Our Top 25 of 2025
What were Chorlton’s favourite books in 2025? We’ve done the sums and here they are.
A Window into Christmas
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – not Christmas itself, but when our magical Christmas window starts taking shape.
Our current favourites
We’re often asked if we can recommend books we love and we always give it a good try (as you can imagine, it’s our favourite subject).
Chorlton Book Festival
This year’s literary line-up features the poet, novelist, biographer, children’s author and all-round brilliant woman, Jackie Kay!
Robin Ince returns to Chorlton
We’re delighted to welcome back the utterly wonderful Robin Ince as part of the 2025 Chorlton Book Festival.
Review: Meet Me at the Surface
Fiona Grant reviews a dark and haunting new novel by Jodie Matthews, now in paperback. A strangely enthralling read; wonderfully descriptive language tells a story, set in a Cornish landscape of moors and small towns, of love and grief and motherhood, but always with an edge of something darker, something unknown, otherworldly. Jodie Mathews knits […]
Review: Wildly Different
Fiona Grant reviews Wildly Different: How Five Women Reclaimed Nature in a Man’s World A vivid recounting of the lives of five remarkable women, who rebelled against convention, prejudice and misogyny in order to explore, record and fight to protect the wild places throughout the world during the twentieth century. Using first hand accounts from those […]
Review: The King’s Witches
Fiona Grant reviews a gripping new novel by Kate Foster, now in paperback. It is thought that between 1400 and 1782 40-60,000 people, mostly women over the age of 40, were put to death on charges or suspicion of witchcraft. Against this background, but focusing on the North Berwick witch trials of 1590, this novel […]
It’s Book Time!
It’s always Book Time around here, of course, but even more so when this lovely magazine arrives. Published by our friends at the Booksellers Association, it lists all the new reads coming your way and features fascinating interviews and Q&As, with both debut and well-established authors. You can win prizes too. Booktime’s a great way […]
Blimey! We’re having a sale!
We always have a fantastic collection of book bargains in store, but it’s actually been years since we had a clearance sale. Starting at 9.30am on Saturday 18 January 2025, you’ll find great deals on best-sellers, kids’ books and all kinds of hidden treasures from our book caves. We’ll also have TONS of greetings cards […]