Welcome to The Woodstock Bookshop

The shop opened in May 2008 and is on the main road in Woodstock, just next to the bus stop. We can supply most books to order by the next day and have several thousand books in stock: to order books ring or email the shop. We have a large selection of children's books and are happy to advise and recommend. We can also supply second-hand and out-of-print titles. We offer discounts for school orders and for book clubs and have a free local delivery service.

We were on the regional shortlist for Independent Bookshop of the Year in 2009, 2013 and 2017, and listed in the Independent's Top 50 UK Bookshops.

BOOK GROUPS
Two monthly book groups take place at the bookshop - a poetry group, initially formed to read collections submitted for the annual T S Eliot Prize and now following a slightly wider brief; and a book group focusing more on fiction. Both are open to everyone but occasionally space is limited - please contact us for details.

BOOKSHOP TALKS
We hold a series of informal talks and readings throughout the year. If you buy any book at the talk the cost of the ticket will be deducted. Please ring or email to book a place - early booking advisable.

WOODSTOCK POETRY FESTIVAL
The bookshop started and runs Woodstock Poetry Festival, a completely independent festival that has now been running for 7 years.

The Woodstock Literature Society also holds an excellent series of monthly talks - do visit their website for further details.

Twitter: @WoodstockBooks

Thursday, 22 June 2017

Mini Grey here on 24 June!


Author and illustrator Mini Grey will be at The Woodstock Bookshop to chat to customers and sign copies of her books between 11 and 12 this Saturday morning (24 June).

  

Saturday is the first day of Independent Booksellers' Week and the inaugural Oxfordshire BookCrawl, a journey round seven Oxfordshire independent bookshops.

Participating shops are:

The Woodstock Bookshop
The Wallingford Bookshop
Mostly Books, Abingdon
Jaffe & Neale, Chipping Norton
Coles Books, Bicester
Books and Ink (Banbury)
The Bell Bookshop (Henley)

What better way to see the county than by going from bookshop to bookshop? There is information about each shop on the website - we are offering 10% discount off all books for the day, and a free proof with every purchase.
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Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Nancy Sandars - a celebration of her life and poems

Nancy Sandars was an extraordinary and very distinguished archaeologist who spent many of her 101 years living with her older sister Betty in the Manor House at Little Tew, where she was born in 1914. She worked in intelligence operations during the war and afterwards studied archaeology specialising in prehistory. There is a fascinating website with details of her life and work.

She published several archaeological works during her lifetime, as well as a translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh for Penguin Classics and a collection of poems. This year a posthumous collection of poems has been published by Agenda - Evening Primroses - for which John Fuller has written a Preface. On 26 June at 8pm in Woodstock Town Hall he will be reading from her poems and leading tributes to her life and work. Entry is free - wine will be served. Please contact the bookshop if you would like to attend.


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