Books to Spark Your Imagination - Read Bookshop - Holmfirth

** Signed independent exclusive editions ** at £1

** Signed independent exclusive editions ** at £14.99
When nurse Ruby, heads to her first job as a nanny in West Yorkshire she can’t wait to start. On meeting parents Charles and Lilian, she feels uneasy but can’t work out why. Strange things start to happen and Ruby starts to feel increasingly isolated in the house... This is a tense, gothic thriller from the author of The Foundling and The Familiars 💛💛

Did you know that we have a book subscription serv

Did you know that we have a book subscription service? £12.99 per month for adults and £9.99 for children. We send you a questionnaire and choose a personalised book each month. Great as a gift but we have lots of people who have bought a subscription for themselves too. Email us on read.holmfirth@gmail.com for more information! 💛

Happy SUNday!! ☀️☀️ This brilliant book is

Happy SUNday!! ☀️☀️ This brilliant book is a real gem. It’s a beautifully illustrated hardback split into the four seasons. In each season we get a mixture of poems, facts and drawings about animals, plants, trees and insects and even some crafty/making ideas thrown in too! (£16)

Father’s Day is next weekend 💛 we’ve got lo

Father’s Day is next weekend 💛 we’ve got lots of books for you to browse or we do gift vouchers too. We also have book subscriptions for adults for £12.99 per month - just email us on read.holmfirth@gmail.com if you’d like to find out more! Have a wonderful sunny day ☀️

What if Pig is one of those pigs who thinks about

What if Pig is one of those pigs who thinks about all the things that can go wrong! When he decides to throw a party for Mouse, his worries almost stop him from enjoying himself. We have **signed copies** at £6.99 🐷💛

Bookclubbers!!! Grace Dent’s Hungry is our next

Bookclubbers!!! Grace Dent’s Hungry is our next book club choice 💛

And finally... after a very long wait this beauty

And finally... after a very long wait this beauty is ready to fly! We have a limited number of signed copies with access to an online event with John on the 22nd June. Message to reserve one at £20! ✈️

The first in-person meeting of the book group sinc

The first in-person meeting of the book group since March 20 🥳 At the park with no alcohol in sight... So lovely to see everyone and I’ve nearly lost my voice from all the nattering 😂 Most of us hated our last book so the less said about that the better! 💛

Sitting in the heart of the Mediterranean, between

Sitting in the heart of the Mediterranean, between east and west, Europe and North Africa, Sicily’s food has a stunning mix of cultural influences using citrus, almonds, spices and olives.
The recipes range from meat and fish, couscous, rice and pasta dishes. The book also shows us how to prepare ice creams and desserts such as a bitter chocolate torte. With clear photos and instructions this book leaves your mouth watering (£26) 💛

A new half term and a brilliant event to start the

A new half term and a brilliant event to start the day today! We learnt all about code breaking and mirror writing. Anne showed us her fantastic children’s books with Mickey and her gang of animal spies! Thank you Anne for such an engaging event 💛

Written by the Friends of Cliff Rec, our newest lo

Written by the Friends of Cliff Rec, our newest local history book is excellent - full of facts about the history of Cliff Rec and its importance in the local community but also we meet the people and personalities that have made it the place it is today (£5)

**Book-signing with Rob Cowen on 4th July** to cel

**Book-signing with Rob Cowen on 4th July** to celebrate the release of the most beautiful collection of poetry and illustrations by @robbiecowen and @nickhayesillustration
Just choose a time-slot to suit you on Eventbrite (link in bio) and come and get a signed, personalised copy!

The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which we once lived altered completely.
The Heeding paints a picture of a year caught in the grip of history, yet filled with revelatory perspectives close at hand: a sparrowhawk hunting in a back street; the moon over a town with a loved-one’s hand held tight; butterflies massing in a high-summer yard – the everyday wonders and memories that shape a life and help us recall our own.
Across four seasons and thirty-five luminous poems and illustrations, Rob Cowen and Nick Hayes lead us on a journey that takes its markers and signs from nature and a world filled with fear and pain but beauty and wonder too. Collecting birds, animals, trees and people together, The Heeding is a profound meditation to a time no-one will forget.

At its heart, this is a book that helps us look again, to heed: to be attentive to this world we share and this history we’re living through, to be aware of how valuable and fragile we are, to grieve what’s lost and to hope for a better and brighter tomorrow.

Meet Rob Cowen and have the opportunity to purchase a personalised signed copy of The Heeding.

**Tickets are organised into 4 blocks of 30 mins - please choose the time slot that suits you and arrive within your time slot to help us manage the event safely. **

We hope that Rob will be able to do some short readings at the end of each time slot but this is open to change at short notice due to national or local changes to restrictions.

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Out this week (£6.99 paperback and £12.99 hardba

Out this week (£6.99 paperback and £12.99 hardback)!
In the funniest instalment yet, Baby Frank and his family take a holiday from the animals and Gran is stepping in to help while they are away. But Frank starts to worry about what will happen without him - will the animals be ok? He decides to make his way home but it doesn’t quite go to plan...
Signed copies will be available to collect from *Wednesday* - let us know if you want to order a personalised message from Jim Whalley himself! ❤️❤️ 🚂

⭐️ Customer Review ⭐️ Thanks to David Cock

⭐️ Customer Review ⭐️ Thanks to David Cockman for his review of Walking Pepys’s London by Jacky Colliss Harvey.

A MUST for all fans of the great diarist. Jacky takes readers on five guided walks through Pepys’s London, exploring what survives and what we have lost in that 17th century world. Enhance your experience by using Google Earth Pro with Streetview to follow in Jacky’s footsteps (£12.99). Thanks David 👍

This book needs to be ordered in so to order just send us a message or email us.

Every Sunday is now customer review day so if you’ve bought something a bit different from us and would like to recommend it to others just send us a review and we’ll choose one each week!

We’re open 11-3 today - see you there 💛

💛💛 Most up to date 3 for £25 selection! 💛💛 What will you choose?

David Peace’s astonishing new novel, a meticulou

David Peace’s astonishing new novel, a meticulous mystery about the real-life murder of a Japanese railway chief in 1949, unfolds with the writer’s trademark brilliance. Outstanding stuff! We have three signed copies at £16.99.

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