![]() ![]() ‘Why not?’ // ‘Max Jordan doesn’t suit you.’ // ‘Max Jrodan doesn’t suit me?’ // ‘That’s right. The customer looked at the bookseller, taken aback. Of the many novels on his book barge – the vessel moored on the Seine that he had named Literary Apothecary – she had inexplicably chosen the notorious bestseller by Maximilian ‘Max’ Jordan, the earmuff wearer from the third floor in Rue Montagnard. ![]() ‘I’d’ rather not sell you this book.’ // Gently he pried Night from the lady’s hand. ![]() Chapter three begins, “‘No,’ Monsieur Perdu said again the following morning. He has a peculiar talent for assessing what troubles his customers, and he “prescribes” books for them to read. Monsieur Perdu calls himself a sort of apothecary. Bookshop is apparently her first work translated into English. She was born in 1973 in Bielefeld, Germany and is a prize-winning and bestselling author and freelance journalist, who has published 26 books, including novels, mysteries, and non-fiction. I’m Jim McKeown, welcome to Likely Stories, a weekly review of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and biographies.Īh! A bookshop in Paris, France, a love story, and a most unusual librarian – what could be better? I did not need to read any of the impressive blurbs on the dust jacket to purchase Nina George’s wonderful novel, The Little Paris Bookshop. Delightful and heart-wrenching story of love lost and of love found. ![]()
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