Let us take you to the world of your imagination...
...where anything is possible
Welcoming people into our business and looking after them is like holding your own birthday party every day - fun, exciting and magic! We love to inspire, entertain, even surprise you.
Friendships grow through a love of books and shared reading experiences.
Our beautiful little bookshop is located in a listed building on the famous cobbled hill in the village of Haworth, close to the Parsonage Museum where the Brontё sisters wrote their masterpieces.
It’s totally Diane’s shop …
Her charisma, passion, enthusiasm, warmth, taste and drive permeate all elements of the business. Everything we do reflects this – whether it’s the bright and quirky look and feel of the shop, the curation designed to stimulate and inspire, the welcoming way we interact with all customers or even our upbeat social media presence, it’s Diane through and through.
Products to help you be your best self
Diane personally selects all our fabulous books based on their ability to thrill, inform, entertain and fulfil. We focus on fiction and non-fiction by and about strong women, inclusivity and conservation on both the adult and children’s side of the store. We pride ourselves in being the first to stock the best new titles for you to add to your collection.
Whenever we can, we get hold of special editions, too – signed and with sprayed edges if possible. DO choose a book by its cover!
She also puts together what we’ve been told is one of the UK’s best ranges of the oh-so-cute and collectable Maileg Mice and selects our radical range of feminist T-shirts, too.
Meet the authors …
If you’d like to pick the brains of some of the world’s best authors, have a look at our events page. Whether Crime, History, Fantasy, Humour or the Environment, there are lots to choose from, the vibe is informal and friendly and you can even join by Zoom, if you can’t make it in person.
Forthcoming Events
An evening with Jody Cooksley - The Surgeon's House. 7PM 23JUL25 Wave of Nostalgia or Zoom
£5.00
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Meet extreme rambler Ursula Martin - 'One Woman walks Europe' 2PM 24JUL25 Wave of Nostalgia FREE event.
£0.00
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An evening with Jenn Ashworth - The Parallel Path. 7PM 24JUL25 Wave of Nostalgia or Zoom
£5.00
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“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.”
Anonymous
BOOK OF THE MONTH
The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce
SIGNED COPY / SPRAYED EDGE / FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINT
Family is everything, even when it falls apart. Discover the brand-new novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author.
There is a heatwave across Europe. Goose and his three sisters gather at the family's house by Lake Orta in Piedmont, Italy. Their father, a famous artist, has recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to finish his masterpiece.
Now he is dead and there is no sign of a painting.
This book comes with a matching free tote bag.
The Eights by Joanna Miller
Diane's book of the month
The North Road by Rob Cowen: signed copy, first edition & first print
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