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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,…
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…
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).…
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…
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…
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.…
National Poetry Day with Matt Harvey
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of National Poetry Day on 3rd October the Booksellers Association and Forward Arts Foundation have announced Poetry Booksellers Love, 25 favourite poetry books from the last 25 years which were nominated and voted for by booksellers in the UK and Ireland. The list includes anthologies and single-author collections which…
Reasons To Be Cheerful
We’re ridiculously excited to hear the announcement that a new Sally Rooney novel has been announced for publication this Autumn. ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’ (Hardback, £16.99) is due to be published on 7th September 2021, and centres around the relationship between two best friends nearing their thirties in different places and on very different trajectories.…
