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

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9:00 – 17:30 Monday to Saturday

11:00 – 16:00 Sundays and Bank Holidays

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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

  • Bridges not Borders

    £10.00

    Bridges not Borders

    SKU: 9781913624149 Category:
    £10.00
  • Our Evenings

    £22.00

    Our Evenings

    A stunning portrait of modern England from one of Britain’s finest novelists.

    £22.00
  • Tales accursed

    £25.00

    Tales accursed

    ‘Tales Accursed’ is the second collection of classic supernatural stories selected by the artist Richard Wells. Each of the sixteen tales is accompanied by one of Richard’s striking lino-print illustrations. This anthology contains work from both the established masters of folk horror, and some more surprising contributors: from Shirley Jackson and M.R. James to E.F. Benson and William Croft Dickinson.

    £25.00
  • Edith Holler

    £16.99

    Edith Holler

    ‘An extraordinary achievement’ A. L. KennedyEdward Carey’s witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse – and the mysterious figure who threatens its very survival.Norwich, 1901. Edith Holler spends her days among the eccentric denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse will literally tumble down if she should ever leave.Fascinated by tales of the city she knows only from afar, young Edith decides to write a play of her own about Mawther Meg, a monstrous figure said to have used the blood of countless children to make the local delicacy, Beetle Spread. But when her father suddenly announces his engagement to a peculiar woman named Margaret Unthank, Edith scrambles to protect her father, the theatre, and her play – the one thing that’s truly hers – from the newcomer’s sinister designs. Teeming with unforgettable characters and illuminated by Carey

    £16.99
  • Starling House

    £9.99

    Starling House

    Opal Gravely has spent her life obsessed with the mysterious Starling House but when its reclusive heir offers her a job, she discovers there may be monsters lurking within. This is just the start of this sweeping, Gothic fairytale . . .

    £9.99
  • A pirate’s life for tea

    £22.00

    A pirate’s life for tea

    The heart-warming sequel to Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea, filled with cozy sapphic adventure, mild peril and plenty of tea – perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes.

    SKU: 9781035031092 Category: Tags: ,
    £22.00

New Non-Fiction

  • Not so Black and White

    £12.99

    Not so Black and White

    A powerful new history of the idea of race, forcing us to rethink today’s culture wars. Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who benefits most when anti-racists speak in racial terms? The ‘culture wars’ have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity. This book takes the long view, explaining the real origins of ‘race’ in Western thought, and tracing its path from those beginnings in the Enlightenment all the way to our own fractious world.

    £12.99
  • England

    £25.00

    England

    Our countryside is iconic: a series of distinctive habitats that unite to create a landscape that is unique for the rich diversity of our flora and fauna. In ‘England’, his most magisterial book to date, John Lewis-Stempel explores each in turn, taking us from coast to moor, from downs to field, from the park to the village to create a vivid living portrait of our natural history. In his trademark lyrical prose, Lewis-Stempel reveals the hidden workings of each habitat: the clear waters and dragonflies; the bluebells, badgers and stag beetles; wild thyme; granite cliffs; rock pools and sandy beaches; red deer standing at ancient oaks; the wayside flowers of the lane; hedgehogs and hares; and snow on the high peak.

    £25.00
  • A very short history of the Israel-Palestine conflict

    £9.99

    A very short history of the Israel-Palestine conflict

    The devastation of the October 7th 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel-Palestine conflict didn’t start on October 7th. It didn’t start in 1967 either, when Israel occupied the West Bank, or in 1948 when the state of Israel was declared. It started in 1882, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in what was then Ottoman Palestine. Ilan Pappe untangles the history of two peoples, now sharing one land.

    £9.99
  • Strangeland

    £22.00

    Strangeland

    At the beginning of 2022, after eight years of political reporting in the US, Jon Sopel returned home to the UK – and having spent almost a third of his career abroad, he found a very different place to the one he left. In ‘Strangeland’, his first book since launching the global hit podcast The News Agents, he asks: What is the Britain he’s come home to?

    £22.00
  • Your guide to not getting murdered in a quaint English village

    £14.99

    Your guide to not getting murdered in a quaint English village

    Thinking of a foray to a quaint English village? You’ll think twice after reading this tongue-in-cheek illustrated guide to the countless murderous possibilities lurking behind these villages’ bucolic façades.

    £14.99
  • Conflict

    £12.99

    Conflict

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

    ‘A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades’ THE TIMES

    ‘A hugely important book ? elegantly written and persuasively argued’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

    £12.99

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