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06/18/2026

Scenes from our afternoon tea with garden designer Jana Milbocker, to celebrate the release of her new book GARDENS OF THE GILDED AGE. We have autographed copies available.

06/16/2026

Father’s Day will be here before you know it- we’ve got books, cards and gifts to please any Dad.

06/15/2026

Thanks to everyone who came out for our Julie Schumacher luncheon (pictured here with our events coordinator Angelique and owner Gillian.)

You can find a calendar of our events on our website: https://wellesleybooks.com/events/calendar

06/12/2026

What do Maine, Soccer and Bunnies have in common? Children’s author Scott Rothman. If you are looking for some fun picture books with timely summer themes you can’t go wrong with one of these. Scott dropped by and autographed our copies of KITTYBUNKPORT, JUDGY BUNNY and SOCCER WORLD.

06/11/2026

Upcoming Events
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06/11/2026

Winners of the 2026 Women’s Prize

'The Correspondent' by Virginia Evans has won the prize for Fiction

Chair of Judges, , described it as "a remarkable novel, with an exemplary combination of originality, excellence and accessibility. It is no mean feat to write a life in letters, but Evans makes this feel effortless, asking the reader to consider the choices we make, whilst elevating an ordinary life in the most heartfelt of ways. This is a novel that captured our hearts, and should be read and savoured by all.”

'The Finest Hotel In Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan' by Lyse Doucet has won the prize for Nonfiction

Chair of Judges described it as "a perfect work of narrative non-fiction: it is not only cleverly constructed and brilliantly researched, but each and every element is handled with extraordinary sensitivity and warmth – it will move you to tears or make you laugh, or perhaps both.”

Links to the books on our website:
The Correspondent
https://wellesleybooks.com/book/9780593798430
The Finest Hotel in Kabul
https://wellesleybooks.com/book/9780735243415

06/10/2026

We’ve got World Cup Fever!⚽️ Do you?

06/08/2026

🌈Happy Pride Month-our displays are full of books and gifts to help you celebrate.

06/08/2026

Here's what Literary Hub had to say about Real Animals by Emaline Atwood coming out 7/7, our event with the author is Thursday, 7/23 at 7PM, details in the link below.

"This is a book that is a caliber above and beyond what we have come to expect from the young-twenties-girl-bildungsroman. There’s men, yes, and s*x, a lot of it, and yearning to be understood, and for power and a place in the world, but A Real Animal is about the wild, deep, feral core of those themes. It’s about something subterranean, underneath one’s lived experience, underneath, even, one’s trauma. The book follows the protagonist from college, when she experiences a horrible s*xual assault, through the next decade, as she builds and breaks relationships, as she builds and breaks a life. There is no straight line. There is no healing. But the book has this feeling about it, like there’s so much within the pages that’s just bursting to get out: a violent and powerful urge for something, for more survival, for more agency, to express one’s pain, to feel better. A Real Animal is as raw and visceral as an open-mouthed scream: you hear it in your bones. You can see its teeth. As recommended in Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 list." –Julia Hass, Book Marks Associate Editor Lit Hub.

Author Event: Emeline Atwood - "A Real Animal" Thu, 7/23/2026 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Place: Wellesley Books 82 Central St Wellesley, MA 02482-5714 Buy tickets to Author Event: Emeline Atwood - "A Real Animal" Prize-winning writer Emeline Atwood joins us to discuss her debut novel, A Real Animal, which T...

06/04/2026

Wellesley Books is thrilled to invite you to a luncheon with Dear Committee Members author Julie Schumacher to celebrate the release of her new book, Patient, Female next Friday, June 12th, at noon.

Exquisitely honest and expertly crafted, Patient, Female renders—with dark humor and wit—the foibles of human behavior and our endearing imperfections. Each protagonist—ranging from girlhood to senescence—receives her own indelible voice as she navigates social blunders, generational misunderstandings, and the absurdity of the human experience.

"Shrewd, sage, and so darkly funny." --Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had