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 AND BOOKSHOP TALKS
are both suspended during the pandemic. We hope to start again as soon as it is safe to do so.
WOODSTOCK POETRY FESTIVAL
The bookshop started and runs Woodstock Poetry Festival, a completely independent festival that has now been running for 8 years.
The Woodstock Literature Society also holds an excellent series of monthly talks - do visit their website for further details.
Twitter: @WoodstockBooks
Monday, 23 May 2016
Adam Sisman talk cancelled
We have had to cancel this talk by Adam Sisman about John le Carre which should have taken place on Tuesday 24th May - I am very sorry if you were intending to come along...
Saturday, 7 May 2016
Adam Sisman discusses his life of John le Carre
This
month our talk is by Adam Sisman
who
will discuss his recent biography of John le Carré in Woodstock Methodist Church on
Tuesday 24 May at
7pm.
Tickets £5 redeemable against a copy of the book,
which means you can get the new paperback for only
£5!
Advance booking essential
from the bookshop 01993 812760 or info@woodstockbookshop.co.uk
Ultimately it's about love ... this is a very
emotional book. John le Carre had an utterly heartbreaking childhood ...
This is the best biography of 2015 - a rare achievement that
invites rereading -- Edward Wilson, Independent
Here are a selection of the universally amazing
reviews for the book which was shortlisted for the
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2016
in the US:
Compendious and
compelling...Sisman is excellent at the nuts and bolts of writing and of being
published...it must be difficult to write the life of a man who is still very
much with us, and in the public eye, no matter how much liberty the biographer
has been given to tell the story, warts and all. Sisman - a very fine and astute biographer - has done an
excellent, not to say exemplary, job under the circumstances ... it is
impossible to imagine this Life being bettered -- William Boyd, New
Statesman
This is the way to
do it. Why this admirably balanced, patiently detailed biography of John le
Carre is not on the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist beats me ...
Sisman does full justice to [the] rawness at the heart of le Carre -- David
Sexton, Evening Standard
The spy novelist's
life is explored and explained with immaculate care and attention to detail
Sunday Times
This book is
testament to Sisman's skill and perseverance ... With his excellent grasp of the
wider history, Sisman is good at anchoring Cornwell in this shadowy environment,
as he guides his readers through the models for various characters ... Sisman
brings admirable clarity to what could have been a meander in a wilderness of
mirrors -- Andrew Lycett, Spectator
Cornwell has
admitted that he can no longer separate many of the facts of his life from his
lies and fictions. For Sisman this is like a red rag to a bull and you can feel
the thrill of the chase throughout his terrific John le Carre, Independent
Sisman pulls it
off: this is a well-written and highly readable book which is neither
hagiography nor hatchet job ... Within that world he [John le Carre] conveys
some of the truths of human nature, endeavour and fallibility. This is a real
and rare achievement and in Adam Sisman he has a biographer worthy of it -- Alan
Judd, Times Literary Supplement
Absorbing ... An
insightful and highly readable portrait of a writer and a man who has often been
classified as elusive and enigmatic as his fictional heroes -- Michiko Kakutani,
New York Times
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