We are super excited here at the Ullapool Bookshop as our brand new Greetings cards are now arriving daily.
We are pleased to welcome new cards from:
Cath Waters
Paper Rose
Penguin Ink
Art Angels Publishing
Ruth Jackson
Cath Tate cards
and Alex Clark
However many more designs and varieties of cards are immiment, so do pop in when you can to browse our new stock.
Muriel Spark is undoubtedly one of the 20th century’s great writers. Best known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, all of her fiction deserves to be read and re-read. Polygon is republishing all 22 of her novels in attractive hardback editions to mark the one-hundredth anniversary of her birth.
Each of the 22 novels are published in striking and collectable hardback Centenary Editions, carrying a series preface by editor Alan Taylor and an introduction by such well-known writers or critics as Ali Smith, William Boyd, Alexander McCall Smith, Candia McWilliam, Andrew O’Hagan, Joseph Kanon, Zoë Strachan, Allan Massie, Kapka Kassabova, Dan Gunn and Richard Holloway.
1. The Comforters, introduced by Allan Massie
2. Robinson, introduced by Candia McWilliam
3. Memento Mori, introduced by Zoë Strachan
4. The Ballad of Peckham Rye, introduced by Ronald Frame
5. The Bachelors, introduced by James Campbell
6. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, introduced by Alan Taylor
7. The Girls of Slender Means, introduced by Rosemary Goring
8. The Mandelbaum Gate, introduced by Gabriel Josipovici
9. The Public Image, introduced by Lucy Ellman
10. The Driver’s Seat, introduced by Andrew O’Hagan
11. Not to Disturb, introduced by Dan Gunn
12. The Hothouse by the East River, introduced by Ian Rankin
13. The Abbess of Crewe, introduced by Ali Smith
14. The Takeover, introduced by Brian Morton
15. Territorial Rights, introduced by Kapka Kassabova
16. Loitering with Intent, introduced by Joseph Kanon
17. The Only Problem, introduced by Richard Holloway
18. A Far Cry from Kensington, introduced by William Boyd
19. Symposium, introduced by Alexander McCall Smith
20. Reality and Dreams, introduced by Kirsty Gunn
21. Aiding and Abetting, introduced by Louise Welsh
22. The Finishing School, introduced by Jackie Kay
New local title now in stock at Ullapool Bookshop
The Drowned and the Saved: When War came to the Hebrides by Les Wilson
https://www.birlinn.co.uk/Drowned-and-the-Saved-The.html
£9.99
Here at the Ullapool Bookshop we have begun the New Year with some exciting new developm
ents in the shop. In our children’s section we have replaced the display perspex shelving with beautiful wood to improve the display areas and I hope you think it looks much tidier and easier to find books too.
In the main area of the shop we also have a whole brand new section: Ullapool Bookshop recommends…..
In this totally brand new area, we have four new shelves each displaying some of our currently recommended books. This will change weekly and monthly as the books change too and we are very excited about this new development for the Bookshop. In our current Ullapool Bookshop recommends area, we have Muriel Spark at 100, our best-selling Paperback fiction book of 2017: Blackhouse by Peter May, as well as a Ullapool Bookshop recommends Book review by Katharine of ‘Orison of a Curlew’ by Horatio Clare and a display of the new Macmillan Collector’s Library series in hardbacks ranging from Sherlock Holmes, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Pinocchio and also Best Fairy Tales.
Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd
In the 1930s, the writer and poet, Nan Shepherd was one of North-East Scotland’s best known literati. Three novels, ‘The Quarry Wood’, ‘The Weatherhouse’ and ‘A Pass in the Grampians’ and a volume of poetry, ‘In The Cairngorms’, published between 1928 and 1934 while she was still only in her 30s, established her reputation as one of the most highly respected members of the Scottish modernist movement.
This new Biography has just been published and is on sale now.
Author books now on display at Ullapool Bookshop all ready for Loopallu. Open 9am-5.30pm and 10-5pm on Sunday.
Opening Hours:
The Ullapool Bookshop has almost reached the end of our evening Opening for this year. From this Thursday (21st Sept) our Opening Hours will change to be:
Monday – Saturday 9am – 5.30pm
and
Sunday 10am-5pm…
These will be our Opening Hours all Autumn and Winter, 7 days a week.
Our colleagues at The Captain’s Cabin-Ullapool have now finished opening in the evenings for this summer and their normal hours are now Monday – Saturday 9am-6pm and Sunday from 10am-5pm. However, here at Ullapool Bookshop we still have 2 more weeks of being open every evening for you (except Sundays). So come in and browse, discuss, choose and purchase every day from 9am-9pm and Sunday from 10am-5pm.
Happy reading!
We have a large number of beautiful coffee table style books in stock at the moment. However, this one has really caught our eye: ‘Highland Retreats’ by Mary Miers (The Architecture and and Interiors of Scotland’s Romantic North.’
Featuring breathtaking photographs of some of Scotland s most remarkable and little-known houses, this book tells the story of how incomers adopted the North of Scotland as a recreational paradise and left an astonishing legacy of architecture and decoration inspired by the romanticized image of the Highlands. Known as shooting lodges because they were designed principally to accommodate the parties of guests that flocked north for the annual sporting season, these houses range from Picturesque cottages ornées and Scotch Baronial castles to Arts and Crafts mansions and modern eco-lodges. A good number survive little altered in their original state, and some are still owned by descendants of the families that built them. Images from the famous Country Life Picture Library and specially commissioned photographs evoke the dramatic settings and arresting detail of these houses, making the book as appealing to decorators and architectural historians as it is to travelers and sportsmen.