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    Shadow Lines: Searching For the Book Beyond the Shelf

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    ISBN: 9781784633073
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    AuthorRoyle, Nicholas
    Pub Date15/03/2024
    BindingPaperback
    Pages240
    Publisher: Salt Publishing
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    The 'shadow line' is a term Royle uses to describe the faint line on the top edge of the text block that allows him to see whether a book on a shelf contains an inclusion - those items inserted into books and long forgotten.

    'Shadow Lines very much celebrates the world of books' -Telegraph

    Nicholas Royle's love of second-hand books and the 'inclusions' he finds inside them, their presence betrayed by 'shadow lines', is about making connections. Someone has scribbled a number in a book? He'll text or call. An old address? He'll return the book to where it used to live. Follow him as he walks between bookshops, reading as he goes, on the hunt for treasure, for ways to make us feel closer - to the books on our shelves, to each other and to our own lives.

    Share in Royle's enthusiasm for the Rev W Awdry's Railway Series, Penguin Modern Stories and Paul Auster's cult classic, The New York Trilogy, as well as books in art and film.

    If you love books, bookshops and browsing, this is your perfect all-year gift - head to your happy place with a copy Shadow Lines today! (Note: 'inclusions' not supplied.)