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The Bookshop on the Corner

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Meet Jenny Colgan
I have three children and live in Edinburgh. Wallace is 11 and likes pretending he’s 17 and doesn’t know us; Michael-Francis is eight and likes making new friends on airplanes; and Delphine is six and mostly raccoon, so far as we can tell at this point.

Stuff I Like
About a million years ago I had my old website with a list on it of stuff I liked, and for some reason people liked it, too. I don’t know why; it’s entirely solipsistic. Even though I am obviously against, you know, defining yourself by your possessions and interests, blah blah blah.

“Doctor Who”
Liz Jensen
Jon Ronson
Montblanc fountain pens
Bicycles
Half-Life
Spotify
The Wolseley Skiing
Facebook
Pink wine
Trampolines
The Far Side
Mitchell & Webb AND Armstrong & Miller
Lau
Antwerp
Kate Rusby
Audi A2s
Swimming in the sea
Diamorphine (oh, come on, it was just that one time when I was
giving birth)
Elle Macpherson bras
“Big Brother”(some years)
Stewart Lee
My BlackBerry
Playing the piano quite badly
Duran Duran
Margaritas
Japan
Aardman
Facebook
Converse low-tops
Goran Ivanisevic
Oysters
“The West Wing”
The Netherlands
Stripey things
The National Dining Rooms
Stationery
Pedicures
Dim sum
Dave Gorman
Kate Bush
The Edinburgh Festival
Shakespeare in Love
YouTube
New York
TGV
Granny Smiths
“30 Rock”
The London Transport Museum
12 Monkeys
John Mayer (I know, what a dickwad. But some lovely songs.)
Buffy and Angel
Chili linguini
Häagen-Dazs Macadamia Nut Brittle
The Typing of the Dead
“The Wire”(yes, yawn, I am a demographic marketer’s profile…but come on --- STRINGER!)
Early Madonna
Spanx
Eric Cartman
Launch parties (alas, a dying breed)
“The Apprentice”

The Bookshop on the Corner
by Jenny Colgan

  • Publication Date: September 20, 2016
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
  • ISBN-10: 0062467255
  • ISBN-13: 9780062467256