Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.

Wandering through Paris's Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited him up for tea. Within weeks, he was living above the store, working for the proprietor, George Whitman, patron saint of the city's down-and-out writers, and immersing himself in the love affairs and low-down watering holes of the shop's makeshift staff. Time Was Soft There is the story of a journey down a literary rabbit hole in the shadow of Notre Dame, to a place where a hidden bohemia still thrives.

• The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
• Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
• Shakespeare and Company
• Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart
• Bookshop Book
• Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
• The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
• The Diary of a Bookseller
• The Bookshop of Yesterdays
• Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers