Chorlton Book Festival

We’re delighted to welcome back the utterly wonderful Robin Ince as part of the 2025 Chorlton Book Festival.

Bibliomaniac! Robin Ince Returns!

Robin Ince Returns! We had such a good time last year, when the brilliant Robin Ince dropped in to say hello. Plenty of chat, book signing, tea and biscuits – the only thing we were short of was space (we’re not the biggest shop and we have SO many books!!). Robin’s coming back to Chorlton […]

Christmas has Landed!

Our Christmas catalogue has arrived – which means the countdown has officially begun!

Booker T!

When it’s Booker Prize Shortlist Time, we know that the official ‘curling-up-with-a-great-book’ autumn season has truly begun! This is the literary prize, awarded to the best novel published in the past year and identifying a new generation of modern classics. Titles like Shuggie Bain (Douglas Stewart), Girl Woman, Other (Bernardine Evaristo), and Wolf Hall (Hilary […]

I Wanna Be Yours

John Cooper Clarke’s autobiography was always likely to be a vivid, engrossing read, but I Wanna Be Yours, out now in hardback, manages to exceed expectations. Everyone’s favourite spiky-haired performance poet conjures up a bygone age growing up around post-war, pre-punk Salford, and he’s unfailingly candid about his subsequent hazy days of fame and addiction. We […]

What Girls do in the Dark

Writer / performer Rosie Garland is a long-standing friend of the shop, and we’re always delighted to receive her latest book. Rosie’s new volume of poetry for Nine Arches Press, What Girls Do in the Dark, is a luscious, wide-ranging collection that demonstrates her spellbinding gift with words, whether considering her birth parents, a bramble bush […]