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A book and a bench
There’s a glimpse of summer on the horizon and a couple of bank holidays to celebrate. If you fancy losing yourself in a good book for a while come in

Counting down the days
Counting down the days… If you’d prefer the non-chocolate variety of Advent calendar we have plenty to choose from. There’s snow, lots of snow, the Nativity, wildlife, even a treehouse.

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

The life of a local heroine, Madge Addy
July saw the publication of Chris Hall’s biography of Madge Addy. Madge lived just around the corner from the shop. We would like to think that she bought her sweets

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

Spring at last
It has been a long winter with our doors locked to customers for three months. From April 12th we will be open again, trading our normal hours, and we will

Chorlton Book Festival, Children’s Book Award.
Vote for the best book for 9-12 year olds published in the past year. The Chorlton Children’s Book Award is back! A shortlist of seven of the best books has

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