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Scarthin Books
The Promenade
Cromford
Matlock
Derbyshire
DE4 3QF

01629 823272
nickscarthin@gmail.com

Opening Times

BOOKSHOP

9-6pm Mon-Sat

10-6pm Sun

Closed on XMAS Day & Boxing Day
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CAFE

10-5pm

(12-3pm hot food)

Parking

Don't be put off by the tucked-away location of the bookshop - there are places to park if you know where to find them:

- along the Prom (free)
- Market Place (free)
- Water Lane (free)
- Cromford Mill
- Cromford Canal

No Dogs Policy (June 2019)

Following several unfortunate incidents and an ever-growing canine population in our corridors, we have decided, with some regret, that it is time to revert to the practice of only a few years ago of asking our customers not to bring dogs into the bookshop.

This policy change has been hard for our staff to
agree, but we think it is the right course of action.

Assistance Dogs are, of course, exempt.

RSS Dave Mitchell’s Tessellations

  • Putting Australia in the Shade; A Lattice Labyrinth employed to Spectacular Effect 13/10/2020
  • A Birthday Card for the 1 in 1500 of us born on 29th. February 03/01/2020
  • March Fools’ Day (Brexit Day) 29th. March 2019 18/01/2019
Staff Recommendations

 

David Booker – General Manager

Brute, Emily Skaja

A very dark and disturbing collection of poetry about an abusive relationship and ultimatley breaking free. Beautifully written and the deserved winner of the Walt Whitman Award.

 

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Eve Booker – Assistant Manager

Picnic in the Storm, Yukiko Motoya

Picnic in the Storm is a collection of short stories. They are quite strange and never end as you would expect. I couldn’t put this book down. Very unusual.

 

 

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Sophie Barkerwood – Bookseller, Social Media, Online Orders

The Gallow’s Pole, Benjamin Myers

Beautifully stark and illuminating prose telling the story of the Cragg Vale Coiners. Set in pre-industrial revolution Yorkshire Dales, this book has a powerful sense of place and pioneers fictional nature-writing and alternative historical fiction.

For fans of: Jon McGregor, Amy Liptrot and Roger Deakin.

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Les Hurst – Finance Manager & Health & Safety

The Mass Psychology of Facism, Wilhelm Reich

“Like sadism, war among one’s own kind is an acquisition of ‘civilized’ man…” In this great work written at Hitler’s rise and revised during Worl War II, Reich examines the irrational hateds which still permeate society in the 21st Century.

 

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Charlotte Lunn – Bookseller & Events Co-ordinator

Rabbit, Sophie Robinson

Rabbit is caught in the age of social media yearning to connect. Poignant images weighted in trauma and structurally playful. Chosen for the Poetry Book Society Wild Card.

 

 

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Bev De’Ath – Bookseller & Second-hand Stock Control

The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor

Trevor’s arrangement of words in a sentence is a masterly appropriation of Irish syntax. A melancholy realism of thoughts unspoken drives the narrative. There is beauty in both the telling and the tale. Lucy’s story is how it is, Trevor is saying, not how we would like it to be.

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Gareth Hill – Bookseller

Mindfulness, Mark Williams & Danny Penman

An amazingly simple book. It helps you to make sitting quietly into a habit. It has helped me enormously. To reduce anxiety, build confidence and even improve my health. If you think it might help, try it.

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We are now open as usual…

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You can also order from us in the following ways:

1) via our own New Books Ordering Website (new releases & selected titles) – CLICK HERE

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3) by contacting us directly to arrange ordering and posting out your books – nickscarthin@gmail.com – 01629 823272

Book Tokens

We sell and accept both NATIONAL BOOK TOKENS and our very own SCARTHIN VOUCHERS (of any denomination). We can even post them out to you, free of charge

Specialist Stock

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