The bookshop that floated away - Sarah Henshaw

One day, a very strange business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It included pictures of Cleopatra's barge and Ratty and Mole in their rowing boat - and petitioned for a loan to purchase a narrowboat plus a small hoard of books. Unsurprisingly, the application was rejected: undaunted, Sarah still succeeded in realising her dream of creating a floating bookshop. Captaining The Book Barge on a six-month tour of Britain's waterways, she is thrown into the deep end of waterborne literature retail: learning the intricacies of lock operation; bartering paperbacks for accommodation, bathroom facilities and cake; and rescuing stranded pigeons named Nelson...