Our Shop
Browse through these pages to see many of our wonderful stock items. We update regularly to keep up with new arrivals. So many more discoveries to make when you visit us.
We are one of those increasing rarities – an independent bookshop.
This means we can 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 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, nooks and crannies. A real tardis.
New Arrivals
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 - Recently Added! We stock most Landranger and Regional Ordnance Survey maps plus many of the Explorer and Tourist...
Cards and Paper
Every day our customers compliment us on our beautiful and varied cards which is wonderful to hear and to know that you enjoy them as much as we do For...
Gift Stationery
We have a broad selection of notecards from several suppliers. We also stock thank you cards and gift journals - plain or ruled paper - as well as artist's journals....
Jigsaws
NEW JIGSAW DESIGNS for 2024 have arrived in the shop As well as the standard rectangular format we even have circular ones - no corners to find! All...
Sheet Music & Classical CDs
Naxos single CDs still at the old prices of £6:99 and £7:99 while stocks last! We have racks of Classical CD's, plus some Nostalgia and a bit of Jazz to...
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...