Read by The Book Club April 2025 Notes by Helen Scott Why not read ‘The Enchanted April’ in April I thought. Especially when a review...

Clear, Carys Davies Read by the Book Club, March 2025 A short novel about communication, education (academic vs skills) and love - with a...

Read by The Book Club, February 2025 A fictionalised novel about Thomas Gainsborough's daughters, filled with ekphrasis Emily Howes first...

A gang of bedraggled savages* sat in the shadows of the beamy old Bookshop, dripping from the tumultuous rain and blustering winds which...

“The reaction to your book choice” I was told, “was sceptical”. I hadn’t made the last meeting and I knew that there would be a certain...

Olive Kitteridge,  Book Club 28th October 2024  Hosted by, and notes by, Bookseller Louisa Whittaker Our cozy gathering discussed this...

“Don’t worry”, Xanthe Gresham told a packed Bookshop, “we always feel sad at the end of summer. Plants give up such hope and then...

Read by The Bookshop Book Club, Monday 30 September 2024 In which we wonder about truth - within the book and in the Publisher's blurb...

Richard Fortey takes us on a journey to meet luminous brackets, stinkhorns & stranglers, & other bizarre, wonderful mushrooms &...

We are very excited that Ned Palmer will be joining us for a virtual event on Wednesday 28th October, to talk about his book, 'A...

The Bookshop has had the utmost pleasure of hosting Stacey Halls for two events in the last year; in September to talk about her...

The Bookshop had the pleasure of hosting Helen last year for an author panel event during Independent Bookshop Week. Then, she was...

Carolyn Kirby's debut novel, The Conviction of Cora Burns was shortlisted for The CrimeFest/Specsavers Debut Crime Fiction Award 2020,...