Recently, we were lucky enough to talk to author Vanessa Len about her debut novel, Only A Monster.
We became utterly addicted to this book the moment we picked it up, so we were thrilled when we were given the opportunity to interview Vanessa.
We are so excited to share the interview with you here …. and to share our love of this book with you!
We also have signed book plates available with any purchase of the book!
Warm Regards,
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Hello fellow book lovers!
We have another exciting author interview to share with you. We recently had the opportunity to interview Susan Allott, author of The Silence, and ask her a few questions about the book and her inspiration behind it.
There are also a couple of new releases we are excited about and a few books to look out for in the near future!
We are still open with our updated hours and you can visit us in store or place online orders via our website.
We hope everyone has been well and safe.
Warm Regards,
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Hello book lovers!
For our May Book Club we read and discussed The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams.
Everyone thoroughly enjoyed this one, and I personally loved it. It was brilliant and well written the entire way through and the story completely captured my attention.
This novel will stay with me for a long time and I highly recommend reading it if you haven’t.
There was so much packed into this one book and it gave us great material to discuss.
Once again we held book club via Zoom and it was lovely to catch up with everyone again.
Hopefully we will be able to go back to in person meet ups soon but for now we think it is still safest to host them online.
I was lucky enough to be able to interview Pip Williams and ask a few questions about The Dictionary of Lost Words. Continue reading
Hello fellow book lovers!
It has been a little while since we shared what has been happening in store with you all and we thought now would be a good time.
There are some exciting new books we would like to tell you about and we were also lucky enough to score an interview with Australian author Leah Swann, whose debut novel Sheerwater has quickly become a staff favourite in store!
We are still open with our updated hours and you can visit us in store or place online orders via our website.
We hope everyone has been well and safe.
Warm Regards,
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Hello book lovers!
We haven’t posted a book club wrap up since everything changed.
For those who don’t know, book club is still running every month and is being hosted online via Zoom.
We have had two Zoom book clubs so far and although meeting in person would be preferable it has been working quite well and it has been great being able to still catch up with everyone and discuss books!
Our most recent book club books have been:
Honestly all of these were greatly enjoyed and we had a wonderful time discussing them.
Kirsten Alexander, the author of our April book, has let us interview her and ask her a bit about the book and her inspiration behind it.
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Hello book lovers!
With everything that has been going on in the world lately and with a lot of us self 
isolating or social distancing we thought it would be a good time to introduce you to an exciting epic fantasy series that we are loving.
A Tale of Stars & Shadow is written by local author Lisa Cassidy and the third book in the series, A King of Masks & Magic, is out today!
With three books now out in the series it is the perfect time to dive in and get lost in this fantasy world.
To introduce you all to this wonderful series and the author behind it we thought we would interview Lisa and ask her to tell us a little bit about the books! Continue reading
Hello book lovers!
It has been a little while since we have posted , the Christmas season is always a busy time of year!
Book club has still been running once a month and in case you missed it our last two books for 2019 were: The Sea & Us by Catherine de Saint Phalle and The Bee and the Orange Tree by Melissa Ashley.
Both books were pretty much unanimously liked by everyone and we had a great time discussing them.
Our first book for 2020 was Well-behaved Women by Emily Paull.
This one was hard to judge as it is a collection of short stories and people loved some of the stories but weren’t as fussed on others. There were definitely quite a few in there that I personally loved and one thing everyone agreed on was that they got better and better as the book went on. Continue reading
Hello fellow book lovers!
I am excited to be bringing you another book club wrap up and author interview. I know it comes right after the September one I posted last night but I wanted to get this out to you all before we meet on Saturday.
Last month the Cosy Reading Book Club met on the 12th of October to once again discuss their book of the month. The book for October was The Breeding Season by Amanda Niehaus.
This was a very intense and emotional book which definitely made us think and even sometimes made you uncomfortable in the way that confronting art often does.
Hello book lovers! Apologies on the delay in getting this out to you all! With a big name like Becky Chambers as our September book it took a little bit longer for the author interview to come back. But it now has and I am so excited to share it with you!
On Saturday the 14th of September The Cosy Reading Book Club once again met to discuss their book of the month. The book for September was To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
This was our first time doing a science fiction novel for book club and I for one loved it! I know I wasn’t the only one but I also think there were a few people who were pleasantly surprised by this one and the interesting questions it posed.
On Saturday the 10th of August The Cosy Reading Book Club once again met to discuss their book of the month. The book for August was Shepherd by Catherine Jinks.
This was an exciting month for book club as we welcomed a whole bunch of new attendees and opened up a second session for book club, it is now held at both 3.00pm and 5.00pm.
It was also exciting as this month book club fell on Love Your Bookshop Day which included a whole range of activities in store, and honestly what a perfect way to celebrate Love Your Bookshop Day by meeting and discussing books with fellow book lovers! Continue reading
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