“A book is a dream you hold in your hands.” – Neil Gaiman
“A book is a dream you hold in your hands.” – Neil Gaiman
We’re delighted to bring you the new edition of Booktime Magazine, free and available to read online and free paper copies will shortly be available in selected outlets locally. Titles listed in the magazine can be ordered through our online book shop and you can either arrange for home delivery or, if you email us, …
Taking the opportunity to enjoy the sunshine, we wandered down into the wood behind the Book Warren to see the emergence of spring flowers. Our snowdrops have been glorious and now the daffodils are rapidly forming their buds. The dark green leaves of bluebells are pushing through the leaf litter, tiny Celandine leaves precede their …
“The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.” Robert Burns To everyone celebrating Burn’s Night have a great evening. We took a wander through the Book Warren woodland and spotted some early snowdrops gently nodding their heads in the low winter light. As one of the first …
Brrrrrrrrr, it’s chilly down in the wood but not as cold as it was a few weeks back. This week we’ve seen two Roe deer running through the trees along with a brown hare and we’re having fairly frequent visits from our two red Squirrels Tip and Flash. Tip is one our our two squirrel …
One of the many joys of living here is the sheer variety of wildlife we see every day. Last week these were just some of the amazing birds and mammals that paid us a visit. Our Great Spotted Woodpecker visitors are a pair that had at least one fledging last year. Rebecca the Woodpecker is …
Booktime Magazine is free and exclusive to Independent Bookshops across the UK however if you can’t get to one, here is an online version for you to enjoy. We have also uploaded these titles so that they are available to purchase from our online bookshop There are some amazing new authors, great non-fiction and there’s …
In the Hundred Acre Wood Piglet is gathering everyone together because this year Winnie the Pooh is 99! And as we all know Why only yesterday Piglet overhead him saying “Nearly eleven o’clock, You’re just in time for a little smackerel of something.” Celebrate Winnie the Pooh Day with us on 18th January by reading …
Our top Fiction Picks to get excited about New Year FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Birnam Wood is on the move… Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the …
5th January 2023 Living as we do surrounded by deciduous woodland of Oak, Elder, Hazel, Birch and White Willow as well as other tree and shrubs species, we are incredibly lucky to see the winter phenomenon known as Hair Ice (also known as Ice Wool or Frost Beard). This is an unusual and rare ice …
A New Year and we’re looking forward to bringing you some fabulous book news, reviews as well as our new blog documenting the changing seasons both here at Book Warren HQ as well as our surrounding area; more of that to follow soon. We’ll also continue with our regular features including Indie Fiction Book of …