ABOUT VILLAGE BOOKS

Village Books is a long-established, award-winning independent bookshop that started life in the 1920s as the Gallery Bookshop and Lending Library.  Run by Hazel Broadfoot with our stalwart team of Harriet L, Ollie, Harriet H, James, Lena, Paul, Lyndsey Ng heading up our events programme, and Toffee our much loved shop dog.

We aim to combine great books with good service – and we love the challenge of tracking down a half-remembered title.  We can’t stock every title that’s in print – but we’ve got a fast, efficient ordering service with many thousands of titles available for next day delivery.  Call us by 5.00pm and you can collect your order before lunch the following working day.  We can also source out of print and American titles.  Read our FAQs for more useful information.

We’ve got a busy programme of author events – in the last year we’ve welcomed novelists, historians, actors, famous cooks and children’s writers.

Hazel says “We really care about making authors, customers and publishers happy with our events. Recent authors have included: Diana Henry, Tim Spector, William Boyd, Rory Stewart, Mary Berry and Michael Palin. Children’s events have featured: M.G. Leonard, Cressida Cowell, Katie Kirby, Robin Stevens, Rob Biddulph, Jamie Smart and Julia Donaldson”. If you want to keep up to date with our upcoming events, sign up to our newsletter for all the latest news from the shop.

We aim to be an integral part of the community by offering a first-class service to local schools and we have many years’ experience in this field. Our team always loves to talk about what we’ve been reading recently, and will always be on standby for any recommendation that is needed. We also strongly welcome dogs – we’ve always got a supply of dog treats on hand for our canine visitors.