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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Local Authors
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Mary’s Crescent
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800 Years of a Great Pond
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The Little Book of Shropshire
£10.99The Little Book of Shropshire
All sorts of fun and fantastic information about Shropshire, new in paperback!
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Short Walks on the Surrey Hills
£9.95Short Walks on the Surrey Hills
Our authors have chosen 15 of the best short walks around Guildford, Dorking and south Surrey. Each walk comes with easy-to-read Ordnance Survey maps, clear route description and lots of images, plus information on beauty spots and tasty refreshment stops. No challenging terrain or complicated navigation means walks can be enjoyed by everyone.
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Winchester
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New Fiction
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Someone from the past
£9.99Someone from the past
Someone from Sarah’s past has murdered her. Her friend, Nancy, knew all the men in Sarah’s life and any one of them could have committed the murder, but the police come to believe it could have been Nancy herself.
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Big Swiss
£9.99Big Swiss
Greta liked knowing people’s secrets. That wasn’t a problem. Until she met Big Swiss. Big Swiss. That’s Greta’s nickname for her – she is tall, and she is from Switzerland. Greta can see her now: dressed top to toe in white, that adorable gap between her two front teeth, her penetrating blue eyes. She’s a head-turner: including the heads of infants and dogs. Well that’s how Greta imagines seeing her; they haven’t actually ever met in person. Nor has Greta actually ever been to Switzerland. Greta and Big Swiss are not in the same room, or even the same building. Greta is miles away, sitting at a desk in her own house, wearing only headphones, fingerless gloves, a kimono, and legwarmers, transcribing this disembodied voice. What Greta doesn’t know is that she’s about to bump into Big Swiss in the local dog park. A new – and not entirely honest – relationship is going to be born.
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Freeze
£9.99Freeze
‘Frozen Out’ is set to be a TV sensation. On a small ship off the coast of Greenland, eight contestants will push themselves to breaking point for a 100,000 prize. The show is Tori Matsuka’s baby. After years working her way up the ladder, she’s finally launching her own production company and hoping Frozen Out, the late nights, the debts, the strain on her relationship will all be worthwhile. Everything is riding on the next 12 days. For camerawoman Dee, it’s a chance to start again after the tragedy that tanked her undercover journalism career. Not even Tori, her oldest friend, knows the full truth of why Dee left her previous job, and she plans to keep it that way. But as errors and mishaps mount on set, tempers among the cast and crew start to fray. And when one of the contestants is found dead, only Dee realises the death wasn’t natural.
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The Meiji Guillotine Murders
£9.99The Meiji Guillotine Murders
A classic Japanese mystery ?a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders in 19th century TokyoA captivating locked room murder mystery perfect for fans of Stuart Turton and Janice HallettJapan, 1869. A time of reform and rebellion.Detectives Kazuki and Kawaji are assigned to investigate a series of seemingly impossible murders. Together with the help of a mysterious shrine maiden, can they solve each gruesome death and piece together the dark connection between them?Taking us deep into the heart of 19th century Tokyo, The Meiji Guillotine Murders is a fiendish murder mystery from one of Japan’s greatest crime writers.
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Sepulchre Street
£9.99Sepulchre Street
London, 1930s: Rachel Savernake has been invited to a private view of an art exhibition at a fashionable gallery. The artist, Damaris Gethin, known as ‘the Queen of Surrealism’, is debuting a show featuring live models pretending to be waxworks of famous killers. Before her welcoming speech, Damaris asks a haunting favour of the amateur sleuth: she wants Rachel to solve her murder. As Damaris takes to a stage set with a guillotine, the lights go out. There is a cry and the blade falls. Damaris has executed herself. It is now left to Rachel to question why Damaris would take her own life – and just what she meant by ‘solve my murder’.
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The bequest
£9.99The bequest
Fleeing a disastrous affair with a colleague, Isabel Henley leaves the US to begin a PhD in Scotland. There she reconnects with the charismatic scholar Rose Brewster, a former classmate, who becomes a much-needed friend. When Rose reveals she’s in trouble, Isabel decides to help her. Then Rose vanishes. At first it seems she has taken her own life, but then Isabel receives a coded message: Rose is alive but held captive by people who don’t want her to complete her research. Isabel realises she must finish it if she wants to save her friend’s life – and her own. Isabel’s search takes her to Italy and France where she uncovers a chain of betrayal and treason lasting centuries. She must solve a 400-year-old mystery – or risk being claimed by it too.
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New Non-Fiction
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A housefly buzzes in the key of F
£14.99A housefly buzzes in the key of F
During its lifetime, a cow can produce nearly 200,000 glasses of milk. Which is extraordinary, because where is it getting all those glasses? The natural world is an amazing, compelling and funny place: a place where fact is always more staggering – and often funnier – than fiction. Based on BBC Radio 4’s popular science and comedy series Nature Table, and with an introduction from the show’s presenter, Sue Perkins, this book is filled with fascinating facts, big jokes, fun games and entertaining anecdotes.
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Watching wildlife
£8.99Watching wildlife
To watch wildlife, it’s essential not only to learn an animal’s ways, the times and places you may find it, but also to look inward: to station yourself, focus, and wait. The experience depends on your stillness, silence, and full attention, watching and listening with minimal movement and if possible staying downwind so that your presence is not sensed. With decades of close observation of wild animals and birds, Jim Crumley has found himself up close and personal with many of our most elusive creatures, studying their movements, noting details, and offering intimate insights into their extraordinary lives. Here, he draws us into his magical world, showing how we can learn to watch wildlife well, and what doing so can mean for our ability to care for it, and care for ourselves.
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