All hail Loganberry Books, an independent bookstore in Cleveland, US, that has been using its bookshelves to make an important statement about the gender gap in fiction.

Visitors who enter the store throughout March won’t fail to notice that the vast majority of books on the fiction shelves have been turned inwards, showing just their pages rather than their spines.

These inward books are the ones written by men, leaving the colourful spines of the minority of books – the ones written by women – standing out in a sea of white (below).

A sign in front of the display reads, “Illustrating the fiction gender gap… We’ve silenced male authors, leaving works of women in view.”

Bookshop makes powerful statement about the gender gap in fiction