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Reeve And McIntyre Visit The Bookery!
We were delighted to welcome Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre to The Bookery last week! On September 22nd, Sarah visited nearly 600 children with her books Grumpycorn and Don’t Call Me Grumpycorn. Sarah is not only the well-known author of picture books for children, she is also the designer of our logo and the lettering on the front of our shop! She went to Broadclyst in Exeter to talk to 180 children (aged 4-7) and was joined by the three … Read more
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National Poetry Day 2021
To mark National Poetry Day 2021 we caught up with Jane Feaver, Editorial Manager of Poetry at Faber… Can you tell us what you’ve been up to recently? I’ve just started back in a job I last did twenty years ago in the poetry department of Faber and Faber. It’s an exciting time to be back, reconnecting with familiar faces and making connections with new. The current publishing schedule represents this mix of old and new, with a second collection … Read more
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Devon Can Be Murder
With the brooding and dramatic landscapes of Dartmoor and Exmoor, the beautiful sunny beaches of the English Riviera and the busy villages of mid-Devon, is it any wonder that the mysterious possibilities of the county have captured so many writers’ imaginations? Devon is synonymous with legendary crime writer Agatha Christie and is the setting for one of Sherlock Holmes’ most famous cases, but is also the inspiration for many more mysterious crime novels than you might realise. Here are … Read more
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Exciting Autumn Arrivals
Autumn is the busiest time in the publishing calendar when everyone brings out their top books in time for Christmas. Here we have picked eight of the best – some big hitters and a couple that might slip under the radar.
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Starting Secondary School?
Moving up to secondary school can come with a whole raft of conflicting emotions. Fortunately, there are some great books to help primary school leavers explore this time of change. So whether they can’t wait to get stuck in, want to reinvent themselves, or just want a straightforward guide to life in secondary school, this collection is a great place to start. And if your school days are long behind you? Reading these books will no doubt spark a … Read more
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Middle Grade Titles Coming Our Way
We’ve been lucky enough to receive some amazing advance copies of middle grade novels for kids from our publishers recently – two due out in June and two in September! The rich breadth of storytelling in this quartet really is too good to keep to ourselves, so below we have a little summary of each and a link for you to reserve your copies now!
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What To Read After ~ Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Do you know anyone who’s devoured all the Wimpy Kid books… multiple times? Are they struggling to find another book they love as much? We’re here to help ? An obvious choice is Liz Pichon’s brilliantly illustrated Tom Gates series, Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants series or Jonathon Mere’s World of Norm (illustrated by Donough O’Malley). And The Treehouse books by Andy Griffith and Terry Denton are brilliant. We also wanted to share some recent publications that you may be less … Read more
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A New Chapter
As any booklover will tell you, independent bookshops strive to be at the foundation of our communities. And within the category of indie bookshops there’s another very special category: those that are non-profit and collectively-owned. Sales from our bookshop and website help to fund the provision of pioneering programmes supporting literacy, community well-being and access to cultural opportunities for all; it’s a win-win – ‘buy books, grow community’. Crediton Bookshop became community owned in 2013 when more than 300 shareholders … Read more
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Alice Oswald – CCB Patron
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
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Quay Words
Exeter’s Custom House was home to the Quay Words literary festival and its first writer-in-residence for six weeks from 29th June-3rd August. The festival was part of an initiative to explore the potential for the beautiful Custom House, built in 1680 at the height of Exeter’s woollen cloth industry, to become a hub for literature. The programme was put together by Literature Works on behalf of the Exeter Canal and Quay Trust, and with support from Arts Council England. We … Read more
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