This year’s Independent Bookshop Week runs from 17th – 24th June, and it’s an extra special time as we’re also celebrating The Bookery’s 10th Birthday!

We’ll be unveiling our great new extension and event space – so drop in any time, this happy event is as much about our loyal patrons and customers as it is about our brilliant, growing bookshop.

Our special day of celebrations starts on Saturday 17th June from 10am. It will be a fun-packed morning of author events in the bookshop with children’s art and poetry, including our patrons Sarah McIntyre and Philip Reeve, (superstar creators of Adventuremice) creating some live Bookery art, and Michael Morpurgo officially unveiling our new extension, a brand-new event space. Join us for the Big Moment – ribbon cutting, speeches and cake. Eagle-eyed visitors might also see The Gruffalo wandering round – do say hello but please don’t frighten him!

Join us for fantastic free & low-cost events & activities…

10.15 Ready, Steady, Get Moving!
Join author, poet and illustrator, Kev Payne, as he shares from his new collection of poetry that is sure to get you moving! With plenty of audience participation, the audience will listen to poems, perform poems and learn how to create poems for themselves. Swim with mermaids, ride a rocket, hide a monster in your pocket – Kev shows that anything is possible with poems! Free Tickets HERE

11.15 The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair
Join Hannah for a fossil-filled adventure, make a paper tiger, examine fossils, colour well-being butterflies, and find out about her newest book: The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, spans hundreds of years and uncovers family secrets to learn how to heal in the present by learning from the past. Free Tickets HERE

12.15 AdventureMice: Mermouse Mystery
Join this legendary storytelling duo to discover their brand-new highly-illustrated Adventuremice series for early readers, with their first book, Otter Chaos. Listen to some of the story, learn how to draw their main character, Pedro, and help them invent wild and wonderful new islands. Fun for the whole family! Free Tickets HERE

3pm Michael Morpurgo // My Heart Was A Tree
The Bookery Patron, Sir Michael Morpurgo, shares his gorgeous new book My Heart Was A Tree. Inspired by the woods around his home, the mighty forests that support our life on Earth, and the Ted Hughes poem which gives this book its title, My Heart Was a Tree has gorgeous illustrations by Yuval Zommer. Tickets £3 HERE

4.15pm Gwenevere (film)
After her fall from power, Queen Gwenevere is travelling to the abbey where she is to live out the remainder of her days. But when she and her companions are menaced by the evil Knight of the Wild Woods, she realises that she may be the only one who can defeat him…
Home-made on Dartmoor, this micro-budget independent film from Philip Reeve (author of Mortal Engines and Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep) and his wife Sarah is a haunting and atmospheric homage to Arthurian legend. Free tickets HERE
Running time: 35 minutes. Suitable 14+