A variety of bookstores around the world.

From the mythical City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco to the boutique-bookstore in Cairo, via the 50 kilometres of shelves at Foyles in London, the unmissable Shakespeare and Co in Paris, the neo-Gothic Lello bookstore in Porto or the labyrinthine Xidan Book store in Beijing, this volume aims to show the variety of bookstores around the world. Presenting a hundred bookstores – historical and contemporary – the authors invite the reader on a world tour that reflects the vitality of this nerve centre.