Framlingham Bookshop

Oh dear.

How to be a Writer:, no. 95322:
Update website
Answer 283983 e-mails
Record radio interview
Print out travel details, schedules
Go through diary
Order stock
14 e-mail interviews
Go through diary again
Experience immense wave of self-doubt
Wonder what you forgot to do
Oh, wait -
Tea.

We're thrilled to announce the winners of the Breaking the Rules Challenge, run in partnership with the Estorick Collection, on Young Poets Network.

Here's an extract from Mikala Smee's winning video poem 'These Rigid Lines.' Read the rest: bit.ly/EstorickYPN

We currently have a Salute to Percy Grainger in here doing the same thing...

Today's book shop browsing music. Any thoughts on what music would encourage you to linger in the shop?

Really good to know this, thanks for posting. We like to have our finger on the pulse but it's hard in a secondhand book shop!

These lists are useful for us as a secondhand bookshop. It is hard to keep up with what children chose, or are asked, to read.

We like you, please come again. Help us be the very best second hand bookshop we can be, for our customers.

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What do you look for in a second-hand bookshop? For me, it’s recipe books, memoirs, autobiographies and mid-20th c fiction. You? Tell @framlinghambooks.bsky.social #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #writinglife #authorlife #skybooks #skywriters

I don't think I have to tell most people who follow me why libraries are important, or that they're under threat in the UK. But I want to make sure everyone knows Lambeth libraries are going on strike and there's a solidarity hardship fund HERE linktr.ee/savelambethl... #KidlitUK #SaveLibraries

Opinion: The Unbound authors' view The authors affected by the collapse of Unbound deserve real support, honest accountability and clear answers.

Regarding the collapse of our publisher, Unbound, the authors involved (myself included) offer this statement to you. This comment aims to provide insight into the events. We encourage you to read and share it far and wide. Thank you 🙏🏽

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We like you, please come again. Help us be the very best second hand bookshop we can be, for our customers.

To stop myself chasing customers and asking them why they didn't buy anything, help me via our new post on Substack... #Booksky
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We like you, please come again. Help us be the very best second hand bookshop we can be, for our customers.

To stop myself chasing customers and asking them why they didn't buy anything, help me via our new post on Substack... #Booksky
open.substack.com/pub/suziegro...

It's 11.30am and we've taken just £2.50. Favourite comments on the way out: 'Thank you - it's a lovely shop', 'I'll come back with my reading glasses' 'We're staying locally so we'll come back with more time.' 'I'm so glad we've still got physical bookshops.' I feel like a tourist attraction.

Copies of @keatsbabe.bsky.social Suzie Grogan's Death Disease and Dissection are back in stock after a reprint! It went very well and I really enjoyed giving my talk on it.

A classic

An old bookmark found in our stock is often a joy. This book token (token used, free plate not) has no date but must be 1950s perhaps?

Yes, sometimes people expect us to buy everything, but even if they’d seek eventually, storage costs are already a significant cost for us and we have to pay to have the unwanted and unsellable stock taken away.

What would you buy? The second-hand bookseller dilemma Collating a bookshop shelf can be harder than you think...

My Substack went crazy (really!) for this post about how to decide what we sell in the shop. Secondhand bookshops, especially tiny ones, have to make hard decisions #Booksky substack.com/home/post/p-...

Chris and I are both writers. My next, much-delayed book, will benefit from this! Norwich History Festival looks wonderful: Tickets are now available for Valerie Sanders: Harriet Martineau at Octagon Chapel, Norwich on Wednesday 23rd July 2025 at 6:00PM www.ticketsource.co.uk/norwichhisto...

Free workshop + open mic alert!

As part of the Bog Challenge on Young Poets Network, we're running a double bill of online ecopoetry goodness on Saturday 5 July.

Book your space at bit.ly/BogTakeover🌟

Suzie Grogan | Substack A writer, an editor, a radio presenter and a bookseller in a secondhand bookshop, I have what some call, grandly, a 'portfolio career'. My daughter calls it ‘hustling', but it is, in truth, simply a l...

As a bookseller I have found people love to read about bookshops so find some inside information on my Substack! substack.com/@suziegrogan...

Fabulous piece and especially interesting for those of us engaged in writing crime fiction...

Oh dear, we have got to 1pm on a hot sunny day here in Framlingham without selling one book. Lots of lovely comments about the shop and long browses but no sales. Buy local, buy indie or all your 'lovely shops' (thank you for the compliment) will go out of business 😔

Send us account recommendations - we'd love to follow other shops, writers, editors, and bloggers. Those who love reading and working with words are our livelihood.

Our online sales are what keep bookselling a viable living. Although we love our little shop you can also see our whole online, collectable and rare stock via our website at www.framlinghambooks.co.uk

This was meant to be the cover of The Song of Achilles! What went wrong?

Ooh, we'd love that here in the shop! Along with a library sliding ladder. We have a small library step, the joy of which is not to be dismissed...

We're not sure how we feel about AI here in a secondhand bookshop. We don't get new books in very often so it may be a while before we get a sense of the impact. We're both writers as well as booksellers though so can't deny the potential of ProWriting Aid

British Library to symbolically reinstate Oscar Wilde's reader pass 130 years on After 130 years, the British Library will symbolically reinstate the reader pass that belonged to the renowned poet and writer Oscar Wilde. The physical pass will be officially handed over to Wilde’s ...

After 130 years, the British Library will symbolically reinstate the reader pass that belonged to the renowned poet and writer Oscar Wilde 👇 #BookSky

www.thebookseller.com/news/british...

I'm Suzie Grogan (@keatsbabe.bsky.social)and a bookseller here. My own Bluesky was dominated by book posts anyway, so I thought the shop should get its own spotlight. We'll looks at reviews, show new acquisitions and share book shop news.