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📣 It’s Independent Bookshop Week!! 📣 This is one

📣 It’s Independent Bookshop Week!! 📣

This is one of our favourite weeks of the year where we celebrate everything that is wonderful about Independent Bookshops.

We’d love you to come and celebrate with us during the week of 13th - 20th June and we’ve got lots of exciting things in the shop for you if you do!

☀️ If you buy ANY three Penguin books this week you’ll get a gorgeous free tote bag to take away with you (modelled here by James!). This can include hardbacks or paperbacks and even three Penguin books from the 3 for £25 🙌

☀️ Spend over £10 and get a FREE £5 National Book Token that you can spend next time you visit

☀️ From 11am - 2pm TODAY we are running a pre-loved book sale for **adults’ books** to raise money for our Holmfirth Children’s Book Festival @holmfirth_book_festival. Evie and James will be manning the stall with a huge number of nearly new books at brilliant prices for one day only. (Later in the year we’ll have a pre-loved sale for children’s books too so keep your eyes peeled for that!)

☀️ Plus plenty of stickers and badges too 💛

**All while stocks last!**

We want this to be a celebration not just of bookshops but the fact that you have supported us throughout the work in the town. We are so incredibly grateful to you all and super optimistic about what the future has in store.

Don’t forget that it is also The Arts Festival this weekend so there is all sorts to do in Holmfirth. We’d love to see you 👋

@booksaremybag #independentbookshopweek #holmfirthbookfestival

Saturday 20th June is your chance to meet David Ga

Saturday 20th June is your chance to meet David Gange, all-action adventurer, writer and lecturer, like a sea-borne Indiana Jones but with an oar instead of a whip. David has journeyed around the coastlines of the North Atlantic, visiting communties built on the expertise of small boat builders. From the Sami of Finland to the fishermen of Barbados, David’s encounters with people, places and animals are captivatingly described and fascinatingly written, and you can hear all about his amazing journey here at Read. Highly recommended by James ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Tickets are £5 which can be redeemed against a signed copy of the book on the evening. You can pick up tickets in the shop or on our website here:

https://to-be-read.co.uk/books/an-evening-with-david-gange/

It may be a gloomy outside but if you’re in need o

It may be a gloomy outside but if you’re in need of some sunshine, we have no end of it here ☀️

Our 3 for £25 is packed full of brilliant titles and James and Clare are in the shop ready to help you find your perfect read. Open 9.30-4.30 💛

See you there 👋

All the way back in 2019, one of our first ever au

All the way back in 2019, one of our first ever author events was with David Gange to celebrate the release of his wonderful book, The Frayed Atlantic Edge. David was *brilliant*. He spoke so well about what it was like to kayak around the UK; the isolation of the journey yet meeting so many kind people along the way. The Frayed Atlantic Edge is still a popular book in the shop 7 years later.

We’re delighted to tell you that David is BACK in Holmfirth on Saturday 20th June.at 7pm. He will be telling us all about his latest book, Afloat: Small Boats, Swell and Seaspray.

From Ireland and the Shetlands up to Greenland,
across to Baffin Island, Newfoundland, the US, and
the Caribbean, David embarks on a seabound journey through North-Atlantic coasts & islands, exploring ways of life that have been built on small rowed or paddled boats.

Small traditional boats fulfil roles in their communities unlike any other inanimate things. Often treated as living members of the family, with minds and lives of their own, they’ve been essential to many cultures’ ways of living in the land- and seascapes that surround them. Intimately adapted to specific bays and headlands, tides and prevailing winds, they bind people and place together.

This book is the story of eight journeys and thousands of miles of sailing, kayaking and rowing.

David is one of the loveliest, most knowledgable and interesting people you could ever hope to meet and we’re definitely in for a great evening.

Tickets are £5 and as always include free refreshments and £5 off the book on the night. You can find them in the shop or online here:

https://to-be-read.co.uk/books/an-evening-with-david-gange/

We’ve had the most beautiful week in Cornwall this

We’ve had the most beautiful week in Cornwall this week. Plenty of sun ☀️, barbecues, books, bodyboarding, games, crazy golf and a much needed rest. Here’s what we’ve been reading this week. Holiday books take a lot of planning… Louise started her list in January 😆

We visited two gorgeous bookshops we’ve not been to before @clemobooks and @padstowbookseller and Louise got a great recommendation for the new Jem Calder book which sounds amazing.

We have now visited the incredible @gloucesterservices that Clare has been telling us about forever. What a revelation! Won’t be stopping anywhere else from now on 😂 Their meringues have kept the kids quiet most of the way home.

Thanks to Eleanor, Penny and Ruth (who came back to help us over the holidays 🙌) who have kept the shop running for us. It’s because of them that we’re able to get away and we’re hugely grateful.

Back to reality now but when reality is running a bookshop that’s a lot easier to cope with 💛

One of the best things about being a bookshop owne

One of the best things about being a bookshop owner is coming across books that don’t fit into your usual genre but that you find that you LOVE. This is a perfect example… mention to Louise that there are zombies in a book and she would normally hand the book straight to Clare. But she has absolutely raced through this book and will now be placing it in everyone’s hands.

Paul Mosi comes back from a trip abroad and collapses in A&E. What follows is not just his ‘death’ but his strange jerky movements, his yellowed eyes and his compelling need to bite someone… Paul is patient zero of a mystery virus.

We meet Kesta, a scientist, after all the infected have been destroyed. She is working to investigate the virus and ultimately cure it. But she’s got a secret interest in finding a cure… what if not all of the infected had been destroyed?

This book has everything; it’s a love story, it’s got lots about the science of viruses (which feels oh so real and perhaps very possible!) and there are underlying themes of friendship, trust and grief. This is a genuinely brilliant book.

Leigh is coming to Read for an event on Thursday 9th July at 7pm. Come along for free refreshments and a great conversation about books.

Tickets are £5 and include £5 off the paperback on the evening 👁️

Find tickets here: https://to-be-read.co.uk/books/an-evening-with-leigh-radford/ or just pop into the shop for a ticket!

We’re open today from 9.30-4.30 💛 see you there! 👋

What about our top ten for children? 10 - The Caf

What about our top ten for children?

10 - The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods by Mikey Please
9 - Megalomaniacs by Jamie Smart
8 - Pablo and Splash Roman Holiday
7 - Buzz Sausage Wolf by Jim Beckett
6 - Finn’s Epic Fails by Phil Earle
5 - Lightfall Book 4 (A Place Between) by Tim Probert (if you haven’t discovered this series, it’s fantastic!)
4 - Captain Underpants The First Epic Manga by Dav Pilkey/Motojiro
3 - Dog Man Big Jim Believes by Dav Pilkey
2 - Unicorn Post by Emma Yarlett

And of course… The Seriously Epic Holiday of Lottie Brooks by Katie Kirby takes our number one position 💛

We haven’t done a top ten for a while! But what a

We haven’t done a top ten for a while! But what a fantastic ten books we have here:

10 - Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
9 - The Predicament by William Boyd
8 - The Things we Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
7 - The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal
6 - Heart the Lover by Lily King
5 - It Comes from the River by Rachel Bower
4 - Wild Peaks by Tom Chesshyre
3 - The Names by Florence Knapp
2 - The North Road by Rob Cowen

It will come as no surprise to you that The Book of Birds is at number one 🙌🙌

How many have you read?

Have a fantastic day - we’re open 11-3 for the Bank Holiday 💛

Eleanor has LOVED John of John by Douglas Stuart.

Eleanor has LOVED John of John by Douglas Stuart.

An outstanding novel about love it all its forms; long held resentments; shame; longing, and the damage that can be caused by a lack of honesty and understanding.

Beautifully written - easily the best book Eleanor has read in a long time!!

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£20 hardback, comes with a free tote bag while stocks last 💛

You’ll find John of John signed editions in the shop and on our website here: https://to-be-read.co.uk/books/john-of-john-signed-indies-edition/

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