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Jen Campbell is a bestselling author and award-winning poet. Her short story collection The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night is published by Two Roads, her children's picture books, Franklin's Flying Bookshop, Franklin and Luna go to the Moon, and Franklin and Luna and the Book of Fairy Tales are published by Thames & Hudson. Her poetry collection The Girl Aquarium is published by Bloodaxe.

Jen is also the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops series, and The Bookshop Book. Her poetry pamphlet The Hungry Ghost Festival is published by The Rialto. She's a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award and won the Jane Martin Poetry Prize.

Jen worked as a bookseller for ten years and now has a You ...more

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	Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops 3.74 avg rating — 30,385 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell (Goodreads Author), Brothers McLeod (Illustrator) 3.72 avg rating — 9,104 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night 3.69 avg rating — 3,470 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bookshop Book 4.10 avg rating — 2,616 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Franklin's Flying Bookshop by Jen Campbell (Goodreads Author), Katie Harnett (Goodreads Author) (illustrator) 4.26 avg rating — 2,193 ratings — published 2017 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers: And Other Gruesome Tales by Jen Campbell (Goodreads Author), Adam de Souza (Illustrator) 4.15 avg rating — 1,198 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Franklin and Luna Go to the Moon by Jen Campbell (Goodreads Author), Katie Harnett (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.03 avg rating — 687 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl Aquarium 3.58 avg rating — 708 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit 4.28 avg rating — 399 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Franklin and Luna and the Book of Fairy Tales by Jen Campbell (Goodreads Author), Katie Harnett (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops (2 books)
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Quotes by Jen Campbell (?)

“bookshops are
time machines
spaceships
story-makers
secret-keepers
dragon-tamers
dream-catchers
fact-finders
& safe places.

(this book is for those who know this to be true)”
― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

tags: bookshops, dedications, time-machines

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“CUSTOMER: Hi, I just wanted to ask: did Anne Frank ever write a sequel?
BOOKSELLER: ........
CUSTOMER: I really enjoyed her first book.
BOOKSELLER: Her diary?
CUSTOMER: Yes, the diary.
BOOKSELLER: Her diary wasn’t fictional.
CUSTOMER: Really?
BOOKSELLER: Yes... She really dies at the end – that’s why the diary finishes. She was taken to a concentration camp.
CUSTOMER: Oh... that’s terrible.
BOOKSELLER: Yes, it was awful -
CUSTOMER: I mean, it’s such a shame, you know? She was such a good writer.”
― Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

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“CUSTOMER: I read a book in the sixties. I don’t remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it made me laugh. Do you know which one I mean?”
― Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

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Polls

May BoTM Nominations ~ Bookstore, Library, or Book Club ~ 1st Poll

Top 5 Books move onto final poll

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

by Matthew J. Sullivan

14 votes, 32.6%

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

by Robin Sloan

5 votes, 11.6%

The Book Club

by Mary Alice Monroe

5 votes, 11.6%

The Library at the Edge of the World

by Felicity Hayes-McCoy

5 votes, 11.6%

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

by Chris Grabenstein

4 votes, 9.3%

First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

by Charlie Lovett

3 votes, 7.0%

The Forbidden Library

by Django Wexler

3 votes, 7.0%

The Library at Mount Char

by Scott Hawkins

2 votes, 4.7%

The Bookshop Book

by Jen Campbell

2 votes, 4.7%

Parnassus on Wheels

by Christopher Morley

0 votes, 0.0%

43 total votes

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