‘What are we going to do today?’ Pre-empt the question! Lots of ideas in these books and lots of other activity books too! Get ready, get set, get busy! @usborne_books @lornascobie @scholastic_uk
I’m delighted to be part of this wonderful project from @hachettekids. It’s a collection of over 100 letters about life during the year everything changed. Inspired by Natasha Kaplinsky and her children, Arlo and Kika, the publisher profi
Woohoo! 🎂🎉😊 We’re 12 today! Hip hip hooray! When I opened the shop I crossed my fingers 🤞 and signed a 3 year lease. I knew it I was a bit mad but I’d always wanted to do it and sometimes you just need to take a leap of faith. Thanks
All around Ripon, Book Monkeys are getting their suitcases ready to travel to the wonderful world of Zoom Book Club! This month we have been readingThe Strangeworlds Travel Agency by @ldlapinski and we cannot wait to talk about it ! 🧳✨ #bookmonkeysb
Great to meet @philearle as he tore around Yorkshire signing copies of his fabulous new book, ‘When the Sky Falls’. We now have signed copies and adorable little pin badges! Thanks Phil and thanks @phoebekateed for the fabulous gorilla in
There are noisy books and quiet ones. Ones with bluster and bunting, others with no fuss at all. I’ve read some excellent noisy books this year, ones which will sell in piles. And now I’ve read this gentle beauty. It’s ostensibly ab
Oh my! Circus of Wonders is simply gorgeous! The sprayed edges are amazing - we’ll have to put it on the shelf the wrong way round! We have signed copies! Buy it, read it, frame it! @elizabethmacneal @panmacmillan @panmacpinboard @panmacnorth #
It’s hailing outside, but this pile of beauties just arrived to make us smile 😁. It’s a celebration (we all need one) of our wonderful planet and it’s an absolute joy! It was blackbird’s idea apparently. Thank you blackbird!
A table of treats - ready for Saturday customers! There are so many fantastic new books out at the moment! #choosebookshops @booksaremybag
Celebrating the @jhalakprize shortlist!
SO good to be back! We had wonderful customers buying beautiful books and an unexpected delivery of glorious daffs which are now dotted around the shop! Thankyou Ripon for your mighty Welcome Back! @secretgardenripon #ripon #choosebookshops
The shop has never been cleaner and we have never been keener to welcome you back! See you Monday from 9am!
So excited to chat with @writerclairefuller tomorrow evening at our virtual event. Unsettled Ground is long listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and is a really great exploration of a family in crisis, dealing with the revelation of deep se
Happy Publication Day to @writerclairefuller! Unsettled Ground is out today with it’s glorious jacket and gripping story of life on the fringes of society. A moving portrait of a family struggling to come to survive grief, betrayal and a new tr
This week our Book Monkeys will be discussing The Wild Way Home by @sophie.kirtley . What an excellent book this is! It has pace, humour, excitement, wolves and time travel, all wrapped up in a beautiful jacket! I mean, what more could you want? @bl
Leaving this here! Thanks @harryedwards3001 I mean it has been a bother but I’m very glad I bothered.
It’s sunny and we’re feeling Slightly Foxed - how about you? @foxedquarterly #spring
Final touches being made to our World Book Day dinosaur robot . He’s going to sit on our shop doorstep and munch WBD vouchers all day on Thursday 4th March. Just got to perfect the jaw mechanism! A few more bolts and a little elbow grease. @w