The Bill and other exciting news.

Exciting times in the shop at the moment. Firstly we have added five new bookcases upstairs, this area is not open for general book browsing at the moment though if a customer asks for certain types of book, they can be escorted by a member of staff to this area. It is hoped that now we have extra shelving plus the hope that we will get even more shelving in the future, this area will once again be open for general browsing during shop opening hours.

The addition of the bookcases we've added so far means that we can now display all our poetry and plays for easy searching if we get requests plus of course, customers can ask to view the poetry and plays if they cannot find what they are looking for downstairs.

On the office side of the upstairs area, these bookcases have meant that we can file all our literary works, again for ease of search plus it means our most popular literary sections downstairs are easier to restock as existing stock is sold.

On the donations front, this week we have had some exciting donations that will require specialist valuation, more on this when they are valued and put on sale.

In the shop itself.

Our window display of Military History has gone really well, exceeding all expectations therefore we still have a partial window display as it is still generating much interest and sales. In the other half of the main window we now have Local History books on display. This display only went up last week and already it has generated a lot of interest and sales from this have been very good.

In our display cabinets we have some fine Norwich City FC printed memorabilia with an official 'Scrapbook' being the most interesting.

We also have a script from the ITV series 'The Bill' on display in the cabinet. This is signed by several members of the cast along with photos of the cast and the official 'The Bill' bible. I don't imagine this will stay in the shop very long as this is a popular TV series with many fans that would like to own this piece of TV memorabilia.

Finally:

The shop is gearing up for the Book-Fest that Oxfam hold every year. This year we will be having a book-swap in the shop. This means that you can bring in one (or more) of your books and swap it for one (or more) of our specially stickered books without charge! More details as we approach the Book-Fest.

Easter Weekend and Beyond

Easter is now rushing upon us and if you have not already bought the Easter Eggs for your loved ones, now is definitely the time to be nipping into the shop to buy yours before they all disappear. We have a fantastic range of Fairtrade Chocolate Easter Eggs and Mini Eggs, our stocks of these are selling fast so visit soon to avoid disappointment.

St Georges Day will soon be with us as well, in fact it is Easter Saturday this year. As mentioned earlier we will have a stall at the St Georges Day Book Festival at St Gregorys Church in Pottergate. Various volunteers will be found there throughout the day to offer advice on what the bookshop has to offer as well as any volunteer opportunities that may be available in the shop. Of course we will have a small selection of our stock on sale at the Book Festival. Please drop by and say hello if you in the Pottergate area this Saturday.

The shop itself has seen something of a small makeover. We now have extra shelving for our Arts collection of books. Included in the extra shelving are more Television and Cinema books along with extra Media and Media Studies, Dramatic Arts and Music books. There is also extra space for our Fine Arts Books with more books to browse and of course purchase.

Over the coming weeks our window display will also be having a makeover. We currently still have a fine collection of Graphic Art Novels in the window but this will soon be making way for something to get you writing to your friends and family as we will be displaying all our new lines of Stationary and any books that are related to this subject.

We are also very excited to say that we will also be having a big display of Military History soon coming to the shop. We recently had a wonderful donation of Military History books and once we have collated all the stock we will be endeavouring to display this collection in the best light possible.

Please drop in and see us any time you are in Bedford Street, you will be assured of a warm welcome and hopefully just the book you are looking for.