Stories of a book of books. Leitem M.

In the constellation of British book traders - not only trading books, but also writing, from the Scottish of Sean Baytella with his famous The Bookshop to the hereditary scribes of Samuel Johnson, who told the story of the oldest London Foyles network - another star is lighting up: Martin Leytem, ​​managing Martin Lyubus. The Waterstones Book Giant in Kenterbury, who devoted 35 years old to the favorite business. His story is an alloy of the history of book culture and memoirs of a bookseller. The historian by education, he writes both about the emotional and psychological experience of readers, visitors of libraries and buyers in bookstores, and the cornerstones of the interaction of people with books in different eras (from the time of Gutenberg to our digital era) and against the background of different historical events, Including the reformation, revolution in France and the Second World War. Get to know the portrait of a “reading man” in the presentation of a lieutem, saturated with names and quotes inviting and thinking with titles, interesting facts and situations, as well as important generalizations.

Book racks - a reflection of our unknown “I”. (Martin Leety)