Three fab and friendly award-winning independent bookshops. Find us at The Chapel, Corbridge; Park View, Whitley Bay; and Narrowgate, Alnwick.
Corbridge Whitley Bay Alnwick
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Hello Whitley Bay 👋!!
We are now OPEN!!
7 days a week at 82A Park View
... come & see us!!
#ChooseBookshops #LoveBooksLoveBookshops
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Thanks to ace crime writer & brilliant bookshop cheerleader @AnnCleeves for officially opening our new bookshop! 👏 🎉 !! We are OPEN!!
... come & see us! #ChooseBookshops
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All we want for Christmas is books …
& our new bookshop!
#TheAccidentalBoonshop opens today in Alnwick!!
Come & say hello 👋
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It’s *really* happening Whitley Bay!!
82A Park View here we come!
#ChooseBookshops #ShopLocal
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We are opening a brand new bookshop in Alnwick, Northumberland & are looking for several experienced booksellers.
Please email to learn more / throw your hat in the ring!
e. hello@forumbooksandkids.com GO!
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WOW!! 🤩
Congratulations to @ForumBooks, Independent Bookshop of the Year Regional Winner for North England!
#Nibbies
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We did it!
The Accidental Bookshop officially opened by @kathwilliamsuk 🙌 !!
Find us at 4 Narrowgate - come & say hello 👋 !!
#ChooseBookshops
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50 and feeling so humbled and blessed. There is not a single day that I take for granted, especially during these times when we are all reminded of the things that truly matter.
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Bright news on a murky day -
we have officially sold our 💥700th💥 copy of The Darkest Evening by @AnnCleeves !! I mean what?!
Thank you Ann, @panmacmillan & all you lovely people! 🙌
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Oh to the MG!!
Got all speechless but we’ve made it! 🤸♀️💥🫶🔥👋
Thanks so much @thebookseller @Gardners 🤩 !! from all of us at FORUM Books, the bound & The Accidental Bookshop xx
Join us in congratulating our nine incredible #BritishBookAwards regional and country winners! And a big thank you and congratulations to all of the entrants this year 🎉
Read more about the bookshops here: buff.ly/3yFgu7B
Thank you to @Gardners, our award sponsor!
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We are 💥open💥 online again!
Here you go friends forumbooksshop.com
or email hello@forumbooksandkids.com
Thanks so much & stay well!
#ChooseBookshops #shopindie #GoneReading
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WOW!! Just wow!
🎉🌟 C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! 🏆🍾
Please join us in saying #congratulations🍾 to the team at @ForumBooks in Corbridge on being awarded Independent Bookshop of the Year in the North regionals at the #Nibbies!
Best of luck for the finals on 29 June! 🍀
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Thrilled to announce our first LIVE event will be with the fabulous @BootstrapCook on Monday 20th April at 8pm. Head over to @homewith4indies FB page where all events will be streamed. facebook.com/AtHomeWith4Ind…
More exciting announcements later today! #athomewith @PanMacPinboard
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SO looking forward to throwing our doors open on Monday 12th April!
Open again Mon-Sat 10-5 / Sun 11-4
... come and say hello!
#ChooseBookshops #ShopLocal
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We moved yesterday & will be closed today for a stocktake. Open from tomorrow in our shiny new premises - see you soon! And thanks to all the movers who helped make it happen!
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💥! We’re a North England finalist! Thrilled to be here with SO many brilliant independent bookshops & lovely pals too 🙌 congratulations everyone 🤸♀️
We are elated to reveal this year's #BritishBookAwards Independent Bookshop of the Year Regional and Country finalists! With a record 62 in the final with a "thread of innovation running through" the list 📚
Congratulations, all, see the finalists here: bit.ly/3JqZ9SY
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Dazed & delighted to be the only bookshop nominated in the #TheIndependentAwards #HighStreetShopAward 🙌
What a fab list of awesome indies making the high street exciting & extraordinary!
… and we’d love to get your vote! holly.co/campaign-christmas-…
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It’s us!! Well worth a browse we reckon ... #ReadOn theguardian.com/books/2018/s…
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Amazing! We are North England winner for 2nd year in a row!! Thanks for all your support! Couldn't do it without y❤️u!! #Nibbies
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Really happy to share the HIGE good news that thanks to incredible support we made the target AND our offer has been accepted!! Thanks so much! More here ridsdalecommunitygroup.co.uk
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🤩!! SO happy to be in Whitley Bay!! @ourwhitleybay @thebookseller @booksaremybag @northlitagency @NewWritingNorth @NewcastleNoir
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🤩!! Wow! We made cut! & congratulations to all incredible indies here!! #BritishBookAwards
It's official, we have our 2021 #BritishBookAwards Independent Bookshop of the Year Regional and Country Finalists! With 48 brilliant bookshops, from 134-year-old
@SReadBooks to fresh-faces like
@margatebookshop.
See the finalists in full: bit.ly/2ZroebD
@Gardners
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Pretty darn chuffed to be listed on the @SmallBizSatUK #SmallBiz100 !! One of two independent bookshops - congratulations @buttonbearbooks !! and only one in Northumberland! #ReadOn
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Batten down the hatches!! ⛈ ⚡️!!
The ⚡️new ⚡️ Detective Matthew Venn #TheHeronsCry @AnnCleeves out Sept 2
Signed preorders here forumbooksshop.com/product/t…
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Beautiful day for a beautiful bookshop! Open all weekend ... nothing like a real book, nothing like a real bookshop!
#shoplocal #wepayourtaxes #highstreetheroes #supportindependent #ReadOn
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Our award winning indie bookshop is looking to fill several positions for experienced booksellers in both our Corbridge shop and a new premises on the Metro line outside Newcastle.
Please email to learn more / throw your hat in the ring!
e. hello@forumbooksandkids.com GO!
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Not going to tell what I’m going to do but TEN followers off TEN THOUSAND needs some kind of celebration 🎉!!
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Beautiful day for a beautiful bookshop!
Now open in heart of Corbridge at The Chapel!
Nothing like a real book & nothing like a real bookshop!
#ReadOn see you soon
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To celebrate reopening it seems pretty apt to share our books n beers pairings with you - our favourite books with NE best beers 🍻 !!
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So this happened today ..!!
Hold the front page 🤩 !! but there’s no maybe about it! Alnwick has the legendary @BarterBooks & now #TheAccidentalBookshop
#ReadON #ChooseBookshops
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Wow! It’s been quite the week! We’ve been on telly!
Thank you @BBCLN & @AnnCleeves for this
Visit Corbridge
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We stand with @MarcusRashford 🧡
💥 please support our #RashfordRaffle to get as many #YouAreAChampion into the hands of cool kids in the NE💥
For more info & to enter GO 👉 bit.ly/3xJ2rM5
BIG thanks to @nufcfoodbank for helping us make it happen!
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As the situation develops our supplier has now suspended their operations meaning we can no longer safely get books to you. We hope we can fulfil orders already placed.
Thanks so much for all your support & patience! Will update again when we can! Take care
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First author signing in our #ComingSoon bookshop..!!
Thanks @AnnCleeves - all these #BlueLightning are signed plus receive a special note & help @FI_Obs
GO 👉 forumbooksshop.com/product/b…
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To keep everyone safer, the bookshop will be closing at 1pm today.
We will be here
t. 01434 632931
e. hello@forumbooksandkids.com
& forumbooksshop.com
We really appreciate the support of you all! Hold steady, stay well & keep in touch!
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👇 so proud & chuffed for James!
Huge congrats to James Routledge @ForumBooks – our Indie Bookseller of the Year!
& to brilliant runners up, @gyllzd of @LRBbookshop & Helen Stickland @winstonebooks. We were overwhelmed by the calibre of entries & are indebted to each & every one of you 📚 po.st/RoutledgeIndieBooksell…
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Sent my morning dog walk to a friend who’s not getting out .. then thought I’d share with you! Hope you get some fun on your face today .. Ivy says hi
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Good luck & have a fabulous reopening to all the brilliant indie bookshops throwing their doors open! @booksaremybag @thebookseller
‘And now ladies & gentlemen what we’ve been waiting for...’
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Thank you!! This is *actually what’s happening right now!! 🤣
Congratulations to the wonderful team @ForumBooks who have been shortlisted for Independent Bookshop of the Year. thebookseller.com/news/indep…
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Brilliant no.1 bestselling @matthaig1 in the bookshop tomorrow 12.30 signing #NotesOnANervousPlanet
!! 👌🌎❤️🌍📚🌏❤️✊🌏👍📚 !! Come along & say hello!
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A Bird in the Hand in @AnnCleeves ‘s hand 🖐️ 🐦 etc
Thanks Ann for popping in & signing them!
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We won a #FutureBook20 Award!
🌟Best of Lockdown: Team winners
We are one of the incredible indies behind @homewith4indies with our besties @BookaBookshop, @LinghamsBooks and @Bookishcrick !! Wonderful stuff, read more here:
bit.ly/2I7QxGN
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Damp-eyed & mind-blown! My Book of the Year #Humankind @rcbregman ☂️💜
This is just what we need right now! An inspiring, fascinating, moving book to tell us that we are pretty decent & kind AND that’s what we need to live better
More here bit.ly/3bvPmtH
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💥BIG💥news from #Vera country
EXCLUSIVE @AnnCleeves story #Frozen featuring Vera & us available only with preorders for #TheDarkestEvening here bit.ly/2YhRVwb
Thank you Ann & @panmacmillan
#IndependentBookshopWeek
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Congratulations @AnnCleeves !! So brilliant to see - we love you for your books, but your support for readers, libraries and bookshops is meaningful, inspiring & just lovely!! 🙌 really chuffed!!
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TONIGHT our ☀️shiny☀️new☀️bookshop opens @biscuit_factory #SummerLaunch
So excited & happy to bring beautiful books & bookish events to Newcastle - come & say hello!#ArtOfBookselling
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Beautiful day for a beautiful bookshop or three on #BookshopDay 🙌💥🧡🫶!!
We love books as much as you do … come and say hello 👋
forumbooksshop.com
Our events ticketsource.co.uk/forumbook…
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Loving our ‘Stand With @MarcusRashford Be A Champion! window ... featuring us @AnnCleeves & you!! C’mon..!
#YouAreAChampion
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Please invest in this brilliant Northumberland pub!
We’re part of the community buyout - help spread the word!
Full prospectus & everything here bit.ly/2XOP3F3
Cheers! 🍻
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Beautiful day for a beautiful bookshop! Let's celebrate a great week!
Shortlisted for #BestSmallShops @ShopIndieUK
& James awarded Independent Bookseller of the Year @vintagebooks
... nothing like a real book & nothing like a real bookshop! #ReadOn
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We are open in Corbridge & online forumbooksshop.com
... come & say hello 👋
For all your bookbased needs & reads!
t. 01434 632931
e. hello@forumbooksandkids.com
#ChooseBookshops #ReadON
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Can’t help thinking if Vera was here we’d totally find a body ...
@AnnCleeves @PanMacPinboard
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Oh!! to the MG!! 🤩 x 3
FORUM Books // the bound // The Accidental Bookshop are regional finalists 💥🙌🫶
Lovely to see this with SO many top Northern pals 🫶 @ImaginedThings @SReadBooks @QueerLitUK @BooksKemps @PNetbook @BookCornerHX + @LinghamsBooks
.@ForumBooks, @ImaginedThings, @BooksKemps, @LinghamsBooks, @QueerLitUK, @SReadBooks, @BookCornerHX and Wave of Nostalgia (@PNetbook) are the finalists from North England!
#BritishBookAwards #Nibbies #ChooseBookshops
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The news is out! 📣!!
Really chuffed to be a non fiction judge alongside @sarfrazmanzoor & @Ben_garrod for @nerobookawards - loving reading an eclectic, informing, empathy-inducing, mind-blowing, heartbreaking & heart-swelling bunch of books! Thanks for asking me 🫶
This year's @nerobookawards judges have been announced featuring authors, journalists and booksellers who are simply asked to choose which reads they would most want to recommend to others.
Find out more here: nerobookawards.com/judges
ALT Photos of the Nero Book Awards judges
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🤩!!
Helen has made The Bookseller 150 - their annual list of the British and Irish book industry's most influential people! #Bookseller150
You can read the full list here: buff.ly/3HDtArt
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We did it!! Open door, lovely customers, nice & steady!
Thank you for all the lovely words & book purchases!
We hope to open our doors on Wednesday 17th June 10-3
#ChooseBookshops #ReadON
Read more here mailchi.mp/forumbooks/reopen…
We’ve missed you ... it’s been a while & look forward to seeing you lovely lot!
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Getting very #Vera excited!!
Thanks @panmacmillan & @AnnCleeves we’ve got signed #TheDarkestEvening PLUS our *exclusive* short story Frozen!!
Picking + packing to get preorders out for pub date 3rd September & still time to get yours forumbooksshop.com/product/t…
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Fantastic news!! Thrilled to be in this list with so many of our favourites & friends!! #ReadON
Introducing 2020's Independent Bookshop of the Year Regional Shortlists!! @tomtivnan said "there is a new strength and vibrancy of the indie bookshop sector",which you can see in this year's shortlists. Congratulations everyone 🥳🎉 See the full list here: bit.ly/2P7vzID
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🙌!!
We couldn’t be more chuffed! Thanks to all the amazing authors, customers & our outstanding booksellers for making indie bookselling so rewarding + fun 🪇 🤸!! Whoop!
#ChooseBookshops
Our North England finalists are @ForumBooks, @SReadBooks, @WestKirbyBooks, @Books_n_friends, @drakebookshop, @kempsshop, @TrumanBooks, @PritchardsBooks, @PNetbook and @VereyBooks 🎉
Read more about our finalists, here: bit.ly/3I6AuVe #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards
ALT A blue background with the golden British Book Awards logo in the top left corner and in white text reads: North England, Independent Bookshop of the Year, Regional & Country Finalist, sponsored by Gardners
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Unsurprisingly @AnnCleeves set our Twitter 🔥 talking about her new #Vera !! Coming September 3rd!
We’ll have signed copies of #TheDarkestEvening & happy to sort dedications too 🖊
Preorders available here bit.ly/2BbYhnp
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💥BIG💥 news!!
We’ve been shortlisted for @Living_North award! Congratulations to our neighbours @LoveoftheNorth too!
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Still grinning at this top news!! James won @vintagebooks Books Independent Bookseller of the Year!! More here po.st/RoutledgeIndieBooksell…
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Thrilled to bits to be shortlisted for this years #Nibbies !!
There’s nothing like a real book and nothing like a real bookshop!
Open 7 days a week in Corbridge & @biscuit_factory ... come & say hello!
@thebookseller
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It really happened! Michael Palin came to our bookshop!! Signed #Erebus if you missed him ..!
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Our #BookOfTheYear is not only one of our favourites but a customer & book club favourite too ... a gentle gem of friendship, family, board games ... & is just great company. Thank you @MumblinDeafRo !!
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🧡TODAY🧡is #BookshopDay !!
We’re celebrating in store & on the socials with #BookshopRadio 📻
& announcing our new #Bookshop #WriterInResidence
& @booksaremybag bags @charliemackesy
🍂🧡 📚 🍂🧡📚🍂🧡📚🍂🧡📚
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We hope to open our doors on Wednesday 17th June 10-3
#ChooseBookshops #ReadON
Read more here mailchi.mp/forumbooks/reopen…
We’ve missed you ... it’s been a while & look forward to seeing you lovely lot!
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☀️ Beautiful day for a beautiful bookshop!! 💛
Specially as - at last! - the bound has its new shop front 😍🤸♀️🫶🎉!
Thanks @pip_fallow @NTCouncilTeam plus our customers & Park View neighbours for being so lush & patient x
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All the 🙌 whoops + hollers + congratulations for Heather!!!! Very well deserved!
Congratulations to the Individual Bookseller of the Year shortlistees Carolynn Bain, @OliviaKekewich, Serena Russo, Jack Wrighton, Amanda Dunne Fulmer, Sarah Mullen, @helentamblyn, Heather Slater!
Read the full shortlists: bit.ly/49PQtn2 #BritishBookAwards #Nibbies
Sponsored by @PenguinUKBooks
ALT A blue background in white reads: individual bookseller of the year
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Thank you SO much @davidwalliams for making us and so many young readers SO happy! You've got everyone grinning & reading #TheIceMonster ❤️❄️❤️❄️❤️❄️❤️
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Thanks so much to Michael Pailn and all who came to today's bookshop signing! We've a few signed #Erebus if you missed! Brilliant stuff!!
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Getting set for Vera!
The bookshop looks lovely & ready for @AnnCleeves & @vpeanuts !!
#TheDarkestEvening is coming ...
@PanMacPinboard
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✨Merry Christmas All!✨
🎄Simply have a wonderful Christmastime & the brightest 2021!🎄
& thank you for sticking with us - you’re a pretty amazing & lovely lot! 🙌
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Sorry been a bit quiet on the Twitter but ... Ivy happened !! She’s having a wee nap now so .. hello again & hope everyone had a fab, festive Christmas!
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Thanks SO much to @Beathhigh for making his first trip to Whitley Bay! What a night! Thanks to @litagent007 & all who came … & we’ve signed #TheDarkRemains if you missed
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Ooh! And yep, we are dead chuffed!
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“If you get to know them, they get to know you and your tastes far better than any algorithm can. Indies that don’t just survive but thrive do so because they celebrate and anchor a community”
Love all of this @Damian_Barr 💜 theguardian.com/books/2019/j…
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We are OPEN again!! 👏
Mon-Sat 10-5 / Sun 11-4
+ @biscuit_factory
+ coming soon to Park View, Whitley Bay
+ @discovernland #ShopLocal #ShopNorthumberland
discoverourland.co.uk/shop-l…
... come and say hello!
#ChooseBookshops
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We care about #Careless @kirstycapes
💛❤️🖤💛❤️🖤💛❤️🖤💛❤️🖤
Signed copies instore & forumbooksshop.com/product/c…
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💥HUGE💥 MASSIVE thanks to the legendary Stobo’s who will give out our @BAbooksellers Christmas Catalogue with their veg boxes!!
💜📚🙌 #TeamCorbridge @VisitCorbridge
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Pat Barker reading #SilenceOfTheGirls the #IndependentBookshopWeek winner in our bookshop..! #goosebumps #whywedobookselling !!
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