Village Books Company Profile

Village Books is a long-established independent bookshop that started life in the 1930’s as the Gallery Bookshop and Lending Library. Eighty years on we’re still an integral part of the local community. Now run by Hazel Broadfoot and Julian Toland, who bought the business in 1996, with our stalwart team of Tracey Kivland and Lizzie Toland. We all honed our bookselling skills as senior managers at Waterstone’s and between us we have over a hundred years of bookselling experience!

We aim to combine great books with good service – and we love the challenge of tracking down a half-remembered title. We can’t stock every title that’s in print – but we’ve got a fast, efficient ordering service with many thousands of titles available for next day delivery. Call us by 5.00pm and you can collect your order before lunch the following day. We can also source out of print and American titles.

We’ve got a busy programme of author events – in the last year we’ve welcomed novelists, historians, actors, famous cooks and children’s writers. You can sign up to our mailing list here to keep up-to-date with future events.

We’re also one of the few shops around that actually welcomes dogs – we’ve always got a supply of dog treats on hand for our canine visitors.