‘Welcome to the Green Bookshop! When I was invited by the Editor of Education for Primary Care to take over the Journal’s book reviews I decided to open a special bookshop for the benefit of readers. Now I know that some of you are already regular customers. One or two of you have been visiting us ever since we opened. But for the benefit of newcomers (who are always welcome) I would like to tell you a bit about the sort of bookshop we are. We are fiercely independent and will never be part of any large organisation. Our stock is quite small and very carefully chosen. Some might say we are idiosyncratic and even eccentric. To those people I would say: who cares? If you want run of the mill textbooks carelessly written best sellers and formulaic genre books there are plenty of places to get them. There is only one Green Bookshop..’ The collection includes: * The best novels by living writers * Books which have something new to say about primary care * Books which might help us doctors look after our patients better * Almost anything that is really well written * Classics which come up fresh however often you read them * Some history some biography and some books by ‘Deep Thinkers’ * Books featuring feisty women. And books about love. Superbly written The Green Bookshop: recommended reading for doctors and others from the medical journal Education for Primary Care is a witty and unconventional collection.