World Book day 2021

This year you may not have your school friends to celebrate with but you can still exchange your voucher for a World Book Day book. We are here between 11am-2pm Monday to Saturday so you may point out your choice from the doorway display. To keep everyone safe, and so we don’t have a crowd […]

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 […]

"This way to the gift shop", said the Walrus

Have you popped into our online shop yet? 

We’ve got lots of surprises for Christmas, plus notebooks, diaries, cards and gorgeous gifts for everyone! We’re adding treasures all the time.

We offer free click-and-collect from our Chorlton (Manchester) shop, or we’ll ship to you – whatever works! And if you’d like a book, use our order page