This sunday times bestseller is a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments: 'can books conduct electricity?' 'my children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok. Isn't it?' a john cleese twitter quest...This sunday times bestseller is a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments: 'can books conduct electricity?' 'my children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok. Isn't it?' a john cleese twitter question ['what is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops' blog, which grew over three years into One Bookseller's collection of ridiculous conversations on the shop floor.