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At 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. 

  • Our online web log notice board about local events sponsored by us, as well as shop-related special activities is now live.
  • Call in for information about our on-going series of public debates.
  • We carry a range of specialist magazines and journals.
  • The Letchworth Arts & Leisure Group Newsletter is always available for collection.
  • If you would like to receive e-mailed notifications of events and special offers, please contact us at staff@davids-bookshops.co.uk.

 


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Books in the Media

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


Toibin, Colm
Hardback

A novel of great love and loss, and of the heartbreaking choice between personal freedom and duty.

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24 - 48 Hours
£17.99

Adamson, Gil
Paperback

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Special Order
£10.99

Pizzichini, Lilian
Hardback

A dazzling new portrait of Jean Rhys, the troubled, incandescent author of Wide Sargasso Sea. A R...

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24 - 48 Hours
£18.99

Osborne, John
Paperback

The hilarious and revealing account of the author's month as a Radio Head: listening to a differe...

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24 - 48 Hours
£9.99

Guo, Xiaolu
Paperback

Fenfang has travelled 1800 miles to seek her fortune in Beijing, and has no desire to return to t...

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24 - 48 Hours
£7.99

Guo, Xiaolu
Paperback

Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learni...

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24 - 48 Hours
£7.99

Motion, Andrew
Hardback

Offers a variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer oth...

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24 - 48 Hours
£12.99

Kennedy, A.L.
Paperback

Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lan...

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24 - 48 Hours
£7.99

Tressell, Robert; Hunt, Tristram
Paperback

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one...

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24 - 48 Hours
£9.99

Wodehouse, P.G.
Hardback

Offers an insight into the genesis of comic literature's most celebrated double-act. All the stor...

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£10.99

Twain, Mark; Fishkin, Shelley Fisher (Editor); Moser, Barry (Illustrator)
Paperback

A three-act play by Mark Twain, one of America's most important and well-loved writers. It interm...

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24 - 48 Hours
£10.95

Arnott, Jake
Hardback

A stunning historical novel by the bestselling author of THE LONG FIRM.

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24 - 48 Hours
£15.00

Parkinson, Michael
Paperback

The bestselling and long-awaited autobiography of a national icon.

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24 - 48 Hours
£7.99

Larkin, Philip
Paperback

A collection of poems from a "tenderly observant" poet who writes about what all of us can unders...

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24 - 48 Hours
£8.99

Steinbeck, John
Paperback

Classic / American English (Available April 2008) During the Great Depression in the United State...

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Special Order
£5.90

Calvino, Italo; Parks, Tim; Creagh, Patrick; McLaughlin, Martin; Weaver, William (Translator)
Hardback

A collection of stories about the evolution of the universe.

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24 - 48 Hours
£20.00

Calvino, Italo
Paperback

A triptych of novels in one volume. Viscount Medardo is bisected by a cannonball on the plains of...

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Special Order
£8.99

Calvino, Italo; McLaughlin, Martin (Translator)
Paperback

A volume of posthumously collected personal writings of the author, from the early 1950s to his l...

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24 - 48 Hours
£8.99

Wyndham, John
Paperback

David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blas...

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24 - 48 Hours
£7.99

Smith, Ali
Paperback

A collection of stories that unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday.

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24 - 48 Hours
£7.99
Welcome

Interior of David's Bookshop
To view our selections click on the links below:
Local Titles
50 Best Books... defining the 20th century
Booker Prize Winners
Books in the Media
2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction

Children - If you like reading books by....
Children - If you like stories about...
Children's Selection
How to choose books for children
CILIP Carnegie Medal - Nominations for 2008
CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal - Nominations for 2008
Red House Children's Book award 2008 - shortlist
Top 50 Children's Books

How to Find Us
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 staff@davids-bookshop.co.uk

Address
14 Eastcheap
Letchworth, Hertfordshire
United Kingdom SG6 3DE
Phone 01462 684631
Fax
01462 485118

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Sundays: 11am - 5pm.

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