INSPIRED BY AN EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY...

'A novel I long to live in' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network

PARIS, 1920. On the bohemian Left Bank, Sylvia runs a little bookshop called Shakespeare and Company. Here she welcomes the greatest writers of the day - and from the moment James Joyce finally walks through her door, the two become friends.

When Joyce's controversial novel Ulysses is banned, Sylvia is determined to publish it herself.

But championing t ...