The sun’s been peeking through the clouds this week, and reminding us that summer is A Thing. So what better way to look ahead to finer weather than to reveal the paperback cover of our perfect holiday read, The Museum of Things Left Behind by Seni Glaister…
This month’s blog theme is ‘Wish You Were Here’ – we’re jetting around the literary world to explore the concept of travel in fiction. We’ve asked some of our authors to tell us about their ideal literary holidays – to start us off, here’s Seni Glaister on John Irving’s Hotel New Hampshire:
This month sees the publishing of many a 4th Estate book on the exploration and conquering of new pastures. The Museum of Things Left Behind by Seni Glaister takes us to Vallerosa: A place lost in time you’ll never have heard of before, while screenwriter Antonio Manzini’s international hit Black Run is set in the Italian Alps where what seems to be a slightly higher than usual mound of snow is in fact a corpse. Enter Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone, a man stuck in a backwards Alpine town after getting on the wrong side of the wrong people. Read more…
This month our blog theme is ‘Love in All its Forms’ – we’re celebrating the diverse ways in which love is depicted in literature – so we asked our authors to tell us who their dream fictional date would be. Seni Glaister is torn between an 18th Century cad and a brooding Cornishman…
‘I’ve been a bookseller for the last 26 years and have surrounded myself with stories for a lot longer than that. I know how lucky I am to get so much pleasure from my work – I spend each day reading books, discovering books, buying and selling books and talking about books with a vast number of people I greatly admire. But no amount of immersion in the bookselling industry could possibly have prepared me for the experience of seeing my first novel published and, however comfortable I am in the bookselling world, I know with nerve-tingling certainty, in this context, I’m a rookie once more.
Name: Seni Glaister
Occupation: CEO of The Book People
Twitter: @BookPeopleSeni
Book: The Museum of Things Left Behind
What’s it about: Full of wisdom, humour and light, The Museum of Things Left Behind is a heart-warming fable for our times that asks us to consider what we have lost and what we have gained in modern life. A book about bureaucracy, religion and the people that really get things done, it is above all else a hymn to the inconstancy of time and the pivotal importance of a good cup of tea.
Why we’re excited: When The Museum of Things Left Behind first came into the office, it was submitted anonymously. That it was snapped up by editorial director Clare Reihill instantly is a testament to its magnificence, its instant pull, and the confidence that Seni Glaister knows how to tell a story. Read more…
