To all our wonderful customers,
Whilst our doors are closed for Lockdown 3, we are still offering postal delivery and ‘click and collect’ services.
Contact us:
Phone: 01822 617244
Email: bookstoptavistock@gmail.com
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Or order online at: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/bookstoptavistock
Join Colin Midson as he talks to award-winning author Raynor Winn about her latest book, The Wild Silence. This is the second in a new series of regular online events held in collaboration with Cornwall and Devon independent bookshops.
In The Wild Silence, Raynor picks up the story where the Salt Path left off. As she and her husband return to life within four walls, the sense of home is illusive and returning to normality is proving difficult – until an incredible gesture by someone who reads their story changes everything.
Along the way, Raynor and Moth learn more about the land that envelopes them, find friends both new and old, and, of course, embark on another windswept adventure when the opportunity arises.
The Wild Silence is a luminous story of hope triumphing over despair, of the human spirit’s instinctive connection to nature, and of lifelong love prevailing over everything.
Free tickets for this on-line event will be sent by Zoom link to all customers who purchase a copy of the book from Book Stop
Check out the link below:
https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/it-starts-with-a-book-d708c759-3730-4ab9-92ee-f4ba5bf319d4
For each sale of a title in this list via our online shop, a book will be donated to a grassroots organisation (including local foodbanks) which help disadvantaged people across the UK and Ireland. This initiative is kindly supported by Penguin Random House and Neighbourly.
Join us at 6.30pm on Wednesday 25th November for an exclusive online event with Ben Macintyre about his latest book Agent Sonya. This is the first event in a series jointly hosted by Book Stop and fellow Cornwall and Devon based Independent bookshops.
All orders of the book to us by email or phone will be provided with a Zoom link prior to the event. The First 50 orders will get a signed (bookplate) copy of the book.
Ben Macintyre is the multimillion-copy bestselling author of books including The Spy and the Traitor, Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends. Ben is a columnist and Associate Editor at The Times, and he regularly presents BBC series based on his acclaimed books. He will be in conversation with former Port Eliot Creative Director, Colin Midson.
From today, as well as being able to order from us by phone (01822 617244) and email (bookstoptavistock@gmail.com), we have a dedicated site for online orders from Book Stop, provided by our friends at bookshop.org. Go to https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/bookstoptavistock
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
One of our very favourite authors here at Book Stop, Booker Prize nominated author David Mitchell has this time served up something quite different to his usual mind-bending metaphysical romps across space and time, with a wonderfully nostalgic and bittersweet tale of 1960s rock and roll. Utopia Avenue form in 1967 and ride the tide of social and sexual revolution to be on the verge of global success by late 1968. On the way they encounter pretty much everyone in the business from John Lennon to Janis Joplin, David Bowie to Joni Mitchell, and for die-hard fans of the more familiar Mitchell genre there is also an intriguing metaphysical sub-plot referencing his earlier work and, in particular, the wonderful The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. This book is a lot of fun, but also ultimately genuinely moving and, as always, Mitchell has much to say about life, the universe and everything.
Published by Sceptre; £20.00
By Simon, October 2020
by Sayaka Murata
Welcome to the weird and (occasionally) wonderful world of Keiko Furukura and her beloved Convenience Store.
Marginalised by ordinary society, and following a confusing and at times problematic childhood, Keiko finds it difficult to find her place in the modern world, until she stumbles accross the Convenience Store. In this delightful fable of contemporary human existence, Keiko, with the guidance of the bizarre and repulsive Shiraha, must make a choice – between her place as a cog in the global corporate machine ( “my hourly pay covered the basic requirement to condition my body so it was fit to take to work”) and the perhaps equally opressive social imperative created by others’ opinions and expectations.
A marvellous Japanese novel which will get you thinking.
Published by Granta; £8.99
By Samantha Harvey
Samantha Harvey’s novel of a 15th Century Somerset village and an unanticipated death is an absolute treat.
Following the investigations of the local vicar, John Reve, into the untimely demise of his friend Thomas Newman, this brooding, sombre novel set over 4 days in the lead up to Lent 1491 provides real insight into pre-Reformation rural England.
As Harvey expertly explores the narrative in reverse, beginning with the events of Shrove Tuesday and working back to “the reveal” on the previous Saturday she also offers, through the story of the tormented and torn John Reve’s efforts to protect his flock, a fascinating and moving meditation on where lines are drawn between faith and superstition, belief in God and the Church, the “right” path and the good path.
Published by Vintage; £8.99
