We had a fantastic day of school events with the legendary @patrick_ness for his new book Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody! Chris, Matt and Emily took Patrick on a pretty good tour of Norfolk 😁 thank you to all the participating schools - we now have signed copies in the shop! 🦎📚

Join us at NCBC for half-term Storytime! Next week, on Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th October, our new team member Kate will be reading stories at 11am and 2pm, free to attend for a story and a biscuit! 📚🍪 We look forward to seeing you! 😊

It's 🍂Half-Term🎃 and we are having a 📚SALE 🛍️ Visit us from this week onwards to see some of the lovely books we have put into our Sale section and bag yourself a bargain. With our usual free refreshments and recommendations galore ☕️🍪

Kicking off #NonFictionNovember with a nice little giveaway, courtesy of Nosy Crow 📚 With every copy of A Story of the Seasons, we'll be giving away a free tote bag, as modelled by our new(ish) bookseller, Kate 🤠

We had a spellbinding afternoon with the wonderful @mrjamesmayhew - he live-painted to classical music and raffled off the artwork to our lucky customers! Thank you for battling the storm to visit us 🎶🌧️😊 Otter-Barry Books Bounce Sales and Marketing ❤️📗

Brilliant news! More funding for school libraries is sorely needed.

"Research shows that children who choose to read have better life chances. They are more likely to do well in school, to have better mental health, better paying employment and better lives" Our bookseller Kate has written a blog! norfolkearlyyearsgarden.wordpress.com/blog/ 🍎

We are so thrilled to be National Book Tokens first Bookshop of the Month for 2025! 🥳 Thank you for the lovely hamper, it's helping us get through the last week of January! Come visit us for a good browse, a cuppa and to spend your book tokens 📚

BIG NEWS! We found out this morning that we’re finalists in the #BritishBookAwards!!!! 🥳 💃 Regional and Country winners will be announced on 11th March and if we’re chosen, we’ll make the shortlist for Independent Bookshop of the Year 👀 Wish us luck!!

🚗We are OPEN - Access currently only from the A140, please ignore the road closed sign as the highways work is only being conducted at the very end of the lane. Thank you and we look forward to seeing all of you intrepid explorers! 😅🧐📚

We'll be in Doncaster, supporting this conference with our pop-up bookshop. Always a highlight of our year - we highly recommend coming along!

🗓️ SAVE THE DATE - TUESDAY 15TH APRIL 🗓️ Jack Brock the Shetland pony is coming to visit us, together with his owner, and author of his story - Ali Stearn! We'll post more details closer to the time 🩷

Another Open University Reading for Pleasure Conference complete, this time in Doncaster ✅ Taking our pop-up bookshop to these events is always a joy, for the brilliant authors, teachers, librarians and reading advocates we meet. #OURfPConference Reading for Pleasure 🧶

Great #TheChildren’sBookAward event at #FCBG25 conference with book signing by ⁦Matt Goodfellow⁩ for #TheFinalYear. Thanks to ⁦Norfolk Children's Book Centre⁩ ⁦FCBG⁩ and to Matt Goodfellow! ⁦Sarah Stuffins⁩ ⁦Bounce Sales and Marketing ❤️📗⁩

We are super excited to support University of Cambridge Primary School first reading festival with all of the wonderful authors and illustrators below! We will be bringing our van full of books to you very soon 🚚📚😀

We were devastated to hear of the death of one of our all-time favourite authors Aidan Chambers this week. He was one of our great thinkers about education and developing readers, an exemplary, erudite man and a wonderful speaker. He will be sorely missed. Read more below ⬇️

Last couple of days to celebrate this lovely full-colour graphic novel for younger readers "Amelia Cheeseheart Investigates" for Indie Book of the Month! Keep your eyes peeled for exciting Books Are My Bag Indie Bookshop Week event news which may involve a certain sleuthing mouse..