Stairwell Books

13/03/2024

Brilliant!!

We are excited to share that our Homestead Park Pop Up will be open from 23 March! From 10am - 4pm every day, with Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30pm – 4pm.

07/03/2024

So delighted to nominate , ,
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for the ! You in? You have til SAT 9 MARCH!
Guardbridge Books

21/02/2024

From Richard Harries:

This month is Black History Month and this is my poem, published in my book ICONIC TATTOO, about a true horrifying real case. So there are content warnings.

The amazing poet, activist and artist S'phongo has done me to honour of making this amazing film and collaborating with me !Thanks so much .

This is the tragic tale of an innocent black boy of 14 years of age who was executed for a murder he did not commit

11/02/2024

Hooray! It's Read it Forward Feb!
If you buy 100 Summers by from during February, 10% of all sales will go to AND you'll support indie bookshops! https://uk.bookshop.org/a/861/9781913432843

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Image shows book cover to 100 Summers centred on a purple background. In upper left-hand corner, “Bookshop.Org” and in upper right-hand corner, “BookTrust: getting children reading”.
In bold large letters, centered above book cover image it has: READ IT FORWARD
Along the bottom the image reads “10% of all children’s book sales go to BookTrust in Feb 2024”

02/02/2024

Awwwwwww. Went to 5 schools and so far one AMAZING bookshop with the fab Ali Sparkes over the past few days. Received this message today:

'We have a paired reading group on a Friday with reluctant readers who struggle. 2 girls were DESPERATE to borrow an Ali Sparkes book and have snapped up the copies you kindly gave us. When I asked them why they said they found her “inspiring” and “she talked about the book in a way which really made me want to read it!”'

01/02/2024

Cool! I'll be on BBC Radio York at around 6.30pm on Saturday, and tomorrow, on the mid morning show at 10.45am!! I'm chatting about York Spoken Word, accessibility, our LOVELY pub, open mics, and even next week's Pechakucha! SOOO much fun to chat with Hannah again. Always a really energizing time! BBC Radio York Hannah Sackville-Bryant
The Exhibition Pub Alan Gillott

05/01/2024

Awwww just read the news about The Art House in Soton at Above Bar! I understand, but, come April, i will miss this wonderful, wonderful space. When i was in Winch, so far from York, The Art House was the cultural heart of me. ###xx Farewell The Art House (physical space): LONG LIVE THE ART HOUSE COMMUNITY!!!

13/12/2023

Book sales! The 12 Days of BookMas!

Stairwell Books is having a lil online version of between now & Christmas. We’ve had SO Much Fun at recent book fests, we want to continue to offer Buy 3 Get 1 Free!
Free delivery within the Outer Ring Road from now til Dec 25!
www.stairwellbooks.co.uk

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Image title is: POETRY £8 to £9 each or 4 for £25! 59 active titles
Image shows nine book covers of recent or top selling poetry collections
When We Wake We Think We’re Whalers from Eden by Bob Beagrie
Unknown by Anna Rose James and Elizabethe Chadwick Pywell
Northern Lights by Harry Gallagher
Quiet Flows the Hull by Clint Wastling
Lunch on a Green Ledge by Stella Davis
there is an england by Harry Gallagher
Herdsmenization by Ngozi Olivia Osuoha
On the Other Side of the Beach, Light by Daniel Skyle
Fatherhood by C. S. Fuqua

13/12/2023

Book sales! The 12 Days of BookMas!

Stairwell Books is having a lil online version of between now & Christmas. We’ve had SO Much Fun at recent book fests, we want to continue to offer Buy 3 Get 1 Free!
Free delivery within the Outer Ring Road from now til Dec 25!
www.stairwellbooks.co.uk

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Image title is: Children’s Books & YA! £7 to £9 each or 4 for £22! 23 active titles
Image shows 10 book covers of recent or top selling children and YA books
My Sister is a Dog by Ali Sparkes
The Broke Hotel by Clayton Lister
Not the Work of an Ordinary Boy by Victoria L Humphreys
Pandemonium of Parrots by Dawn Treacher
The Warder by Susie Williamson
Very Bad Gnus by Suzanne Sheran, Illustrated by Mark Beech
The Water Bailiff’s Daughter by Yvonne Hendrie
A Business of Ferrets by Alwyn Bathan
Shadow Cat Summer by Rebecca Smith
Ivy Elf’s Magical Mission by Elizabeth Kelly

13/12/2023

Book sales! The 12 Days of BookMas!

Stairwell Books is having a lil online version of between now & Christmas. We’ve had SO Much Fun at recent book fests, we want to continue to offer Buy 3 Get 1 Free!
Free delivery within the Outer Ring Road from now til Dec 25!
www.stairwellbooks.co.uk

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Image title is: Sci-Fi Fantasy Books! £10 to £14 each or 4 for £30! 18 active titles
Image shows 9 book covers of recent or top selling Sci-fi / fantasy books

Equinox by Ruth Aylett and Greg Michaelson
Border 7 by Pauline Kirk
Return of the Mantra by Susie Williamson
The Warder by Susie Williamson
The Iron Brooch by Yvonne Hendrie
Down to Earth by Andrew Crowther
The Water Bailiff’s Daughter by Yvonne Hendrie
Djoser and the Gods by Michael J Lowis
Tyrants Rex by Clint Wastling

13/12/2023

Book sales! The 12 Days of BookMas!

Stairwell Books is having a lil online version of between now & Christmas. We’ve had SO Much Fun at recent book fests, we want to continue to offer Buy 3 Get 1 Free!
Free delivery within the Outer Ring Road from now til Dec 25!
www.stairwellbooks.co.uk

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Image title is: Historical and Contemporary Fiction! £10 to £14 each or 4 for £30! 45 active titles
Image shows 10 book covers of recent or top selling fiction
Blackbird’s Song by Katy Turton
Shadows of Fathers by Simon Culleton
Not the Work of an Ordinary Boy by Victoria L Humphreys
Eboracum: The Village by Graham Clews
The Electric by Tim Murgatroy
Sammy Blue Eyes by Frank Beill
Needleham by Terry Simpson
Eboracum the Fortress by Graham Clews
Rocket Boy by John Wheatcroft

03/12/2023

ANYONE HERE GOING TO YORK SPOKEN WORD TUESDAY?
IT'S COOOOOOLD

We're starting early; I'll do my lil pome by 7.25pm
Ending by 9.30(ish)- certainly by 10 at the absolute latest.

If zoom fails, PLEASE do your poems for other Zoomers at intermission or at the end (depending). We'll plunge on w Roomers. Fret not, when the connection works, it works!

Be safe
Be well
Be on time
Stick to 4 mins

03/12/2023

Your Late Night LOL! 🤣

03/11/2023

02/11/2023

Poetry for All: an event designed to break down as many barriers as possible, needs your help! Thank you! https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for-all-2023-fundraiser

Raising funds to stage a fully accessible, inclusive arts event and produce an anthology of artists' work.

05/10/2023

Over 18? Resident of one of 32 states banning books right, left, center? Run for a school board! Replace old, stale, pale & often male board members. The younger you are, the better.
Banned books are primarily written by members of marginalized groups: people of color, women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Join a school board.
Fix the problem.

https://www.theybannedwhat.net/

Across the map, extremists on school boards and library boards are pushing to ban books, control curriculum, and stifle critical thinking in our schools and public spaces. In 2022, The American Library Association reported the highest volume of book bans in over 20 years - 2,500+ book bans in school...

04/10/2023

Words by Your's Truly

Can't wait to here my piece Retratos II at Late Music in York this Friday (Friday 6th October, 1.00pm) - please come along if you can! There’s another 3 Late Music concert over Friday/Saturday - check out full details here:

03/10/2023

Shock Horror! The Post Office has increased the price of postage for most Stairwell Novels by 55p and 30p. This is a complete nonsense as they'll increase them AGAIN in April.

30/08/2023

Really great interview with author Dawn Treacher! Jericho is engaged & interested, and Dawn is charming and clever. Fun all around.

It's about 10 mins into the show but actually Jericho is worth just leaving it on. He's excellent!

BBC Radio York
Stairwell Books

Great North Yorkshire stories, mid-morning updates and the music you love with Jericho.

30/08/2023

Dawn is interviewed today by Jericho Keys on Radio York. Should air at 10.15.

18/08/2023

This book is for the YA on up: adults as well as teens, including the "typical white boy who never reads a book". Maybe it'll accidentally change a few still-open minds. ("Minds are like parachutes: they work better when they're open": Taylor Mali)

Dashka Slater's "Accountable" is an intense cautionary tale for teens, parents, and educators.

01/08/2023

We need to "downsize gracefully": the new era is best termed The Great Simplification. Anyone still here in miserable decades to come will NOT find joy in images of opulent lifestyles of "influencers".
Or can we leave our actual current children & grands something better? Reasons they'll be proud of us?

Read this surprisingly upbeat article: not only the climate will change but for us to survive, WE must change too.

Sustainable Human Development

30/05/2023

LeBron James with no father, no education, no training, and very few role models, they handed this young, dirt poor kid $420,000 per week, at the age of 18!

He married his high school sweetheart, he was never arrested, he never used drugs, he never humiliated his spouse with side chick stories. He had no outside babies.

Never in the news with so much as a parking ticket. He is excellent father, heavily involved with his kid's activities and everywhere in his kid's life. He is the greatest player on the PLANET in the game today!

20 years later and still Same LeBron James with same maturity, same chick and never remarried. Same family, his reputation is still intact. Now earning close to $2 million per week. Has sent 1100+ kids to college fully payed for.

No sane person can hate LeBron, James is humanity, the best ingredient in nature.

29/05/2023

Othello is a real structure of feeling taking shape

29/05/2023

28/03/2023

We had SO much fun.

26/03/2023

What an exhilarating, fun evening! Thank you, Shellie!

19/03/2023

Today I was reminded of this wonderful review for
"Through Suni's search for her identity and the ever elusive Mantra, we are not only taken on a unique journey, but also prompted to ask important questions about our own society and sense of justice. Questions that only become more poignant as the book goes on. Return of the Mantra is thought-provoking, unique fantasy, as well as a story that isn’t afraid to tackle difficult themes. I defy you not to be thinking of Suni long after you’ve turned the final page."
For full review, click link:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-reviews/R2Z0YXD773NHGU/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B08K8YRVNW

13/03/2023

Mother has arrived.