Dogberry & Finch Books

22/08/2026

Free art print with your purchase of Messing About on the River, featuring quotes from Kenneth Grahame's iconic novel and original artwork by E.H. Shepard.

Join Mole, Ratty and Toad as they reflect on life, friendship and the natural world around them in this beautiful new hardback suitable for children and adults.

21/08/2026

Annual best-sellers have just arrived... so you can stock up and spread the cost of gifting later in the year

19/08/2026

What's new today: 2 for adults, 2 for children.

💫Smart new edition of John Berger's About Looking, with introduction by Tom Overton whose biography John Berger: From Life comes out later this month.
In About Looking which follows his seminal Ways of Seeing, Berger explores our role as observers, revealing new layers of meaning in the way we look, and altering the vision of all who read him. Perennially pertinent.

💫The Book of Beasts: Reclaiming Animal Wisdom by Elizabeth Sulis Kim, illus. Kaitlynn Copithorne.
A modern bestiary with an ancient heart: meet twelve emblematic animals and restore your relationship with the natural world, from the editor of Cunning Folk.

💫Esme Pepper by Jacqueline Wilson, illus. Rachael Dean.
When her well-meaning mum gets in trouble, Esme is placed in foster care with an elderly couple in this funny, heart-warming story about resilience.

💫The Cave Explorer by author and illustrator Kate Winter who won the 2024 Klaus Flugge Prize for her debut picture book The Fossil Hunter.
Now out in paperback, The Cave Explorer is about the discovery of the Lascaux caves, and the human need and desire to tell stories and make art.

Please buy your books from - not chains, not supermarkets, not the Zon, and help keep our bookish communities alive 🙏

18/08/2026

We're back from our break and the bookshop's now open as normal 📖

Whilst away we were lucky enough to catch a stunning exhibition by artist Candy Lopez.

Pictured is Redes Sociales (Trans. social networks)

Do you like it?

07/08/2026

Loving the retro pen and ink illustrations and papercut layering in this dreamy new children's storybook

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Big Picture Press

06/08/2026

Looking ahead to the Autumn (particularly if you have a Lottie Brooks fan in your household!) these are some of the signed, special editions to be reserving now.

At the end of this month, the third in the epic Impossible Creatures series by Katherine Rundell - The Neverfear – SIGNED, WITH SPRAYED EDGES

In September we'll be getting SIGNED copies of Richard Osman's latest crime caper We Chase Shadows (in hardback)

In October:
Lottie Brooks’s Twelve Disasters of Christmas by Katie Kirby – SIGNED INDIE-EXCLUSIVE SPRAYED-EDGE EDITION

In One Brief Moment All Eternity by Elif Shafak - SIGNED INDIE-EXCLUSIVE EDITION

Peck & Peck - SIGNED INDIE-EXCLUSIVE - the irresistible new novel from Bonnie Garmus, the author of global bestseller Lessons in Chemistry

For these and more, head to link below:

If you can’t see the book you are looking for, don’t hesitate to contact us. With access to over 500,000 titles, if a book is in print, we can almost certainly get it for you.

04/08/2026

The bookshop will be closed from
4pm on Saturday 8th August
to
10am on Tuesday 18th August.

Please come by this week to collect your orders, and to stock up on and the best kind of portable children's entertainment 📖

Photo credit Glavind Strachan Photography

03/08/2026

The Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize winner will be chosen soon on 17 September from the following shortlist:

💫The Fertile Earth by Ruthvika Rao - purchased before we could even get it on the shelf (back in tomorrow).
💫The Tarot Reader of Versailles by Anya Bergman
💫Esperance by Adam Oyebanji
💫Boudicca's Daughter by Elodie Harper
💫Poor Girls by Clare Whitfield
💫White Road by Harry Whitehead

Which of these amazing adventures are you diving into first?

We now have a dedicated adventure writing display featuring the shortlisted books and other brilliant adventure stories, so take your pick and transport your imagination to uncharted lands this summer.

The Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation Gardners

31/07/2026

This year's Longlist has just been announced, the thirteen titles that make up The Booker Dozen.
Browse and order through our link to support us:
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/DogberryFinchBooks

You can also order directly from the bookshop in St James Street or via our website www.dogberryandfinch.co.uk

"One of the many important things about fiction is that it helps us see what it might be like not to be us, to begin to understand the perspectives of others, and to imagine what it might be like to see the world differently… In their various ways, the novels we have chosen are (we hope) dynamite"
Mary Beard, 2026 Chair of Judges

31/07/2026

Did you know? You can now get your audiobooks from bookshop.org too, and this weekend is the perfect time to have a bit of an online browse (link below).
When you buy ANY physical book, audiobook, ebook, or gift card 30 July-2 Aug, you'll be in with a chance to win a £250 bookshop.org gift card 🎧📖👌

Here's the link:
https://uk.bookshop.org/info/audiobooks?affiliate=62