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Notes from a Bookseller

We’ve had a good week getting ‘back to normal’ a new book spinner has helped organise our bookshop better – a little more space gives our bookshop an air of being ready for the new arrivals. Two of our favourite

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Notes from a Bookseller

A new year, a new beginning I hope 2020 brings more kindness in this world. My family are bereaved, my sister in law Gwyn died on 21st December she was our ‘Beth’. Gwyn helped us all to come to an

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Our Book of the Week – Who Am I Again? by Lenny Henry

‘ Who Am I Again? is very funny, poignant, shocking, including when Lenny was secretly reading Seymour’s collection of westerns and James Bond novels stored in the cellar, and how he manages to set the cellar on fire. What will

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Book Launch and book signing Meredith Vivian: ‘Running Hard’

4th and 7th December Burway Books is delighted to be supporting Meredith Vivian at two launch events for his novel, ‘Running Hard’. Meredith lives in Shropshire with his beloved wife. As well as being a dedicated sports fan, Meredith loves

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Notes from a Bookseller

With Christmas rapidly approaching, the Christmas lights here in Church Stretton are in place – I’m even thinking about our main Christmas window display! A lovely light in Church Stretton has recently died, she kept our local community informed with

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Forty Five Years at Burway Books

A beautiful September day in 1974 I opened Burway Books for the first time. We have been champions of environmental writers’ who have written about the negative impact of our industries and post war farming methods on the natural world

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BOOK LAUNCH Success ‘Zig-Zag and the Magic Wood’

Thank you Barbara and Cherie for a very successly launch of ZigZag and the Magic Wood here at Burway Books. Cherie’s window display is AMAZING – if you missed the book launch do visit us, and wonder at Cherie’s amazing

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BOOK LAUNCH ‘Zig-Zag and the Magic Wood’

Barbara Townley & Cherie Jerrard Saturday 14th September, 10.30am at Burway Books FREE EVENT Author Barbara Townley and illustrator Cherie Jerrard will be at Burway Books this morning to launch their second book in the ‘Zig-Zag’ series. Come along and

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Our Book of the Week – The Offing

  One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard  sets out on foot from a Co Durham pit village across the North East countryside to Robin Hood’s Bay. Robert is sixteen and the son of a miner. He stumbles

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Our Book of the Week

The Red Gene  by Barbara Lamplugh (You can meet the author at Burway Books on 28th August – see the Events section on our website. Ticket only event—booking essential) When Rose, a young English nurse with humanitarian ideals, decides to

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Shropshire, SY6 6BN
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