The bookseller couldn’t figure it out surprisingly, then the woman saw it on a display as she was leaving: Three Women by Lisa Taddeo, which is apparentky non-fiction, contrary to what the buyer initially claimed.
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(I couldn’t remember the author surname and title of the book I wanted so spent ten minutes in the wrong section googling endlessly until I hit the jackpot and could ask if they had it in, cos I’m a wuss)
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I once found a book for someone where the only information I had was "it's all a bit horrible and it turns out he's a girl".
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That's an Iain Banks novel isn't it? Not mentioning the title, to avoid spoilers.
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I used to love those challenges when I was a bookseller
@Hodges_Figgis Customer ‘it’s blue with a tree on the front?’ Me ‘found it!’ -
My fave - spending an hour working out what a book was from a vague phonecall in Waterstone's Dawson St & proudly phoning her back to hear 'yes, that's it, I actually want the book that was underneath it in the bestseller section about 2 months ago'. It wasn't even a spoof!
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They got it, though, didn’t they? I bet they did. (Had a similar one today: “it’s about Britain. 20th century, I think. Came out recently.” Turned out to be Peter Hennessey’s Winds of Change.)
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I remember those! “It’s got kindae a purple cover” (“Maeve Binchy, dumpbin to your right, you’re welcome”). Also, “I’m looking for a book” (“Madam, it’s your lucky day. You are in fact in a bookshop, surrounded by books” - no, of course, we never did).
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I don't vouch for the contents, but there really is a book called "I Can't Remember the Title but the Cover is Blue".
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There is a book about this! I Can't Remember the Title but the Cover is Blue' by Elias Greig. He's not on Twitter, but he sold me Lean Out, like you'd hope any good bookseller would.
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