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Rooms of Their Own travels around the world, examining the unique spaces in which famous writers created their most notable work. Rooms of Their Own travels around the world, examining the unique spaces, habits and rituals in which famous writers created their most notable work. The perennial question asked of all authors is 'How do you write?'. What do they require of their room or desk? Do they have favourite pens, paper or typewriters? And have they found the perfect daily routine to channel their creativity? Crossing centuries, continents and genres, Alex Johnson has pooled 50 of the best writers and transports you to the heart of their writing rooms – from attics and studies to billiard rooms and bathtubs.Discover the ins and outs of how each great writer penned their famous texts, and the routines and habits they perfected. Meet authors who rely on silence and seclusion and others who need people, music and whisky. Meet those who travel half-way across the world to a luxury writi

Books; reading, collecting and the physical housing of them has brought the book-lover joy and stress for centuries. Fascinated writers have tried to capture the particular relationships we form with

The so-called “Book Towns” of the world are dedicated havens of literature, and the ultimate dream of book lovers everywhere. Book Towns takes readers on a richly illustrated tour of the 40 semi-offic

This is a book of book lists. Lists that make you smile, make you wonder, and see titles together in entirely new ways. From Bin Laden’s bookshelf to the books most frequently left in hotels, fr

Featuring the history and future of the 21st-century library, this book includes seven thematic chapters, each consisting of a brief essay followed by illustrated project profiles.

*First book to combine important cartographic scholarship with the machinations of high politics, bureaucracy and commercial greed. *Contains many previously unpublished maps

Presents an eclectic collection of bookshelf designs characterized by such aspects as their aesthetic qualities, practicality, and storage capacity, including one with pull-out stairs and one that tur

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