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Message from Booka Bookshop, Oswestry
| Welcome to our November Newsletter!
We've had snowfall, Christmas Shopping, and another month jam packed with author events. It's time to deck the halls with books!! | |
| Café Booka
Have you heard? Our festive menu is here! Enjoy Festive Foccacia's, sublime Sourdough Toasties, plus our amazing Winter Warmers... | |
| December events, wrapping up our 2024 schedule. What an incredible year we've had, and we're certainly ending it on a high! | |
OSWESTRY
An Evening with David and Stephen Flynn – The Happy Pear 20 Join us for an evening at Booka with The Happy Pear, celebrating their new book The Happy Pear 20. Enjoy a talk, cooking demo, samples and book signing!
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OSWESTRY
Christmas Wreath Making Workshop with bloomin' el Due to popular demand we are running another workshop! In this hands-on session, you'll learn how to craft a beautiful and eco-friendly wreath using locally grown and British-sourced foliages. We are proud to use sustainable and reusable materials, ensuring your wreath is both stunning and environmentally friendly.
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OSWESTRY
Ballet in the Bookshop with The Ballet Pod – Oswestry Join us for a magical and enchanting Storytime, Ballet Performance & mini ballet workshop,
in partnership with The Ballet Pod.
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BRIDGNORTH
Ballet in the Bookshop with The Ballet Pod – Bridgnorth Join us for a magical and enchanting Storytime, Ballet Performance & mini ballet workshop,
in partnership with The Ballet Pod.
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OSWESTRY
An Afternoon with Tom Parker Bowles and Matt Tebbutt Join us for an afternoon in conversation with Tom Parker Bowles and Matt Tebbutt, celebrating their latest cookbooks; Cooking with the Crown: Royal recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III
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| Yes, we've got one eye on next year with exciting events to announce already! | |
CHESTER
An Evening with Sara Davies – The Six-Minute Entrepreneur Booka Bookshop and Linghams Booksellers are delighted to present an evening with business woman, entrepreneur and TV personality Sara Davies as she talks about her new book, The Six- Minute Entrepreneur.
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OSWESTRY
An Evening with Lora Jones - The Woman In The Wallpaper Join us at Booka Oswestry on publication day of the most anticipated historical debut of 2025: The Woman in the Wallpaper by Lora Jones.
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BRIDGNORTH
An Afternoon with Jojo Moyes – We All Live Here We are delighted to welcome you to Bridgnorth Library for An Afternoon with Jojo Moyes and her new book We All Live Here. The #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, whose books so many love, brings us a fresh, contemporary story of a woman and her unruly blended family.
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OSWESTRY
An Evening with Jojo Moyes – We All Live Here Join us for an evening with Sunday Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes as she talks about her new novel We All Live Here. Jojo Moyes brings us a fresh, contemporary story of a woman and her unruly blended family.
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OSWESTRY
An Evening with Jake Morris-Campbell – Between the Salt and the Ash Join us for an evening with Jake Morris-Campbell, talking about his new book Between the Salt and the Ash: A Journey into the Soul of Northumbria.
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| More exciting author events to be announced soon! Watch this space... | |
| This Friday 29th November, bring joy and shop small at Booka...We're celebrating Colour Friday, the movement formed by Holly Tucker, founder of Holly & Co. | |
| #ShopIndependent #ChooseBookshops | |
| In collaboration with The RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital – help us provide paediatric patients & local primary children with books this Christmas.
Support your local independent bookshop and help us raise money for the Orthopaedic Hospital's Annual Christmas Bazaar! £7.99 gifts a child one book. Make a difference, this Christmas. | |
| In partnership with local author Annie Garthwaite and Penguin Books, we are offering dedicated signed copies, just in time for Christmas!
Give The King's Mother for Christmas! Order from us and we'll have it especially signed and dedicated to the one you love by the author - and delivered to their door (or yours). Order by 15 December for delivery by Christmas or in-store collection.
This has been one of our bestselling titles in 2024, so do hurry to secure your special Christmas copies. | |
Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey Where there is wonder, there is love – an unforgettable novel of the beauty and terror of the Alaskan wilderness, from the author of the million-copy international bestseller, The Snow Child.
Birdie's keeping it together, of course she is. So she's a little hungover on her shifts, and has to bring her daughter to the lodge while she waits tables, but Emaleen never goes hungry. It's a tough town to be a single mother, and Birdie just needs to get by.
And then Birdie meets Arthur, who is quieter than most men, but makes her want to listen; who is gentle with Emaleen, and understands Birdie's fascination with the mountains in whose shadow they live. When Arthur asks Birdie and Emaleen to leave the lodge and make a home, just the three of them, in his off-grid cabin, Birdie's answer, in a heartbeat, is yes.
Out in the wilderness Birdie's days are harsher and richer than she ever imagined possible. Here she will feel truly at one with nature. Here she, and Emaleen, will learn the whole, fearful truth about Arthur.
Limited Edition Signed Copy of only 1000. Available to Pre-Order now! | |
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