Great response from a customer when asked if they'd found what they were looking for - 'I've found everything I don't need: very happy!' #choosebookshops

How are you doing?

One simple question that can help someone who is struggling.

#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
13th-19th May 2024

If you’re out and about today do pop into the bookshop to chat all things #IndieBookAwards with our Claire, who just happens to be on the judging panel this year. A fab selection of fiction and non-fiction on this year’s short list to sift through. Books Are My Bag

🌟 Children's Fiction Shortlist 🌟

Congratulations to Alice Oseman Updates, A.M. Dassu (Az)⚡️(also on Insta: @a.m.dassu ), Hiba Noor Khan, Sam Sedgman, Matt Goodfellow & Joe Todd-Stanton and Frank Cottrell-Boyce & Steven Lenton

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🌟 Fiction Shortlist 🌟

Congratulations to Rebecca F. Kuang, Dan Jones, Sebastian Barry, Monica Heisey and emilia hart

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HUGE congratulations to Hiba Noor Khan for being shortlisted for ANOTHER award!

#SafiyyahsWar is now shortlisted for the #IndieBookAwards , and we couldn't be more thrilled! Books Are My Bag

🌟 Non-Fiction Shortlist 🌟

Congratulations to Natalie Haynes, Clive Myrie, Christian Lewis, Helen Rebanks, Tim Marshall and Katherine Rundell & Talya Baldwin

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Join us free and live online this Saturday at 11am for the next The Hexham Debates with Julia Cooper Head of Research at The Organic Research Centre
#Hexham #Northumberland Northumberland College QEHS Hexham N'land National Park Northumberland Libraries Cogito Books Oxfam Hexham Hexham Town Council NFU North

Really enjoyed talking to Shahidha Bari 📻 🎙️📚🖌 & William Shaw/GW Shaw author for BBC Radio 4 #OpenBook about CJ Sansom’s legacy - you can hear us on Sunday at 4pm 📻

Read this glorious novel at all costs. A reminder of what it means to live in the worl, and how we just can't make it on our own. Granta Books Viking Books UK

I love this book so much: the writing, the characters, the reflection and insight. Out in paperback today, 'Windmill Hill' by #LucyAtkins : all hail Astrid and Mrs Baker, your stories enthralled me. #literarythriller #mystery #crimefiction #summerreading #psychologicalthrillers

Happy birthday Alan Bennett, 90 today.

We're just adding our voices to the universal chorus of anticipation and praise for #Hunted by Abir Mukherjee which publishes today. Very thrilled to have some signed copies in the bookshop; so, please form an orderly queue. 🤩 #thrillers #contemporarycrimefiction #mynextread

We're wishing a gloriously happy publication day to 'Ember Spark', new from the brilliant Abi Elphinstone + beautifully illustrated by kristina kister Abi's books are some of the greatest adventure stories for children and her characters just have THE BEST names. Always.

Spring has finally sprung on the cobbles! Do pop in and see us if you're out enjoying the long awaited balmy air today. #spring #sunshine #holidayreading #newbooks #choosebookshops #shopsmall #shopindependent #lovelocal

Happy #JulianofNorwich Feast Day to all who celebrate, esp cats. And if you want to read a slim novel about her life, and her remarkable contemporary #MargeryKempe , I think you all know what to do by now 🙃 #ForThyGreatPain

Had a great time chatting to Joe Haddow about the delight of being on the Theakston’s long list. You can watch my chat (and everyone else’s) here. And if you fancy supporting the ageing underdog then your vote would be hugely appreciated!

I've written a piece about Lindisfarne and the genesis of CUDDY in Issue Seven of Weird Walk:

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What a super bank holiday Sunday at the final day of Hexham Book Festival. Catching up with friends old and new, and meeting/watching a varied crop of authors. My #TBR pile is a wee bit bigger thanks to Cogito Books #hexhambookfestival

Hexham, I love you. Thanks for having me ⁦Hexham Book Festival⁩ ⁦Queen's Hall Arts, Hexham⁩ for a great talk & Q&A on How to Raise a Viking - signed copies now in ⁦Cogito Books⁩