Only Make Believe

Only Make Believe A dream of a bookshop that became a reality in April 2025. Thursday - Sunday.

The one where Jude goes wild at the trade show buying glorious stock for Christmas šŸ¤©
14/09/2026

The one where Jude goes wild at the trade show buying glorious stock for Christmas šŸ¤©

The review is in from one of my junior reviewers! What did E think of Henrik Jekyll? Read it if you dare !!!!!
12/09/2026

The review is in from one of my junior reviewers!
What did E think of Henrik Jekyll? Read it if you dare !!!!!

Thank you to everyone who donated to our book drive for Childrenā€™s Book Project Boxes of brilliant, gently-loved childr...
11/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who donated to our book drive for Childrenā€™s Book Project Boxes of brilliant, gently-loved childrenā€™s books were collected today to be passed on to children who may not own a single book of their own.
We are doing one more drive before Christmas. So if you are doing a pre-C clear out, please donate your childrenā€™s books in store. ā¤ļø šŸ“•

10/09/2026

Itā€™s publication day for Gruffalo Granny!!!!
Come and join us for the next instalment šŸ¤©


08/09/2026

Can I resist another independent bookshop.
Absolutely not!
Did I buy a book?
Yes. Yes I did.
It was lovely to meet the team today.

This genuinely happened this afternoon and left every single person involved full of the warm fuzzy feelings. If you se...
06/09/2026

This genuinely happened this afternoon and left every single person involved full of the warm fuzzy feelings. If you see this, book fairy, please know that buying that book had a huge impact on the young girl and EVERYONE who saw her get the news.
You are a very, very good person! Jude x

06/09/2026

Nobody does it better.
Thank you to everyone who came to Pride story time yesterday. We were in awe of and thrilled to gift her a copy of .sharratt brilliant ā€˜Shark in the parkā€™
It has never sounded so good šŸ¤©

05/09/2026

The splendid enthralling our youngest readers. Sheā€™s back again at 4.15 ā¤ļø

05/09/2026

Whooooooooo will be sitting on our giant shoe for story time in just 15 minutes???????

04/09/2026

We ALWAYS have LGBTQ+ books in our shop but itā€™s lovely to have a selection front and centre in celebration of Merton Pride Come along tomorrow to share in the most joyful celebration of love - in all its wacky guises šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆšŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø

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6, The Coles Shop, Merton Abbey Mills
London
SW192RD

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