Guys this gorgeous shop is struggling to keep the business alive. Do help them, do help your local community. Buy culture, keep you community alive 🙌🏼

Ahhh look at this gorgeous window display at @book-ish.bsky.social ! You can now find several signed copies of Wooing the Witch Queen in their Abergavenny store. 💙

Do love subscription delivery day from @book-ish.bsky.social Looking forward to reading this… plus a CUUUUTE coaster 🤩🥰 #BookSky📚💙

Exciting pre- order alert! Get your mots on a SIGNED special edition of ‘Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil’ by VE SChwab!!! AND you’ll get yourself a *free* tote bag #ToxicLesbianVampires

Happy Valentine’s Day! (And happy my birthday too)

Best cold remedies so that I stop almost sneezing my eyeballs out and that I feel human enough to brilliantly interview Jojo Moyes tomorrow evening to a sell out audience?!….GO

It’s my birthday on Friday…I think I’m buying myself an early pressie.

💕 Blind Date with a Book – This Valentine’s Day! 💕 Looking for the perfect match this Valentine’s Day? 💌 The Rules: ✨ Pick a wrapped book with intriguing clues ✨ Take it home and unwrap your surprise ✨ Fall in love with a new story! 📍 www.book-ish.co.uk/products/blind-date

Last night I had a dream that we had a sell out event with Ben Fogle but on the night another writer/mathematician also called Ben Fogle turned up….chaos ensued. I have a cold, I blame the Lemsip.

Today from 10am I am driving the till in our Abergavenny shop. Small but perfectly formed 55a Frogmore Street has, in my opinion, the BEST book smell in the world.

Fabulous morning with @mglnrd.bsky.social and @panmacmillan.bsky.social and 250 local school children learning about ancient Egypt, adventure writing and of course, beetles! The Hunt for the Golden Scarab is out now!

Just a thought…has anybody checked on the large hadron collider recently?

February events are starting strong!

Just me driving the till in Crickhowell today, anybody thinking of a run out, a book purchase and a coffee?!

It’s the first day of my birthday month! AND it’s no longer January, who fancies buying a book, your future self will thank you! (We need to sell approx 1400 books in Feb just to keep the lights on in the place!) www.book-ish.co.uk

Well. There we are then. A comprehensive trouncing

Sitting here uploading pre-orders onto our website and there's so much to be excited about......but I am particularly excited about the forthcoming 'Cursed Daughters' by Oyinkan Braithwaite. www.book-ish.co.uk/product/curs...

Watching the rugby and Hoping that things get better quickly ! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

If you are able, please do support Indy bookshops. The near monopoly of an online giant is skewering the industry. Without Indies, we simply wouldn't be here. @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @serenitybookshop.bsky.social @trumanbooks.bsky.social @drakebookshop.bsky.social @forumbooks.bsky.social

Feels a bit like I’m screeching into a void here…give me a wave if you can hear me?!?

Awaiting gin o’clock

Mixed bag of a day lots of positives, exciting event opportunities that made me do a few little excitement dances, lovely lunch with Mr Bookish followed by an email from my accountant with a tax bill (blergh)

If you missed out the firs time around, I've managed to secure a few more SIGNED copies of the hotly anticipated behind the scenes story of 'Gavin & Stacey' www.book-ish.co.uk/product/when...

Look what arrived in my book post today! Love Ruth Jones and will look forward to reading this…

Just a reminder that the books we call "children's books" are really books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes absolutely no-one at all. They are BOOKS FOR EVERYONE - and you can never, ever be too old to read them, and to love them!

February and March are busy!! So many fabulous events and some sold out or almost sold out already!!

You can still get Bloomsbury books from us or by supporting your local bookshop via Bookshop.org. If more publishers took this stance against greedy Jeff, I wonder what effect it would have on High Streets?! www.thebookseller.com/news/amazon-...

Lots of shiny books jostling on our shelves….would anybody like one? www.book-ish.co.uk

I have had a happy time with my family doing not very much in Madeira. FINALLY I have some reading mojo back and am about to finish my 3rd book of 2025! What have you all been reading?

Things you can do to help I does get through January 1. Buy a book! 2. Pre-order a book 3. Sign up for a subscription service 4. Buy event tickets 4. Share social media posts 5. Sign up to newsletters 6. Leave reviews 7. Tell all your friends

Impoverished authors are told they should do it for the love. Try saying that to a dentist www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

First book of 2025 and an absolute beauty! #BitterHoney by #CarylLewis is out in June and is available for pre-order www.book-ish.co.uk/product/bitt...

A throne of books at Hay Castle

Crickhowell is currently an island with nobody able to enter or exit the town due to flooding! If you need a book we’re at www.book-ish.co.uk

This should be in everybody's stockings... www.book-ish.co.uk/product/the-...

A series of writing workshops and talks today @crickhowellhs.bsky.social with @clairefayers.bsky.social #WelshGiantsGhosts&Goblins

Monday! The start of a whole new book buying week….what book are you hoping to own by the end of the week?

Today has mostly been all about telling my Mum that she’s doesn’t need 32 mugs, 46 wine glasses and 8 sieves. Obviously she can keep as many books as she can fit into their new house

Now then BlueSky(ers) would anybody like a book? 💙📚 www.Book-ish.co.uk Would be ever so happy if so 😀

Still have no idea how this place works….top tips please!!

Finally….some time to relax #toughweek

That was a fun event! Our Winter Romance panel went down a storm this evening. With @jackstrangeauthor.bsky.social Beth Reekles Rachel Rowlands and Lizzie Huxley-Jones

My event chairing has come to an end for 2024! I now have some time to read just for me….i have such a massive TBR pile….where should I start??

Will give this place another go! Here me and my bookish besties celebrating the Books Are My Bag readers awards last night!

Your evening reminder that ANY purchase from our website, automatically enters you into our BIG competition! Visit book-ish.co.uk and get clicking. Events, pre-orders, totes and picture books, every item = one entry!!!

WIN A TRIP TO CRICKHOWELL! to enter just make any purchase from our website and YOU could be drinking tea and choosing books with me! Book-ish.co.uk

WIN A TRIP TO CRICKHOWELL! to enter just make any purchase from our website and YOU could be drinking tea and choosing books with me! Book-ish.co.uk

My parents celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversary this week. I love seeing their wedding pics and ours side by side….I do wonder what my Dad had said, no idea what Mr Bookish uttered, no doubt it was rude as he’d just made me climb a wall in my wedding dress.

Last night was a bit good!

Hello? Is this thing on?!