The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A Place

£10.99 (post free to UK addresses)
Sally BayleyThis is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships between children and their teachers. Like her memoir, Girl with Dove, this book explores a child’s search for artistic education and a sense of self. Lyrical and playful, the writing transports the reader into an eccentric world of teachers, guardians and guiding spirits of place.

The Years

£8.00 (post free to UK addresses)
Jamie McKendrickA new chapbook of 15 beautifully-crafted poems. Each poem is accompanied by an illustration by the poet. “As a rule,” writes McKendrick, “I’ve kept art work and poems at an unsocial distance… Of late I’ve felt inclined to unbuild the wall I’d constructed. After all, bad fences make good neighbours…”

BOOKSHOP
BOOK CLUB

If you are interested to join, please step forward. To meet monthly in the evening with a glass of wine or coffee in the shop; there need be no pressure to talk too much.

BOOKSHOP
DIARY

An occasional account of bookshop life and its analogue tussle with occasional trade (when allowed) and modernity.

WHY WE READ

…the whole point about a book seems to have been lost: it reflects its buyer, at least at the time of its having been read, which is why we read them once and then house them forever, or even buy them with only the slightest intention of reading them…

ESSENTIAL FACTS

Georges Perec & Co

Author’s last words

Author’s lost manuscripts

Opening lines

Lost Manuscripts

Literary deaths

Terms and definitions

50 SHADES
OF RE(a)D

…a serendipitous selection of books, a random library, each book has a trivial description to offer justification for its inclusion.

SUGGESTED
FICTION
TO READ

A selection of classic British and American novels to read, listed decade by decade, each in some way redolent of their era.