Mangan, Lucy – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:24:32 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Mangan, Lucy – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Bookish https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/bookish/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=46861 ***AS SEEN IN THE GUARDIAN***

‘A bookworm’s delight’ Sara Collins | ‘A gorgeous hug of a book – funny, warm and charming’ Marian Keyes | ‘Comforting, funny and moving’ Sali Hughes | ‘Lucy Mangan on books is like butter on toast: perfect’ Caitlin Moran

A love letter to all those who come alive when they pull a new treasure off the shelf, stay up late reading just one more page and pack their suitcases with clothes wedged between books instead of the other way around.

From exploring the stacks as a student, to finding her feet as a bookseller-turned-journalist, falling for a fellow bookworm in an independent bookshop, escaping the doldrums of new motherhood and finally building a (book) room of her own, Bookish is the story of a life spent falling in love with reading. Bookworm author Lucy Mangan chronicles her years of buying, borrowing and hoarding everything from well-worn literary classics to steamy bonkbusters, gripping thrillers, young adult novels and other not-so-guilty pleasures.

Brimming with literary insights, wry observations and stellar recommendations, this book is an ode to the bookish places – from local libraries to bookstores big and small – and the stories that make us who we are.

]]> Are We Having Fun Yet? https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/are-we-having-fun-yet/ Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=23699 Shortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction’Utterly, utterly perfect and brilliant – I think it is, simply, a new classic, and the book every woman will be able to trust to make her happy when she picks it up’ – Caitlin Moran’Utterly wonderful … full of love. Enormously uplifting, funny and witty and wry’ – Marian Keyes’A glorious, outrageously funny retelling of E.M. Delafield’s Diary of a Provincial Lady. At once, a celebration of the joy of family life and a cry of anguish at the utter hell of it. Laugh out loud, compulsive reading’ – Nina StibbeMeet Liz: all she wants is some peace and quiet so she can read a book with her cat Henry, love of her life, by her side. But trampling all over this dream is a group of wild things also known as Liz’s family. Namely: Richard – a man, a husband, no serious rival to Henry.Thomas – their sensitive seven year old son, for whom life is a bed of pain already.Evie – five year old acrobat, gangster, anarchist, daughter. And as if her family’s demands (Where are the door keys? Are we made of plastic? Do ‘ghost poos’ really count?) weren’t enough, Liz must also contend with the madness of parents, friends, bosses, and at least one hovering nemesis. Are We Having Fun Yet? is a year with one woman as she faces all the storms of modern life (babysitters, death, threadworms) on her epic quest for that holy grail: a moment to herself.

]]> Diary of a Suburban Lady https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/diary-of-a-suburban-lady/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/diary-of-a-suburban-lady/ ‘Utterly, utterly perfect and brilliant – I think it is, simply, a new classic, and the book every woman will be able to trust to make her happy when she picks it up’ – Caitlin Moran’Utterly wonderful … full of love. Enormously uplifting, funny and witty and wry’ – Marian Keyes’A glorious, outrageously funny retelling of E.M. Delafield’s Diary of a Provincial Lady. At once, a celebration of the joy of family life and a cry of anguish at the utter hell of it. Laugh out loud, compulsive reading’ – Nina StibbeMeet Liz: all she wants is some peace and quiet so she can read a book with her cat Henry, love of her life, by her side. But trampling all over this dream is a group of wild things also known as Liz’s family. Namely: Richard – a man, a husband, no serious rival to Henry.Thomas – their sensitive seven year old son, for whom life is a bed of pain already.Evie – five year old acrobat, gangster, anarchist, daughter. And as if her family’s demands (Where are the door keys? Are we made of plastic? Do ‘ghost poos’ really count?) weren’t enough, Liz must also contend with the madness of parents, friends, bosses, and at least one hovering nemesis. Are We Having Fun Yet? is a year with one woman as she faces all the storms of modern life (babysitters, death, threadworms) on her epic quest for that holy grail: a moment to herself.

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