Booktime September & October 2026 Cover

New Booktime! The September/October edition is available in store now — drop in to collect your copy or read it online. See something you like? If it’s not in stock we can order it in, or you can buy online at Bookshop.org.

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A far from ordinary story of four “ordinary people grasping the opportunity of an extraordinary education”.

Read our review of The Eights by Joanna Miller in the October 2026 edition of Tewkesbury Direct.

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Events

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We'd love to see you at one of our events — here's what we have coming up! Events are held at the bookshop in our upstairs event space, unless otherwise...

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No Friend To This House

“As The Odyssey is making waves at the cinema my eye was drawn…”.

Read our review of No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes in The Local Answer.

Tt2027

For tide times and heights at various locations — in the estuary with the world’s second-largest tidal range — Arrowsmith’s Bristol Channel Tide Table 2027 is now available in store.

Acotar 6&7

A Court of Thorns and Roses: Next releases available for pre-order

Books .... & more Books!

The next instalments in Sarah J. Maas's epic series are scheduled for release, and are now available to pre-order. Pre-orders of "A Court of Splintered Harmony" will be available for...

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Our History

Our Shop

You can browse through these pages to see many of our wonderful stock items — updated daily to keep up with new arrivals! — but there are so many more...

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Order books, cards, jigsaws or any other item we stock, without having to come into the shop in person!

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Once Upon A Time A Bookshop

Our Story

Long ago in 1999 a bookshop called alison’s opened on the High Street of the pretty and historic market town of Tewkesbury.

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