We are delighted to welcome best-selling author and Yorkshire Vet Julian Norton to our shop!

Julian will be here between 11am-1pm to sign copies of his latest book ‘A Yorkshire Vet: Back to Herriot Country’

This is a drop in event; no need to book.

Enjoy a plant care talk by Courtyard Planters while sipping decaf coffee. The event includes a demonstration, Q&A, and stalls to browse.An evening of coffee and house plants

Enjoy a plant care talk by Courtyard Planters while sipping decaf coffee. The event includes a demonstration, Q&A, and stalls to browse.

Join us for an autumn evening of plants and coffee at The Bookshop on The Square, Otley. Book you place on one of two sessions with a talk about house plant care from Courtyard Planters, a demonstration and followed by a Q&A, all while you sip (decaf) coffee from Rounton Coffee Roasters. There will also be a chance to browse plants, books, ceramics, prints and plant pots.

The two talks will take place at 6:15pm and 7:45pm.

6:15pm – doors open for ticket holders at 5:45 pm. Finish at 7:00pm. There will be a chance to browse stalls before and after the talk.

7:45pm – doors open for ticket holders at 7:15pm. Finish at 8:30pm. There will be a chance to browse stalls before and after the talk.

The Bookshop is turning 5! To celebrate this occasion we are having a party upstairs at the shop and are inviting you to join.

Expect drinks and nibbles and lots of chat about books and more!

This is a drop-in event so come along between 4pm-7pm.

Best-selling children's author and illustrator will be here to decorate our window and perform a special story time reading of her new book 'The Angel and the Mermaid'. Come along at 1:30pm to see our window and listen to this beautiful story read by the author herself!
This event is perfect for all your little ones and above!

This is a booking for a FREE ticket to the event as well as a pre-order for Daniel's upcoming release 'The Devil's Smile' which will be ready for you to collect on the evening. There will also be an opportunity to get your copy signed by Daniel himself.

About The Devil's Smile
October, 1995. Adrian Brown's second year at Leeds University is a blur of throbbing bass line and neon-lit nights out. However, a violent encounter with a man he met in a basement club has the power to sober him up.
Sheila Hargreaves, who has grown fond of Adrian following their brush with the infamous Lollipop Man, has written a book about the murders and is busy with a new TV show, Yorkshire CrimeTime. And then her erratic co-presenter Tony Tranter goes missing, and his body turns up riddled with stab wounds. Could his death be linked to recent violent attacks on men?
Moving from dark city corners to the glare of the TV studio lights, Sheila and Adrian find themselves on the trail of another killer.

Join us for an evening with best-selling author Rob Cowen to chat about his latest release 'The North Road'. In this genre-defying and profoundly personal book, Cowen follows this ghost road from beginning to end on a journey through history, place, people and time. Weaving his own histories and memories with the layered landscapes he moves through, this is the story of an age, of coming to terms with time past and time passing, and the roads that lead us to where we find ourselves.

Rob Cowen is an award-winning writer, hailed as one of the UK's most original voices on nature, place and people. His first book Skimming Stones, won the Roger Deakin award from the Society of Authors. His second book, Common Ground was shortlisted for the Portico, Richard Jeffries Society and Wainwright Prizes and voted one of the nation's favourite nature books of all time in a BBC poll. His follow-up, The Heeding, was the best-selling debut book of poetry in 2021. His latest book, The North Road was a Radio 4 Book Of The Week. Rob was previously a journalist writing on nature and travel and he has contributed to the New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent and written radio programmes for the BBC.