Bookshop Tours of Britain Features four Kent bookshops

Four new bookshops in Kent have made it to the ultimate slow-travel guide for book-lovers: Bookshop Tours of Britain by Louise Boland (published by Fairlight Books, 31 October).

The new bookshops are:

·       Moo Like A Monkey in Folkestone

·       The Folkestone Bookshop

·       Chapters of Sturry

·       Moo Like A Monkey in Canterbury

Now in its fourth edition, Bookshop Tours of Britain features 20 bookshop tours, including a tour of Kent’s loveliest bookshops.

Louise Boland’s Bookshop Tours of Britain is a slow-travel guide to Britain, navigating bookshop to bookshop. Based on Louise’s own tour and extensive bookshop knowledge, this long awaited fourth edition includes over 60 new bookshops and new tours for readers to explore!

Across 20 bookshop tours, the reader journeys from the Jurassic Coast of South-West England, over the mountains of Wales, through England’s industrial heartland, up to the Scottish Highlands and back via Whitby, the Norfolk Broads, central London, the South Downs and Hardy’s Wessex.

On their way, the tours visit beaches, castles, head down coal mines, go to whiskey distilleries, bird watching, hiking, canoeing, to stately homes and the houses of some of Britain’s best-loved historic writers – and, of course, a host of fantastic bookshops.

Following the number of new bookshop openings since the first edition was published in 2020, this revised new edition includes lots of brand new bookshops, from Book-ish in Abergavenny to The Accidental Bookshop in Alnwick, Voce Books in Birmingham to Dormouse Books in Belper.

With Bookshop Day, the UK-wide celebration of all high street bookshops, coming up on Saturday 12 October, the book is the perfect guidebook for any bibliophile and the go-to gift for any book-lover in your life.

About the author

Louise Boland is a publisher who first started touring bookshops after founding literary publishing house Fairlight Books. Dedicated to publishing new and emerging writers, Fairlight’s aim is to support quality, original writing and to produce beautiful books. It is also a keen champion of bookshops.

About Fairlight Books         

Fairlight Books was founded in 2017 to publish and promote writers of highly original literary and quality fiction. Since its inception, its authors have been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and shortlisted for the Paul Torday Prize, the Diverse Book Awards and the BBC National Short Story Award.

They publish just a small number of books each year, to give each of them and its author the care and attention they deserve – from stunning and original cover designs to comprehensive e-book coverage and promotional campaigns sustained over the longer term.

The publishing house is home to the Fairlight Moderns, a series of pocket-sized books of brilliantly innovative contemporary fiction, set around the world. Fairlight Books are huge fans of physical bookshops, who themselves are constant champions of writers, quality writing and beautiful books, and they do everything they can to support them.

Paperback | £19.99 | ISBN 9781912054473

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