Introduction : a place to pause / Henry Hitchings
Bookshop time / Ali Smith
Something that doesn't exist / Andrey Kurkov
The pillars of Hercules / Ian Sansom
A tale of two bookshops / Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Leitner and I / Saša Stanišić
All that offers a happy ending is a fairy tale / Yiyun Li
If you wound a snake ... / Alla Al Aswany
Desiderium : the accidental bookshop of Nairobi / Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Dussmann : a conversation / Daniel Kehlmann
La Palmaverde / Stefano Benni
A bookshop in the age of progress / Pankaj Mishra
Bohemia Road / Iain Sinclair
My homeland is storyland / Elif Shafak
Translators' biographies.
