Louise Court, the organizational genius and mastermind behind The Schedule, as I lovingly call the word document that details which bookshops to visit, what day and time, how to get there etc., was determined to make me stick to my one-book-rule. Since I’ll visit approximately 44 bookshops in three weeks, I need some kind of limitation. One book per bookshop. And the bookseller gets to recommend it; no matter when it was published, or what genre, etc., just a book they themselves loved.

However, there were two people behind the till at London Review Bookshop, and they both immediately started throwing suggestions at me; one brilliant book after the other. I think I deserve some credit for just buying one from each of them.

Really am trying my best to enforce the one book rule on @katarinabivald but @LRBbookshop booksellers won this time pic.twitter.com/rcUKzNs9ak

— Chatto&Windus (@ChattoBooks) February 17, 2015