For a long time, the Dubray bookshop in Grafton Street, Dublin kept a copy of The Book of Lost Things on its shelf of booksellers’ recommendations, along with a handwritten note from one of the staff. I always found it deeply flattering that a bookseller would take the time to enthuse in writing about one of my books, and was very sorry when the bookseller in question left to work in publishing, not least because The Book of Lost Things …
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