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Mike has been the Boffins storeman forever, it seems. Mike is also a writer of fiction and poetry. His 2 novels Old Jazz and The Music of Dunes were published by Fremantle Press, and are still available on request at Boffins. He has also published short fiction and poetry in various Australian literary journals. His reading tastes are wide, but mostly fiction and biography.
An engaging read and an essential for any bookshop enthusiast! Commencing in 1919 Paris and follows Sylvia Beach’s ambition to open a bookshop selling classics and the new wave of modernist writing. When James Joyce’s Ulysses was banned from publication, she took the task on board of publishing it through her bookshop, Shakespeare and Company. An amazing achievement at the time, involving expense and dedication to the task in hand. It is also a love story and full of the Paris scene during the 1920’s and 30’s, revolving around various ex-pat writers such as Hemingway, Joyce himself, Gertrude Stein and many others who were regular attendees at Shakespeare and Company. This reader was hooked from page 1.
