Fiction
Rooms for the Weather
A house-sitter returns to a coastal town and finds a room that everyone remembers differently. A novel about the stories people leave in a place.
Open the book pageA bookshop for following a thought
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Follow it somewhere.
A novel, a walk, an object, a changing season. There is more than one way to begin a good reading afternoon.
The bookshop
A shelf can be
the start of a conversation.
We bring books together around the things they notice. A city on foot can sit beside a novel about a house; a book about making can lead to one about the seasons.
On the reading table
Four books.
Four ways in.
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4 books on the table
Places
The City at Walking Pace
Short walks through overlooked streets, public steps and small squares. An illustrated collection about what becomes visible when a journey has no need to be quick.
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Making
Things Made to Stay
An account of ordinary objects and the decisions inside them: joints, handles, edges and repairs. Drawings and essays about making things worth keeping.
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Nature
An Orchard of Days
A year of observations from a small orchard: weather, work, birds and the recurring surprise of a familiar place. Brief essays with room for quiet attention.
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Take the longer way
The City
at Walking Pace
Short walks through overlooked streets and small squares, with drawings that reward another look. A book for anyone who has ever taken a turning simply to see where it goes.
Read about the bookFollow a subject
Where would you
like the book to take you?
Books as gifts
Start with the reader,
not the occasion alone.
A book they have enjoyed, a subject they return to or the way they like to read gives a gift conversation a useful starting point.
Choosing a book for someoneA passage to sit with
“A city changes size when you walk it. The station that seemed close on the map becomes a sequence of shop windows, a crossing with a long wait, the smell of bread from a door you have never noticed.”
The City at Walking Pace · Nico Reed
Continue the passageThe reading room
A little context
before the first page.
Our bookseller notes describe the subject and pace of each book, so you can find something for the reading mood you are in.
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