I received an email today from Time Out magazines about things to do in and around London and wouldn't you know...they mentioned a new pop-up shop in Selfridges, carrying Mills & Boons titles.
I had to go and look and got chatting to the lovely sales assistant there who gave me permission to take some photos of their display. I whipped out my iphone faster than George Clooney could break a heart and started snapping away.
This is what I found:
It really is such a great pop-up shop with some fabulous new modern titles. Kudos to the marketing people at M&B for coming up with this. Several other people were browsing the books and looking at those posters. I reckon that they would sell a shedload of the pictures if they printed them on canvas / posters. There were several I would have liked!
Then, I can't ever go to Selfridges and not ogle their notebooks. You only need to talk to me for five minutes before you realise I am a notebook and journal nutter.
If it's not your thing, look away NOW:
I saw this one and immediately thought of Donna in The Iron Witch by Karen Mahoney |
I hasten to add, that in no way shape or form do I work or have anything to do with Selfridges or Mills & Boon. I am just a geek. Who likes shiny things.
9 comments:
Gorgeous! Thank you - I loved looking at all these!
Is it sad that I embiggened all the notebook photos and squinted at them to see if there were any ones that were new to me and if so who made them so that I could quickly Google them and order one online?
It is?
Oh, well. I suppose that ship has sailed.
I have never ever read a Mills & Boon, or "collection Harlequin" as they are known in France. But they are getting very popular again there too. It is almost as if we have gone full-circle: anything goes in books these days and yet we go back to more subtle stuff!
I love, love notebooks too. Check out French make La Marelle en Papier, they commission French illustrators to illustrate them: http://www.lamarelle.net/c/282/p/9ebd312e337cf9b80f57ef73a7d472d9/La-Marelle-Stationery.html
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You really took me back with this post. Mills and Boon followed by Jackie Collins. Those were the days. Remember Lace?
I love the look of this shop.
Loving the notebooks.
WHOA!!! So many pretty things!!! I love it.
"Like most of the female population of the world I read quite a bit of Mills and Boons growing up."
Really? I don't know a single woman who has ever read a Mills and Boon - must just make us all a massive minority
@Dream in Grey - thanks for dropping by and commenting.
@Luisa and @Zoe - aren't those notebooks gorgeous? *fans self*
@Vivienne - ah, those were the days. :-D
@Janicu - I'm sorry - tempting shiny things are a big lure.
Thanks for all those fabulous photographs! I really wish I could see this, but the deadline is keeping me strapped to my desk.
And notebook heaven! I bought my dd the Moleskine London notebook for her Christmas stocking and she is loving it.
I LOVE notebooks! :D I often struggle to walk past them without picking one up in a shop.
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