The Steyning Bookshop

19/06/2026

🐾🐾🦴 Frank would like to draw your attention to the fact that TOMORROW is the final day of Independent bookshop week - and the final day of our indie bookshop week SALE! So stop by and browse for a bargain!
📚 Grown up books at £4 paperbacks, £8 hardbacks and kids books at £3 paperbacks, £6 hardbacks!
Plus, reduced prices on some special limited edition signed hardbacks, get a free £5 high five voucher if you spend £25, and get a free Buzz biscuit when you buy a Buzz Sausage Wolf book! 🌭🐺
Frank approves of the biscuits.

19/06/2026

Two fabulous hanging baskets from the wonder that is Stonepit Nursery in Henfield. Huge thanks to Becky for personally planting them while I waited - so, so kind!! Now to go up outside the shop. Let's hope we can give them the care they deserve!

19/06/2026

😍 omg we are LOVING these cute new Richard Scarry cards from Micky Calf & Olivia Penny👨🏻‍💻👩🏼‍💻| Super Cool Paper Stuff featuring all our favourite characters including Bananas Gorilla!
Lots more new cards in store from all our favourite stockists including nice pastels from Noi Publishing more funny Ladybird cards from KissMeKwik and a top up of Snoopy and Hello Kitty cards from hype cards

18/06/2026

🦸‍♂️Uh huh, it's nearly FATHER'S DAY!
What kind of dad do YOU have?
📚We have books for every type of dad, whether yours is a 🎧music nerd, a history buff, a Rest is Politics addict, a sportsman, or a 🌍 globe-trotting traveller.
🎸From the fascinating biography of the Beta Band's mysterious frontman Steve Mason to the thrilling new narrative nonfiction by Patrick Raddon Keefe, come and have a browse!
And we have the funniest wrap! 😂

18/06/2026

🎉 Out today! Three cheers to the WONDERFUL writer for this BRILLIANT book!

👶A British Childhood should be ESSENTIAL reading for parents, grandparents, teachers and policy makers. It's a quick, easy read which is surprisingly upbeat, given the subject matter.

🇬🇧 In it, Frank takes a long, hard look at the state of childhood in contemporary Britain and sounds the alarm about the loss of community, imagination, wonder and literacy in the lives of 21st century children.

🎒Through chapters themed around iconic children's books and stages of childhood, he reflects on the connections and communities which form us, and examines the effects of poverty and austerity policies on children's lives. These often shocking statistics are interwoven with memories of his own childhood in a working class Liverpudlian neighbourhood.

👌 A 5 star read! Powerful, polemical and moving.
Pan Macmillan

13/06/2026

🐾🦴🐕it's been loads of fun having Jim Beckett at the shop today, signing copies of his super-cute new book BUZZ & THE BIRTHDAY MYSTERY 🎈🎂
🥳Lots of Buzz fans have joined in with pinning the party hats on Buzz, successfully completed the Hunt the Hat activity AND munched on yummy Buzz Biccies!
Big thanks to Jim, to Hachette Children’s Group and to all the little Buzz fans for stopping by today!
Books Are My Bag

13/06/2026

Congratulations 🎉 to Dame Julia Donaldson! A very well deserved honour for the nations favourite storyteller! 😘♥️

We are incredibly proud to announce that Julia Donaldson has been recognised in The King's Birthday Honours list! 🏅📚

Julia Donaldson has been honoured with a Damehood (DBE) to celebrate her extraordinary career. Julia has written some of the world’s best-loved children’s books including Room on the Broom, Gozzle, and of course The Gruffalo. On the 10th of September, Julia will publish the much-awaited Gruffalo Granny with illustrator Axel Scheffler, partnering with nine literacy and disability charities to bring the wonderful new story to as many children and families as possible in The National Year of Reading. 👑✨

Julia Donaldson said: "Receiving this honour has been a very happy surprise. It's really gratifying to have children's books recognised in this way. I'm so grateful for all the enthusiastic support I've had during my career from people in the book world - those in the very many libraries, schools and bookshops I've visited over the years, my wonderful illustrators, the publishers and literacy charities I've been involved with, and of course my readers. Going back further, perhaps my biggest debt of all is to the library which was in walking distance of my childhood home and the librarian who helped me discover the books and authors that I came to love. Without that place and person I probably would never have become a children's writer - let alone a Dame! So I'm making a plea to the government for more libraries and more librarians in our communities and schools, so that the current generation of children can enjoy all the benefits that reading brings."