This Month - Why Do We Read?- contributed by Pete

In 2008 the Year of Reading, it is worth asking ourselves - Why do we read? At the most banal level it's because we can and we want to. Like Mallory's mountain - 'because it's there'. If I look at my own reading, I see just how much of my day is taken up in one way or another with reading. I read at least one newspaper a day usually before I leave for work. (I also like to complete a daily crossword but don't always achieve that!) At work there is barely a task which doesn't necessitate some element of reading. I also always have more than one book 'on the go' at a time. My butterfly mind constantly hops from one interest to another. At the point of writing I have a stack of six books beside the bed..... Read More

Featured Book -The Essential Cat - contributed by Sonia

The author, Thomas Wester, is a Swedish photographer with a splendid love of cats. Cats have been his subject of choice for over twenty years. He started his photography at the end of the 1960's and five years later he acquired his first cat. His love and interest in cats escalated from then on. Wester was encouraged in his work by friends and colleagues and many of his pictures were published in magazines and newspapers. When he found that more people were writing to him about his cat photographs than any of his other pictures, he started to think about publishing a book of photographs of cats.... Read More

A Sample of New Stock

Pastures New by Ian Niall

The Collector's History of Dolls' Houses by Constance Eileen King

Looking For Enid by Duncan Mclaren

Price: £12

Other Books on Countryside

Price: £30

Other books on Dolls Houses

Price: £14

More Biography books

Price: £30

Other Animal Story Books

Selection from our Special Book Room

Cecil Aldin The Story of a Sporting Arist by Roy Heron

Carbonel and Calidor by Barbara Sleigh

Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis Illustrated by Pauline Baynes

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

1st edition 1981. SIGNED by author to half-title page.
Price: £90

1st ed 1978. Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat. The third book about John, Rosemary and Carbonel.
Price: £250

2nd ed 1957. The Return To Narnia. Lovely colour frontis and b/w illustrations. A Super copy! Price: £340

A beautiful early reprint in its original glassine wrapper, which advertises other Potter books on flaps.
Price: £750

News in Brief

Amongst the books catalogued this month, we have a selection of Botanical books, Ladybird books, childrens Annuals, Rev. W. Awdry - Thomas the Tank Engine books and more G.A. Henty books.

Collection of pop-up books all now fullly photographed and described.

Thumbnails in search results: for your ease and convenience we have added thumbnail images of our books into the search result pages.

Food Festival in Hay-on-Wye - Saturday 28th, 10:30am-4:30pm Memorial Car Park (centre of Hay), free entry.

Chepstow Festival 2008 For a whole month from 27th June to the finale on 27th July Chepstow is hosting a celebration of creativity in the community. A host of music, art, drama and history - many events free! Details of events can be found on the Chepstow Festival website .

Paddington Bear is 50!  - It's hard to believe but it is now fifty years since Paddington Bear was introduced to the world.

As mentioned in our February Newsletter, the clock tower in Hay-on-Wye has been renovated. However since the renovation the time has always been 6.30! Image right.

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