Ellie pouted for moment, scrunching her attractive features together as she considered the customer's desire. Novels, novels, that meant stories, in the bookshop world, that meant fiction which was a good third of the shop.

"Well Miss, recently we just got two whole shelves in from a shop in York that was closing. I can't say if their any good.. but if you mean recent as in modern, try this one." She pulled a thin light blue book from a shelf near the bottom "I popped a look and it reads that a woman rides one of them new bicycles. That's recent and different, isn't it?"