Worm in the Bud

Sally Bayley

£11.99 (post free to UK addresses)

Lillian Blackwod is a sixteen year old girl whose desire to be noticed gets the better of her. Set against the backdrop of Victorian England and the British Empire, this is a fable of innocence unchallenged by experience and a comment on the ambiguities of love, sex and history.

The Years

Jamie McKendrick

£8.00 (post free to UK addresses)

A 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

To meet monthly in the evening with coffee in the shop; there need be no pressure to talk too much.

BOOKSHOP
DIARYAn 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

Last words

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