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7 Lavant Street
Petersfield, Hampshire
(01730) 261199
Mon - Sat 9:00 - 5:30
Whether you want to visit our newly opened first floor for classical music, travel and reference, relax with a cappucino in the One Tree cafe on the ground floor or just browse our comprehensive range of fiction, we look forward to your visit. We are able to order any British book in print and are happy to send it anywhere in the world. We also stock a broad range of greetings cards, wrapping paper, stationery, jigsaws and board games, both traditional and new. To find out more about gift ideas phone, fax, or email us. Click on CONTACT US for all of our contact details. For some tips on the best new fiction, click on Tim's list, but best of all come and see the shop in Lavant Street Petersfield.
 
For something more literary, 'The Story of a Marriage' by Andrew Sean Greer is perfect. Set in 1950's San Francisco, this is an elegantly written story of the traumas of war, race and confused identity. By way of contrast 'The Good Plain Cook' by Bethan Roberts, set not 2 miles from Petersfield on the Hants/Sussex border in 1936, is full of class tension and human folly. Prize winners 'White Tiger' by Aravind Adiga (Booker) and 'The Secret Scripture' by Sebastian Barry (Costa), both now in paperback, are quite different as well, though both tell stories of hardship. It is the Irishman who writes the more beautiful prose and the Indian with the neater conclusion. |
