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We like to think that The Sandwich Bookshop is a great place to browse. Drop in and you will discover our broad range of new titles across an array of categories and subjects, including the best of the new fiction titles in hardback and paperback. For those titles we don't have in stock we do provide a full ordering service, with over 300,000 titles available within 24 hours from point of order.

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Sandwich Local History Society titles are now available from The Sandwich Bookshop. As soon as we get a mo they will be available via this website but in the meantime drop by the shop, call us, or send us an email with your requirements.



              

The Sandwich Bookshop    Best of Deal and Sandwich            

Proud winners of the 2008 Best of Deal and Sandwich Retailer Award - a heartfelt thank you to our loyal customers!


We ship anywhere in the world. Alternatively, you can pick up your orders from the shop and save the P&P!


Don't miss Julian Fellowes in Sandwich this coming Tuesday 18th November!!


Books in the Media

A selection of titles featured in the popular media over the coming days.


James, P.D.
Paperback

Features three of P D James' best-selling Adam Dalgliesh mysteries: "A Taste for Death", "Devices...

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24 - 48 Hours
£14.99

Rubenhold, Hallie
Hardback

In February 1782, England opened their newspapers to read the details of Sir Richard Worsley vs G...

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24 - 48 Hours
£25.00

Bostridge, Mark
Hardback

The soldier's saviour, the standard-bearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer - and ...

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24 - 48 Hours
£25.00

Hines, Barry
Paperback

Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a disillusioned teenager growing up in a small York...

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24 - 48 Hours
£7.99

Sebald, W.G.
Paperback

A work of imaginative literature, this fictional record of a journey on foot through coastal East...

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24 - 48 Hours
£7.99

Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda
Paperback

A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented b...

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24 - 48 Hours
£7.99

Marnham, Patrick
Paperback

Mary Wesley famously began writing at the age of 70. Her ten best-selling novels won her thousand...

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24 - 48 Hours
£8.99

Koestler, Arthur
Paperback

N S Rubashov, an old guard Communist, falls victim to an unnamed government. This novel traces hi...

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24 - 48 Hours
£7.99

Dyer, Geoff
Paperback

When he became interested in literature at grammar school, it was D.H. Lawrence who fired Geoff D...

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Special Order
£7.99

Mason, Daniel
Paperback

It is 1886 and piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office - he must l...

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24 - 48 Hours
£7.99

Morrison, Toni
Hardback

In the 1680s, the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and c...

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24 - 48 Hours
£15.99

Mackay, Shena
Hardback

Contains thirteen new stories, and a selection of twenty-three more from the collections of the a...

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24 - 48 Hours
£17.99

Hasek, Jaroslav; Parrott, Cecil (Translator); Lada, Josef (Illustrator)
Paperback

Hasek's most important work was centered around the deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier...

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24 - 48 Hours
£10.99

Wullschlager, Jackie
Hardback

Book of the Week - Monday 27 - Friday 31 October

Presents an account of Chagall, the man and the artist - and of a life as intense, theatrical and...

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24 - 48 Hours
£30.00

Pownall, David
Paperback

Book at Bedtime - Monday 27 - Friday 7 November

Presents the story of Edward Prince of Wales, and his passionate and defiant relationship with th...

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24 - 48 Hours
£11.99

Cornwell, Bernard
Hardback

Open Book - 26th October - Mariella talks to the novelist Bernard Cornwell, whose latest book is a vivid retelling of the events leading up to the battle of Agincourt. He explains how growing up in a bizarre religious cult fostered a love of history, a...

An extraordinary and dramatic depiction of the legendary battle of Agincourt from the number one ...

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24 - 48 Hours
£18.99

Shute, Nevil
Other Type

Open Book - 26th October - Mariella talks to the Australian writer Gideon Haigh about Nevil Shute's masterpiece On the Beach. Published in 1957, it's a chilling portrait of the world a year after a major nuclear war has devastated the planet. Gideon ex...

Contemporary / British English (Available May 2008) Nuclear war has destroyed all life in thenort...

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24 - 48 Hours
£6.38

Flaubert, Gustave; Parmee, Douglas (Editor)
Paperback

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Set against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young la...

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24 - 48 Hours
£9.99

Holmes, Richard
Hardback

Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,,Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,,Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,,Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,,Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,,Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,,Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,,Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,

Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific fermen...

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24 - 48 Hours
£25.00
 
Welcome

UPCOMING EVENTS


Tuesday 18th November

Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes Past Imperfect.jpg

7pm  at  The Bell Hotel, Sandwich 

Julian will be promoting his latest novel Past Imperfect

View Julian's profile on the BBC Dorset website

Tickets £5 from the bookshop


Friday 28th November

Late Night Shopping at The Sandwich Bookshop

get your Christmas shopping underway & join us for mulled wine and mince pies in the bookshop 


Martina Cole visits Sandwich

Martina Cole

Many thanks to all who came along for what was a most entertaining evening with Martina Cole at the Bell Hotel.

Click here for a selection of Martina's books available online


Meg Cabot visits Dover Girls Grammar School

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Author of The Princess Diaries and other wonderful fiction for girls, Meg Cabot, was our guest for a private event at Dover Girls Grammar School on Friday 19th September. Meg delighted the students with a 40 minute talk and question & answer session prior to formally opening the school's new library. Luckily we have captured the entire talk on a four part video, the links to which are here (for video links).

Click here for a list of Meg's books with some special discounts available to order or from the shop.

Above, Meg Cabot and Louise Vance, owner of The Sandwich Bookshop, in the newly opened DGGS library.


Alison Weir visits Sandwich

Alison Weir.jpg

Many thanks to everyone who came to the Guildhall to meet historian and author Alison Weir on 6th August. What a great evening! We hope you were as thrilled as we were by Alison's talk and signing session. For those that missed it, we are going to release a video of the talk in installments on YouTube. Click here to see the first installement or here to see the complete list of videos.

Click here for Alison Weir's books available from The Sandwich Bookshop


Louise with Oz Clarke.jpg

Oz Clarke and Louise Vance, November 2007. For upcoming author events check in the shop or subscribe to our regular email updates - contact us at info@sandwichbookshop.com

Available books by Oz Clarke


Sonia Overall at The Sandwich Bookshop

A great friend of ours, local Sandwich resident and accomplished author, Sonia Overall, can very often be spotted at 60 King Street where her new paperback, The Realm Of Shells is now on sale for £7.99. (If you were to ask Sonia nicely, we feel sure she'd be happy to sign a copy for you.)

 

Alternatively The Realm of Shells is available on-line now by clicking the image below:

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Sonia's previous book, A Likeness, is of course also available from The Sandwich Bookshop.


Sandwich Photographic Memories

Sandwich Photographic Memories 

Out now! Our exclusive (and limited!) Sandwich - Photographic Memories, written by Paul Harris and including a wealth of wonderful images of Sandwich and the local environs from the late 1800s to the 1950s. Available from The Sandwich Bookshop only. Order yours by clicking here: Sandwich Photographic Memories


How to Find Us

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60 King Street

Sandwich

Kent

CT13 9BL

Tel: +44-(0)1304 620404

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60 King Street, Sandwich, Kent


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