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7 Lavant Street
Petersfield, Hampshire
(01730) 261199
Mon - Sat 9:00 - 5:30
One Tree Books is an independent bookshop established in 1994. Staffed by experienced booksellers who love books, we aim to offer the highest quality of service.  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.
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This Christmas there are lots of exciting books for all the family – sports books, history books, detective stories, cookbooks, funny books, celebrity biographies, good stories, wild books, books for optimists and books for pessimists, and a refreshing number of locally produced books.
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane will appeal to those who love the great outdoors as will John Owen Smith’s Walks from the Railway detailing lots of trips around our local stations. As always there are many sporting biographies from Olympic gold winning Bradley Wiggins to When Sol went to lift the FA cup for Pompey supporters.
Andrew Marr’s very readable A History of Modern Britain has received a lot of plaudits and Barack Obama’s story of how he got to be where he is today, The Audacity of Hope, is particularly relevant at the moment.
Some highlights from a good year for fiction include the Booker Prize winner The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, the journalist Patrick Bishop’s cracking WWII story A Good War, Ken Follet’s sequel to Pillars of the Earth called World Without End, and the multi million selling European mystery of the year,The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. The evergreen PD James has written another intelligent detective story called The Private Patient. Two local authors have produced popular books this year; Jim Morley has written Emily’s Hour, and Ginny Vere Nicoll has penned The Smile. For the literary expert there is Sonnets, Bonnets and Bennetts a quiz book to test the grey cells.
Dawn French (Dear Fatty), Michael Parkinson (Parky) and Julie Walters (That’s Another Story) have revealed all in their biographies as has Clarissa Dickson Wright whose candid story is called Spilling The Beans.
There are a few books that every year are guaranteed to be gratefully received. The Good Pub Guide 2009, the Private Eye Annual and the perfect stocking filler the Best of Matt the king of newspaper cartoonists. Other funnies this year are Harry Hill’s Whopping Great Joke Book and, collected by his children after his sad death this year, The Essential Alan Coren. The Optimist’s Handbook becomes The Pessimist’s Handbook when you turn it over, depending on whether your glass is half full or not.
It has been another bumper year for Children’s books led by Petersfield’s bestselling writer Michelle Magorian who has received great reviews for her latest book Just Henry. Other books sure to be popular are the recently filmed The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne, Malorie Blackman’s Double Cross part of her Noughts and Crosses series and Terry Pratchett’s Nation. The new star on the block Stephenie Meyer has added to her Twilight series with Breaking Dawn. For slightly younger readers, Kaspar by Michael Morpurgo will be popular as will Brisingr the third in the Eragon series by Christopher Paolini and Outcast by Michelle Paver. Especially good for boys is the Robert Muchamore Cherub series of books the latest of which is called The Sleepwalker, and Bill Bryson’s adaptation of his bestseller retitled and slimmed down as A Really Short History of Nearly Everything, and The SAS Survival guide in a handy Khaki zipped edition with a compass!
2008 is the 50th anniversary of the first publication of A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond and a special edition with a CD read by Stephen Fry is available as well as some new stories. From the team that wrote the Gruffalo, Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson, comes the delightful The Stick Man. Finally for those who like their books to make noises and to come equipped with a small model vehicle the book of the year must be The Noisy Wind-up Fire Engine which does exactly what it says on the tin.
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