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Newham Bookshop events at The Wanstead Tap
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We can send books by post, usually £3 in the UK.



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Conway Hall events

Saturday and Sunday 4 and 5 May at Finchley Church End Library

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Barnet Libraries Literary Festival
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Tuesday 2 December
from 5 to 8 pm at
Newham Bookshop

Christmas Poisoned Ground Knitting for Tommy John & George The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman
































*excluding academic books

Christmas Discount Evening

20% discount on all purchases from stock*
Lucinda Gosling Lucinda Gosling

Join us at the Bookshop on Tuesday 2 December from 5 to 8 pm for our famous Christmas Discount Evening

There’ll be festive food and drink, and the usual friendly atmosphere of our customers choosing Christmas gifts.

Special guests this year include Barbara Nadel, Luci Gosling, John Dolan and his thoughtful dog, George, and Québécois author Denis Thériault.

John Dolan and George Denis Theriault

John Dolan is a street artist whose life was transformed when an exhibition of his drawings was put on at the Howard Griffin gallery last autumn. He has now written a memoir of his life with his dog, John and George: the Dog who Changed My Life.

John Dolan was featured in Spitalfields Life in October 2013.

Denis Thériault is a screenwriter based in Montreal. His second novel, The Peculiar Life Of A Lonely Postman was published in September 2014.

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Family lessons for
Writing and Reading Newham
available here

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Interested in learning more about Newham Bookshop and some of the people connected with it? We have four lessons for classroom or family use developed from On the Record’s oral history project centered around Newham Bookshop, Writing and Reading Newham. Click here for full details.


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Newham Bookshop is LoveReading’s
Bookshop of the Month

We are proud that Newham Bookshop is LoveReading’s Bookshop of the Month. The article features a Q&A with Vivian Archer, which you can read here.


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