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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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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800 Years of a Great Pond
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Doing Time
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The Storyteller’s MIstress
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Silver Samovar
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A Perfect Day on Daisy Farm
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New Fiction
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Haunted states
£12.99Haunted states
A fusion of travel literature and cultural criticism investigating the darkhistory of the US and exploring how past horrors – from witch trials to slavery and genocide- continue to haunt the national consciousness.
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Bridges not Borders
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Our Evenings
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Tales accursed
£25.00Tales 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.
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Edith Holler
£16.99Edith 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
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Starling House
£9.99Starling 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 . . .
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New Non-Fiction
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Not so Black and White
£12.99Not 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.
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England
£25.00England
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.
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A very short history of the Israel-Palestine conflict
£9.99A 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.
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Strangeland
£22.00Strangeland
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?
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Your guide to not getting murdered in a quaint English village
£14.99Your 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.
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Conflict
£12.99Conflict
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
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In the Children’s Section
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War Girls
£8.99War Girls
1914: war has broken out across Europe and beyond. Nothing will ever be the same again for those caught up in the conflict. This collection of short stories explores how the First World War changed and shaped the lives of women forever.
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The dagger and the flame
£16.99The dagger and the flame
In the dark underbelly of a Paris-inspired fantastical city, two rival assassins are pitted against each other in a deadly game of revenge, where the most dangerous mistake of all is falling in love??
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Sisters of sword and song
£9.99Sisters of sword and song
Rebecca Ross, acclaimed author of The Queen’s Rising duology, delivers a thrilling new fantasy about the lengths two sisters will go for each other. Perfect for fans of Ember in the Ashes, Sky In the Deep, and Court of Fives.
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This winter
£8.99This winter
With special bonus content – a “Twelve Days of Nick and Charlie” holiday sequence of illustrations by Alice Oseman
A short novella based on the beloved characters from Alice Oseman’s acclaimed debut novel Solitaire and graphic novel series Heartstopper – now a major Netflix series.
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The haunted house on Hollow Hill
£14.99The haunted house on Hollow Hill
*The book version of the thrilling and innovative narrative podcast launching August 2024*
On a dark and stormy night ?
A pair of journalists arrive at the most haunted house in Britain – the Hollow Hotel. They’re here to interview the Dark King of television magic, Romeo Gideon.
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When the world tips over
£8.99When the world tips over
Welcome to Paradise Springs, Northern California – a hot, dusty, half-magical, wine-country town where there are so many grapes fermenting at one time, you get drunk from breathing the air; where devil winds blow so hard they whip your sense away. A town where every fairy tale you’ve ever read could be set – and ‘home’ to the family Falls. When a strange, enigmatic, rainbow-haired girl shows up in their fantastical hometown, it sends the lives of Fall brothers Wynton and Miles and their sister Dizzy into tumult. With road trips, rivalries, family curses, love stories within love stories within love stories, and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation, this is the intricate, luminous tale of a family’s complicated past and present. And only in telling their stories can they hope to rewrite their futures.
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