Welcome to P&G Wells Booksellers and Stationers
Selling books from College Street in Kingsgate Village, to the south of Winchester Cathedral, since 1729.Browse our shop for a selection of books you can purchase on-line for collection, local delivery or by post.
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Upcoming Events
Doing Time – 175 Years of Winchester Prison
Exhibition/Book
Various Locations in Hampshire
Local Authors
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Winchester Actually
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Vanessa Harbour’s Book Bundle
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Doing Time
£7.99Doing Time
Doing Time – a thought-provoking exhibition supported by Hampshire Cultural Trust sharing the stories of the people who live and work at Winchester Prison launches this summer, touring libraries and civic venues across the county.
The exhibition and an accompanying book tell the story of 175 years of Winchester Prison history, the harsh prison regimes of the past and today’s focus on education, training and reform.
Prison life is revealed in a series of interviews with staff including Governor James Bourke who shares the challenges of supporting prisoners with complex social, mental and physical needs.
The impact of what often can be life-changing education and training, healthcare and counselling is told in the words of prisoners who have turned their lives around at HMP Winchester.
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Licoricia of Winchester
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King Alfred’s Way
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The Pink Elephant Book
£7.50The Pink Elephant Book
Local poet and artist, Caro Reeves, has now written her next collection of Haiku poems in her new book ‘The Pink Elephant Book’.
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New Fiction
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The Garden of Angels
£9.99The Garden of Angels
When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches – earning him a week’s suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says, and a secret he must keep from his father. Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under the Nazis, and to the defining moment of his grandfather’s life: when Paolo’s support for a murdered Jewish woman brings him into the sights of the city’s underground resistance. Hooked and unsettled, Nico can’t stop reading – but he soon wonders if he ever knew his beloved grandfather at all.
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The Horned God
£9.99The Horned God
In 1894, Arthur Machen’s landmark novella ‘The Great God Pan’ was published, sparking a resurgence of literary fascination with the figure of the Pagan goat god. Tales from a broad spectrum of writers – from E.M. Forster to prolific pulpsters such as Greye Le Spina – took the god’s rebellious and chaotic influence as their subject, spinning beguiling tales of society turned upside down and the forces of nature compelling protagonists to ecstatic heights or bizarre dooms. Selecting an eclectic cross-section of tales and short poems from this boom of Pan-centric literature – many first published in the influential ‘Weird Tales’ magazine – this new collection examines the roots of a cultural phenomenon and showcases Pan’s potential to introduce themes of queer awakening and celebrations of the transgressive into the thrillingly weird stories in which he was invoked.
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The Lost Diaries of Nigel Molesworth
£15.99The Lost Diaries of Nigel Molesworth
Nigel Molesworth, the curse of St. Custard’s school, is known to his huge army of fans through Geoffrey Willans’ four books ‘Down with Skool!’, ‘How to be Topp’, ‘Whizz for Atomms’ and ‘Back in the Jug Agane’, first published between 1953 and 1958, and illustrated by Ronald Searle. Much less famous are the Molesworth diaries that appeared in the magazine Punch between August 1939 and December 1942. This volume is an opportunity to discover a slightly different Molesworth – less philosophical than the boy portrayed in the books, but equally as sardonic, knowing and cynical. The diaries are an introduction to the world and mind of Molesworth, and as such are essential reading for Molesworth fans.
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The Golden Couple
£8.99The Golden Couple
A perfect couple are not all they seem to be, in a gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling authors of The Wife Between Us.
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Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
£9.99Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
Another day! And then another and another and another. It seemed as if it would all go on forever in that exquisitely boring and beautiful way. But of course it wouldn’t; everyone knows that. In this collection, Hilma Wolitzer invites us inside the private world of domestic bliss, seen mostly through the lens of Paulie and Howard’s gloriously ordinary marriage. From hasty weddings to meddlesome neighbours, ex-wives who just won’t leave, to sleepless nights spent worrying about unanswered chainmail, Wolitzer captures the tensions, contradictions and unexpected detours of daily life with wit, candour and an acutely observant eye.
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The Pachinko Parlour
£9.99The Pachinko Parlour
It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned hotel, and lying on the floor at her grandparents: daydreaming, playing Tetris and listening to the sounds from the street above. The heat rises; the days slip by. The plan is for Claire to visit Korea with her grandparents. They fled the civil war there over fifty years ago, along with thousands of others, and haven’t been back since. When they first arrived in Japan, they opened Shiny, a pachinko parlour. Shiny is still open, drawing people in with its bright, flashing lights and promises of good fortune. And as Mieko and Claire gradually bond, a tender relationship growing, Mieko’s determination to visit the pachinko parlour builds.
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New Non-Fiction
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Small Pleasures
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Day of the Assassins
£10.99Day of the Assassins
A forensic account of political assassinations from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
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The Amazing Night Sky Atlas
£14.99The Amazing Night Sky Atlas
Lonely Planet Kids’ Amazing Night Sky Atlas looks upwards to the skies for a fun- and fact-packed guide to astronomy. Featuring a mix of photography and illustration, this book covers topics that range from the science of stargazing to the practicalities of how to use a telescope and the stories that different cultures tell about the night sky.
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Tree-Spotting
£14.99Tree-Spotting
An illustrated guide to the marvellous and varied world of trees, and a charming walk through the hidden secrets of each of the 56 British species.
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Frozen in Time
£10.99Frozen in Time
A vibrant and richly detailed guide to fossils for readers with a passion for the natural world and those that inhabited it long ago. This is a book for those that want to learn to scan the beach for fossils, who love the simple pleasure of getting outside or those who want to develop their relationship with the world around them. From the Jurassic Coast to the Antrim Coast, our nation is home to some of the most incredible fossil sites in the world. Weaving an intricate tapestry of knowledge on the landscape of our own pre-historic planet, palaeontologist and Education Officer of the Bristol Dinosaur Project, Rhys Charles beautifully communicates the joy of fossil-hunting and where best to hunt for them in the country.
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World of Wonders
£9.99World of Wonders
What the peacock can do is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life. The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. In this book, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the many places she has called home, from inhospitable plains to tall mountains in big sky country. No matter where she is transplanted, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship, even in the strange and the unlovely. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts.
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In the Children’s Section
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The Funny Life of Football
£6.99The Funny Life of Football
Want to know why octopuses can’t play football? And how to play the game across multiple dimensions? How about learning the real rules of how football is played, why Henry VIII banned it, plus where it came from and who the greatest players of all time are? Whether you love a game of table football, can’t get enough of back-garden ball, only enjoy the game from your sofa or would sooner swim with sharks than play it, if you love to laugh – then this is the book for you!
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Strong and Tough
£6.99Strong and Tough
A story of hope and resilience, this gentle, inspiring picture book tells the tale of Charlie, a little boy who was taken into care when he was very small. Charlie dreams of finding his forever home to share with his sisters. Sometimes he feels scared. Sometimes he wants to scream and cry (and he does, just a little). But he is strong. He is tough.
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The Secret School Invasion
£7.99The Secret School Invasion
Hilarious, pitch-perfect stories where everyday school life becomes completely extraordinary! By a brilliant author/illustrator team with laughs on every page! Izzy’s school is being merged with St Bartholomew’s Primary, their greatest rivals! What will happen when the new kids join, in their too-shiny shoes and with their too-loud singing? And what if they’ve got a secret mission and that mission is a BAD mission?
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Vehicle Words
£6.99Vehicle Words
Touch the sparkly bus, feel the car’s squishy wheel and stroke the shiny submarine. Every page has an odd-one-out game to play and there’s a matching game at the end, too. With gentle, rhyming text and silly vehicle noises to make together, this book will provide hours of fun for young children.
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The Zoo Inside Me
£12.99The Zoo Inside Me
Sometimes we feel brave as a lion or shy like a mouse, and the zoo inside our heads reflects how we behave on the outside. You can’t see it, but this little boy is part mischievous monkey, part curious llama, and part chameleon, hiding from the world. Sometimes it feels like there’s not enough room for our jumbling feelings, but the zoo inside all of us makes us who we are – reaching out to the world from the part you can’t see.
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Mooncat and Me
£7.99Mooncat and Me
A fresh, contemporary picture book about a young girl’s anxiety at moving to a busy city and starting a new school, and the power of her imaginary friend, a giant white cat, to boost her confidence.
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