Today we head to France. Specifically to a bookshop — not on a high street, not in a mall — on a barge, moored quietly along the Seine in the heart of Paris.

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George is part love story, part road trip, part soul searching — wrapped in the most beautiful French landscapes you'll ever read about.

Jean Perdu runs a floating literary apothecary. He can read exactly what every customer needs. The one person he cannot fix is himself.

This is Episode 1 of the France Trilogy — three episodes covering three books set in three corners of France.

If you have ever had something sitting unopened — a letter, a conversation, a truth you kept putting off — this book is for you.

Get your copy on Bookshop.org —https://uk.bookshop.org/a/17227/9780349140377

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Welcome to Bookshelf Reviews. I'm Shane — and this is where book lovers come to talk books.

In this pilot episode I open up a quote that stopped me in my tracks:

"To read a book is to take a journey, to travel into a vast unknown, to hear the voices of angels both living and dead."

When you read — where do you go? Whose voice do you hear?

I share what reading means to me, why historical fiction is my world and what Wilbur Smith's Africa taught me about what great descriptive writing can do.

This is a show for people who love books the way I love them. The kind that pull you somewhere you didn't expect. New episodes every fortnight.

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