We want your lockdown recommendations!

While we’re in lockdown and browsing isn’t an option we’re getting limited new stock in. So we decided this is the perfect opportunity to open up book recommendations to you!

We’re looking for book recommendations from you our customers and members. Ideally it should be a book or series you’ve really enjoyed reading over the past year which has made lockdown more bearable. Books don’t have to be recently published but they should be available in print and published in the UK so we can easily get hold of them for other customers.

Please email us the following with lockdown recommendations in the subject line.

Emails should follow the below format:

Your name: (That we will use in the blog, so it can be a nickname or just a first name if you prefer. If you have a website, blog etc you’d like us to promote we can link to that too. Within reason obviously, we don’t want to promote something that goes against our key ethos.)
Title:
Author:
Recommendation review: (A paragraph or two on what the books about-no spoilers please! Include why you’re recommending it as perfect lockdown reading.)
Picture of the book: (With either you reading it or the book in your favourite reading spot. Higher quality digital pictures are ideal but don’t worry too much. We can always find a picture or take one ourselves)

Please send your recommendation to info[at]octoberbooks[dot]org

Our January & February opening hours are:

Mon / Wed / Fri / Sat

From 10am - 4pm

Please note. The shop floor will be open for the sale of essential food and household items. We will not be open for you to browse our bookshelves, but if you have ordered books or household items online or via the phone you will be able to collect them during these opening hours! Shop online today!

You will see we have a QR code at the door, if you have the NHS COVID-19 app downloaded to your smart phone please scan this as you enter the shop as you enter the shop.