The Barefoot Bookshop on the Beach

The Barefoot Bookshop on the Beach

Author: Rebecca Raisin Listening Length: 9h

We need a bookseller for the Barefoot Bookshop on the Beach… apply here! When Harper sees an ad for what must surely be the most idyllic job in the world, she’s almost tempted. But she can’t possibly leave her bookshop job in London, or her burgeoning career as a successful Bookstagram influencer… That is, until a ...

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Meet Turt Vonnegut!

How did eighty-six-year-old Turt get his literary name, we hear you ask?

Well, we were intrigued too and the answer is Turt was named by bookseller Gus back in the late seventies in an ode to the writer Kurt Vonnegut.

Let’s face it, the literary play on words had something to do with it but we like to think Gus admired the writer too.