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We like to think that The Sandwich Bookshop is a great place to browse. Drop in and you will discover our broad range of new titles across an array of categories and subjects, including the best of the new fiction titles in hardback and paperback. For those titles we don't have in stock we do provide a full ordering service, with over 300,000 titles available within 24 hours from point of order.

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Sandwich Local History Society titles are now available from The Sandwich Bookshop. As soon as we get a mo they will be available via this website but in the meantime drop by the shop, call us, or send us an email with your requirements.

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The Sandwich Bookshop Best of Deal and Sandwich

Proud winners of the 2008 Best of Deal and Dover Retailer Award - a heartfelt thank you to our loyal customers!

Shortlisted for Independent Bookshop of the Year, South, 2009

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Books in the Media

A selection of titles featured in the popular media over the coming days.

Books in the Media Archive (January - April 2009)

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Brooklyn Toibin, Colm Hardback A novel of great love and loss, and of the heartbreaking choice between personal freedom and duty.
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The Outlander Adamson, Gil Paperback
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The Blue Hour Pizzichini, Lilian Hardback A dazzling new portrait of Jean Rhys, the troubled, incandescent author of Wide Sargasso Sea. A R...
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Radio Head Osborne, John Paperback The hilarious and revealing account of the author's month as a Radio Head: listening to a differe...
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20 Fragments Of A Ravenous Youth Guo, Xiaolu Paperback Fenfang has travelled 1800 miles to seek her fortune in Beijing, and has no desire to return to t...
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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers Guo, Xiaolu Paperback Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learni...
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The Cinder Path Motion, Andrew Hardback Offers a variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer oth...
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Day Kennedy, A.L. Paperback Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lan...
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Tressell, Robert; Hunt, Tristram Paperback The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one...
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My Man Jeeves Wodehouse, P.G. Hardback Offers an insight into the genesis of comic literature's most celebrated double-act. All the stor...
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Is He Dead? Twain, Mark; Fishkin, Shelley Fisher (Editor); Moser, Barry (Illustrator) Paperback A three-act play by Mark Twain, one of America's most important and well-loved writers. It interm...
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The Devil's Paintbrush Arnott, Jake Hardback A stunning historical novel by the bestselling author of THE LONG FIRM.
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Parky Parkinson, Michael Paperback The bestselling and long-awaited autobiography of a national icon.
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The Whitsun Weddings Larkin, Philip Paperback A collection of poems from a "tenderly observant" poet who writes about what all of us can unders...
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"The Grapes Of Wrath" Steinbeck, John Paperback Classic / American English (Available April 2008) During the Great Depression in the United State...
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The Complete Cosmicomics Calvino, Italo; Parks, Tim; Creagh, Patrick; Mclaughlin, Martin; Weaver, William (Translator) Hardback A collection of stories about the evolution of the universe.
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Our Ancestors Calvino, Italo Paperback A triptych of novels in one volume. Viscount Medardo is bisected by a cannonball on the plains of...
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The Hermit In Paris Calvino, Italo; Mclaughlin, Martin (Translator) Paperback A volume of posthumously collected personal writings of the author, from the early 1950s to his l...
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The Chrysalids Wyndham, John Paperback David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blas...
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The First Person And Other Stories Smith, Ali Paperback A collection of stories that unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday.
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Welcome

UPCOMING EVENTS

Our summer author programme for 2009 gets underway with our first "Literary Lunch" event with special guest Lord (Paddy) Ashdown on 18th June at The Bell Hotel. Lord Ashdown's autobiography, entitled 'A Fortunate Life', has just been published and will be available at the lunch event. Of course, Lord Ashdown will be signing copies on the day. Tickets are limited and are available for £20 from the bookshop. A two course lunch with coffee is included as well as a £4 discount on the price of 'A Fortunate Life' if bought at the event.

Paddy Ashdown 'A Fortunate Life'

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We were proud to host recently Jane Gardam's party to celebrate the OBE she received in the January Honours List

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Martina Cole visits Sandwich

Martina Cole

Many thanks to all who came along for what was a most entertaining evening with Martina Cole at the Bell Hotel.

Click here for a selection of Martina's books available online

Meg Cabot visits Dover Girls Grammar School

Author of The Princess Diaries and other wonderful fiction for girls, Meg Cabot, was our guest for a private event at Dover Girls Grammar School on Friday 19th September. Meg delighted the students with a 40 minute talk and question & answer session prior to formally opening the school's new library. Luckily we have captured the entire talk on a four part video, the links to which are here (for video links).

Click here for a list of Meg's books with some special discounts available to order or from the shop.

Above, Meg Cabot and Louise Vance, owner of The Sandwich Bookshop, in the newly opened DGGS library.

Alison Weir visits Sandwich

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Many thanks to everyone who came to the Guildhall to meet historian and author Alison Weir on 6th August. What a great evening! We hope you were as thrilled as we were by Alison's talk and signing session. For those that missed it, we are going to release a video of the talk in installments on YouTube. Click here to see the first installement or here to see the complete list of videos.

Click here for Alison Weir's books available from The Sandwich Bookshop

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Oz Clarke and Louise Vance, November 2007. For upcoming author events check in the shop or subscribe to our regular email updates - contact us at info@sandwichbookshop.com

Available books by Oz Clarke

Sonia Overall at The Sandwich Bookshop

A great friend of ours, local Sandwich resident and accomplished author, Sonia Overall, can very often be spotted at 60 King Street where her new paperback, The Realm Of Shells is now on sale for £7.99. (If you were to ask Sonia nicely, we feel sure she'd be happy to sign a copy for you.)

Alternatively The Realm of Shells is available on-line now by clicking the image below:

Sonia's previous book, A Likeness, is of course also available from The Sandwich Bookshop.

Sandwich Photographic Memories

Out now! Our exclusive (and limited!) Sandwich - Photographic Memories, written by Paul Harris and including a wealth of wonderful images of Sandwich and the local environs from the late 1800s to the 1950s. Available from The Sandwich Bookshop only. Order yours by clicking here: Sandwich Photographic Memories

How to Find Us

We are located in the old Roses Supply Stores building in deepest Sandwich. The address is:

60 King Street

Sandwich

Kent

CT13 9BL

Tel: +44-(0)1304 620404

Fax: +44-(0)1304 621888

60 King Street, Sandwich, Kent

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Opening Hours

Our shop is open from Monday to Saturday 9:30am to 5:00pm-ish (please call ahead for bank holiday opening).

However, you can order from this website 24hrs a day, 365 days of the year - which is pretty much always!

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