NAIRN BOOKS
Nairn’s long-established independent bookshop, we’re on the High Street, at the top of the Brae.
Come visit and browse our wide selection of books for adults and children, choose greetings cards from our beautiful range, order or pre-order books - and enjoy some great bookish inspiration and advice!
We’re open Monday to Saturday 9.30 to 5pm
April 2024: We’ll soon be starting a ‘silent book club’… Watch this space for details!
Click on the image to check out our ‘local interest & local authors’ list & more on our Bookshop.org page (or come into the shop to see them in the flesh! ;)
ORDERS & PRE-ORDERS
You can order any in-print book through us (in person, by email, or by phone), as well as pre-order any forthcoming title…
CALL 01667 455528
New books/Pre-order ideas for APRIL 2024
Here are some ideas for new books out this month.
Email us or call in to order or pre-order these or any other new titles that take your fancy!
NB: Existing customers can pay on collection from the shop; anyone ordering for home delivery, please email or phone the shop to arrange payment ahead of delivery. Thank you!
Clicking on the images below takes you to our bookshop.org storefront (where you can, if you prefer, order books for delivery). But you can find (or order) these books in our shop, too, of course! Come and browse - and see what else you can find! ;)
APRIL 2024
THE FAMILIAR is out (in hardback) this month - and it’s a fantastic historical fiction laced with magic, set towards the end of the Inquisition’s hold over Europe, and with a brilliant, fierce protagonist and a range of remarkable characters. Given that anything written by Percival Everett has thus far been genius, JAMES is eagerly anticipated - a re-telling of Huckleberry Finn that no doubt uses a fair bit of humour to blast the very notion of slavery. For kids, this month the delight of Henderson’s THE BOY, THE WITCH & THE QUEEN OF SCOTS is out! :)
Both BOTANICAL SHORT STORIES and AN ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE THING have a gardening theme and look intriguing in quite different ways, as does Gabor Mate’s new book, THE MYTH OF NORMAL. With recommended reads HOW THEY BROKE BRITAIN (James O’Brien), DIVINE MIGHT (Natalie Haynes), and MUSIC IN THE DARK (Sally Magnusson) all out in paperback, and plenty excellent fiction (see the list!), April is full of great reads of all kinds…
March 2024 was an exciting month for me - and I’m quite sure there will be excellent books for everyone to enjoy! With Tana Hunter’s new novel, THE HUNTER, coming out, and a newly discovered work by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, my month is made already: two superb writers, two intriguing novels. I’d also recommend GHOST PAINS (short stories) and FRAY (which I read just recently: it’s a haunting meditation on our environment & loss) - not to mention several excellent non-fiction titles, including Jon Snow’s book, Anna Funder’s WIFEDOM (all about Orwell’s missus) in paperback, Moss’s TEN BIRDS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, and the essential Nussbaum: JUSTICE FOR ANIMALS: OUR COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY.
Want to see more recommendations from previous months? Click here!