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I Can't Remember the Title but the Cover is Blue

Sketches from the other side of the bookshop counter


  • Atlantic (Faber)
  • by Elias Greig
As any retail or service worker will tell you, customers can be irrational, demanding, abusive, and brain-scramblingly, mind-bendingly strange. They can also be kind, thoughtful, funny, and full of pathos. Something about the often-fraught interaction between customer and worker, with the dividing line of the counter between them, loosens inhibitions, and has a kind of hot-house effect on eccentricity.

ISBN 9781760529451 | EN | PB
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Publisher Atlantic (Faber)
ISBN 9781760529451
Author(s) by Elias Greig
Publication date February 2020
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 177 x 146 mm
Pages 240
Language(s) English ed.
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As any retail or service worker will tell you, customers can be irrational, demanding, abusive, and brain-scramblingly, mind-bendingly strange. They can also be kind, thoughtful, funny, and full of pathos. Something about the often-fraught interaction between customer and worker, with the dividing line of the counter between them, loosens inhibitions, and has a kind of hot-house effect on eccentricity.

In I Can't Remember the Title But the Cover is Blue, veteran bookseller Elias Greig collects the best, worst and downright weirdest customer encounters from his years working as a Sydney bookseller. From ill-behaved children to nostalgic seniors and everything in between, this hilarious and unpredictable book is the perfect gift for anyone who's ever been on the wrong side of a counter.

I Can't Remember the Title but the Cover is Blue

I Can't Remember the Title but the Cover is Blue

€13.50