Thank you Jude Piesse for being our first author of the year 2021. Customers chatted to Jude about her new book The Ghost in the Garden, it is a beautiful book, beautifully written and very well researched. Darwin’s life and
!News from Burway Books! First Author Visit to the Bookshop since 2019.
May 19th 12 noon to 12.30pm – Jude Piesse will be signing copies of her new book ‘The Ghost in the Garden’ here at Burway Books. ‘The Ghost in the Garden – in search of Darwin’s lost garden’‘The forgotten garden
Our Independent Bookshop – the importance of a community ethos..
Although the doors have often been closed to customers, Burway Books has remained open throughout the crisis, through a new online shop and the continuation of a first-rate telephone ordering system dating back decades. During those periods when customers have
Burway Books Regional Finalist Midlands Region for the British Book Awards
Independent Bookshop of the Year 2021 We are extremely proud to have made it onto the shortlist for 2021,thank you to all our lovely customers’ especially over the past tortuous year – we would not have been awarded this accolade
A little note from a freezing but sunny Church Stretton
Hello from a glorious day in Church Stretton, I know it is very, very cold. There so much more light now we’re in the middle of February. Here are a few recent pictures from an early dawn to a glimpse
Ros’s Short Review
I’m currently reading Francis Spufford’s Light Perpetual November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives
It’s Church Stretton’s FAULT – classical geology
Here are the geological titles listed on our Bookshop.org page Geology of Shropshire Peter Toghill The Geology of Britain Peter Toghill Bedrock Geology of the UK: North Bedrock Geology of the UK: South Geology of Snowdonia Matthew Bennett The Yorkshire
Burway Books is a uk.Bookshop.org Affiliate
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/burwaybooks Many customers’ have asked if we knew of uk.Bookshop.org. Yes we do, and we do have an affiliate homepage with uk.bookshop.org Bookshop.org was founded with a mission to support the independent bookshops we all love. Many in England will re-open
Booktime and more…
Just to let you know the magazine BookTime is now back in store. Our Christmas catalogue is now available , and our Newsletter will be back in December. Take care. A field, a sea-flower, three stones, a stile. Not one
Notes from a Bookseller
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