Truman Books

Truman Books Independent book shop and café in Farsley, West Leeds, Yorkshire.

👂 Celebrate   with us and Libro.fm📖 Did you know you can support our bookshop with audiobooks? 📚 Use code INDIEBOOKSHOPW...
05/06/2026

👂 Celebrate with us and Libro.fm

📖 Did you know you can support our bookshop with audiobooks?

📚 Use code INDIEBOOKSHOPWEEK when signing up for a new Libro.fm one-credit per month membership, and you’ll get three audiobooks for the price of one. This is a great way to support us all year round.

🔗 libro.fm/bookshopweekbookshop=trumanbooks

🧑‍🧑‍🧒A family that reads together, grows together…📚 We love these books stacks from the Lane Family.5️⃣ If you haven’t s...
04/06/2026

🧑‍🧑‍🧒A family that reads together, grows together…

📚 We love these books stacks from the Lane Family.

5️⃣ If you haven’t sent us your Top 5 reads of the last 5 years yet, you have until Sunday.

👍 We’ll be using your recommendations to create displays in the shop for our 5th birthday celebrations. From the 15th - 28th June, you’ll be able to come and have a look at favourite reads as voted for by members of our lovely community.

👶 Jemima’s Top 5 (age 9 months)

🐛 The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
🐕 Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy - Lynley Dodd
🐉 Never Touch a Dragon - Rosie Greening
👒 I Want My Hat Back - Jon Klassen
🥣 The Café at the Edge of the Woods - Mikey Please

👩Helen’s Top 5 (age 33)

🥐 One More Croissant for the Road - Felicity Cloake
📜 Hamnet- Maggie O'Farrell
📓The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
🦜Still Life - Sarah Winman
👩‍🍳 The Secret of Cooking - Bee Wilson

Joe’s Top 5 (age 33 1/2)

⭐️ Morning Star - Pierce Brown
🐈‍⬛ Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman
📝He Used Thought as a Wife. An Anthology of Poems and Conversations (From Inside) - Tim Key
🏺Glorious Exploits - Ferdia Lennon
🍃 Lanny - Max Porter

💬 Come and join the conversation next TUESDAY…😳 Did you know that an estimated 80% of all people displaced by climate ch...
04/06/2026

💬 Come and join the conversation next TUESDAY…

😳 Did you know that an estimated 80% of all people displaced by climate change are women and girls?

🗓️By 2050, climate impacts could push up to 158 million more women and girls into extreme poverty.

🔥 This is something human rights campaigner Natasha Walter explores in her new book ‘Feminism for a World on Fire’.

🔥 An Evening of Feminism and Flourishing Futures with Natasha Walter
🗓️ Tues 9th June
⏰ 7pm (Doors @ 6pm)
📍 Cargo Wines - Farsley
💰 £22 - £30
🎟️ trumanbooks.co.uk/events

✍️ Pre-order your signed indie exclusive ahead of its release in October. Click the image - limited copies available! 🪫P...
03/06/2026

✍️ Pre-order your signed indie exclusive ahead of its release in October. Click the image - limited copies available!

🪫POWER UP with the electrifying new videogame adventure from multi-million-copy-bestselling author, and McFly musician Tom Fletcher!

💥 Laugh-out-loud funny, fast-paced and exciting, and full of brilliant illustrations, this is the hotly anticipated follow-up to the much-loved mega-bestseller THE DANGER GANG.

🎮 Get ready for the next level of adventure . . .

👏 An amazing night with Comedian Suzi Ruffell at The Old Woollen.🤭 Many of the audience members had followed her career ...
03/06/2026

👏 An amazing night with Comedian Suzi Ruffell at The Old Woollen.

🤭 Many of the audience members had followed her career and been to her stand up shows, and last night was a fantastic opportunity for them to find out more about Suzi and her book, ‘Am I Having Fun Now?’

📖 Suzi spoke openly and candidly, just as she does in her memoir, detailing how her life has been shaped by her anxieties.

📚 She explained how she has always found companionship in books and how she’s always looked for a book that would make her feel less alone in her anxiety and make her laugh. She decided she wanted to put just that, out there for others.

🛳️ We heard everything; from her realisation that she was gay when she was eleven, when she was exposed to a certain Kate Winslet scene in Titanic, to how flying over to Canada to do a standup show, should have been an adventure but she was crippled by a crisis of anxiety and hid away in her bedroom.

✍️ Suzi’s book is a relatable read and we now have signed copies in the bookshop. Take in her personal reflections on work-life balance, navigating stress and treating anxiety as an inevitable companion rather than an enemy.

❤️ Honest, moving and of course very funny, Suzi’s book is a reflection of our delightful evening spent in her company.

❓What were you reading in May? 📚 The Truman Books Top 10 Bestsellers of last month are…⛪️ A Plot to Die For - Ardal O’Ha...
02/06/2026

❓What were you reading in May?

📚 The Truman Books Top 10 Bestsellers of last month are…

⛪️ A Plot to Die For - Ardal O’Hanlon
🙋🏿‍♀️The Mercy Step - Marcia Hutchinson
🐄 Yesteryear - Caro Claire Burke
🤌 The Power - Naomi Alderman
☠️ The Women are not Fine - Hope Reese
👶 The Names - Florence Knapp
🦊 The Impossible Fortune - Richard Osman
🚊 The Midnight Train - Matt Haig
👽 The Unlikely Diary of Prince Kal the Alien - Ross Welford
🦅The Book of Birds - Jackie Morris & Robert Macfarlane

👋 Introducing Andy and David. 📚 When Andy’s not in the hot tub with a beer and David’s not spending time with his dog, t...
02/06/2026

👋 Introducing Andy and David.

📚 When Andy’s not in the hot tub with a beer and David’s not spending time with his dog, these two are busy talking books.

📕 Andy is a Sales Rep for Macmillan and David for Bloomsbury. They pop into the shop on a monthly basis to tell us what’s coming in the world of books. Their job is to pick out which books from their publishing houses deserve to be highlighted, and in particular, which will work for our bookshop, and for you, our customers.

5️⃣ As sales reps, they wade through the enormous amount of books being published each season. Did that make picking their Top 5 books of the last 5 years, easier or harder?

🥱David said, “I know I’ll think of many other books I could have included, and this will keep me awake at night!”

📚 Andy’s Top 5 📚

🐦 Sparrow - James Hynes
☀️ Juice - Tim Winton
👶 Time of The Child - Niall Williams
📖The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut
📒Glorious Exploits - Ferdia Lennon

📚 David’s Top 5 📚

✝️Cuddy - Benjamin Myers
👯 Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie
👩‍🔬 Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe
🇷🇺Goodbye to Russia - Sarah Rainsford
💛Chapters - Tim Key

🗓️ All Juned up and everywhere to go! 📚 Which of our author events will you be coming to this month?ℹ️ See all the info ...
01/06/2026

🗓️ All Juned up and everywhere to go!

📚 Which of our author events will you be coming to this month?

ℹ️ See all the info and get your tickets @ trumanbooks.co.uk/events 🎟️

📚 New month. New read 📚 📕 Come and join us at our Book Club at Cargo this month. We’re reading ‘The Power’ by Naomi Alde...
01/06/2026

📚 New month. New read 📚

📕 Come and join us at our Book Club at Cargo this month. We’re reading ‘The Power’ by Naomi Alderman.

🗓️ Wed 10th or Tues 30th June
⏰ 6.30pm for a 7pm start
🎟️ trumanbooks.co.uk/events

🍷 It’s £18 a ticket which includes a copy of the book (or if you have it already a £10 voucher for the shop) and your first drink.

🫰All over the world women are discovering they have the power. With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain – even death. Suddenly, every man on the planet finds they’ve lost control. The Day of the Girls has arrived – but where will it end….

☀️ What an absolutely amazing turnout for the Farsley Big Read yesterday! It was a gorgeous booky read on Weaver’s Lawn....
01/06/2026

☀️ What an absolutely amazing turnout for the Farsley Big Read yesterday! It was a gorgeous booky read on Weaver’s Lawn.

📚 We simply invited you to turn up with your book and look how many of you came. What a fantastic community of book lovers we have.

📕 If you enjoyed the awesome vibes and excellent book chat, or that sounds right up your street, you might want to join us at our Book Club.

🗓️ We run two dates a month and in June, we’re reading ‘The Power’ by Naomi Alderman. We meet at Cargo Wines - Farsley and we’d love to see you.

ℹ️ Find out more about how to come onboard and how it works @ trumanbooks.co.uk/trumans-book-club-social

Address

95 Town Street, Farsley
Leeds
LS285HX

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday 9am - 4:30pm
Sunday 11am - 3pm

Telephone

+441138056019

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