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| The Shops - How Why and Where to Shop | 
 enlarge | Author: India Knight
Publisher: Viking
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 301014
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Illustrated + Index
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 6.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0670913731
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN: 9780670913732
ASIN: 0670913731
Publication Date: November 6, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Good Clean Condition UK SELLER with proven quality of service and goods
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 I'd give it six stars if I could November 12, 2003
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book is FANTASTIC. It's not only incredibly useful - she tells you where to get everything you might conceivably want, from ready-meals to beds to knickers -- but it's also a really FABULOUS read, like sitting down with your best friend and having a good old gossip about everything under the sun. The stuff about her childhood is both very funny and very touching -- as in her novels, you're laughing hysterically one minute and reaching for the tissues the next. Very quirky, very clever, makes you want to hang out with the author. And, not least, it's beautiful looking and will make a fantastic Christmas present for everyone I know, from my nan upwards. Buy this book.
If you like shopping you will love this book November 11, 2003
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you like shopping you will love this book. India has spent a lifetime researching this book and has passed on all her shopping gems to you via 'The Shops'. All the information you will ever need to make your shopping trips fantastic. Including ways of dealing with intimating shop assistants and where to purchase the best weathervanes. I totally recommend this book and it will be my number 1 book gift to lots of my friends and family this christmas!
 Sex and shopping - what more can you want! November 10, 2003
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is in India Knight's indomintable witty and irreverent style! She takes you through all her favourite web sites, mail order catalogues and shops, interspersing really useful information with completely unrelated nonsense as she goes off at mad tangents. Had me laughing out loud on the way home - am now in process of buying copies as a Christmas present for like minded friends. If you love shopping - buy this book!
what a joy! November 10, 2003
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I happily bought this thinking it would be a glittery shopping guide, full of idiosynchratic little boutiques and heavenly make-up shops. And, fabulously, it is: everything from the softest baby blankets to the yummiest chocolates to the sweetest-smelling face cream. But, even more fabulously, it is so much more.
The shopping gems are peppered throughout in boxes, surrounded by beautiful, curly illustrations, but holding them all together are the most brilliantly-written, touching, honest, funny memoirs about the author's shopping life. Essays about buying her wedding dress, supermarket shopping with her mother, buying birthday presents, being a teenager shopping for clothes. And they are each one wonderful.
I had a blissful time reading this book, and in the run-up to Christmas it will, I fear, become very dog-earred. Although, I suspect I might ignore most of India Knight's excellent and thoughtful gift ideas, and instead buy her book for everyone!
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