Narberth Bookshop opened yesterday in Narberth, Pa., and will have a grand opening on Saturday, November 5, that will include "food, fun, and literary fanfare!" as the store wrote on Facebook.
Owned by publishing industry veteran Ellen Trachtenberg, Narberth Bookshop is an 1,100-square-foot, general-interest shop with a focus on adult fiction and nonfiction. The store will carry a selection of frontlist titles--not an encyclopedic inventory but books that Trachtenberg or one of her staff members can personally recommend.
"If people see the store as more literary and very selective, then I will have accomplished what I'm trying to do," Trachtenberg said. "I want to have a really good, wide range of titles, but not necessarily have every classic."