Jen Campbell (Author of Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops)

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Jen Campbell

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鈥婮en 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 — 29,771 ratings — published 2012 — 42 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 (欧宝娱乐 Author), Brothers McLeod (Illustrator) 3.72 avg rating — 9,027 ratings — published 2013	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 3.70 avg rating — 3,447 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 — 2,593 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 (欧宝娱乐 Author), Katie Harnett (欧宝娱乐 Author) (illustrator) 4.26 avg rating — 2,152 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 (欧宝娱乐 Author), Adam de Souza (Illustrator) 4.16 avg rating — 1,147 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 (欧宝娱乐 Author), Katie Harnett (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Illustrator) 4.03 avg rating — 671 ratings — 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
	The Girl Aquarium 3.60 avg rating — 699 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 4.29 avg rating — 380 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 (欧宝娱乐 Author), Katie Harnett (欧宝娱乐 Author) 4.17 avg rating — 272 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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Jen Campbell (欧宝娱乐 Author),

Brothers McLeod (Illustrator)

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Franklin and Luna (3 books)
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Katie Harnett (欧宝娱乐 Author)

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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鈥檛 fictional.
CUSTOMER: Really?
BOOKSELLER: Yes... She really dies at the end 鈥� that鈥檚 why the diary finishes. She was taken to a concentration camp.
CUSTOMER: Oh... that鈥檚 terrible.
BOOKSELLER: Yes, it was awful -
CUSTOMER: I mean, it鈥檚 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鈥檛 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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