Join @folklorepod.bsky.social and me in Crediton one week today, in @thebookery.bsky.social at 7pm, Thursday May 15th. I'll be asking Mark about his brilliant book The Folklore of Devon. Tickets are £4 from the Bookery. There might be drinks and cake... #thebookery #thefolklorepodcast #folklore 📚💙

📚 We're looking forward to welcoming award-winning local author Hugh Meller to The Bookery next Tuesday at 3.30pm to present his compelling and most recent book Devon Dead and Buried. 🧵 ⬇️

Come and see me and brilliant folklore expert Mark Norman of the @folklorepod.bsky.social fame chatting about his new book 'The Folklore of Devon' at @thebookery.bsky.social in Crediton. 📚💙 #authorevent #liveevent #folklore #indiebookshop #crediton #devon

It’s a beautiful, sunny May Eve today & we love these brilliant anthologies edited by @johnnymains.co.uk & published by British Library Publishing! Available from our shop or online here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... uk.bookshop.org/p/books/celt... #walpurgis #WalpurgisNight #Walpurgisnacht

We're looking forward to this! 🤩🐀✍️

So here we are in 2025 - and a belated Happy New Year to all our customers and supporters! Perhaps some of you may be looking for a new direction this year, so for the next five days we'll be posting quotes from some of our amazing volunteers to showcase the sort of things they do for us. 🧵⬇️

Announcing our Share Offer Prize Draw: everyone purchasing shares in The Bookery will be entered into a prize draw for a mystery book & wine gift donated by our supporters! The winner will be announced once the Share Offer has closed on 25th January. Good luck! 🤞☘️(To invest, visit buff.ly/3ZQ4SwN)

Check out our new programme of FREE afternoon author events at The Bookery coming up in the New Year! Save the dates and look out for more details soon... #TheBookeryPresents #Crediton #authorevents #BuyBooksDoGood

We can't wait to welcome award-winning thriller writer Holly Watt to The Bookery on Thursday 23rd January! Holly will be signing copies and talking about her latest novel The Last Truths We Told - a story about old friends and new betrayals. 🧵⬇️

Are you looking for a unique gift idea this Christmas? How about gifting shares in our prize-winning bookshop to help us expand our outreach work in schools and the community? Our Community Share Offer Gift Vouchers are available in the shop now! #BuyBooksGrowCommunity

For 25 years @Jayrayner1 has reviewed restaurants, gathering ideas to craft dishes for his own table. Now, he's sharing these recipes, including his take on the mighty Greggs Steak Bake! This book offers something for every cook and is written with real warmth & wit. uk.bookshop.org/a/280/978024...

The Bookery has volunteering opportunities in many areas including retail, schools outreach & community projects. If you'd like to volunteer with us, please get in touch by emailing [email protected] or call in to the shop - we'd love to hear from you! #volunteering #Crediton

Did you know we run Playtime sessions on Wednesday mornings for young children & their carers? We offer creative play, music-making & messy crafts, free 'picnic snack time ', & a bookbag for each child so they can borrow a book to take home with them each week... 🧵⬇️

The Bookery Advent Calendar begins ! A countdown that includes all sorts of Bookery items in our Festive Countdown, in the hopes we have just the thing for your Christmas Shopping. First off we still have Advent calendar’s in if you’ve forgotten one !

Do you have an artist in your family? The Bookery stocks a wide range of art materials, including watercolour, gouache, pastels, pencils, charcoal, sketchbooks & palettes for the perfect Christmas gift. We also have a fabulous selection of notebooks for the writer in your life!

We believe #brilliantbookschangelives We believe in the power of a good story, we believe that if you #buybooksbuildcommunity thank you for thinking of your local High Street Independent Community Book shop this #blackfriday

For our final event of the year we were joined by excited puzzlers eager to help us complete the 500 piece puzzle of The Bookery ! We were delighted to partner with @alljigsawpuzzles for this event & most grateful to Clare & Sara who helped create our unique puzzle

Advance notice of our extended Saturday opening hours in the run-up to Christmas - plenty of opportunities to find the perfect book for friends & family! (& help us run our schools and community outreach projects at the same time) #BuyBooksDoGood #'ShopSmall #IndependentBookshops

Did you know we run Playtime sessions on Wednesday mornings for young children & their carers? We offer creative play, music-making & messy crafts, free 'picnic snack time ', & a bookbag for each child so they can borrow a book to take home with them each week... 🧵 ⬇️

Has this happened to you before? Why not visit us for a good browse and see if it happens again! #TheBookery #IndependentBookshops #ShopSmall #BuyBooksDoGood #Crediton

My map of children's independent bookshops is updated regularly. Most provide an online service and they're all run by people who can make well-informed book recommendations. Make sure you support your local one if you want to keep it. Any missing, please let me know. padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...

If you’re wondering which books to select for your school or classroom @imaginecentre have over 2000 book reviews that you can search by theme, subject, genre and age, reviewed by a panel of teachers, librarians and literacy specialists. Here’s the link: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-book…

Hi everyone! We're now here on Bluesky and happy to be here! Looking forward to all the bookish conversations 📚