Our inflatable Grinch is back on door duty!

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Many are the biscuits devoured this day to keep us going! Huge thanks to everyone for all your wonderful support of our Indie bookshop.

We're open again Sun, 11-5, Mon & Tue 10-6, & 9.30-4 on Christmas Eve.

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#WhatWereReading : it's Joe's turn to choose (just!) three #books from 2025 that he loved!

Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane, The Sun Rising: James I & the Dawn of Global Britain, by Anna Whitelock, & The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor, by Bryan Talbot.

And yes, I am cruel, restricting us to to just three choices each!

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#WhatWereReading : it's Fiona's turn to choose (just!) three #books from 2025 that she loved & would recommend!

Big, Bad, Wolf Murder by P. G. Bell, We Are Definitely Human, by X Fang, & The Green Kingdom, by Cornelia Funke.

And yes, I am cruel, restricting each of us to just three titles!!!

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"Dunolly (n): an improvised umbrella"

The dictionary of words for things that don't have their own words, The Meaning of Liff, by John Lloyd & the late, great Douglas Adams, has returned in a new edition from Macmillan

Clever, funny; an ideal stocking filler gift.

(some of us still have our original edition from the 1980s!)

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We feel the need, the need to read!!!

It's Thursday, and Jack is enjoying himself reading for our regular Under Fives Storytime (every Thursday & Friday from 9.30).

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#WhatWereReading : Joe enjoyed the latest fiction in translation from Akoya, Spanish writer Marta Sanz's wonderfully titled My Clavicle & Other Massive Misalignments (translated by Katie King)

The author deals with middle age & bodily changes in a realistic, but often humorous manner many will recognise. Are these aches and pains serious? They're serious, right? Or are they in her head?

Some medical professionals are helpful, others dismissive, and we realise this is about the way our bodies change in middle age - the aches, the pains, the worry that they signifiy something more, even menopause itself, but tackled in a way that is sympathetic but often humorous.

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We have a handful of *signed* copies of Tailored Realities from Gollancz, the ideal gift for the Brandon Sanderson fan in your life! Get them before they're gone

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We had a visit from illustrator Victoria Sandoy, who has worked with the likes of Julia Donaldson. Here she is with our own master of brushes, Jack.

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A little seasonal #romance reading??
Lizzie Huxley-Jones has you covered!

We have signed copies of Make You Mine This Christmas (pub Hodder) just waiting to be picked!

Make a hot date with a good book!

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