You can now find us on Spotify 

Our new Podcast is now Live!

Episode 5 went out this week. You can find us on Spotify,  Amazon Music or Apple Music

or wherever you stream your podcasts 

Or Just close here for our Podcast website 

Chapters at The Book Shop 

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NEW EVENTS announced – See Events page 

Candlelight Classics

November – Edgar ALan Poe – The Fall of the House of Usher – tickets released

December – Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol – tickets released

A candlelit celebration of some of the world’s best classics .

Your ticket includes exclusive entry to the event, as well as a Book Box containing a selection of chocolate, a bookmark, and a Penguin edition of the months classic.

                          For those wishing to upgrade, a Penguin clothbound edition of is available for a ticket price of £22                                                 

Available to purchase instore on Facebook or WhatsApp us on 07771 410074 for a payment link

The Book Box will be available in advance of the night to give you a chance to read it.

Please note due to the intimate nature of these events there are limited spaces and so they sell out quite quickly.

 

NEW IN

We now stock a great selection of ART supplies that is getting bigger every week .

Crochet kits, yarn, glue guns, gold leaf, wax seal beads, wax seals, scrapbooks and papers/stickers, melting spoons, thread, brushes, paints, pencils…

Do you have a request for a particular art product? Just let us know and we will get it in 🙂

We also now stock is a small selection of Wicca supplies

Candles, herbs, spell books, tarot, witch books, sage smudge sticks and Wicca accessories

Second hand books now in stock -Fiction and Non Fiction  

Prices range from Paperback – £1 – £2 and hardbacks £3 – £4  

Plus we have our Bargain Boxes out the front of the shop in which every book is only £1.

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‘Blind Date with a Book’

Back in stock. Contains a ‘Like new’ paperback, a teabag, a ‘Choose Bookshops’ metal enamel pin and a bookmark 

Only £5 

 

 New Events now listed on our Events page 

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For anything you can contact us on our bookshop mobile or on WhatsApp – 07771 410074

or you can email us at info@leebookshop.co.uk or contact us via Facebook messenger

AUTHOR SUBMISSIONS 

,Since March 2020 there has been a large volume of requests from authors for The Book Shop to stock their books and as we have very limited shelf space unfortunately we cannot stock them all.

If you would like us to consider your work, please email us to arrange an appointment/suitable time for you to come in. You will be asked to leave us a copy with a contact sheet that details the terms for purchase and SOR. We must ask that you do not drop off copies to the shop, even as a gift. Books left without following our procedure will be sent for recycling. Unfortunately not all books are suitable for our little independent book shop. More helpful advice about getting your book stocked can be found on The Booksellers Association website under ‘Industry Info‘.  (click) or ask for our Author information leaflet in-store

Bookshop.org – You can order books via our online shop (powered by uk.bookshop.org ) but this is for home delivery only. Books are discounted and delivery is free with orders over £40. We earn a commission on every book sold, so purchasing from here is just like purchasing in the shop.

Ordering books – you can order any books with us – even the ones you have struggled to find, and we will do our best to find it. You can order any book by calling us on 07771 410074 (when we are busy we are unable to answer the phone as our card machine runs on the phone line) or the best way is to email us at info@leebookshop.co.uk or via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Tiktok.  

About us – We are an award-winning independent book shop on the South Coast of England in Hampshire, with Dickens to the East, Alice Liddell and Mary Shelley to the West and Jane Austen just a little to North – want to know more? just ask.  We host annual Book Festivals, have a You-tube channel called Bookshop TV and are the founders of the Positivity Box. We want everyone to enjoy reading as much as we do and strive to provide our community with the skills they need to embrace reading through The Literacy Project, We stock an eclectic mixture of books, cards, stationery, maps, toys, and gifts in store, as well as Manga, Graphic Novels, Harry Potter merchandise, Funko’s and board games. A friendly team of booklovers, all with different reading habits and choices,  we look forward to welcoming you. If we don’t have it on the shelf then we are more than happy to order it in for you.

With easy parking in the High Street and on the seafront we are open Monday – Saturday from 9.30 -4.30pm. Closed Sundays and bank holidays

Miles Book Shop, Gosport. In 2024 we will be celebrating 91 years trading as a book shop, in the same building as when it was first opened by Mr Leonard Miles. Yes… he was the gentleman that opened Miles Book Shop in Gosport High Street , later known as The Gosport Book Shop and I bet you didn’t know our Lee-on-the-Solent shop was the first shop he opened?  This was closely  followed by a second book shop in Stubbington, before opening the well known Gosport High Street one? Well, we are the last of his shops and we need your support.