Unwanted (Gifts) books wanted for good homes.
We want your unwanted Christmas books for cash / credit! Especially needed – Brand new titles, Legends and Myths, Graphic novels, manga and Young Adult (Modern)
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Bestsellers 2023
Our yearly bestseller list for 2023 Top 10 books Authors (Crime Thrillers) Not including authors listed above Bestselling Authors (Fiction – Not crime thrillers) Best 5 Selling Authors – Romance / sagas Best 5 Selling Authors – Non Fiction Best selling specialised sub- genres Please note – this list is in no way definitive or…
Season’s Greetings and thanks.
Season’s greetings from Mrs Lofthouse’s Emporium and thanks to all the customers who have bought ,sold and donated books!!! Special mention for all the work to help us with the new premises : Amy Arnold (Pinkney Grunwells) A H Parcel and son Electrical Colin Hitchock (Builders) Andy Whitelaw joinery Howard Long (Joinery) Our staff –…
New Shop – more space, more books.
Dear Reader. We are happy to announce that we have moved into our new premises. (Next door to the old shop, 4 Queen St. formely Bettamotoring Apologies for not updating the website / Social media sooner but we have been super busy and it is still a work in progess!! New features: More room. Improved…
New Scarborough Crime Fiction
We are happy to now have in stock , local author Kate Evans’ latest novel in the Donna Morris series of books, No Justice, a police procedural set in Scarborough. Rape and organised crime sully even the pretty streets of the small Yorkshire town DC Donna Morris is beginning to think of as home. The…
URGENT – Charities / groups in need wanted !! Get in touch
We currently have large amounts of books available to donate to your charity / support group. We presently work in conjunction with high street retail charities donating large amounts of books, but also can collect books for collection or even delivery to non-high street charities. We can source books by genre including: Cookbooks, gardening, postivity…
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Collaboration with ethical and exciting online bookstore.
We are happy to announce our collaboration with bookshop.org and have our own bespoke bookstore within their wonderful website. To sum up in their own words: Bookshop.org is an online bookshop with a mission to financially support local, independent bookshops. We believe that bookshops are essential to a healthy culture. They are where authors can…
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Grand Designs
We are currently working on our new shop bookshop unit and hoping to be open early -mid summer. We just don’t know which year 🙂 (just kidding we are hoping for 2023) The new bookshop retail unit has needed a lot of drying out, and also some work to create a dry store room for…
Scarborough and District Books
We have a large selection of Scarborough / Whitby and surrounding villages books in our Scarborough based bookshop, some rare and more mainstream, and are always looking to buy – highlights include (Not always in stock though 🙂 Hinderwells 1798 / 3rd edition Huttons 1802 Tour Jack Binns History of Scarborough Scarborough At War
Warhammer 40k
Currently stocking a large selection of Warhammer 40k novels, white dwarfs magazines and other related items instore, which some of the rarer pieces online. Get in quickly as these do not stay on the shelves for very long!