Greetings cards 2018

Katharine Douglas

We have recently added literally hundreds of new Greetings cards to the Ullapool Bookshop. New and returning suppliers this year include Flying Teaspoons, Wishart, Cath Waters, Paper Rose, Paperlink, Wraptious, Emma Ball, Pink Pig, Dry Red Press, Caroline Gardner and so many more.

2019 Calendars

Katharine Douglas

Yes you read the title of this post correctly! Our very first 2019 Calendars have begun to arrive. The very first ones are the lovely Stock Scotland (Hugh Webster) mini desk Calendars, with 4 new designs this year: Kate Philips, Wester Ross, Far North West and brand new for 2019: The 500 miles desk calendar. Each are very reasonably priced at £4.35.

We also have just received our delivery of 2019 Scotland’s Artists showcasing fine Scottish Artists watercolours and oil paintings. These calendars are £6.99 each and are on sale now.

New Greetings cards

Katharine Douglas

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 Centenary Editions

Katharine Douglas

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 children’s sections and Ullapool Bookshop recommends

Katharine Douglas

Here at the Ullapool Bookshop we have begun the New Year with some exciting new developments 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: Biography of Nan Shepherd

Katharine Douglas

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.