July Offer: We have a limited number of signed copies of Louise Rennison's books in the shop following the event on 12th July. We are selling Withering Tights for £10.
June Offer: The Confession of Katherine Howard Suzannah Dunn. Normally £12.99 . £3 reduction, £9.99. Still running in July while stocks last.
When twelve year old Katherine Howard comes to live in the Duchess of Norfolk's household, poor relation Cat Tilney is deeply suspicious of her. The two girls couldn't be more different: Cat, watchful and ambitious;Katherine, interested only in clothes and boys. Their companions are in thrall to Katherine, but it is Cat in whom Katherine confides and, despite herself, Cat is drawn to her. Summoned to court at seventeen, Katherine leaves Cat in the company of her ex lover, Francis, and the two begin their own much more serious love affair.
May Offer: £5 off Garden in the Clouds by Antony Woodward. Was £16.99 now £11.99 Still running in July while stocks last.
This book is for anyone who's wanted to live the dream but never had the nerve to try. It was a derelict smallholding so high up in the Black Mountains of Wales it was routinely lost in cloud. But to Antony Woodward, Tair-Ffynnon was the most beautiful place in the world. Equally ill-at-ease in town and country after too long in London's ad-land, Woodward bought Tair-Ffynnon because he yearned to reconnect with the countryside he never felt part of as a child. But what excuse could he invent to move there permanently? The solution, he decided, was a garden. In just a year he'd create a garden so special it would be selected for the prestigious Yellow Book -- the famous National Gardens Scheme guide to gardens open to the public for charity.
April Offer (still running in May):
Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen £5.99 (normally £8.99)
'If the 1960s were a wild weekend and the 1980s a hectic day at the
office, the 1970s were a long Sunday evening in winter, with cold
leftovers for supper and a power cut expected at any moment.' A
jaw-droppingly brilliant account of how the seventies was defined by
mass paranoia told with Francis Wheen's wonderfully acute sense of the
absurd. The nostalgic whiff of the seventies evokes memories of loons
and disco, Abba and Fawlty Towers. However, beneath the long hair it was
really a theme park of mass paranoia.
'Strange Days Indeed'
tells the story of the decade that a young Francis Wheen walked into
having pronounced he was dropping out to join the alternative society.
Instead of the optimistic dreams of the sixties he found a world on the
verge of a collective nervous breakdown, huddled over candles waiting
for the next terrorist bomb, kidnapping or food shortage warning.
Whether it was Nixon's demented behaviour in the White House, Harold
Wilson's insistence that 'they' (whoever 'they' were) were out to get
him, or the trial of Rupert Bear, it is a story almost too fantastical
to be true.
We are also continuing the March offer while stocks last.....
The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson £5
This then, is the The History of the Elephant, as told by one Thomas Page, Elephant Keeper to Lord Bidborough of EastonSussex. Or put another way, it is the adventures of Tom, the stableboy and Jenny the Elephant. It is a story of love, discovery, tragedy and beauty, of the English countryside, of eighteenth-century morality and mores; of the rich and their whims and of the poor and their burdens.