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For our final author event of the year we were delighted to welcome Devon crime writer Stephanie Austin to The Bookery, who was joined in conversation with veteran Devon historical crime author Michael Jecks. Together they provided a wonderful evening of insight and inspiring conversation. Stephanie has recently launched Death On Dartmoor Edge, the eighth in the ‘Devon Mystery’ series set … Read more
We were delighted to be joined at The Bookery last week by the legendary storytelling duo Sarah McIntyre & Philip Reeve who were with us to design our shop window, celebrate their latest Adventuremice book and for Philip to discuss the return to his award-winning Mortal Engines series. Our shop window is now all set for Christmas having been Adventuremice-d! It … Read more
Chloe Savage, author of The Search for the Giant Artic Jellyfish, winner of the ‘Waterstones Best Illustrated Book 2024’ joined our Schools Team last month to visit two Primary schools. Chloe led a session at each school reading from her book, asking the children questions, demonstrating how to draw a jellyfish and then asking the children to do their own … Read more
The week of 15th to 22nd June sees Crediton’s award-winning bookshop The Bookery celebrate Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) 2024. IBW is a celebration of independent bookshops across the UK and Ireland, highlights the vital role they play in their communities, and encourages booklovers to shop locally and play a part in supporting the High Street. As a non-profit and community … Read more
In the last week of May we held our first ever Working in the Heart of the Community week in The Hub, our coworking space behind the bookshop. One of our aims was to increase the ‘visibility’ of The Hub, as many people are still unaware of its existence! Homeworkers and freelancers could book coworking desks at half price and … Read more
Novelist and award-winning Podcaster Lucy Holland joined us last month, in conversation with The Bookery’s own interviewer Alison Sweatman for our first evening event of 2024. Her new novel, Song of the Huntress recasts the folklore behind the Wild Hunt into a dark, feminist fantasy set in West Country Britain, and features amongst its cast of characters a Christian priest, … Read more
Our volunteer Pauline writes: “In recent weeks, leading up to World Book Day on 7th March, our Schools Team have visited 15 local Primary Schools and spoken to 2,200 children about our Top Titles for 2024. The collection of 24 recently published books includes picture books for the very young, short chapter books for developing readers, longer books for older … Read more
Amongst all the Yuletide madness, we wanted to let you know all our important dates for Christmas: Our last day open before Christmas will be Saturday 23rd December . We will stay open until 2pm(ish!) and then we will be closed for the Christmas break, re-opening on Tuesday 2nd January at 10am. For those of you wanting to order books into the … Read more
After ten years, two familiar faces at The Bookery, Dee Lalljee and Andrew Davey, will be leaving this autumn to pursue new projects. Both Dee and Andrew have been involved in the growth of the organisation since its inception as a small community bookshop in 2013, through to the purchase of its current high street premises and expansion to create a valued community … Read more
