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BOOKSELLER OF THE YEAR 2010
7 Lavant Street
Petersfield, Hampshire
(01730) 261199
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Whether you want to visit our newly opened first floor for classical music, travel and reference, relax with a cappucino in the One Tree cafe on the ground floor or just browse our comprehensive range of fiction, we look forward to your visit. We are able to order any British book in print and are happy to send it anywhere in the world. We also stock a broad range of greetings cards, wrapping paper, stationery, jigsaws and board games, both traditional and new. To find out more about gift ideas phone, fax, or email us. Click on CONTACT US for all of our contact details. For some tips on the best new fiction, click on Tim's list, but best of all come and see the shop in Lavant Street Petersfield.
 
There are some real crackers just out and in particular 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet' by David Mitchell (that's the Cloud Atlas one not the funny guy). This is an absolutely terrific read - all the skilful technique and fabulous prose of his previous books but without the weirdness and trickery. It is set in 1800 in a Dutch trading post on a Japanese island and is a real page-turner. Jonathan Coe has produced 'The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim' - his latest commentary on comtemporary Britain. It doesn't have the scope of 'The Rotter's Club' but has wit and energy. Still on fiction, William Trevor's 'Love and Summer' maintains his postition as one of our prominent writers in English. It is a typical Trevor mystery with the usual menace and a brilliant cast of characters. Next to the story of a horse. 'Eclipse' by Nicholas Clee is the hugely entertaining story of Dennis O'Kelly (no relation), his mistress, the madam of London's most notorious house of ill-repute and the horse that changed racing. As the Observer noted, part Flashman at the races, part Seabiscuit without the schmaltz. 
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