Today was our last day open after many decades. A huge thank you to all of our many thousands of customers over the years. It's been a privilege, and an absolute joy, to help the studies of students.
We will continue to run our accounts service and hope to run some bookstalls.
Thatching is one of the world’s oldest crafts - an ancient trade that roots us in nature, as Tom Allan discovered when he quit his office job to become an apprentice in Devon.
On the Roof is out in paperback NOW: https://t.co/sQImLv8hbE
Our April Books of the Month! 🎉
Clear by Carys Davies, Fall of Civilizations by Paul Cooper, and The Colour of Revenge by Cornelia Funke.
What a line up! 📚
Perfection:
A slim novel that opens a scathing window onto the vacuity and nihilism of the life lived digitally, with overtones of Samuel Beckett’s dark humour , this is a perfect book to read in one sitting . . .
https://t.co/BAoCcBXENQ
Ray Mattinson, Bookseller
In a year of exceptional and vibrant publishing, we’re proud to announce that Eighteen is our Book of the Year for 2024 and we offer our heartiest congratulations to Alice Loxton.
Order your signed copy today:
https://t.co/RADUtafE6L
We're absolutely thrilled that #TheDeorhord paperback edition has been chosen as Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month! ✨
Learn more here:
https://t.co/kcIH8OWBGk @hanavideen@blackwellbooks
The Category Winners for the Blackwell’s 2024 Book of the Year.
Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst for the Fiction category, Eighteen by Alice Loxton for Non-Fiction, and The Colour of Revenge by Cornelia Funke is Children’s Book of the Year:
https://t.co/l2v17s1G17
We’re proud to present our longlist for the Blackwell’s Book of the Year award for 2024. These nine books across three categories (Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children’s) have captured our imaginations, made us think, and brought us joy.
https://t.co/l2v17s1G17
I am saying nothing new here, but I feel the need to say it anyway - this man is a god. If you've not read him, do yourself a kindness... #shortstories#WilliamTrevor
Welcome to a fresh triumvirate of Books of the Month.
HELLO BEAUTIFUL:
This complex novel set over three decades is a beautiful and luminous story about love, grief and the evolving complexities of family life. (Rachel Henderson, Bookseller, Newcastle).
https://t.co/qcwVLXXzI8
‘This is timely and timeless fiction, in which there is much at stake.’
We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2024 longlist. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen.
➡️ Discover the full list: https://t.co/3dQ2gnD1be
We are delighted to announce our 2024 #NatureWriting Longlist for The Wainwright Prize.
Congratulations to all our wonderful longlisted authors! ✏️🍃
#WainwrightPrize
I cannot describe the joy it gives me to share this with you. HEADSHOT is a phenomenal novel, written by a phenomenal human: Rita Bullwinkel. You are all in for a treat on @BBCRadio4 Open Book this Sunday.
https://t.co/W9zT2SeVyi