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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Disappoint me
£16.99Disappoint 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.
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Glorious exploits
£9.99Glorious 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.
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Confessions
£16.99Confessions
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.
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Loot
£9.99Loot
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.
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The Mars house
£9.99The 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.
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The tortoise and the hare
£9.99The 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.
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New Non-Fiction
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The Nazi mind
£25.00The 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’.
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We are free to change the world
£10.99We 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.
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An A-Z of Chinese food
£25.00An 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.
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A second act
£20.00A second act
Life lessons from those who have survived cardiac arrest and clinical death, from the author of Critical.Â
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A liveable future is possible
£10.99A 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.
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How tyrants fall
£10.99How 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.
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In the Children’s Section
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The boy I love
£8.99The boy I love
At just nineteen, Stephen has already survived a year at the front. Now he is returning to the trenches to lead a platoon, despite his wounds. Broken-hearted from the loss of his first love, Stephen wonders what he’s fighting for. Then he meets Private Danny McCormick, a smart, talented young recruit whose strong opinions will surely get him into trouble. From their first meeting, there’s something undeniable between them – something forbidden by both society and the army. Determined to protect Danny, Stephen must face down the prejudices and ignorance of his superiors as well as the onslaught of German shells and sniper fire. As the summer of 1916 ticks down to one big push on the Somme, can Stephen and Danny stay together – and will their love save them – or condemn them?
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The vulpine
£8.99The vulpine
A darkly dystopian world full of eerie folklore, in which illnessand difference have been prohibited. But from deep beneath the earth,a rebellion is rising… Perfect for fans of Never LetMe Go and The Luminaries.
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The legendary Scarlett and Browne
£8.99The legendary Scarlett and Browne
Scarlett McCain and Albert Browne have raided their way across the Seven Kingdoms and eluded capture for two more years, gathering other outlaws to their cause. They are set on taking down the Faith Houses and their oppressive regime, and finding out the truth about Stonemoor. But they also have an even more impossible mission: to find Scarlett’s brother, who she was separated from years before. In a world teeming with man-eating Tainted, Faith House operatives out for their blood and wilderness full of dangerous animals, is there a hope that one boy may have survived – and that they can find him?
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Girl, ultra-processed
£8.99Girl, ultra-processed
A searing look at diet culture and all its ugly consequences, from the talented writer of ‘Influential’.
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The last bookstore on Earth
£8.99The last bookstore on Earth
The world is about to end. Again. It’s been a year since a devastating storm ripped Liz’s world apart. Haunted by the memories of those she couldn’t save, Liz holes up in the only place she felt safe before her world fell away: the bookstore where she used to work. Now she spends her days trading books for supplies and collecting stories from the remaining survivors who pass by. Until she learns that another earth-shattering Storm is coming – and everything changes. Enter Maeve, a spiky out-of-towner who breaks into the bookstore looking for shelter one night. When Maeve’s secrets and Liz’s inner demons come back to haunt them both, they find themselves fighting for their lives and asking themselves one big question. As the end of the world approaches, is there time for one final love story?
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This feast of a life
£8.99This feast of a life
When Valerie finds Auden’s food blog, the two are drawn together and connect over their shared love of food, and start to discover new ways to express themselves to the full.
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