Thanks to ace crime writer & brilliant bookshop cheerleader
@AnnCleeves
for officially opening our new bookshop! 👏 🎉 !! We are OPEN!!
... come & see us!
#ChooseBookshops
50 and feeling so humbled and blessed. There is not a single day that I take for granted, especially during these times when we are all reminded of the things that truly matter.
Bright news on a murky day -
we have officially sold our 💥700th💥 copy of The Darkest Evening by
@AnnCleeves
!! I mean what?!
Thank you Ann,
@panmacmillan
& all you lovely people! 🙌
SO looking forward to throwing our doors open on Monday 12th April!
Open again Mon-Sat 10-5 / Sun 11-4
... come and say hello!
#ChooseBookshops
#ShopLocal
We are elated to reveal this year's
#BritishBookAwards
Independent Bookshop of the Year Regional and Country finalists! With a record 62 in the final with a "thread of innovation running through" the list 📚
Congratulations, all, see the finalists here:
We moved yesterday & will be closed today for a stocktake. Open from tomorrow in our shiny new premises - see you soon! And thanks to all the movers who helped make it happen!
Really happy to share the HIGE good news that thanks to incredible support we made the target AND our offer has been accepted!! Thanks so much! More here
Our award winning indie bookshop is looking to fill several positions for experienced booksellers in both our Corbridge shop and a new premises on the Metro line outside Newcastle.
Please email to learn more / throw your hat in the ring!
e. hello
@forumbooksandkids
.com GO!
Beautiful day for a beautiful bookshop!
Now open in heart of Corbridge at The Chapel!
Nothing like a real book & nothing like a real bookshop!
#ReadOn
see you soon
As the situation develops our supplier has now suspended their operations meaning we can no longer safely get books to you. We hope we can fulfil orders already placed.
Thanks so much for all your support & patience! Will update again when we can! Take care
To keep everyone safer, the bookshop will be closing at 1pm today.
We will be here
t. 01434 632931
e. hello
@forumbooksandkids
.com
&
We really appreciate the support of you all! Hold steady, stay well & keep in touch!
Huge congrats to James Routledge
@ForumBooks
– our Indie Bookseller of the Year!
& to brilliant runners up,
@gyllzd
of
@LRBbookshop
& Helen Stickland
@winstonebooks
. We were overwhelmed by the calibre of entries & are indebted to each & every one of you 📚
Good luck & have a fabulous reopening to all the brilliant indie bookshops throwing their doors open!
@booksaremybag
@thebookseller
‘And now ladies & gentlemen what we’ve been waiting for...’
Damp-eyed & mind-blown! My Book of the Year
#Humankind
@rcbregman
☂️💜
This is just what we need right now! An inspiring, fascinating, moving book to tell us that we are pretty decent & kind AND that’s what we need to live better
More here
Congratulations
@AnnCleeves
!! So brilliant to see - we love you for your books, but your support for readers, libraries and bookshops is meaningful, inspiring & just lovely!! 🙌 really chuffed!!
Please invest in this brilliant Northumberland pub!
We’re part of the community buyout - help spread the word!
Full prospectus & everything here
Cheers! 🍻
The news is out! 📣!!
Really chuffed to be a non fiction judge alongside
@sarfrazmanzoor
&
@Ben_garrod
for
@nerobookawards
- loving reading an eclectic, informing, empathy-inducing, mind-blowing, heartbreaking & heart-swelling bunch of books! Thanks for asking me 🫶
This year's
@nerobookawards
judges have been announced featuring authors, journalists and booksellers who are simply asked to choose which reads they would most want to recommend to others.
Find out more here:
Getting very
#Vera
excited!!
Thanks
@panmacmillan
&
@AnnCleeves
we’ve got signed
#TheDarkestEvening
PLUS our *exclusive* short story Frozen!!
Picking + packing to get preorders out for pub date 3rd September & still time to get yours
Thrilled to bits to be shortlisted for this years
#Nibbies
!!
There’s nothing like a real book and nothing like a real bookshop!
Open 7 days a week in Corbridge &
@biscuit_factory
... come & say hello!
@thebookseller
Unsurprisingly
@AnnCleeves
set our Twitter 🔥 talking about her new
#Vera
!! Coming September 3rd!
We’ll have signed copies of
#TheDarkestEvening
& happy to sort dedications too 🖊
Preorders available here
☀️ Beautiful day for a beautiful bookshop!! 💛
Specially as - at last! - the bound has its new shop front 😍🤸♀️🫶🎉!
Thanks
@pip_fallow
@NTCouncilTeam
plus our customers & Park View neighbours for being so lush & patient x
Sorry been a bit quiet on the Twitter but ... Ivy happened !! She’s having a wee nap now so .. hello again & hope everyone had a fab, festive Christmas!
“If you get to know them, they get to know you and your tastes far better than any algorithm can. Indies that don’t just survive but thrive do so because they celebrate and anchor a community”
Love all of this
@Damian_Barr
💜