Paper Moon Bookshop

Paper Moon Bookshop Independent booksellers, Guildford

We finally have Paper Moon tote bags and we couldn’t be more EXCITED 💜 Our beautiful shop front was drawn by the amazing...
15/08/2026

We finally have Paper Moon tote bags and we couldn’t be more EXCITED 💜

Our beautiful shop front was drawn by the amazing Ati 🩵

Take a look at what we are we reading for our September book club picks 📚Written by Women📚Heaven by Mieko Kawakami🗓️ Thu...
15/08/2026

Take a look at what we are we reading for our September book club picks 📚

Written by Women
📚Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
🗓️ Thur, Sept 3 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Romance
📚 In Stormy Weather by Chelsea Curto
🗓️ Sun, Sept 6 - 2pm - 4pm

Book Awards
📚 John of John by Douglas Stuart
🗓️ Sun, Sept 13 - 10am - 12pm

Fantasy/Sci-Fi
📚 Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth
🗓️ Sun, Sept 13 - 2pm - 4pm
🗓️ Sun, Sept 20 - 10am - 12pm
🗓️ Sun, Sept 27 - 2pm - 4pm

General Fiction
📚 Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
🗓️ Sun, Sept 20 - 2pm - 4pm

Romantasy (FULL)
📚 The Castle and the Cloister (FULL)
🗓️ Sun, Sept 27 - 4pm - 6pm

Fancy signing up? ✍️ Send us an email or DM!

Welcome back to Poetry Nights at Paper Moon Bookshop!We took a break due to the very warm weather and are looking forwar...
13/08/2026

Welcome back to Poetry Nights at Paper Moon Bookshop!

We took a break due to the very warm weather and are looking forward to welcoming back Surrey’s poets.

Our Poetry Evenings will now fall on the last Friday of the month, and from October onwards we will regularly have a featured poet.

Whether you’re an experienced poet, speaking for the first time, or just looking to listen, join us for an evening of wonderful poetry.

🗓️ Friday 25th September 2026

📍Paper Moon Bookshop

⏰ From 6:30pm

💜 Elsewhere (theme)

🎟️ Available in store and online

Want to speak?

Select the ‘poet’ ticket and either drop into the shop and let a member of staff know or email us at [email protected]! Each poet has 5-8 minutes of stage time! Everyone is welcome - regardless of experience

Our ‘second-hand’ section is officially set up and ready for you to come and buy your next summer read ☀️We have had som...
11/08/2026

Our ‘second-hand’ section is officially set up and ready for you to come and buy your next summer read ☀️

We have had some wonderful donations of newly published titles such as Heart the Lover by Lily King and Solace House by Will Maclean, as well as booker winners and nominees David Szaley and Benjamin Wood!

We are now accepting donations at the shop for books you’ve loved and have no space for, or books that perhaps weren’t for you but you know someone else will enjoy!

Can you guess our bestselling items from the past year? Comment your guesses below and see how many you can get right 📚S...
08/08/2026

Can you guess our bestselling items from the past year?

Comment your guesses below and see how many you can get right 📚

Slide 1 - Paperbacks (there are two)

Slide 2 - Hardback

Slide 3 - Special Edition

Slide 4 - Merchandise

Slide 5 - Overall bestselling item

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis // Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

Quicksilver by Callie Hart (Lilac Library)

Dragon Pins by Georgina Swift

Blind Date With A Book

Paper Moon turns 1 TODAY!It is hard to believe that the dreams we discussed three years ago, when we first met, have led...
08/08/2026

Paper Moon turns 1 TODAY!

It is hard to believe that the dreams we discussed three years ago, when we first met, have led to us opening our own book shop together!

Jack and I are so proud of Paper Moon and all we have achieved this past year and we couldn’t have done it without our friends, family and wonderful customers! 

While it is not easy running an independent business in 2026, we have honestly had the best year of our lives and wouldn’t change a second of it. 

Enjoy this collection of some of our favourite memories over the past year, and fingers crossed there are many more to come.

Don’t forget to pop in today and say hi!

Hannah and Jack x 

P.S enjoy the soft launch of our newest employee Peaches 🐶

We are turning ONE on Saturday! 🎊How the year has flown by, it genuinely feels like we have only been here a month or tw...
06/08/2026

We are turning ONE on Saturday! 🎊

How the year has flown by, it genuinely feels like we have only been here a month or two!

I will save the soppy post for Saturday, but I did want to encourage you all to pop in on the weekend to say hi and celebrate with us! 🥳

We will have:

🍬 Sweets and chocolate

🏆 A mini competition guessing how many books we had on our shelves the day of opening

📚 A few bookish giveaways

⭐️ Double stamps on any hardbacks bought over the weekend!

We look forward to seeing you all this weekend 🩵

🪐 August Book of the Month ~ Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth 🪐Step into thew world of science fiction with this end-of-the-w...
06/08/2026

🪐 August Book of the Month ~ Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth 🪐

Step into thew world of science fiction with this end-of-the-world love story for our ‘August Pick of the Month’! ☄️

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Two women meet on a beach of artificial sand. One was raised in a pod in the ocean and the other may or may not be a robot. Their love—or any love—seems so unlikely. Earth is severely depopulated. Some people have given up, gone off to Mars. Others pursue eternal life as digital code. And yet others, like Dylan and Melanie, are holdouts—and some of those holdouts are constructing a vast molecular collection in hopes that a future person may be alive to make a new Earth. Foolhardy? Misguided? Quixotic? Probably. But what can a human (or a robot) do?

By the end of Unferth’s wild, poetic, revelatory, and slyly philosophical novel, the reader has travelled to the very edges of the cosmos as a “soul globule” and between grains of sand as a microscopic tardigrade. A slim book tackling big questions (is all matter conscious? will we tech ourselves into salvation, or out of existence?), Earth 7 is a poignant inquiry into death, mourning, and indefatigable life!

Grab yourself a signed and dedicated first edition copy of ‘Milk, Bread, Teeth’ by Amy Twigg. Place all orders via our w...
04/08/2026

Grab yourself a signed and dedicated first edition copy of ‘Milk, Bread, Teeth’ by Amy Twigg.

Place all orders via our website and send us an email at [email protected] with your dedication message before January 1st 2027.

Release date: 19th January 2027

ABOUT THE BOOK

Lena’s body is no longer her own. It is occupied by a growing appetite, a hunger that demands to be fed.

From inside her luxury apartment, Lena tries to appease it gorging herself day and night. Whole loaves of bread, protein shakes - tins of cat food if all else fails. When Joan, an actress on the cusp of stardom, moves into the apartment above, Lena is quick to make friends.

She soon finds herself in Joan’s orbit enjoying the trappings of wealth and privilege, the kind she has always pined for. But with the hunger demanding more and more, Lena’s carefully constructed image of herself starts to unravel. And as her appetite veers into the inedible, she must fight to remember who she is.

🩵 August Reading Challenge 💜For August, we are challenging you to read a book that has a blue or purple cover! This is t...
02/08/2026

🩵 August Reading Challenge 💜

For August, we are challenging you to read a book that has a blue or purple cover! This is to celebrate our one year opening anniversary this month!

Join in and tag us if you manage to complete this month’s challenge! There will be a special prize at the end for everyone who manages to complete all 12 📚

Let us know what you pick!

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