$31.20
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2026
Summary
Season Highlight, Spring/Summer 2026 — The Bookseller
Finders, Keepers tells the stories that hide between the lines of the second-hand books that fill the shelves of charity shops and second-hand bookshops up and down the country. The author collects books. He collects books that contain bookmarks in the form of maps – he will read the book while walking the streets depicted on the map, provided he doesn’t have to get on a plane to get there. He collects boo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784633417 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784633410 |
| Author: | Nicholas Royle |
| Publisher: | Salt Publishing |
| Imprint: | Salt Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 219g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A small-scale journey through literary afterlives unveils a world of wonders Browsing second-hand books is one of life’s reliable gentle pleasures. Nicholas Royle, though, in Finders, Keepers: The Secret Life of Second-Hand Books, takes it to the next level. And this is his third book relating the many small adventures he has devised to augment the basic activity of accumulating more and more books.
– Jon Turney * The Arts Desk *Nicholas Royle collects secondhand books in a very idiosyncratic way. If a map has been left as a bookmark, he will walk the streets while reading; if a train ticket, he will take that ride; if a business card, he will return the book to its former owner and asks them to read it. What results is an ineffably readable sort-of-autobiography.
* The i Paper *This book/art project is a lovely meander through his thoughts and opinions on what he’s reading and hears as he strolls the streets, returns lost books and ponders the ephemera left behind by previous readers.
– Eithne Farry * The Simple Things *Avid readers and book-collecting enthusiasts will find much to enjoy in Nicholas Royle’s Finders, Keepers: The Secret Life of Second-Hand Books.
– Martin Chilton * The Independent *A genuinely unique, and witty, commentator on the world of books.
– Alex Johnson * Fine Books & Collections *Reading Finders, Keepers is a treat; Royle’s chatty, friendly style makes the experience feel like you’re having a wonderfully bookish conversation with a friend.
* Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings *The way it reads like a good pub conversation or chat with an interesting stranger on the train, makes its whole construction and flow seem easy … [It is] a form of autobiography that evades the obvious … an engaging, peculiar, original and at times hilarious read. I commend it to you.
– Rupert Loydell * International Times *Conveying the universal from specific tastes … something so wonderfully bibliophilic.
– Simon Thomas * Stuck in a Book *Nicholas Royle
Author of six short story collections: Mortality, Ornithology, The Dummy and Other Uncanny Stories, London Gothic, Manchester Uncanny, and Paris Fantastique. He has also published seven novels, most recently First Novel.
He has edited more than two dozen anthologies and is series editor of Best British Short Stories for Salt, who also published his books-about-books, White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector and Shadow Lines: Searching For the Book Beyond the Shelf.
In 2009, he founded Nightjar Press, which publishes original short stories in the form of limited-edition chapbooks. He lives in Manchester and London.
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