The Bookery, Crediton

The book 'The Folklore of Devon' by Mark Norman, shown standing up. The cover is a scene in a moss green wood, where pale blue fairy (or ghost?) riders are crossing a stream, with horses. One is on horseback, two others on foot. There are floating lights around them.

The cover of The Stitchwort Curse by Alexandra Dawe. The book is standing up on a wooden table with a blurred background. The book cover is by artist Olia Muza and is predominantly blue, showing a large tree. At the top of the tree is a girl in a blue dress with white hair. She's looking down towards a boy in trousers, a shirt and a cap as he looks up at her. Their clothes are old fashioned, and hers are patched.

Join @folklorepod.bsky.social and me in Crediton one week today, in @thebookery.bsky.social at 7pm, Thursday May 15th. I'll be asking Mark about his brilliant book The Folklore of Devon. Tickets are £4 from the Bookery. There might be drinks and cake...
#thebookery #thefolklorepodcast #folklore 📚💙

...along with stories from the 2,000 memorials & graves of the ‘notable and notorious’ people buried or commemorated in the county, including aristocrats & artists, paupers & politicians, merchants and missionaries, sailors & suicides. 🎫 Free event – no need to register

🪦Hugh's audio-visual presentation will feature some of Devon’s 700 burial sites, all of which he visited over the 10 years he spent researching the book... 🧵 ⬇️

📚 We're looking forward to welcoming award-winning local author Hugh Meller to The Bookery next Tuesday at 3.30pm to present his compelling and most recent book Devon Dead and Buried. 🧵 ⬇️

A poster showing a photo of author Mark Norman next to the cover of his new book 'The Folklore of Devon', which shows a vibrant green wood with a stream over which a faerie procession of blue figures and horses is passing. The poster is advertising Mark Norman in conversation with me at the Bookery, an independent bookshop in Crediton. This is a live event taking place on Thursday 15th May at 7pm.

Come and see me and brilliant folklore expert Mark Norman of the @folklorepod.bsky.social fame chatting about his new book 'The Folklore of Devon' at @thebookery.bsky.social in Crediton.
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#authorevent #liveevent #folklore #indiebookshop #crediton #devon

Two books edited by Johnny Mains: The Dead of Summer and Celtic Weird

It’s a beautiful, sunny May Eve today & we love these brilliant anthologies edited by @johnnymains.co.uk & published by British Library Publishing! Available from our shop or online here:
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#walpurgis #WalpurgisNight #Walpurgisnacht

We're looking forward to this! 🤩🐀✍️

If you'd like to volunteer with us, please get in touch by emailing kate@thebookery.org.uk or call in to the shop. We'd love to hear from you! #volunteering #Crediton #TheBookery #IndependentBookshops

First up: June Redfern, part of our 'Sharing Stories' team. Here at The Bookery we have volunteering opportunities in many areas including retail, schools outreach and community projects. 🧵⬇️

So here we are in 2025 - and a belated Happy New Year to all our customers and supporters! Perhaps some of you may be looking for a new direction this year, so for the next five days we'll be posting quotes from some of our amazing volunteers to showcase the sort of things they do for us. 🧵⬇️

Announcing our Share Offer Prize Draw: everyone purchasing shares in The Bookery will be entered into a prize draw for a mystery book & wine gift donated by our supporters! The winner will be announced once the Share Offer has closed on 25th January. Good luck! 🤞☘️(To invest, visit buff.ly/3ZQ4SwN)

Check out our new programme of FREE afternoon author events at The Bookery coming up in the New Year! Save the dates and look out for more details soon... #TheBookeryPresents #Crediton #authorevents #BuyBooksDoGood

Now Maggie is beginning to realise that not everyone at the house this weekend is who they appeared to be. And those who are lying are prepared to do anything to stop the truth coming out. Tickets £4, redeemable against book purchase, available here: buff.ly/4irBPXP or call in to the shop.

Some have gone on to staggering success, others to more mundane lives. And one of them is missing. Before her death, Lily seemed agitated. Even scared. In the weeks before her death, she called Maggie, wanting to talk but then refusing to say what was frightening her. 🧵⬇️

Twenty years ago, nine university friends made a series of predictions about what would happen to each of them after college. Now, they’ve all gathered together for the weekend, not for a reunion but for a reveal. 🧵⬇️

We can't wait to welcome award-winning thriller writer Holly Watt to The Bookery on Thursday 23rd January! Holly will be signing copies and talking about her latest novel The Last Truths We Told - a story about old friends and new betrayals. 🧵⬇️

Are you looking for a unique gift idea this Christmas? How about gifting shares in our prize-winning bookshop to help us expand our outreach work in schools and the community? Our Community Share Offer Gift Vouchers are available in the shop now! #BuyBooksGrowCommunity

For 25 years @Jayrayner1 has reviewed restaurants, gathering ideas to craft dishes for his own table. Now, he's sharing these recipes, including his take on the mighty Greggs Steak Bake! This book offers something for every cook and is written with real warmth & wit. uk.bookshop.org/a/280/978024...

The Bookery has volunteering opportunities in many areas including retail, schools outreach & community projects. If you'd like to volunteer with us, please get in touch by emailing kate@thebookery.org.uk or call in to the shop - we'd love to hear from you! #volunteering #Crediton

Access for pushchairs is easiest via the passageway at the side of the shop - you'll see us through the sliding glass doors on your left! #TheBookery #Crediton #IndependentBookshops

Children have the opportunity to develop their social and language skills whilst having fun and making new friends - perfect for children who enjoy a small-group environment. If you'd like to give it a go, just come along at 10am on Wednesday morning! 🧵⬇️

Did you know we run Playtime sessions on Wednesday mornings for young children & their carers? We offer creative play, music-making & messy crafts, free 'picnic snack time ', & a bookbag for each child so they can borrow a book to take home with them each week... 🧵⬇️

The Bookery Advent Calendar begins ! A countdown that includes all sorts of Bookery items in our Festive Countdown, in the hopes we have just the thing for your Christmas Shopping. First off we still have Advent calendar’s in if you’ve forgotten one !

Do you have an artist in your family? The Bookery stocks a wide range of art materials, including watercolour, gouache, pastels, pencils, charcoal, sketchbooks & palettes for the perfect Christmas gift. We also have a fabulous selection of notebooks for the writer in your life!

#booksaremybag

We believe #brilliantbookschangelives We believe in the power of a good story, we believe that if you #buybooksbuildcommunity thank you for thinking of your local High Street Independent Community Book shop this #blackfriday

For our final event of the year we were joined by excited puzzlers eager to help us complete the 500 piece puzzle of The Bookery ! We were delighted to partner with @alljigsawpuzzles for this event & most grateful to Clare & Sara who helped create our unique puzzle

Advance notice of our extended Saturday opening hours in the run-up to Christmas - plenty of opportunities to find the perfect book for friends & family! (& help us run our schools and community outreach projects at the same time) #BuyBooksDoGood #'ShopSmall #IndependentBookshops

Access for pushchairs is easiest via the passageway at the side of the shop - you'll see us through the sliding glass doors on your left #TheBookery #Crediton #IndependentBookshops

Children have the opportunity to develop their social and language skills whilst having fun and making new friends - perfect for children who enjoy a small-group environment. If you'd like to give it a go, just come along at 10am on Wednesday morning! 🧵 ⬇️