I have just added the entry form for the Chorleywood Literary Festival Writing Competition to the Chorleywood Bookshop website. Get writing all you budding writers! The theme is Bravery, 800 words and you could win the Dominian Short Story Prize. Closing date October 27th
I have read all my books ready for the radio on Monday. You will have to listen if you want to know what my books are this month! BBC Three Counties radio, the Nick Coffer Show on Monday July 28th from 12 noon to 3pm.
Amazing! Quite the most moving event in a long while. Fabulous to have met an icon of children’s literature and to discover he is just delightful. We all sang the theme from War Horse, heard how it came to be written and had a lump in our throats as we listened to great stories of WW1 and how various other books of the 134 books that is Michael Morpurgo’s oevre came to be written. Some story or meeting with a particular person has sparked them all off. He recommended a visit to the Museum at Ypres as he considers it one of the best places to learn about WW1.
I gave the vote of thanks to him at the end.
Just returned from my monthly (or thereabouts !) slot with Nick Coffer. We had a good chat about books, what constitutes a summer read and Independent Booksellers Week.
Six books mentioned, well 5 and a 1/4 really as the Unknown Unknown is more of a pamphlet but really good for a quick 10 minute read.
The books are:
I have just updated the events pages of the website to include everything that has been booked (so far!!) until the summer. Take a look – there are some wonderful authors of everything from travel and history to brilliant fiction. A lunch and a tea and cake events with a couple of cooks add to the mix!
I’m so pleased with our top 20 best sellers since December. I think it shows that we, as a staunchly indie shop, don’t necessarily follow the trends.
Here is the list
1) The Best of Matt
2) Tom Kerridge – Proper Pub Food
3) Capital – John Lanchester
4) Stoner – John L Williams
5) Sweet Tooth – Ian McEwan
6) Urban Rajah’s Curry Memoirs – Ivor Peters
7) Dear Life – Alice Munro
8) Keep Calm and get a cat
9) Private Eye Annual
10) Alex Ferguson My Autobiography
11) The Last Runaway – Tracey Chevalier
12) And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
13) A Guinea Pig Nativity
14) Fun Home – Alison Bechdel
15) One Summer – Bill Bryson
16) Hundred Year Old Man who Climbed Out … – Jonas Jonasson
17) Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
18) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck
19) Eat – The Little Book of Fast Food – Nigel Slater
20) You Made me Late Again – Pam Ayres
We seem to be in perpetual winter in England at the moment and Morag is very pleased to be heading of on her holidays next week. She is planning to go to the US and Canada. Pop in to see Sheryl while she is away.
The bookshop is busy as ever with some big staff changes going on. Two people have left the staff in the last few weeks and another leaves in a couple of weeks. A lot of new staff are joining the team so please be patient while they get up to speed with all the processes.
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