Rebecca Tope at Naunton

A quick note to say that our good friend Rebecca Tope,

author of the hugely popular series of

Cotswold Murder mysteries starring Thea Osborne,

will be opening the

Naunton Rural Olympix & Fete

on Saturday 21 July at 1pm.

She will also be signing her books there.

Rebecca Tope Signing

Don't forget - Rebecca Tope will be here on Saturday next, 14th April at 10.30 am, to sign her new hardback, Malice in the Cotswolds.

This is the 10th in the Thea Osborne seeries of murder mysteries set in the Cotswolds.

We'll have all her paperbacks in stock too, and she'll happily sign those.

Wine and bikkies too!

Events

Gutter Bookshop pointed me to this piece '...on why bookshops & booksellers matter by @R_Nash'

Click here to see the whole thing.

 http://t.co/UFZqYPT

I thought it a very interesting piece and homed in on this paragraph.

'Not all bookstores have gotten on board with the transition from being a place where books await customers to being a locale of social and cultural exchange, which happens to support itself in part by selling books. The brilliant Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has noted that the less a retail experience is focused on selling stuff and the more it is about something else -- an event, an occasion, a vision -- the more a store will sell.'


Well, we've got quite a few events coming up, haven't we.
13 August James Aitcheson with Sworn Sword
10 September Panama Oxridge with Thyme Running Out
17 September Rebecca Tope with her Thea Osborne Cotswold series
AND
Phil Rickman with The Secrets of Pain and his previous Merrily Watkins titles.