What is The Bibliophile?


The Bibliophile: When books are for more than reading.

There’s a bookshop in London where the air changes the moment you walk through the door. A library in Austria that looks like it was designed in a dream. A bindery in Edinburgh where books come back from the dead. A collector in Amsterdam whose house is a book in itself.

Most people never find any of it. But you will here.

What you won’t find are reviews, bestseller lists, or reading recommendations. The Bibliophile is about books as objects and the world that surrounds them. The places, the collections, the institutions, the obsessives, the beautiful and the arcane and the quietly extraordinary.

It’s all here. And there is always more.

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When books are for more than reading.