“I never saw my hometown until I stayed away too long.” – Tom Waits Let us give a warm welcome to August… although I truly do not know how it came along so quickly. August is like the Sunday of summer as they say. So may we enjoy each of its’ warm days and find […]
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Jul
Jul
“It is a test [that] genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” — T. S. Eliot, from the essay “Dante.” So when I said I wanted to do a blog post on poetry, and started running my mouth about having written some (and had a couple published, years and years ago, sadly LONG out […]
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Jul
Jul
Your eyes do not deceive you – we did say “roly-poly flying pony”. Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre have long been passionate champions of bookshops. They’ve dedicated their fourth Roly-Poly Flying Pony book, Kevin vs The Unicorns, publishing in September 2021 and available for pre-order here, to ‘all the hard-working booksellers who have soldiered on through the […]
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Jun
Jun
Readers and reviewers who have enjoyed The Favour have tended to focus on the Italian setting. The early part of the novel takes place on a gap year art history course, in which in a group of privileged young teenagers travel around the splendours of Italy, soaking up art and alcohol in equal measure. My […]
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Jun
Jun
“A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.” – Virginia Woolf Welcome to our June blog post! The world has slowly started to reopen just in time for summer and that includes us. We […]
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May
May
“People are hard to hate close up. Move in.” – Brene Brown Welcome back to our blog for May’s post! Take a cozy seat and make yourself a cuppa before we introduce you to some new team members and then delve into another (often overlooked) section of the bookstore: Memoirs and Autobiographies. New faces Last […]
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Apr
Apr
“Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much” – Helen Keller It feels like forever since our last blog post, but we are delighted to announce that we are back! And what a long, strange ride it’s been: thirteen months of lockdown, click and collect, streamed events, hundreds of subscription boxes and […]