Walking The Shetland Way (With Marianne Brown!)

Five years on from the start of the pandemic, The Bookery marked this somewhat melancholy anniversary by welcoming author and environmental journalist Marianne Brown, who’s recently launched book The Shetland Way was conceived in the first months of lockdown. Marianne arrived in Voe, Shetland with her partner and daughter in February 2020 to attend her father’s funeral having packed only enough clothes to last a short trip, but as COVID19 swept through the UK they would be unable to leave … Read more

Poetry at The Bookery with Michael Hartland

For the first session of our Spring sessions of Afternoon Author events we were delighted to welcome local poet and friend of The Bookery Michael Hartland, who opened his talk inviting the audience to recall a memorable experience from the natural world and to think of a word or phrase to describe this experience. Before proceeding to read extracts from acclaimed poets that have inspired his own poetry Michael explained that he would be building in some moments of silence … Read more

Jonathan Crofts Visits The Bookery!

For the final session of our winter Afternoon Author events we were delighted to welcome local author Jonathan Crofts, who was joined by Monica, his wife and editor of The Portsmouth Connection. Jonathan provided us with some fascinating insights and stories that he unearthed during his time researching the history of the Eggesford Estate and the Earls of Portsmouth. Jonathan began by introducing Monica, describing a little bit about her 40-year career as an editor. He then went on to … Read more

Longer Days and Late Light (with Dr Michael Malay)

To welcome in the joys of spring with glorious sunshine we were delighted to welcome on World Book Day award-winning author and university lecturer Dr Michael Malay, who was joined in conversation by the Bookery’s ‘resident’ interviewer Alison Sweatman. From Alison’s carefully prepared questions we learnt the importance to Michael of relationships and connections. It was fascinating to hear about his childhood growing up in Jakarta, before moving to Australia where he experienced a completely different culture with his first … Read more

The Great Fire Of…Crediton!

For the second of our winter Afternoon Author events, we were delighted to welcome local historian Tony Gale who provided our audience with a fascinating audio visual presentation based on his book Crediton & the Great Fire 1743. Tony took us through the period before, during and after the fire revealing many intriguing stories about life in the 18th century in Crediton. Using a unusually detailed map of the town that was drawn up for the Lord of the manor, … Read more

The Last Truths We ‘Sold’ (With Holly Watt!)

For our first evening author event of the year we were delighted to welcome the award-winning crime author and journalist Holly Watt, who was joined in conversation with The Bookery’s own interviewer Alison Sweatman. The Last Truths We Told was published on the 16th of January 2025 and having been reviewed in the Sunday Times last weekend, we were privileged to have Holly with us so close to the launch of the book. Holly Watt is an award-winning investigative journalist … Read more

The Bookery Celebrates Book Bundle Winner!

Crediton’s award-winning bookshop, The Bookery was delighted to welcome the winner of its Book Bundle on Saturday 18th January. Back in November, The Bookery offered the opportunity to win a Book Bundle worth £50 by signing up to its Newsletter either in the shop or on its website. The lucky winner Mrs Francisca Van Holthoon signed up to join The Bookery’s Loyalty Programme and Newsletter in the bookshop in December and was thrilled to have been selected as the winner. … Read more

The Unexpected Start to 2025!

In the first of our Afternoon Author events that we have launched for the start of the year, we were delighted to welcome author, sound artist and scholar Ellen Wiles to The Bookery who was joined in conversation with Mary Morris the Director of Arvon, the UK’s home of creative writing. Arvon have creative writing houses in Devon (where Mary is based) , Shropshire, Yorkshire, and a virtual house – Arvon at Home. Recognising that during the long, dark and … Read more

Important Christmas Dates At The Bookery

As we round the corner towards the home stretch of Christmas, we wanted to let you know all our important ordering dates and opening times: Our last day open before Christmas will be Tuesday 24th December . We will stay open until 2pm(ish!) and then we will be closed for the Christmas break, re-opening on Thursday 2nd January at 9.30am. For those of you wanting to order books into the shop in time for Christmas, our final day for guaranteeing these … Read more

The Bookery Puzzle Solving Event!

For our final event of the year and to support the Crediton Late Night Shopping initiative, we were joined by excited puzzlers eager to help us complete the 500 piece puzzle of The Bookery. We were delighted to partner with All Jigsaw Puzzles for this event who are based Hatherleigh and most grateful to Clare and Sara who helped create our unique puzzle and where on hand to help the puzzlers and present the young puzzlers with their prizes. The … Read more