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Christmas Event!

Our special Christmas event takes place on the 1st December, when we’re offering 15% discount on all purchases!*

9am to 8pm on Thursday 1st December

Order by Tuesday 29th and collect on the day to receive the discount or just come along to browse for some inspiration. We’ll also be heating up the mulled wine and breaking out some mince pies from 6pm so join us for some festive cheer!

*Excludes book tokens

Win a Year’s Worth of Children’s Books!

Have a Picture Book Perfect Christmas

We’ve teamed up with Walker Books, one of the UK’s top kids’ publishing houses, to offer you the chance to win 12 of our favourite picture story books of the year.

(Click here to read more and enter…)

Young Reviewers Tell It Like It Is

Who better to rate the latest kids’ books than our own Review Crew?

This summer we recruited some expert reviewers to rate the cream of the new autumn titles for kids.

Who better to decide what’s cool and what’s not than the intended readers? Our panel, The Review Crew, are aged between 8—15 and between them powered their way through hundreds of thousands of words to bring you the most relevant feedback on the books you may well consider buying for your family this autumn and winter.

You can read what the panel thought by clicking here.

And in the meantime, to all our young reviewers: we know what you did this summer—and we’re hugely impressed and grateful!

The Review Crew will be scouting for more young reviewers this half term and we are already putting some exciting treats together for the Christmas holidays so keep an eye out for our next update!

Author Talks: the Autumn Collection

Catch up with the UK’s hottest new thriller writer plus a ‘metrosexual Great Expectations’!

We all dread the close of summer (what summer?…oh, don’t be like that!), but, as the days grow shorter, we offer some compensation in the shape of some great author talks at our sister shops, West End Lane Books and England’s Lane Books.

Coming up on 31st August at England’s Lane Books, Maida Vale journalist, traveller and 20th century commentator W.P Jaspert celebrates the publication of his extraordinary memoir, Think Or Swim, Dancing The Conga With Molotov and Other Reminiscences.

Still at England’s Lane, on 1st September Alan Clark will be reading from and signing copies of his poignant, funny and starling novel, Rory’s Boys, which tells the story of what happens when the eponymous hero opens the UK’s first ever retirement home in the stately pile he has inherited and from which he had been unceremoniously ejected, some years earlier on coming out. Beautifully told, it’s easy to see why Rory’s Boys was recently made Stonewall Book Of The Month. Discover it for yourself when Clark joins us on September 1st at 7.30pm.

You can meet one of the UK’s hottest new voices when Erin Kelly visits West End Lane Books to discuss her two superb thrillers, The
Poison Tree and The Sick Rose at 7.30pm on September 6th.

Our resident thriller buffs were wowed by both titles and have referenced both Barbara Vine, Donna Tartt and even Daphne Du Maurier when enthusing about her gripping, addictive and compelling style. It’s high praise—and completely deserved; this is not your standard police procedurals, but much darker and frisson-inducing pyschological fare. Join us on September 6th for a real treat!

To reserve seats call 0207 431 3770 email info@welbooks.co.uk for Erin Kelly (full details at westendlanebooks.co.uk).

For W.P Jaspert and Alan Clark call 0207 586 9764 email info@englandslanebooks.co.uk (full details at englandslanebooks.co.uk)

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