Emma's fundraiser tonight

Village Books are going to Emma's fundraiser tonight in La Sirena. Emma is doing the Alcatraz swim in aid of Temple St. Go Emma! Watch out for the Sharks.You can sponsor Emma here: http://www.mycharity.ie/event/emmawalsh/

STORY TIME!

As part of Independent Booksellers Week, Village Books hosted Story Time on Saturday morning. We invited local children to hear tales told by the wonderful Mary McNamera (below). They were enthralled by stories about tigers and monkeys but in particular, 'The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig' was most captivating.

Story Time was such a great success that we have decided to make it a regular event. Keep a look out on our blog for updates on the next Story Time session and check out our events page to keep track of what we're up to.

VILLAGE BOOKS - SPECIAL EVENTS!

Join us this Saturday for storytelling in the bookshop!

To celebrate Independent Booksellers Week - celebrating independent bookshops, great books, strong reading communities and the idea of shopping locally - Village Books is running the following special events:

Wednesday 22nd June - 10% off all adult fiction
Saturday 25th June - 10% off all children's books
Saturday 25th June - Storytelling for 3 - 6 year olds from 11am

INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS WEEK 18th - 25th June

This year we have decided to become involved in Independent Booksellers Week - celebrating independent bookshops, great books, strong reading communities and the idea of shopping locally.

To mark the occasion and to show our appreciation to our customers for the support they have given us over the years we are running a couple of events this week:

Wednesday 22nd June - 10% off all adult fiction
Saturday 25th June - 10% off all children's books
Saturday 25th June - Storytelling for 3 - 6 year olds from 11am

And as usual, we will have our Junior Book Club meeting on Monday at 3.30pm.



VILLAGE BOOKS is also taking part in the Independent Booksellers Book Prize 2011. To have your say, simply pop into the shop and pick up a voting slip - one lucky entrant will win a £100 National Book Token. The Top 10 Adult and Top 12 Children's titles published between January and June 2011 are listed below.




Adult Top 10

The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
The Butterfly Isles by Patrick Barkham
Empire of the Clouds by James Hamilton-Paterson
The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart
The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
Peter Pan's First XI by Kevin Telfer
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell



Children's Top 12

Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer
Cherub: Shadow Wave by Robert Muchamore
The Dead by Charlie Higson
An Imaginary Menagerie by Roger McGough
The Joshua Files: Dark Parallel by MG Harris
The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
Magicalamity by Kate Saunders
The Saga of Larten Crepsley - Birth of a Killer by Darren Shan
School According to Humphrey by Betty G Birney
The 13 Secrets by Michelle Harrison
Time Riders: The Doomsday Code by Alex Scarrow
Young Samurai: The Ring of Water by Chris Bradford

Channel 4 TV Book Club Summer Reads

The TV Book Club   Channel 4                 

Summer Reads

The Lantern by Deirdre Lawrenson

Moonlight Mile by Denis Lehane

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Night Road by Kristan Hannah

The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovric

Pulitzer Prize winners 2011

The Pulitzer Prize winners for 2011 were announced this week. Jennifer Egan's The Goon Squad won the prize for fiction. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner won the history prize. Washington : A Life by Ron Chernow won the prize for non-fiction. All three books sound very interesting, I have just ordered them into the shop and will start them this week.

Tigers Wife by Tea Obreht won the Orange Prize

'Having sifted through everything I have heard about the tiger and his wife, I can tell you that this much is fact: in April of 1941, without declaration or warning, the German bombs started falling over the city and did not stop for three days. The tiger did not know that they were bombs...' A tiger escapes from the local zoo, padding through the ruined streets and onwards, to a ridge above the Balkan village of Galina. His nocturnal visits hold the villagers in a terrified thrall.

But for one boy, the tiger is a thing of magic - Shere Khan awoken from the pages of The Jungle Book. Natalia is the granddaughter of that boy. Now a doctor, she is visiting orphanages after another war has devastated the Balkans.

On this journey, she receives word of her beloved grandfather's death, far from their home, in circumstances shrouded in mystery. From fragments of stories her grandfather told her as a child, Natalia realises he may have died searching for 'the deathless man', a vagabond who was said to be immortal. Struggling to understand why a man of science would undertake such a quest, she stumbles upon a clue that will lead her to a tattered copy of The Jungle Book, and then to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.