We are opening again!
Thank you so much to all of you who have supported us through this latest lockdown. Your understanding about the rules & restrictions under which we have been operating and your willingness to shop with us using the Click and Collect service is enormously appreciated. Now at last we can welcome you back into the shop and from Tuesday 13th April, our doors will be open once more.
Safety remains our highest priority and our front door will be open continually while we are open so that the shop remains well ventilated. In order to maintain social distancing we ask that no more than three people or household groups are in the shop at any one time. We apologise if this means that you have to wait outside but we now have a lovely new awning to protect you against inclement weather.
We will be wearing face coverings at all times and ask that you do too. We also provide hand sanitiser and gloves so that you can browse the shop and examine our books in safety.
For enquiries or orders, please contact us as follows
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Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Friday 10am to 5pm
Saturday 10am to 4pm
Thank you for your support
Book of the Week
How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling
This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes. It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that made the late Hans Rosling, author of worldwide bestseller Factfulness, the most popular researcher of our time. How I Learned to Understand the World is Hans Rosling's own story of how a young scientist learned became a revolutionary thinker, and takes us from the swelter of an emergency clinic in Mozambique, to the World Economic Forum at Davos. In collaboration with Swedish journalist Fanny Hargestam, Hans Rosling wrote his memoir with the same joy of storytelling that made a whole world listen when he spoke.
Book at Bedtime
Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends her days recording her dreams, which she believes to be prophecies. This world is Debbie's normal, but she is about to step into life as a student at Trinity College in Dublin. As she navigates between sophisticated new friends and the family bubble, things begin to unravel. Maeve's eccentricity tilts into something darker, while Billy's drinking gets worse. Debbie struggles to cope with the weirdest, most difficult parts of herself, her family and her small life. But the fierce love of the White family is never in doubt, and Debbie discovers that even the oddest of families are places of safety. A startling, honest, laugh and cry novel about growing up and leaving home, only to find that you've taken it with you, Snowflake is a novel for a generation, and for everyone who's taken those first, terrifying steps towards adulthood.
First awarded in March 2017, the Jhalak Prize and its new sister award Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize founded in 2020, seek to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers. This year's shortlist includes:
The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Antiemetic for Homesickness by Romalyn Ante
Inferno by Catherine Cho
My Darling from Lions by Rachel Long
Are we Home Yet by Katy Massey
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
Pitshanger Bookshop has been a feature on Pitshanger Lane for nearly 20 years. My name is Fiona Kennedy and I've owned the shop since August 2011.
