Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire

Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

Oliver Darkshire

254 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
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Welcome to Sotheran’s, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, poisoned books, and some things that aren’t even books, presided over by one deeply eccentric apprentice...

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Moods

funny 88%
lighthearted 80%
informative 62%
reflective 29%
relaxing 28%
inspiring 11%
hopeful 10%
adventurous 9%
emotional 4%
mysterious 4%

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fast 31%
slow 15%

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