Cafe 19′s delicious menu for our next Supper Book Club is now available.  See our events page for full details.

A few tickets are still available for the fabulous Rachel Joyce event described below.

Wine and Canapés with Rachel Joyce

We are delighted to be welcoming best-selling author Rachel Joyce to Frinton on Thursday 12^th November.  Do join us at Piatto’s Delicatessen for wine, canapés and a fascinating insight into the life of a best-selling author.

Rachel’s first book The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2012 and her second novel Perfect was published in 2013 to great critical acclaim.  The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, the wonderful companion book to Harold Fry was published in paperback in July this year and Rachel will also be introducing us to her latest book – A Snow Garden and other Stories.  Due to be published on 5^th November, this is a collection of six short stories as funny, joyous, poignant and memorable as Christmas should be!

Tickets are £10.

BAG A BARGAIN ON BAMB DAY!

We know nobody likes to think about Christmas at this time of year, but let us soften the blow with 3 GREAT OFFERS FOR ALL OUR LOYAL CUSTOMERS:

Join us on Saturday to celebrate the 3rd BAMB Day with three fabulous offers:

1.  Grab a Christmas Catalogue and enjoy a 20% discount on all orders placed from the catalogue by 5pm on Halloween.

2.  Spend £20 and get this year’s Exclusive Limited Edition BAMB Bag designed by award-winning artist Grayson Perry.

3.  Take away a free Tote bag designed by Charlie and Lola author Lauren Child with every children’s book purchase, while stocks last.

A FASCINATING LOCAL TALK by PAUL RUSIECKI

on Thursday 24^th September, 2015

at Walton and Frinton Yacht Club – 6.30pm for 7pm.

Please join us to hear Paul Rusiecki talk about his latest book: Under Fire: Essex and the Second World War, a meticulous study of the impact of total war on the civilian population of Essex between 1939 and 1945. In the book, Rusiecki examines how people coped with the immense stress caused by heavy bombing, the fear of invasion and other anxieties whilst so much was demanded of them by the authorities. The book brings into focus the social, economic, political and religious strains caused by the war.

Tickets are just £5, redeemable against the book which retails at £18.99.

For more information – please see out EVENTS page.

Announcing the publication of Harper Lee’s second novel

Go Set a Watchman

Arguably the most hotly-anticipated novel in the world in 2015, Harper Lee’s
Go Set a Watchman is due to be published on July 14^th 2015.

Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before writing To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).
Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.
Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her.
PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!

Join us to welcome Nicola Upson to Frinton on Wednesday 15^th July 2015 at Café 19 at 7pm

May, 1937 and London prepares to crown a new king.  Bestselling writer Josephine Tey is in town to oversee a BBC radio production of her play, Queen of Scots – but adultery, treachery and pent-up jealousies stalk the corridors of Broadcasting House….Rich in atmosphere of coronation London, the sixth novel in Nicola’s ‘Josephine Tey’ series sets an audacious, deeply personal crime against the back drop of one of the most momentous days in British History.

Tickets £28 for 2 courses, coffee & Nicola’s latest book.

Please see our Events page for Café 19′s delicious menu!

Elizabeth is Missing author Emma Healey visits Frinton

In conjunction with Piatto’s Delicatessen, we are delighted to be hosting an event for award-winning author Emma Healey.

Sunday Times Top Five Bestseller, Elizabeth is Missing is the stunning, smash-hit debut novel from new author Emma Healey. The book’s many accolades include:

• Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2014
• Shortlisted for National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book 2014
• Shortlisted for National Book Awards New Writer of the Year 2014
• Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2014
• Longlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction 2015.

 Join us at Piatto’s Delicatessen on Tuesday 23rd June at 5.30 for 6pm to hear Emma talk about her amazing success!
Tickets are £5 which includes wine & canapés.  We will also be offering a £1 discount on Emma’s book for this event.

Our 10^th Anniversary is Sunday 17^th May, so we would like to celebrate with you,
our lovely customers, on
Saturday 16^th  May
with Drinks and Canapés in the shop from 11-1pm
and 10% off EVERTYING in the shop ALL DAY!

If you can’t make it in the morning, we hope to see you at Cinema-on-Sea in the afternoon or evening!

AND BY THE WAY….OUR ANNUAL GARDEN PARTY WILL ON SATURDAY 27TH JUNE. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR DETAILS!

Here’s our little story, in case you haven’t seen our celebratory window!

Once upon a time…..

…there were two little girls, living in two different worlds.They both grew up not knowing what the future held and tried all sorts of different jobs and lived in all sorts of different places.

After 40 years of wandering through life, they bumped into each other in Frinton when they discovered that they both had sons called Hugo.  They then discovered that they had lots of other things in common too and so their friendship blossomed.

Very soon afterwards Caxton Books came up for sale and a snap decision to buy a business with a new friend led to the most rewarding 10 years of their lives.
Judith and Sally would like to thank everyone who has supported the shop throughout the last 10 years and hope you will share the adventure of the next 10 years with them too.

Crime & Dine

at Frinton Lawn Tennis Club

with two brilliant crime writers:

Renée Knight  & Kate Hamer

Tuesday 28^th April 2015 at 7pm

Tickets £30 for 2 courses, coffee & one of the books and £2 off the other book

Disclaimer by Renee Knight.  When an intriguing novel appears on Catherine’s bedside table, she curls up in bed and begins to read. But as she turns the pages she is sickened to realize the story will reveal her darkest secret. A secret she thought no one else knew…

The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer.  She is the missing girl. But she doesn’t know she’s lost. While her mother desperately tries to find her, Carmel embarks on an extraordinary journey, one that will make her question who she is – and who she might become.

Renee Knight’s book Disclaimer is described by Lee Child as: “Sensationally good psychological suspense … exactly what a great thriller should be” . While Lucy Atkins of The Sunday Times describes Kate Hamer’s The Girl in the Red Coat as a “psychological thriller, slotting into the genre that has spawned recent hits such as Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl or Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train. . .an engrossing read, to be devoured in a single lupine gulp”.

We hope you can join us for a thrilling evening!  The menu for the evening can be found on our Events page.

CALL TO ARMS!

To further our campaign to win the prestigious Independent Bookshop of the Year Award

– WE NEED YOU –

our lovely loyal customers to add your comments in support of our submission using Twitter with our dedicated hashtag #caxtonbia15

Let’s show the world that, although Harwich may be for the continent, Frinton is certainly not for the incontinent!

Tweet your support with #caxtonbia15 to prove that:

• you DO live in the 21^st century
• you DO love your Independent Bookshop and
• you DO know what Twitter is!