The Bookery

Man Booker Longlist 2017

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Longlisted books in a pile

The longlist, or ‘Man Booker Dozen’, for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize was announced on Wednesday 26th July. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, first awarded in 1969, is open to writers of any nationality, writing in English and published in the UK. This year’s longlist of 13 books was selected by a panel of five judges: Baroness Lola Young (Chair); literary critic, Lila Azam Zanganeh; Man Booker Prize shortlisted novelist, Sarah Hall; artist, Tom Phillips CBE RA; and travel writer, Colin Thubron CBE. The list was chosen from 144 submissions published in the UK … Read more

Harry Potter Trivia Tournament and Codebusting!

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The Harry Potter Trivia Tournament It’s the twentieth anniversary of everyone’s favourite wizard Harry Potter this year, and publisher Bloomsbury chose Crediton Community Bookshop as one of just 20 bookshops around the country to host an official Harry Potter Trivia Tournament. On Saturday 22nd July, ten teams of muggles had the chance to battle to become the supreme Harry Potter champions of Mid Devon. The winners were presented with copies of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Illustrated Edition and … Read more

Crediton Community Bookshop Wins Prince of Wales’ Award 2017

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Prince of Wales congratulates Crediton Community Bookshop representatives

The Crediton Community Bookshop team are delighted to be joint winners of The Prince of Wales’ Award 2017, a scheme run by the Devon County Agricultural Association. The standard was very high among the shortlisted applicants and this year it was decided that there would be two winners. The Award is intended to embrace a wide range of schemes where there has been a genuine attempt to move forward in a resourceful and inventive way to the benefit of a … Read more

Alice Oswald – CCB Patron

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Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald is the new CCB Patron CCB is pleased and proud to announce a new patron, one of England’s greatest poets, Alice Oswald. Alice was trained as a classicist at New College, University of Oxford. Her first collection of poetry, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), received a Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Her second book, Dart (2002), was the outcome of years of research into the history, environment, and community along the River Dart in … Read more

Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017

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Have you noticed the appearance of customer reviews in the bookshop? As a community bookshop, we want the books we sell to reflect the tastes of our readers and for those readers to be able to recommend particularly good reads to others. The ‘Post-It’ reviews are a new initiative – aiming to be informative and enticing for browsers desiring a good book. Volunteers and customers write our reviews, two snappy sentences that are easy to write and fun to read. … Read more