselling Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell has crossed
the pond and will be available for purchase on September 13. This collection of outrageous conversations
showcasing the most unusual and uproarious comments overheard by booksellers
now includes a miscellany of hilarious additions from some of the best North
American bookstores.
We would like to thank the courageous and good-humored
bookish staffers that came out in droves to make
submissions at our BEA booth and for those that flooded our inboxes with
the most entertaining reading material.
Inspired more than three years ago by a patron who asked
whether Holocaust victim Anne Frank had ever written a sequel, Jen Campbell began
taking note of the strange and wonderful questions she received as a bookseller
in North London’s Ripping Yarns
and Scotland’s Edinburgh
Bookshop, sharing the stories she heard through a series of popular posts
on her blog. Campbell decided
to write a book when actor and comedian John
Cleese tweeted the simple question, “What is your pet peeve,” to which she
immediately knew her response, “The weird things people say in bookshops.” Such as…
“Do you have any pop-up books on sex education?"
“Do you have this
children’s book I’ve heard about? It’s supposed to be very good. It’s called
Lionel Richie and the Wardrobe.”
“Do you have a
copy of Tequila Mockingbird?”
In celebration of the upcoming publication, we’d like input from you all—bookseller, librarian, bibliophile—no matter! We hope you will share any delightfully
despicable comments you've overheard in bookstores by tweeting at us @overlookpress with the
hashtag, #weirdthingsbook. Every week, we will highlight the best quotes
you send in!
You can also follow author Jen Campbell on twitter at @aeroplanegirl.
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