Bath Bookshop's Seattle Inspiration

Nic Bottomley, who owns Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath, England, with his wife, Juliette, and is president of the Booksellers Association of the U.K. and Ireland, told the Guardian why the two quit their jobs as lawyers to open the bookshop in 2006: "We wanted to spend our lives doing something we loved. We were on our honeymoon and got the idea after visiting one of the world's greatest independent bookshops, the Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle."

According to the Guardian, the bookshop features "claw-foot bath book displays, toilets illustrated by former children's laureate Chris Riddell, bibliotheraphy rooms, and the Bookshop Band, who play songs that they've written inspired by the books of guest authors."

The store's top five sellers at the moment are How to Be Famous by Caitlin Moran, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, Educated by Tara Westover, Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan and Crudo by Olivia Laing.

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