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About Our Bookshop
Welcome to Our Bookshop in Tring. We love books and we love book-lovers.
Our shop is welcoming safe space to talk, browse, meet and debate either on the subject of your day or whatever topic is on the mind of our customers when they visit.
We’re open 9am to 5pm on Monday to Saturday. And closed on Sunday.
Naturally we can order any book that is in print and have in-store within 24 hours. Please give us a call or get in touch via the form at the bottom of this page.
Regional Finalist INDIE BOOKSHOP OF THE YEAR
We’re very proud to have been awarded Regional Finalist in the Indie Bookshop of the Year awards. This is as a result of the amazing efforts of everyone connected to the shop including the staff, our customers, our schools and all the lovely authors and publishers who have joined us in celebrating the written word.
DECEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH
Our Evenings
Alan Hollinghurst
Order now and join the author at the bookclub meeting at the start of February.
A ‘Book of the Year’ for The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, Daily Express, The Spectator, The Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and the IFeatured on Radio 4’s ‘Book at Bedtime’
‘The best novel that’s been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It’s funny but desperately moving too’ – The Sunday Times
Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age.
Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles’ envy and violence. As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys’ careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.
Our Evenings is the intimate and touching story of Dave Win’s life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.
AUTUMN CHILDREN'S BOOK
Hannah Gold
HANNAH GOLD WILL BE SIGNING BOOKS ON TUESDAY 15th OCTOBER AT 4.30pm IN OUR BOOKSHOP.
Journey to the heart of the jungle in this unforgettable adventure from the author of bestselling and prize-winning The Last Bear. Beautifully illustrated by Levi Pinfold, this is perfect for readers 8+. Silver Trevelon’s parents aren’t happy.
They haven’t been happy since the nursery they decorated started gathering cobwebs, waiting for the baby brother or sister that never came. So when Silver’s dad is invited to paint at a turtle rescue centre in Costa Rica, she hopes it’ll be just the adventure the family needs. Under the hot tropical sun, Silver settles into life at the animal centre.
She even witnesses a rare sighting of a leatherback turtle nesting on the beach. But when the turtle’s eggs are stolen, events take a dark and dangerous turn. Can Silver and her new friends track them down before it’s too late? It’ll mean journeying into the heart of the jungle and uncovering long-buried secrets.
As well as the Tring Book Festival in November, we also host all kinds of literary events all year round including author interviews, book launches, children’s Storytelling and many other kinds of events.
Click here to visit our Events section.
OUR YouTube Channel
We host dozens of events every year and most of those are ‘hybrid’ events in the 300 seat venue next door to Our Bookshop.
The virtual streams of the event are recorded and posted to Our YouTube Channel.
CLICK HERE to visit the YouTube Channel