Wakefield Press and Love Your Bookshop Day

Love Your Bookshop Day is all about celebrating what makes local bookshops so great (and so important)! Here at Wakefield Press, we're celebrating by opening our shop on Saturday 10 August, but the celebration is about more than just one day. As our fearless leader, Michael Bollen, considers the daunting 'For Official Use Only' headers that have plagued his inbox as late, he also ponders his own official use as a publisher. In Diary of a Publisher, a brilliant…

Love your Bookshop Day

'What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.' ― Neil Gaiman In an age of Internet sales a humble bookshop could seem archaic. In a march to digitise and automate, something so small as a bookshop could be considered an afterthought. Yet, those of us who frequent shelves and bookstalls, who know…

Links! Book Market! AUTHORS!

Okay kids, it's time for some links and some fun. First up, we have 10 Words Every Writer Needs to Know, including the very awesome scripturient, to describe someone with a passion for writing. I'm going to be including all of these in emails to our authors from now on! Secondly, we have a collection of images showing writers with their typewriters. From the very beautiful Sylvia Plath doing a spot of typing outside in…

Hampers! Books! Chocolate! Bliss!

Need another reason to come along to our pre-Easter sale? Well, there's always the fact that you'll get the chance to win one of these two bad boys: Question is, books or chocolate? Delayed or immediate gratification? Oh, and there's some awesome Fox Creek wine in there too. God. Can I take both?

Easter Sale!!

We'll be open 10am until 4pm on Saturday 12 April as well as standard hours for the rest of the week, with 20% off all stock!

For we are girt by sea

Get on it kidlets!: