LOCKDOWN - A TIME TO READ!

Lockdowns are becoming rather familiar - now we enter our third in the cold and dark of winter. Books can be a ray of sunlight in these difficult times.

Though the bookshop is closed in line with COVID regulations, we can offer a 'click and collect' service - you can order books from us by phone or email and collect them at the door when advised on Wednesdays and Fridays from 10am-1pm.

ONLINE BOOK SALES for home delivery are available from our site on bookshop.org - the online book-selling service for independent bookshops. See our 'shop' selling our choice of books, which we hope you will enjoy. Follow the link below and bookmark our site:

 https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/dartmouthcommunitybookshop

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN CENTENARY 21 August 2020

Update on Sunday, August 16, 2020 at 11:23AM by Kathy Stansfield

Andrea Saunders, Manager of the Dartmouth Community Bookshop, with the famous photo of A. A. Milne with Christopher on his knee, and to the left the collection of toys featured as characters in the books, on which E.H. Shepherd based his wonderful illustrations. Christopher was born on 21 August 1920, so would have been 100 years old this year.

The man who was famous as a boy with a bear called Winnie-the-Pooh came to Dartmouth from London with his wife, Lesley, in 1951. They opened the Harbour Bookshop on Fairfax Place and ran it for the next 21 years when it became a much-loved landmark.

Dartmouth Community Bookshop has a close connection to Christopher Milne, being set up at 12 Higher Street following the closure of the Harbour Bookshop in 2011. It is a community co-operative using fixtures and fittings from the old bookshop, and employing the manager, Andrea Saunders who remembers Christopher hiding from customers who wanted to meet him.

TIM PEARS TRILOGY TALK

Tim Pears, author of the acclaimed West Country trilogy, will give a talk and answer questions about his work at Dartmouth Library on Thursday 12 Deptember at 7pm. Tickets cost £2.50 to include refreshments, from the library.

We will sell his trilogy books - The Horseman, The Wanderers, and The Redeemed, set on the Devon/Somerset borders during 1911-1916, and evoking landscapes and country life, at the event.

MURDER MYSTERY AT THE LIBRARY

Crime author Kate Ellis will hold a murder mystery event, set on Dartmoor, at Dartmouth Library on Monday 9 September at 3.30-5pm. Tickets cost £2.50 including tea and cakes, from the library. We will be selling copies of Kate's locally set crime stories at the event.

KING OF DUST

Dartmouth Library is hosting a talk by Alex Woodcock, author of a fascinating new book, King of Dust, published by Little Toller on Monday 8 July 2019 at 7pm. Tickets booked at the library cost £2.50 to include wine and refreshments. Dartmouth Community Bookshop is supporting the event and will sell the book on the night.

Alex is a writer and stonemason from the South West of England, who became an archaeologist and scholar of medieval sculpture before beginning to carve himself in his 30s. He worked as a stonemason at Exeter Cathedral for 6 years. The books traces his personal quest for knowledge and understanding through buildings and sculpture in the South West.