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Book sale starts, Academic History titles, the proper start of summer
Book sale starts, Academic History titles, the proper start of summer
Amongst other tasks this week, we have been working hard getting everything ready for our big book sale which starts next Saturday. I can't believe that it has been three years since our last Aardvark sale and during that time the warehouse has been fuller than it has ever been. If ever a sale were needed it is this one, as otherwise the building will explode when we get through to autumn and start to make our pre-Christmas purchases.
As usual everything on the warehouse tables will be priced at an incredible £0.50 per book and for the first weekend there will be some special offers in the bookshop and a blanket 10% off our already incredible prices on all items (including cards and stationery).
Meanwhile on the last weekend of the sale (30th - 31st July) we are pioneering a new initiative. We will give you 'Books are My Bag' bags and you can then fill them up to the top for a mere £2 per bag. Bargain or what!
In addition to getting ready for the sale I also found time to pop up to Oxford to buy a big collection of academic history. Whilst we have bought collections from individual historians over the last few years, this was the first big group of new and recent academic history titles since 2019. I have made a good start on listing them and bringing them into the shop, so if history is your thing, then the shop will be especially interesting to you over the next month: lots of current themes and new research.
Finally I should say that we are starting to see families arrive - mostly with older children, as the universities have started to break up. Summer is a very special time in the bookshop and I am particularly looking forward to it this year after all our recent Covid travails. And summer in Aardvark brings activities! So after the sale in July, we have Scarecrow Sunday in the village on the 7th of August (the only day when the castle in Brampton Bryan is open to visitors), the re-enactment on the weekend of the 13th and 14th of August, and our brilliant August Car Boot on Bank Holiday Monday the 29th of August. So much to look forward to!
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