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The Hungerford Bookshop

24 The High Street, Hungerford, Berkshire, RG17 0NF
T: 01488 683480

www.hungerfordbookshop.co.uk

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The Hungerford Bookshop can be found in our beautiful listed building at the heart of our historic town. Hungerford is the centre of the North Wessex Downs, a designated area of outstanding natural beauty. Our award-winning Bookshop was announced as the South West Regional Winner in the 2015 Independent Bookseller of the Year Industry Awards and it’s not hard to understand why……

Owned and run by Emma and Alex, the bookshop team are passionate about books and the importance of independent shops. You won’t experience algorithms here. What we do offer is knowledge, personal recommendations, the chance to hear from the authors themselves and the joyful serendipity of discovering a title you never expected.

"Hungerford Bookshop gives Hungerford its heart and soul." Robert Harris, Author

Opening hours: Mon-Sat 9.30am-5pm; Sun 11am-3pm

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	Bookshop	Offer	Start date	End date
	The Hungerford Bookshop	Desmond Seward on The King Over the Water: A Complete History of the Jacobites	28-01-2020	29-01-2020
Address The Hungerford Bookshop, Hungerford, Berkshire, RG17 0NF T: 01488 683480 W: www.hungerfordbookshop.co.uk Start date 28-01-2020 Offer Details Based on the latest research, The King over the Water by renowned historian Desmond Seward (who lives in Hungerford) weaves together all the strands of this gripping saga into a vivid, sweeping narrative, full of insight, analysis and anecdote. “Desmond Seward, educated at Ampleforth and Cambridge, has been labelled a “popular historian”. This designation is sometimes construed as a slight. It should not be in the case of Seward who has already written a provocative comparative biography of Napoleon and Hitler and, amongst others, a sweeping, powerful chronicle of the Tudors. The King over the Water, though, is his best work because it plays to his gifts of being largely persuasive and consistently employing a briskness in pace, a clarity of style and a genius for capturing the character of those long dead, long-forgotten and, perhaps, never remembered.” – The Herald Offer Terms Desmond Seward will be talking at Hungerford Hub (Library) at 7:30pm on Tuesday Januray 28th. Tickets are £7 and include a glass of wine and £5 off the book on the night. Share
	The Hungerford Bookshop	Miss Austen: Gill Hornby in conversation with Helena Kelly	11-02-2020	12-02-2020
Address The Hungerford Bookshop, Hungerford, Berkshire, RG17 0NF T: 01488 683480 W: www.hungerfordbookshop.co.uk Start date 11-02-2020 Offer Details Miss Austen–the new novel from Gill Hornby–delves into why Cassandra burned a treasure trove of letters written by her sister, Jane Austen – an act of destruction that has long troubled academics. 1840: twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family’s friends, the Fowles. She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she is desperate should not be revealed. As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister, she pieces together buried truths about Jane’s history, and her own. And she faces a stark choice: should she act to protect Jane’s reputation? Or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity... Based on a puzzling literary mystery, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen. Offer Terms Gill Hornby, who lives in Kintbury, will be talking to Helena Kelly (author of Jane Austen the Secret Radical) in Hungerford Town Hall. Pre-order the book (for £10) along with your ticket (£8) and receive a free copy of My Beautifull Cassandra by Jane Austen. Bring along your book to the event to get it signed. Your ticket includes a glass of wine on the evening. Share
	The Hungerford Bookshop	BookYak Night	22-02-2020	23-02-2020
Address The Hungerford Bookshop, Hungerford, Berkshire, RG17 0NF T: 01488 683480 W: www.hungerfordbookshop.co.uk Start date 22-02-2020 Offer Details Chat about books to friends and meet new people. We love chatting about books, and in fact one of the best parts of our job is when a customer suggests a book to us. It’s also wonderful when you pop back in to tell us how you have found one of our book recommendations. That’s the great thing about books – they start conversation. Join us for a friendly and informal evening in the bookshop where we can all get together to chat about what we have read over Christmas. We’ll have cheese and wine too. Do bring a book or two in with you so you can show others. Offer Terms Tickets are £3. Share
	The Hungerford Bookshop	Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Evans	04-03-2020	05-03-2020
Address The Hungerford Bookshop, Hungerford, Berkshire, RG17 0NF T: 01488 683480 W: www.hungerfordbookshop.co.uk Start date 04-03-2020 Offer Details Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and consciousness. For centuries, we have acted on an intuitive sense that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, in the moment of our great migration away from the rest of nature, more and more scientific evidence is emerging to confirm its place at the heart of our psychological wellbeing. So what happens, asks acclaimed journalist Lucy Jones, as we lose our bond with the natural world-might we also be losing part of ourselves? Delicately observed and rigorously researched, Losing Eden is an enthralling journey through this new research, exploring how and why connecting with the living world can so drastically affect our health. Offer Terms Tickets £8 (includes a glass of wine and £5 off the book). 7:30pm Hungerford (venue tbc). Share