Our Shop
Browse through these pages to see many of our wonderful stock items.
We update daily to keep up with new arrivals.
However there are so many more discoveries to make when you visit us.
We are an owner/managed Independent Bookshop.
This means we make our own selection of the books we stock. We aim to provide you with something a little different and a wider choice. Books you may not find elsewhere.
alison’s bookshop is so much bigger on the inside than it looks from the outside.
Two floors and seven rooms big!
A place of safe browsing, happy discoveries, comfy seating, interesting nooks and crannies.
Customers often refer to us being “a real tardis!”.
Books …. & more Books!
UPDATED usually daily with just some of the many new titles that come into the shop Here you can find reading options for Adults, either Hardbacks or Paperbacks - Fiction...
Local Interest and Maps
NEW IN - 2025 G.B. Road Atlases TWO NEW WALKING GUIDES PUBLISHED IN 2024 We stock most Landranger and Regional Ordnance Survey maps plus many of the Explorer and Tourist...
Cards and Paper
We know it is still early but --- Our Charity Christmas cards are already available and now the Ashmoleum and other Christmas cards are on display upstairs!! + + +...
Gift Stationery, 2025 Diaries and Calendars
2025 CALENDARS from POMEGRANATE now in stock PLUS a selection of 2025 Slim Calendars to choose from Other Artist's ranges - our usual A4 sized JUST UNPACKED We have a...
Jigsaws
MORE NEW JIGSAW DESIGNS for 2024 have arrived for the summer As well as the standard rectangular format we even have circular ones - no corners to find!...
Sheet Music & Classical CDs
Classical CD WINTER PROMOTION. While STOCKS last! Selected stock only. 2 CDs for £ 10.00 As stickered OR Five Naxos Single CDs for only £ 20.00 Stickered stock only. In...
Added Early 2021
Books featured here arrived in the shop during lockdown. For books that have arrived since April 2021 please look in New Arrivals.
Around The Shop
You will find new release hardbacks covering most genres, bays of fiction, a large children’s area with books for babies up to young adult. OS maps, walk books, local interest...