A Time of Isolation A time of families apart and together, a time to be more in tune with our natural world, a time to build bridges with neighbours, a time for holding on to what is precious for our
Notes from a Bookseller – A Poem for the Day
‘Spring Sound the Flute! Now it’s mute. Birds Delight Day and Night. Nightingale In the dale Lark in Sky Merrily Merrily Merrilty in the Year Little Boy Full of joy. Little’ by William Blake Songs
An A-Z of Great Reads … and so much more
Thank you to everyone who continues to support us through this lockdown, and welcome to our new customers: we are making daily trips to our local Post Office to get all of your orders posted out, as well as delivering
Feel-Good Books to Lift Your Spirits
Whilst the lockdown looks like it will continue for a few more weeks, here are a few suggestions for books that have a heartwarming and positive message or that will simply make you laugh out loud, whatever the season! A
Author Events for 2020 on Hold
Please keep an eye on this page as we have a number of author events which we are in the course of organising for later this year. Due the the current worldwide crisis we may consider postponing these events until
Spotlight on …. Fiction
Our shelves and spinners have a wonderfully eclectic, thoughtfully curated selection of modern fiction, both in hardback and paperback – we hope that there’s something to suit everyone, and the current lockdown presents a golden opportunity to discover new authors.
Here are some online Educational Resource links from publishers’ to help you through
https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/c/Activity-Sheets https://canongate.co.uk/about/schools/?dm_i=4UQ3,BMEP,2Y26C6,1AJ9R,1 https://www.faber.co.uk/faber-childrens-resources?dm_i=4UQ3,BMEP,2Y26C6,1AGN2,1 https://www.pavilionbooks.com/imprints/pavilion-childrens/?dm_i=4UQ3,BMEP,2Y26C6,1AI9C,1 https://scribepublications.co.uk/news-events/news/scribble-resources-and-activities?dm_i=4UQ3,BMEP,2Y26C6,1AGTC,1 https://oneworld-publications.com/childrens-teaching-resources?dm_i=4UQ3,BMEP,2Y26C6,1AJ2T,1 https://shop.lonelyplanet.com/pages/lonely-planet-kids?dm_i=4UQ3,BMEP,2Y26C6,1AJBU,1 http://www.davidficklingbooks.com/?dm_i=4UQ3,BMEP,2Y26C6,1AK9Z,1 We hope you find these links helpful, we’ve had great fun looking through them. Stay Safe and Well and Happy Easter
Notes from a Bookseller
These are interesting times for us all, our world will recover in time. I have already become more aware of my surroundings – seeing two house-martins to-day was joyous. It is very strange to be locked in the bookshop –
Order by email, letter or telephone – Delivered By Post
We hope that you are keeping well. We are happy to post books to you. Please contact us by email, letter or telephone; we can take payment by telephone, bank transfer, or PayPal. We will endeavour to get the book(s)
Order Now for Easter
We have always thought that a book makes a great Easter gift …… we have lots of children’s books in stock if you would like us to send something to a child or grandchild (and we have lots of adult