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At the David's Bookshop you will find a comprehensive range of fiction, non-fiction, text books, maps and best-sellers in stock. Travellers, walkers, computer users and local historians are especially well catered for. We can supply any book in print and there are always many titles on special offer.

The book collector - or second-hand browser - can check out a growing selection of our 15,000 second-hand and antiquarian books available for purchase through the internet. If you have good quality books to sell - bring them in for a quick appraisal and a fair offer. You can  rely upon our staff's advice who really know about books. 

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Books in the Media

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


Scott, Robyn
Hardback

Book of the Week - Monday 12 - Friday 16 May

When Robyn Scott was six years old her parents abruptly exchanged the tranquil pastures of New Ze...

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Adams, Poppy
Hardback

Book at Bedtime - Monday 12 - Friday 16 May

* An extraordinarily haunting, subtle and moving first novel about secrets and lies and moths - t...

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Lalwani, Nikita
Paperback

Woman's Hour Drama - Monday 12 - Friday 16 May

Cardiff in the 1980's is a place where maths can get you noticed. Rumis Vasi is the town's 'maths...

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Burnside, John
Hardback

Open Book

The children of Innertown exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from thei...

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Park, Ed
Hardback

Open Book

Ever wondered what your boss does all day? Or if there is a higher - perhaps an existential - sig...

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Kidd, Chip
Hardback

Open Book

From the famed graphic artist and author of The Cheese Monkeys comes a clever and daringly packag...

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Carr, Camilla; James, Jonathan
Paperback

Book of the Week - Monday 28 - Friday 2 May

Tells the story of the kidnap in Chechnya and 14 month captivity of two British aid workers. This...

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Swift, Katherine
Hardback

Book of the Week - Monday 5 - Friday 9 May

A book about time and the garden: that of the Dower House at Morville. It recalls the monastic pa...

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Barry, Sebastian
Hardback

Book at Bedtime - Monday 28 March - Friday 9 May

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon ...

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Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda
Paperback

May's Bookclub Sunday 4 May Thursday 8 May Last year?s Orange prize winner. The novel is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war ? the Biafran War - in which a million people died. The three main characters and their friends...

The sweeping novel from the author of 'Purple Hibiscus', shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and wi...

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Sutcliffe, William
Paperback

Open Book - 27th April

Matt is a serial dater. Paul is an experienced hand at lying to keep his life choices a secret fr...

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Sutcliffe, William
Paperback

Open Book - 27th April

Dave travels to India with Liz because he thinks he might be able to get her into bed. Liz travel...

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Nabokov, Vladimir
Paperback

Open Book - 27th April

Alone in his room in a dirty Berlin pension, Ganin reminisces about Mary, his first love. He fant...

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Nabokov, Vladimir
Paperback

Open Book - 27th April

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And n...

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Nabokov, Vladimir; Nabokov, Dmitri (Editor); Nabokov, Dmitri (Translator)
Paperback

Open Book - 27th April

A collection of sixty-five stories which display the author's range of technical and formal inven...

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Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paperback

Open Book - 27th April

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Ryan, Robert
Hardback

Open Book - 27th April

A sweeping epic historica lnovel about Lawrence of Arabia,one of the most compelling characters i...

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Newman, Janis Cooke
Hardback

Open Book - 27th April

Incarcerated in an insane asylum after committal proceedings instigated by her own son, Mary Linc...

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Murphy, Caroline P.
Hardback

Book of the Week - Monday 21 - Friday 25 April

Isabella de' Medici's affair with her husband's cousin - and her very success as First Lady of Fl...

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Upson, Nicola
Hardback

Woman's Hour Drama - Monday 21 - Friday 2 May

It's March 1934, and Josephine Tey is travelling from Scotland to London to celebrate what should...

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