Framlingham Bookshop
@framlinghambooks.bsky.social
Lovely little secondhand bookshop in Framlingham, Suffolk and online as Rightwayup Books. www.framlinghambooks.co.uk
Oh dear.
July 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Oh dear.
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How to be a Writer:, no. 95322:
Update website
Answer 283983 e-mails
Record radio interview
Print out travel details, schedules
Go through diary
Order stock
14 e-mail interviews
Go through diary again
Experience immense wave of self-doubt
Wonder what you forgot to do
Oh, wait -
Tea.
Update website
Answer 283983 e-mails
Record radio interview
Print out travel details, schedules
Go through diary
Order stock
14 e-mail interviews
Go through diary again
Experience immense wave of self-doubt
Wonder what you forgot to do
Oh, wait -
Tea.
June 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
How to be a Writer:, no. 95322:
Update website
Answer 283983 e-mails
Record radio interview
Print out travel details, schedules
Go through diary
Order stock
14 e-mail interviews
Go through diary again
Experience immense wave of self-doubt
Wonder what you forgot to do
Oh, wait -
Tea.
Update website
Answer 283983 e-mails
Record radio interview
Print out travel details, schedules
Go through diary
Order stock
14 e-mail interviews
Go through diary again
Experience immense wave of self-doubt
Wonder what you forgot to do
Oh, wait -
Tea.
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We're thrilled to announce the winners of the Breaking the Rules Challenge, run in partnership with the Estorick Collection, on Young Poets Network.
Here's an extract from Mikala Smee's winning video poem 'These Rigid Lines.' Read the rest: bit.ly/EstorickYPN
Here's an extract from Mikala Smee's winning video poem 'These Rigid Lines.' Read the rest: bit.ly/EstorickYPN
June 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We're thrilled to announce the winners of the Breaking the Rules Challenge, run in partnership with the Estorick Collection, on Young Poets Network.
Here's an extract from Mikala Smee's winning video poem 'These Rigid Lines.' Read the rest: bit.ly/EstorickYPN
Here's an extract from Mikala Smee's winning video poem 'These Rigid Lines.' Read the rest: bit.ly/EstorickYPN
Today's book shop browsing music. Any thoughts on what music would encourage you to linger in the shop?
June 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Today's book shop browsing music. Any thoughts on what music would encourage you to linger in the shop?
These lists are useful for us as a secondhand bookshop. It is hard to keep up with what children chose, or are asked, to read.
Looks like a good mixture of classic children's books and new ones. Even given genre tags these days.
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#Children
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#Children
Suggested reading list of books for 11 year olds. Authors include Nicholas Fisk, Christopher Edge, Elizabeth Laird and Malorie Blackman #ukedchat #kidsbook schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-list...
June 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
These lists are useful for us as a secondhand bookshop. It is hard to keep up with what children chose, or are asked, to read.
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What do you look for in a second-hand bookshop? For me, it’s recipe books, memoirs, autobiographies and mid-20th c fiction. You? Tell @framlinghambooks.bsky.social #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #writinglife #authorlife #skybooks #skywriters
What do you look for in a second-hand bookshop? For me, it’s recipe books, memoirs, autobiographies and mid-20th c fiction. You? Tell @framlinghambooks.bsky.social #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #writinglife #authorlife #skybooks #skywriters
We like you, please come again.
Help us be the very best second hand bookshop we can be, for our customers.
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June 26, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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What do you look for in a second-hand bookshop? For me, it’s recipe books, memoirs, autobiographies and mid-20th c fiction. You? Tell @framlinghambooks.bsky.social #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #writinglife #authorlife #skybooks #skywriters
What do you look for in a second-hand bookshop? For me, it’s recipe books, memoirs, autobiographies and mid-20th c fiction. You? Tell @framlinghambooks.bsky.social #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #writinglife #authorlife #skybooks #skywriters
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I don't think I have to tell most people who follow me why libraries are important, or that they're under threat in the UK. But I want to make sure everyone knows Lambeth libraries are going on strike and there's a solidarity hardship fund HERE linktr.ee/savelambethl... #KidlitUK #SaveLibraries
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Linktree. Make your link do more.
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June 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I don't think I have to tell most people who follow me why libraries are important, or that they're under threat in the UK. But I want to make sure everyone knows Lambeth libraries are going on strike and there's a solidarity hardship fund HERE linktr.ee/savelambethl... #KidlitUK #SaveLibraries
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Regarding the collapse of our publisher, Unbound, the authors involved (myself included) offer this statement to you. This comment aims to provide insight into the events. We encourage you to read and share it far and wide. Thank you 🙏🏽
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Opinion: The Unbound authors' view
The authors affected by the collapse of Unbound deserve real support, honest accountability and clear answers.
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June 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Regarding the collapse of our publisher, Unbound, the authors involved (myself included) offer this statement to you. This comment aims to provide insight into the events. We encourage you to read and share it far and wide. Thank you 🙏🏽
www.thebookseller.com/comment/the-...
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To stop myself chasing customers and asking them why they didn't buy anything, help me via our new post on Substack... #Booksky
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We like you, please come again.
Help us be the very best second hand bookshop we can be, for our customers.
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June 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
To stop myself chasing customers and asking them why they didn't buy anything, help me via our new post on Substack... #Booksky
open.substack.com/pub/suziegro...
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To stop myself chasing customers and asking them why they didn't buy anything, help me via our new post on Substack... #Booksky
open.substack.com/pub/suziegro...
open.substack.com/pub/suziegro...
We like you, please come again.
Help us be the very best second hand bookshop we can be, for our customers.
open.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
To stop myself chasing customers and asking them why they didn't buy anything, help me via our new post on Substack... #Booksky
open.substack.com/pub/suziegro...
open.substack.com/pub/suziegro...
It's 11.30am and we've taken just £2.50. Favourite comments on the way out: 'Thank you - it's a lovely shop', 'I'll come back with my reading glasses' 'We're staying locally so we'll come back with more time.' 'I'm so glad we've still got physical bookshops.' I feel like a tourist attraction.
June 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
It's 11.30am and we've taken just £2.50. Favourite comments on the way out: 'Thank you - it's a lovely shop', 'I'll come back with my reading glasses' 'We're staying locally so we'll come back with more time.' 'I'm so glad we've still got physical bookshops.' I feel like a tourist attraction.
A classic
"Dummy" is Portishead's debut album, blending dark, mysterious, bluesy sounds with hip hop beats. It feels both retro and ahead of its time, remaining captivating and innovative since 1994. An album that still impresses today! #cdfriday
June 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A classic
An old bookmark found in our stock is often a joy. This book token (token used, free plate not) has no date but must be 1950s perhaps?
June 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
An old bookmark found in our stock is often a joy. This book token (token used, free plate not) has no date but must be 1950s perhaps?
My Substack went crazy (really!) for this post about how to decide what we sell in the shop. Secondhand bookshops, especially tiny ones, have to make hard decisions #Booksky substack.com/home/post/p-...
What would you buy? The second-hand bookseller dilemma
Collating a bookshop shelf can be harder than you think...
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June 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
My Substack went crazy (really!) for this post about how to decide what we sell in the shop. Secondhand bookshops, especially tiny ones, have to make hard decisions #Booksky substack.com/home/post/p-...
Chris and I are both writers. My next, much-delayed book, will benefit from this! Norwich History Festival looks wonderful: Tickets are now available for Valerie Sanders: Harriet Martineau at Octagon Chapel, Norwich on Wednesday 23rd July 2025 at 6:00PM www.ticketsource.co.uk/norwichhisto...
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June 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Chris and I are both writers. My next, much-delayed book, will benefit from this! Norwich History Festival looks wonderful: Tickets are now available for Valerie Sanders: Harriet Martineau at Octagon Chapel, Norwich on Wednesday 23rd July 2025 at 6:00PM www.ticketsource.co.uk/norwichhisto...
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Free workshop + open mic alert!
As part of the Bog Challenge on Young Poets Network, we're running a double bill of online ecopoetry goodness on Saturday 5 July.
Book your space at bit.ly/BogTakeover🌟
As part of the Bog Challenge on Young Poets Network, we're running a double bill of online ecopoetry goodness on Saturday 5 July.
Book your space at bit.ly/BogTakeover🌟
June 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Free workshop + open mic alert!
As part of the Bog Challenge on Young Poets Network, we're running a double bill of online ecopoetry goodness on Saturday 5 July.
Book your space at bit.ly/BogTakeover🌟
As part of the Bog Challenge on Young Poets Network, we're running a double bill of online ecopoetry goodness on Saturday 5 July.
Book your space at bit.ly/BogTakeover🌟
As a bookseller I have found people love to read about bookshops so find some inside information on my Substack! substack.com/@suziegrogan...
Suzie Grogan | Substack
A writer, an editor, a radio presenter and a bookseller in a secondhand bookshop, I have what some call, grandly, a 'portfolio career'. My daughter calls it ‘hustling', but it is, in truth, simply a l...
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June 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
As a bookseller I have found people love to read about bookshops so find some inside information on my Substack! substack.com/@suziegrogan...
Fabulous piece and especially interesting for those of us engaged in writing crime fiction...
‘She often adds horrific details in evoking climactic violence. Readers are not permitted to shelter behind the image of a safely sanitised corpse.’
Dinah Birch on what P.D. James did to the murder mystery:
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Dinah Birch on what P.D. James did to the murder mystery:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Dinah Birch · Cosy as a Scalpel: Murder Most Delicious
Detective novels offer a means of rehearsing the fearful reality of death, and in this sense the conventions of the...
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June 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Fabulous piece and especially interesting for those of us engaged in writing crime fiction...
Oh dear, we have got to 1pm on a hot sunny day here in Framlingham without selling one book. Lots of lovely comments about the shop and long browses but no sales. Buy local, buy indie or all your 'lovely shops' (thank you for the compliment) will go out of business 😔
June 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Oh dear, we have got to 1pm on a hot sunny day here in Framlingham without selling one book. Lots of lovely comments about the shop and long browses but no sales. Buy local, buy indie or all your 'lovely shops' (thank you for the compliment) will go out of business 😔
Send us account recommendations - we'd love to follow other shops, writers, editors, and bloggers. Those who love reading and working with words are our livelihood.
June 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Send us account recommendations - we'd love to follow other shops, writers, editors, and bloggers. Those who love reading and working with words are our livelihood.
Our online sales are what keep bookselling a viable living. Although we love our little shop you can also see our whole online, collectable and rare stock via our website at www.framlinghambooks.co.uk
June 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Our online sales are what keep bookselling a viable living. Although we love our little shop you can also see our whole online, collectable and rare stock via our website at www.framlinghambooks.co.uk
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After 130 years, the British Library will symbolically reinstate the reader pass that belonged to the renowned poet and writer Oscar Wilde 👇 #BookSky
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British Library to symbolically reinstate Oscar Wilde's reader pass 130 years on
After 130 years, the British Library will symbolically reinstate the reader pass that belonged to the renowned poet and writer Oscar Wilde. The physical pass will be officially handed over to Wilde’s ...
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June 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
After 130 years, the British Library will symbolically reinstate the reader pass that belonged to the renowned poet and writer Oscar Wilde 👇 #BookSky
www.thebookseller.com/news/british...
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I'm Suzie Grogan (@keatsbabe.bsky.social)and a bookseller here. My own Bluesky was dominated by book posts anyway, so I thought the shop should get its own spotlight. We'll looks at reviews, show new acquisitions and share book shop news.
June 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I'm Suzie Grogan (@keatsbabe.bsky.social)and a bookseller here. My own Bluesky was dominated by book posts anyway, so I thought the shop should get its own spotlight. We'll looks at reviews, show new acquisitions and share book shop news.
Hello! I hope there are some bookshops on Bluesky - we are off other social media. We are a secondhand, rare and collectable shop and online presence run by brother and sister-in-law team Chris Grogan and Suzie Grogan. www.framlinghambooks.co.uk
June 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Hello! I hope there are some bookshops on Bluesky - we are off other social media. We are a secondhand, rare and collectable shop and online presence run by brother and sister-in-law team Chris Grogan and Suzie Grogan. www.framlinghambooks.co.uk