As a non-essential retailer, sadly, we are unable to welcome customers into the shop from Thursday 5th November. However, we are able to offer a collection and delivery service. Whatever it is that you need, please contact us by 'phone, email or social media. Orders can be collected at the front door of the shop during our normal opening hours (detailed below), or we can arrange to deliver to your home. We can also arrange to send books to friends and family who live outside the area. We have a portable credit card machine and can bring that to the front door of the shop, or you are welcome to call us and we can take a payment over the 'phone.
Just let us know what is best for you, and we will do our very best to help.
Opening Hours
Tuesday to Friday: 9:30am to 5:30pm
Saturday: 9:30am to 4:30pm
Contact details
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Telephone: 020 8991 8131
Facebook: @ThePitshangerBookshop
Instagram: pitshanger_bookshop
Thank you for your support
Book of the Week
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded. They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space and thrive amidst nuclear radiation. In fact, nearly all life relies in some way on fungi. These endlessly surprising organisms have no brain but can solve problems and manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. Their ability to digest plastic, explosives, pesticides and crude oil is being harnessed in break-through technologies, and the discovery that they connect plants in underground networks, the 'Wood Wide Web', is transforming the way we understand ecosystems. Yet over ninety percent of their species remain undocumented. Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into a spectacular and neglected world, and shows that fungi provide a key to understanding both the planet on which we live, and life itself.
Book at Bedtime
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. This extraordinary debut, full of unexpected humour and emotional truth, marks the arrival of a thrilling and significant new talent.
These are the books that were most popular with our customers last week......
1. The Ickabog by J K Rowling
2. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
3. Sapiens: A Graphic History by Yuval Noah Harari
4. A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
5. The Confession by Jessie Burton
6. Kay's Anatomy by Adam Kay
7. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
8. The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane
9. Trio by William Boyd
10. Fire of Joy by Clive James
If you would like to read any of these books, please send us a message from our contacts page, and we will reserve a copy for you.
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.
