Following our successful Celebrations of Fifty Years of Burway Books and counting. We’re Celebrating to-day Bookshop Day a nationwide campaign to make everyone aware how great bookshops are for everyone’s health and well being. Make bookshops your bag every week
Celebrating 50 Years of Burway Books
Friday the 20th of September 2024 – the 50th Anniversary of Ros opening Burway books. We celebrated with cupcakes and pink lemonade, balloons, bunting and a visit from The Shropshire Star. Local authors and many customers popped in throughout the
Marches of Time Festival
NEWS We will have Pop-Up Bookshop at The Marches of Time Festival Saturday 14th Sunday 15th September More information at MARCHES OF TIME Here is a taster of the authors’ visiting the Marches of Time Festival whose books are very
Ros Ephraim on Radio Shropshire 22nd June 2023
Unexpectedly Ros was asked to chat to Mark Elliott on Radio Shropshire on Thursday 22nd June about Independent Bookshop Week and about book – here’s the link https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0fr7395?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
The Booker Longlist ‘Baker’s Dozen’ 2022
The Booker Prize and The International Booker Prize honour fiction on a global basis. First awarded in 1969, The Booker Prize is the leading prize for quality fiction written in English. It has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction
Book Chat and Author Visit
Our Book Club and information for local Book Groups Our Book Club is currently reading Mercia’s Take by Daniel Wiles ‘A brilliant debut’ Guardian1870s, the Black Country. Michael is a miner. But it’s no life for a man. Michael exhausts
ALIX NATHAN – Sea Change out in paperback July 2022
Alix Nathan latest novel Sea Change out in paperback at £8.99 7th July 2022 Alix delighted us all in 2019 with her in conversation talk with David Howard about her novel The Warlow Experiment The last Eve saw of her
Clare Mackintosh
Author Clare Mackintosh called in for a quick chat, and to introduce us to her new novel The Last Party featuring DC Ffion Morgan. I was privileged to receive a review copy, well I could not put it down; housework
An Eye for Birds by Brue Kendrick
As a ten-year old, the author contracted TB and was sent to an isolated sanatorium, deep in the Cheshire countryside. On fine days, nurses would push the young patients, in their beds, out onto a large veranda and it was
Jane’s Country Year Book Launch
Due to Covid restrictions this book launch is now online. Kate Macdonald from Handheld Press has kindly sent this link to the online Event on Monday 17th January at 7.30pm The launch will be on Zoom at the same day