Welcome to P&G Wells Booksellers and Stationers

Selling books from College Street in Kingsgate Village, to the south of Winchester Cathedral, since 1729.

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Monday to Saturday: 9:00 – 17:30

Sundays & Bank Holidays: 11:00 – 17:00

Christmas Eve  (24th December): 9am to 4pm

CLOSED: Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New Years Day

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Browse our shop for a selection of books you can purchase on-line for collection, local delivery or by post.
For direct-to-door delivery, please order through Bookshop.org

Local Authors

New Fiction

  • Disappoint me

    £16.99

    Disappoint me

    Max is 30, a published poet & grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. She’s living her best life! Or is she? The debris of years of dysphoria & failed relationships rattle around in her head. When she tumbles down the stairs at a New Year’s Eve party & wakes up in hospital alone, she decides to make some changes. First things first: a stab at good old-fashioned heteronormativity. Enter Vincent, corporate lawyer & hobby baker. His trad friendship group may as well speak a different language to Max, & his Chinese parents never pictured their son dating a trans woman. It’s uncertain terrain, but Vincent cares for Max in a way she’d long given up on as a foolish fantasy. Yet Vincent is carrying his own baggage. On his gap year in Thailand a decade prior, he vies for the attention of a gorgeous traveller, Alex, with secrets of her own.

    £16.99
  • Glorious exploits

    £9.99

    Glorious exploits

    It’s 412 BC, and Athens’ invasion of Sicily has failed catastrophically. Thousands of Athenian soldiers are held captive in the quarries of Syracuse, starving, dejected, and hanging on by the slimmest of threads. Lampo and Gelon are local potters, young men with no work and barely two obols to rub together. When they take to visiting the nearby quarry, they discover prisoners who will, in desperation, recite lines from the plays of Euripides for scraps of bread and a scattering of olives. And so an idea is born: the men will put on Medea in the quarry. A proper performance to be sung of down the ages. Because after all, you can hate the Athenians for invading your territory, but still love their poetry. But as the audacity of their enterprise dawns on them, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between enemies and friends.

    £9.99
  • Confessions

    £16.99

    Confessions

    It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died long ago and now, orphaned on the cusp of adulthood, Cora is adrift and alone. Soon, a letter will arrive with the offer of a new life: far out on the ragged edge of Ireland, in the town where her parents were young, an estranged aunt can provide a home and fulfil a long-forgotten promise. There the story of her family is hidden, and in her presence will begin to unspool.

    £16.99
  • Loot

    £9.99

    Loot

    Meet Abbas. Woodcarver, toy maker, dreamer. Abbas is seventeen when he is whisked away to Tipu Sultan’s glorious palace in Mysore. Apprenticed to the legendary clockmaker Monsieur Du Leze, he is ordered to create an ingenious musical tiger to delight Tipu’s sons. In the eccentric Du Leze, Abbas finds an unexpected friend who encourages his skill and hunger for learning, and through whom he also meets the unforgettable Jehanne, who has questions and ambitions of her own. But when British soldiers attack and loot Mysore, Abbas’s world is turned upside down and his prized tiger is shipped off to a country estate in England. In order to carve out his place in the world, he must follow.

    £9.99
  • The Mars house

    £9.99

    The Mars house

    A queer sci-fi novel about a refugee from Earth and a xenophobic Mars politician who agree to a fake marriage after a media encounter damages both their reputations.

    SKU: 9781399618557 Category: Tags: ,
    £9.99
  • The tortoise and the hare

    £9.99

    The tortoise and the hare

    This exquisite novel tells a love story with a difference as it subtly demonstrates that in affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily to the swift – or the fair.

    £9.99

New Non-Fiction

  • The Nazi mind

    £25.00

    The Nazi mind

    How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did commandants of concentration and death camps willingly – often enthusiastically – oversee mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have tolerated the removal of the Jews? In this book, Laurence Rees combines history and the latest research in psychology to help answer some of the most perplexing questions surrounding the Second World War and the Holocaust. Ultimately, he delves into the darkness to explain how and why these people were capable of committing the worst crime in the history of the world. Rees traces the rise and eventual fall of the Nazis through the lens of ‘twelve warnings’ – whilst also highlighting signs to look out for in present day leaders who, for example, take control of the media, propound conspiracy theories, and talk about ‘them’ against ‘us’.

    £25.00
  • We are free to change the world

    £10.99

    We are free to change the world

    The violent unease of today’s world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration: She lived through them all. Born in the first decade of the last century, she escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for herself in America, where she became one of its most influential – and controversial – public intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and above all, about freedom. Questioning – thinking – was her first defense against tyranny. She advocated a politics of action and plurality, courage and, when necessary, disobedience. This book is about the Arendt we need for the 21st century. It tells us how and why Arendt came to think the way she did, and how to think when our own politics goes off the rails.

    £10.99
  • An A-Z of Chinese food

    £25.00

    An A-Z of Chinese food

    Jenny Lau always found herself sitting between cultures, connected to both east and west. Hungry to understand herself, she threw herself into researching the Chinese food of her heritage. The result is ‘An A-Z of Chinese Food’ – a surprising, unputdownable and deliciously enriching anthology that uses food to explore who we are and how we relate to the world. From A is for Authentic, breaking down our assumptions of who ‘owns’ what cuisine, to R is for Rice Cooker, a humorous entry from the point of view of a hard-working kitchen appliance that has seen a family through its ups and downs, ‘An A-Z of Chinese Food’ will change the way you think about, see, and eat, food.

    £25.00
  • A second act

    £20.00

    A second act

    Life lessons from those who have survived cardiac arrest and clinical death, from the author of Critical. 

    SKU: 9781398532335 Category: Tag:
    £20.00
  • A liveable future is possible

    £10.99

    A liveable future is possible

    In this illuminating collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky shares his insights on the pressing challenges facing humanity. ‘A Liveable Future is Possible’ addresses artificial intelligence and the potential for such programs to surpass humans in cognitive awareness; what lies ahead for a world engulfed in a deadly climate crisis; the rise of neo-fascism internationally, and why we should organize across borders to confront it and the striking similarities between Trump and Biden’s foreign policies.

    £10.99
  • How tyrants fall

    £10.99

    How tyrants fall

    Strongmen are rising. Democracies are faltering. How does tyranny end? Tyrants project invincibility, but all of them fall. This is because they face critical weaknesses that can form a fatal trap. Whether it’s their inner circle turning against them or resentment of elites in the military, the masses alienated by cronyism or revolutionaries plotting in exile, tyrants always have more enemies than friends. And when they fall tyrants don’t quietly retire – they face exile, prison or death. But understanding dictators isn’t enough. ‘How Tyrants Fall’ is the gripping, deeply researched blueprint for how to bring them down.

    £10.99

In the Children’s Section

What we can do for you

We have been selling books from College Street in Kingsgate Village, to the south of Winchester Cathedral, since 1729. As well as an eclectic selection of books for adults and children, we offer…

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