Charlbury Community Bookshop

Sat 25 Oct, 12:09 (last edited on Sat 25 Oct, 12:15)

Thank you for your patience as the bookshop adjusts to the exciting developments in the Corner House.  Here is how things will be different.

The procedures for donating books etc remain as in my earlier email below ... and in particular please note that we can no longer receive large donations (more than a boxful) at the Corner House -- I can collect them, or you can drop them off, by arrangement, at 32 The Slade.

The bookshop will soon be open for longer each day -- the same opening hours as the deli.

Our cheap books (50p each) will remain as they are, in the Oliver Watney Room:  some real bargains find their way there, and almost every day brings a dozen or so new items.  Likewise there will be no change to children's books (50p each, three for £1), on sale at the back of Cornerstone.

Our adults' fiction (£1 each, three for £2) in the Morris Room will also stay much as it is, with an increased number of bookcases and therefore more choice, but the rotating stands and the crates on the tables will be removed -- so teenage fiction (50p each, three for £1) will join the children's books downstairs and Penguin books etc (20p each, three for 50p) will be displayed eventually on a separate bookcase.

Finally, our non-fiction (£2 each, three for £5) is moving upstairs into the other half of the Morris Room.  This will be a lengthy process -- new bookcases are being bought, and the books will all need to be sorted by category again.  They're currently heaped in the Morris Room (please don't add donations to them!), but you're welcome to look at them gingerly if you want.

The final outcome will be a larger bookshop with longer opening hours.  The one disadvantage will be that all, rather than most, of our books will be upstairs -- requiring therefore some mobility to access.  We're exploring having a "newly-in" selection, or something like it, downstairs to mitigate that.