The Violet Bookshop

26/07/2025

Happy Saturday everyone! A little restock of the local interest section this weekend. There's history, reminiscence, folklore, ghost stories, photography, art and more!

I'm particularly excited about Max Harris' The Unremembered Inn, which traces the social history of an Upton upon Severn High Street building over the centuries. It's been painstakingly researched and includes appendices, lists of original documents consulted, and a bibliography.

23/07/2025

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern is one of my absolute all time favourite books; it blew me away entirely when I first read it and I recommend it with such reckless abandon that it's one of my bestselling books. As July is the shop's first birthday, I thought it entirely appropriate for this month's book club selection, and it's therefore 10% off up to and including Thursday 31st July.

Fancy coming along to book club to discuss it? Sessions are 7pm on Monday 4th or Thursday 7th August, in the bookshop. Drop me a line if you're coming along or would like to find out more!

21/07/2025

Open 10-4 today!

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20/07/2025

20/07/2025

Open until 4pm (or later if it's busy!) today for Blues Fest Sunday!

📚 Buy One Get One Half Price across everything (excusing vouchers)!

📚 Free colouring sheets and bookmarks

📚 Signed copies of B. Ware's Magic Can Be Dangerous and May Contain Dragons following her visit to the shop yesterday

📚 Come and put your feet up for a bit in a comfy armchair!

19/07/2025

We've got children's author B. Ware here until 4pm! Pop in and get a copy of Magic Can Be Dangerous or May Contain Dragons signed, plus free stickers and bookmarks!

18/07/2025

🎉🎈🎊 The Violet Bookshop is 1! 🎊🎈🎉

I'm absolutely over the moon to have reached this milestone, and just in time for the party weekend that is the Blues Festival! I cannot thank Upton enough for the constant support and enthusiasm that comes my way - it's made the cold, quiet days good ones and made the warm busy ones an absolute joy!

To celebrate...

📚 Buy One Get One Half Price across the whole shop ALL WEEKEND!

📚 Pick up one of our brand new loyalty cards - get a stamp for each book purchased and a free book with 10 stamps (adults) or 8 stamps (children)

📚 Come and meet author B. Ware on Saturday for signed books, bookmarks and stickers

📚 Enter our joint giveaway with our twin birthday pals J Maverick. Craft Ales and Ciders here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EP3tcy6rs/

📚 Free parma violets for everyone!

17/07/2025

🎶📚 Town is feeling very buzzy and bouncy! Open all weekend for all things bookish! 📚 🎶

16/07/2025

It's UPTON BLUES FESTIVAL week, so I've let my marvellous work experience student Molly loose on the chalkboard!

15/07/2025

✨ Little updates in the stationery corner ✨

Handmade bookmarks by the lovely local Sharky Wood & Crafts! All sorts of fab designs and £6.50 each.

More National Book Tokens designs! Find them over by the cards and next to the till. You can both purchase and redeem NBT's here (as well as our own gift vouchers).

Just in time for a busy week!

11/07/2025

Do you want to imagine what it's like to meet a cheetah, get close to a polar bear, or go to sleep with an otter? If so then July's Children's Indie Book of the Month is for you! Full of facts and illustrations, Hamza Yassin's guide to the animal kingdom has a dyslexia-friendly design made in consultation with Dyslexia Scotland so it's perfect for every child.

10/07/2025

📚🍻 Two Upton Indies, One Big Birthday🍻📚

This month, we’re raising a glass and flipping a page - because J Maverick. Craft Ales and Ciders and The Violet Bookshop are turning ONE! 🎉

We’ve had a year of great beer, brilliant books, and wonderful company (with or without tails).

So to celebrate:

🎂 Visit The Violet Bookshop on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th July for birthday treats and offers!
🎂 Pop into J Maverick & Co Sunday 13th July for pints, beer cocktails, and a proper party tea
🎂 Comment, like and follow both The Violet Bookshop and J Maverick & Co, and use to enter our giveaway with the chance to win a copy of “Beer Breaks of Britain” by Phil Mellows & Kate Simon and a 3 Can Gift Box!