{"product_id":"launch-finders-keepers-the-secret-life-of-second-hand-books-nicholas-royle-and-gareth-evans-in-conversation","title":"Launch: Finders, Keepers: The Secret Life of Second-hand Books, Nicholas Royle and Gareth Evans in conversation","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWednesday 29 April\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e6.30-9pm Free\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePlease join us for the UK launch of \u003ci\u003eFinders, Keepers\u003c\/i\u003e (Salt) by friend of the shop, Nicholas Royle.  Nick will be joined in conversation by Gareth Evans, who regularly loiters with intent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWhat remains when a reader closes a book for the last time? For Nicholas Royle, second-hand books are repositories for ‘inclusions’ – the physical fragments of lives left between the pages. In this third instalment of his acclaimed series, Royle tracks the secret histories found in charity shops and on dusty shelves nationwide. His quest is as eccentric as it is infectious: he follows hand-drawn maps to read books on the very streets they depict; he returns ‘lost’ volumes to individuals named on forgotten business cards; and he compares ‘doubles’ – those rare instances where different authors share a title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFrom rescuing rain-soaked volumes to uncovering tender Christmas messages, \u003ci\u003eFinders, Keepers \u003c\/i\u003eis a playful, moving celebration of the ‘Royle Mail’ philosophy: a journey through the literature of the everyday and the enduring connection between those who read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview of this book \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘The way it reads like a good pub conversation or chat with an interesting stranger on the train, makes its whole construction and flow seem easy… [It is] a form of autobiography that evades the obvious… an engaging, peculiar, original and at times hilarious read. I commend it to you.’ —\u003cb\u003eRupert Loydell\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInternational Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the Series \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘Royle invests more passion into his subject than EL James did in whips... I haven’t laughed harder with a book for a long time.’ —\u003cb\u003eNick Duerden\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e“A bibliophile’s dream . . . He observes his own mania with wit and wry self- deprecation.” —\u003cb\u003eJonathan Coe, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas Royle \u003c\/b\u003ehas authored well over a hundred short stories, collected in various editions, as well as novellas and novels. He has edited countless anthologies, including the \u003ci\u003eThe Best British Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e series for many years. He divides his time between Manchester and London and runs Nightjar Press. The first two books in the series discussed tonight - \u003ci\u003eWhite Spines\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShadow Lines\u003c\/i\u003e - are widely acclaimed bestsellers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burley Fisher Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56840747319673,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0405\/3385\/2310\/files\/finderskeepers.webp?v=1773326016","url":"https:\/\/burleyfisherbooks.com\/products\/launch-finders-keepers-the-secret-life-of-second-hand-books-nicholas-royle-and-gareth-evans-in-conversation","provider":"Burley Fisher Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}