by Heather Thomas
January 9, 2024
January is such a strange time of year. In nature, it is the time when things are quiet and slow and resting. The days are short, and it is dark wh...
by Westwood Books
December 31, 2023
Our bookseller Ellie explains our Booker Prize Indie Spotlight fame and gives a brilliant review of the winning title, Prophet Song
October and Nov...
by Heather Thomas
July 4, 2023
June saw the return of Sedbergh Book Festival and what a month we had!
We hosted a fascinating talk from Chris Butterfield about his total obsessi...
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by Westwood Books
June 3, 2023
Bookshop events are for everyone - we explain how we work things here and encourage you to come along and give an event a try.
by Heather Thomas
January 26, 2023
At this time of year, the 'what to read this year', 'best of last year', 'top 100' kinds of book lists can be overwhelming. We believe that reading...
by Heather Thomas
January 8, 2023
I was going to write a brief paragraph to introduce Robin Ince but when I found this one on the Cosmic Shambles website, I thought it probably did ...
by Heather Thomas
October 19, 2021
This month, Heather attended York Antiquarian Book Seminar, also known as YABS. From the official website;
"YABS is the sister seminar of the long ...
by Heather Thomas
December 24, 2020
I discovered Goodreads a couple of years ago and thought it would be a brilliant thing to track all the books that I have read. It would certainly ...
by Westwood Books
November 2, 2020
Being relatively new to the book selling industry, we thought it would be fun to do a mini interview about our experience so far! Here are our honest answers to a couple of book shop related questions.
by Westwood Books
October 29, 2020
Caitlin is our resident sci-fi author and her new book Quantum Messenger is released on 3rd November 2020. We asked her to tell us a bit about the ...
by Westwood Books
September 7, 2020
We asked Rowena Gerrett, founder of the online Women and Nature book club to tell us more about how it started and what they've loved reading so far.
by Westwood Books
August 23, 2020
Sometimes it’s hard to know what books to buy for children so I asked the team for some more book recommendations for younger readers.
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