C o n t e n t s Introduction: A Place to Pause Henry Hitchings Bookshop Time Ali Smith Something that Doesn't Exist Andrey Kurkov The Pillars of Hercules Ian Sansom A Tale of Two Bookshops Juan Gabriel Vásquez Leitner and I Sasa Stanisic All that Offers a Happy Ending Is a Fairy Tale Yiyun Li If You Wound a Snake... Alaa Al Aswany Desiderium: The Accidental Bookshop of Nairobi Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Snow Day Michael Dirda Dussmann: A Conversation Daniel Kehlmann La Palmaverde Stefano Benni A Bookshop in the Age of Progress Pankaj Mishra Intimacy Dorthe Nors Bohemia Road Iain Sinclair My Homeland Is Storyland Elif Shafak Writers' Biographies Translators' Biographies ukryj opis