Central Bookshop Mw

01/03/2025

A refreshing afternoon in my first online bookclub meeting of 2025 to discuss The Wedding People" by .espach

This was one of two books that I chose without requesting votes from my members to start the year... It was a no brainer...
The title flood my inbox through marketing from all angles confidently naming it the next global top seller, reading awards nominated it for best fiction and obviously social media was overloaded with anything that had the words "The. Wedding. And People" 😀

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, alone.
She is on a mission to commit su***de.
Immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event.

Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself.

Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.

In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, .espach The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

A relatable, real, deep few hundred pages unravelling emotions of grief, pain, insecurities, pride, honesty, loneliness, infidelity, confidence, embarrassment, struggles, compatibility vs incompatibility, sacrifice...

We reckon there should be a Sequel .espach ❤️
WE WANT MORE 😀

10/05/2024

Goodreads Choice Award

Winner for Best Fiction (2023)

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from , the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel.

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.

So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I.

So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn’t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That’s what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.

But June can’t get away from Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June’s (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.

With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.

16/12/2023

Our beautiful 2024 diaries have arrived!
We have a few page a day, a few week to view, a few slim and a few pocket diaries 🙂

16/12/2023

We have a variety of stock now displayed on the shelves and ready for purchase! Our gifting ranges from:

1) children's reading books
2) children's activity books
3) children's craft kits
4) children's educational kits
5) adult fiction books
6) non fiction books
7) business, motivational, self help, psychology, philosophy, leadership, and inspirational books
8) books on war
9) biographies and autobiographies
10) adult craft kits
11) desk game sets
12) greeting cards and wrapping paper
13) stationary
15) journals
17) 2024 diaries.. And so much more....

04/11/2023

That time of the year again!
Always a pleasure to participate at Xmas Bazaar showcasing our beautiful stock ranging from children's reading books, educational craft kits, adult fiction, nonfiction, motivational and business books, and lots lots more!

25/09/2023

18/09/2023

10/09/2023

Available in stock

28/08/2023

💑 Think you know the person you married? Think again…

📝 Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs.

👥 They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after.

💍 Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget.