A large grey book titled Concrete on an antique table in a bookshop

You name it, there's a book about it!

One of the most talked about sections in the bookshop. Do you have a favourite Enid Blyton? Are you looking forward to the new Magic Faraway Tree film?

BOOKS OF THE YEAR part 2 - chosen by our contributors

Here's Part 2 of our Books of the Year roundups - great recommendations here by authors & booksellers. What's your best read of the year? Please tell us in the comments! reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/12/book... #greatreads #BooksoftheYear #readingrecommendations @booky.bsky.social

Bookselling is not a crime | WritersMosaic Magazine Simon Liebesny on the Israeli raid of The Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem and arrest of the owner Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmad

A beautiful piece on the criminalisation of bookselling, by publisher Simon Liebesny

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Quote on library background. My dukedom was library large enough. From The Tempest by Shakespeare. Prospero act 1 scene 1

Bookish quote of the day.

#LiteraryQuotes #Bookish #BookQuotes #shakespeare

SUPPORT THE EDUCATIONAL BOOKSHOP! We would hugely appreciate any support you are able to give at this time.

Find out more here: www.gofundme.com/f/jerusalems...

I love a new Penguin too and my favourite Penguins of all time are Coralie Bickford-Smith's!

What says love better than a vintage Penguin paperback? A red vintage Penguin paperback of Shakespeare's Sonnets perhaps. These pink and red Penguins are new to our stock today.

#penguinbooks #vintagepenguins #penguincollector #winchcombe #cotswolds #booksandink #bookshop

This is of course lovely but I wish you would credit your sources. It is from herdy_herdwick's fabulous instagram account www.instagram.com/reel/DF19Vaw...

I'm looking for Bookshops & Bibliophiles to join this new group and share your love of UK bookshops, book recommendations & more. UK Bookshops please join and share what you offer for sale, events, subscriptions. Let's start a forum for book lovers!
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I'm looking for Bookshops & Bibliophiles to join this new group and share your love of UK bookshops, book recommendations & more. UK Bookshops please join and share what you offer for sale, events, subscriptions. Let's start a forum for book lovers!
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Hi Bert's, do you want to join this new fb group for Bookshops & Book lovers and share your subscriptions on there. It's a group for all uk bookshops to share and promote themselves to readers! www.facebook.com/share/g/1Aui...

I'm looking for Bookshops & Bibliophiles to join this new group and share your love of UK bookshops, book recommendations & more. UK Bookshops please join and share what you offer for sale, events, subscriptions. Let's start a forum for book lovers!
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Ink and wash picture of a snow woman, with a lovely pork pie hat, in a walled garden--a black bird on the wall behind her , a city scape in the distance. A melancholy expression on her face.

A Tirzah Garwood snow woman from 1938, in honour of (or in hope of?) tomorrow's snow day:

Thank you Samina. At least I'm well supplied with books to read.

No one wants to spend Christmas in the hospital - but if you DO need the hospital over the holidays - please wear a mask.

For the staff, for yourself, for all the other patients.

The period between Christmas and New Years is rife for virus spread - mask up and stop transmission!

Due to the shop gifting me a Christmas lurg, the bookshop will now be closed until 2nd January so that I do not pass it on. With this comes my constant plea to anyone knowingly poorly with a virus (even if it feels mild to you) to please stay home or mask. Happy New Year and see you in 2025!

I may sneak in an extra day or two if I can but these are the times we will definitely be open over the coming 10 days 🎄 #winchcombe #booksandink #cotswolds

Trees and shop front windows at night lit up by warm white fairy lights

Stow-on-the-Wold on my way home yesterday. One advantage of a long commute is I get to enjoy the landscape or Christmas lights on my way home🎄

#Cotswolds #cotswoldschristmas #stowonthewold #christmaslights

As we approach the Winter Solstice, here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century.

BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

Some of our little bits and pieces for £3.50 or less.... perfect stocking fillers!

#booksandink #winchcombe #cotswoldschristmas

I restocked cosy Christmas second hand paperbacks today! Grab one of these, a mince pie and a hot chocolate and put your feet up this afternoon 🎄

#winchcombe #indiebookshop #booksandink #cotswoldschristmas #cotswolds #festivereading

Sunset over #Winchcombe - 15 December 2024 #cotswolds #discovercotswolds

Sunset over #Winchcombe - 15 December 2024 #cotswolds #discovercotswolds

A large stack of books piled in a cone shape like a Christmas tree, in a bookshop window with other display books and Christmas decorations.

Book trees make the best Christmas trees. Discuss.

(p.s. I bought remaindered stock - multiple copies of the same book - for this purpose years ago, so no special books are harmed in the making of my book trees).

Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians

A large stack of books piled in a cone shape like a Christmas tree, in a bookshop window with other display books and Christmas decorations.

Book trees make the best Christmas trees. Discuss.

(p.s. I bought remaindered stock - multiple copies of the same book - for this purpose years ago, so no special books are harmed in the making of my book trees).

I put the "let it snow" sign in the window on Sunday. Therefore, I'm pretty sure I made it happen!

To be fair, this is how I dance nowadays...

Six wooden recorders of different sizes in brown and black woods, pictured on a piece of sheet music with bare floorboards in the background.

As well as all things booky, bookish, booksellery &c., I'm also looking for recorder players and enthusiasts or baroque music nerds. Are you out there? Even better, recorder playing booksellers would be amazing. We could form a virtual group and call ourselves The Early Editions or Bookish Baroque.