“Bookselling is like prostitution, you sell your wares, you close your eyes, and you never fall in love with the clients. You also keep your fingers crossed that they won't ask for anything perverted.” — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know… — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“Serial Killer Week got off to an inauspicious start when the opening wine and bean evening was invaded by a former prisoner who misinterpreted… — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by actually being… — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.” — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“Bookselling is like prostitution, you sell your wares, you close your eyes, and you never fall in love with the clients. You also keep… — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“They asked me how I would be paying and I told them that if past experience was anything to go by probably with my… — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“Coffee is coffee to me, I don't mind what country it comes from, who picks it or under what conditions, and I really don't… — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“Also, I have a mornid fear of rates, and mice, and nettles and wasps and jagged cans and rotting food and damp newspapers and… — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“He was the type of man women said they hated, they absolutely hated, they absolutely and categorically hated, and then they went to bed… — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“Anything with the word 'Tesco' or 'Weight Watchers' on the label should be viewed with some suspicion.” — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“By pressing our faces against the wire we could clearly see, nestling amongst torn bin liners, a red-splashed pot of discarded paint. I immediately… — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“I then swept the crumbs into my palm and opened one of the empty drawers and poured them in. I was working on the… — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
