The Shooting Star in the Bookshop

Tintin The Shooting Star by Hergé

EASTER OPENING TIMES

Open Saturday 30th March 10 – 5

Closed Easter Sunday

Closed Easter Monday

Closed Tuesday 

Open Wednesday 3rd April 10 – 5

Then open as usual.

"I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures, deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut in a book." - Michael Ende

 

Middleton Press Southern in the Bookshop

"Sometimes you wish to escape to another part of the book. You stop reading and riffle the pages, catching sight of the story as it races ahead, not above the world but through it, through forests and complications, the chaos of intentions and cities. As you near the last few pages you are hurtling through the book at increasing speed, until all is a blur of restlessness, and then suddenly your thumb loses its grip and you sail out of the story and back into yourself. The book is once again a fragile vessel of cloth and paper. You have gone everywhere and nowhere." - Thomas Wharton, Salamander