Walter Henry's
Bideford's independent bookshop
Covid Update
We are now very happily open for business 9-5pm Monday to Saturday and we look forward to welcoming you into the shop. Face masks, hand sanitiser and social distancing are required.
About us
We are an independent bookshop in North Devon who thrive on good customer service and a love of good books. We’d love you to come and visit us in the shop but feel free to make any enquiries or order books direct from us, either to be sent to you or to collect, see our contact details below.
We have partnered with Bookshop.org which allows independent bookshops to provide a more ethical online alternative to Amazon. If you enter the site via Walter Henry’s we get a good share of the profits, not quite as good as we would if you were to come to us direct but definitely enough to make it viable for us.
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Recommended Books
Books we
really like at
the moment!
Winning multiple awards and from the author of Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four. One Two Three Four traces the chance fusion of the four key elements that made up The Beatles: fire (John), water (Paul), air (George) and earth (Ringo). It also tells the bizarre and often unfortunate tales of the disparate and colourful people within their orbit with a mixture of history, etymology, diaries, autobiography, fan letters, essays, parallel lives, party lists, charts, interviews, announcements and stories. One Two Three Four joyfully echoes the frenetic hurly-burly of an era. .
£9.99 - Paperback
The stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. It traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.
£9.99 - Paperback
When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching - for the men involved and for their families back home. Robert 'Doc' Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them.
Award-winning novelist Jon McGregor returns with a stunning novel that mesmerizingly and tenderly unpicks the notion of heroism and explores the indomitable human impulse to tell our stories - even when words fail us.
£14.99 Hardback
An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe. In his follow-up to the bestselling Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori takes another trip across the globe, bringing to life the science of plants by revealing how their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history, culture and folklore. From the seemingly familiar tomato and dandelion to the eerie mandrake and Spanish 'moss' of Louisiana, each of these stories is full of surprises.
£20 - Hardback
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly-changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
£20 - Hardback
In Tales From the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda takes readers on an evocative journey to Ravenseat, where she lives with husband Clive and their nine children, not to mention their flock of sheep, herd of cows, hardworking dogs and a formidable chicken called Linda. Covering events from 2019 through to early 2021, Amanda describes saving the life of a newborn calf on New Year's Eve and watching, mouth agape, as their livestock trailer was swept away by floodwater in March.
£12.99 - Hardback
In Helgoland Carlo Rovelli tells the story of the birth of quantum physics and its bright young founders who were to become some of the most famous Nobel winners in science.
It is a celebration of youthful rebellion and intellectual revolution. An invitation to a magical place. Here Rovelli illuminates competing interpretations of this science and offers his own original view, describing the world we touch as a fabric woven by relations.
£20 - Hardback
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Address:12 High Street,
Bideford, Devon,
EX39 2AA