The Idler

Nature of company:
Bookshop

Contact person:
Bryan and Jane Haylock

Profile summary:
Established over 30 years ago we sell new and secondhand books, Book Tokens, artists materials, greetings cards and Naxos CDs.

Profile:
We sell leading makes of art materials including canvases, mountboard, and a range of water colour papers and modestly priced paints and brushes for the craftworker. As well as new books we stock a wide ranging selection of secondhand and remaindered books. We operate a book search service for out of print books and can supply new books to order.
Our customers frequently tell us that we have the best selection of greetings cards in Hadleigh. Our range of Art Angel greetings cards feature works of well-known printmakers,many of them local artists,and is perhaps the most popular selection of greetings cards we have ever stocked.
The new electronic Book Tokens are now available. These have the advantage of being obtainable in any value rather than the five pound increments of the old Voucher scheme.They are,of course,accepted in most bookshops through the UK
(The old paper vouchers are still valid)

NOW IN STOCK;
Still selling well is"Suffolk Coast from the Air".and its companion volume "Suffolk Coast from the Air 2". The story of the Hadleigh Branch Line £13.95. "Suffolk Ghosts and Legends" and Ordnance Survey Maps of the local area.
Just published; George Ewart Evans's "Ask The Fellows Who Cut the Hay" in an exciting new edition illustrated by David Gentleman, £25.00. David Kindred's "Hadleigh, a portrait of a Suffolk Town," which is a selection of photographs taken over the years by the late Peter Boulton sells steadily at £12.95.
Railway enthusiasts are thrilled by the appearance of Malcolm White's new book; "The Railways of Suffolk" This features some photographs of Hadleigh railway station.
. The success of the children's book "War Horse" which is a best seller nationally has prompted Halsgrove, to publish "War Horses" which tells the true story of horses used in various conflicts around the world. At £19.99 It is lavishly illustrated and presented as are all the Halsgrove publications.Also new from the same publisher at £14.99 is "The Suffolk Coast"
James Chambury was one of Hadleigh's leading artists and a customer at The Idler. His daughters have recently edited a book containing a selection of his work, many of East Anglia and some of the work he did in The Oman. This excellent book is now available at The Idler
We hold a large stock of publisher's remainder books. These are books which are sold off by the publishers at roughly half-price in order to clear their warehouses. We are constantly adding to this stock which covers a wide range of subjects.
This is Charles Dickens Bi-Centenery year and we have a good selection of second-hand books by Dickens at very reasonable prices.
We have a large stock of second-hand books on the Second World War and a recent purchase has widened our sock of Giles Annuals, several early volumes are now available. We have a poetry section which is very popular and as we sell Art Materials we have a great number of Art Books including art instruction books.

The shop is open from 9.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Monday to Saturday, with early closing Wednesday at 1.00 p.m.

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