Independent Bookseller of the Year - Wales and South West of England
Newsletter - November 2009
NEWS
Nominate us and maybe you can win up to £375!
You can win £250 worth of Book Tokens for yourself PLUS £25 for up to five friends when you nominate your favourite Independent bookshop (I wonder who that would be?). If you need help in deciding, 'The Forest Bookshop Coleford' is a good name to put down, but only if you think we deserve it.
Just click on thispicture below. It's so quick and easy to enter!:
Or click the link below:
http://www.nationalbooktokens.co.uk/competition/
St. John Street Christmas Shopping Evening
On Thursday 3rd December the whole street will be closed to traffic, and the St John Street shops will be open from 5.30 – 8.30pm. There will be street entertainment, stalls, food, carols, and more. In the meantime, our shop full of Christmas stock – come and see our new range of toys, mugs and gifts. We will also be opening late every thursday until December
The Forest Bookshop Top 10
November bestsellers to date:
- From Wear To Wye by Fi Benson
- The Girl That Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
- Lost Railways of Gloucestershire by Stan Yorke
- Exploring Historic Dean by John Sheraton and Rod Goodman
- And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer
- Quest Of The Vampire by Paula Meek
- The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
- Spells by Emily Gravett
- Top Secret-Danger Society by Charlie Higson
- Guinness World Records 2010
Dear Customer
Well, I saw some geese recently and I swear they were putting on weight. This surely must mean our very busiest period of the year is almost upon us. Our shelves are bursting with what seems to be our best collection of books ever and to enhance this, we have added a small but interesting collection of gifts and stocking-fillers including a range of 'Penguin Book' mugs, some jolly book-ends, quality wooden toys and quirky bookmarks.
You can see our latest books and browse our new Chrismas Catalogue at: www.forestbookshop.com
Doug McLean,
F W Harvey poetry back in print very soon.
We are very pleased to announce that after a long absence, the Gloucestershire poet FW Harvey's 'Collected Poems 1912 - 1957' will be available in a new edition before Christmas.
F W Harvey was a 'War Poet' a contemporary of Sasoon, Brooke, Owen and Gurney. His war poems however, were not so much about his experience the terrible horrors of the fron-line trenches, but about courage comfort and hope. His greatness was in his ability to find beauty in a world of sadness, conflict and trouble. For instance, from a crude drawing of ducks that a fellow prisoner had scrawled on his solitary confinement POW cell, came the inspiration from the wonderful and perhaps best known 'From troubles of the world I turn to ducks . . .'
We aso hear that an F W Harvey appreciation society may be formed.
For more information contact doug@forestbookshop.com
The Forest Bookshop, 8 St John Street, Coleford, Gloucestershire, GL16 8AR.
Tel 01594 833334
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