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05/06/2026

We can’t wait for the Women’s Prize winners to be announced. Which were your favourites from the shortlists?

In case you missed one or two, here’s a reminder of the contenders:

Women’s Prize for Fiction
📖 Flashlight by Susan Choi
📖 Dominion by Addie E. Citchens
📖 The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
📖 The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson
📖 Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly
📖 Heart the Lover by Lily King

Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
📖 The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet
📖 Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health by Daisy Fancourt
📖 Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The lives and loves of Gwen and Augustus John
📖 Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War by Jane Rogoyska
📖 Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
📖 Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century by Ece Temelkuran


02/06/2026

We love a book list, and The Guardian’s recent 100 Best Novels, ‘as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide’ had us checking our shelves.

From The Road (No. 100) to Dracula, Giovanni’s Room to Nineteen Eighty-Four, Beloved to Wuthering Heights, Wolf Hall to Middlemarch (hands-down John’s No. 1) it reminded us of stories we’ve loved for years - Half of a Yellow Sun! And so many we’ve still to read.

What’s top of your list? Visit our beautifully stocked store - the independent bookshop on High Street.
We’re particularly strong on classics 🎩



29/05/2026

📦 The arrival of new boxes is always a thrill, especially on a Friday!
Each delivery tends to be a mix of customer orders, hot-off-the-press newbies and something quietly beautiful, like Seascraper by Benjamin Wood.

Here’s what John’s just unpacked; much more to come in the weeks ahead:

📖 The Light Remains by Samantha Keller
📖 Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt
📖 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
📖 Grootbos Florilegium by Sean Privett and 44 Botanical Artists
📖 The Myth of American Idealism by Noam Chomsky & Nathan J. Robinson
📖 When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén
📖 Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
📖 How the World Works by Noam Chomsky

Happy weekend reading ❤️


🥳 Join our next Cookbook & Supper Club this Thursday, hosted by CanD’s Kitchen.The Book Cottage’s John Morris shares som...
26/05/2026

🥳 Join our next Cookbook & Supper Club this Thursday, hosted by CanD’s Kitchen.

The Book Cottage’s John Morris shares some excellent books on World War II, inspired by his love of history and music.

Don’t miss a fireside evening of good eats, great reads and fine company 🍷🔥

Bookings through CanD’s Kitchen

We’re diving into Friday with three fabulous new books!📖 Rory: The Heartache and Truth of Golf’s Most Human Superstar. A...
22/05/2026

We’re diving into Friday with three fabulous new books!

📖 Rory: The Heartache and Truth of Golf’s Most Human Superstar.
Arguably the sport’s most eloquent ambassador and a transcendent talent, McIlroy remains a complex and vulnerable sporting hero.

Biographer Alan Shipnuck examines his prolific career, including his vociferous stance on the LIV tour, his many golfing demons and phenomenal Masters win.

📖 Colm Toibin’s The News from Dublin is a collection of beautiful short stories about ‘the complexities of family, longing, loss and love.’

Told with powerful restraint, the nine stories cross eras and nations from Ireland and Spain to Argentina and the US.
A poignant must-have from one of our favourite authors.

📖 Statecraft by Jack Watling is a timely non-fiction read. It examines the world’s intense competition for power, and asks how do smaller states shape world events when dwarfed by superpowers.
From Iran to the Ukraine, the Arctic to Taiwan, it’s a compelling framework for understanding an increasingly divided world.




🔥 Hope Rises is Baldacci’s heart-stopping new thriller and the sequel to Nash Falls.‘The once gentle and sensitive Walte...
13/05/2026

🔥 Hope Rises is Baldacci’s heart-stopping new thriller and the sequel to Nash Falls.

‘The once gentle and sensitive Walter Nash has transformed himself into something he never thought he’d be. Lethal.
And now he has only one goal: taking down master criminal Victoria Steers.’
Expect killer twists and heroes to believe in.

🔥 Lynda la Plante’s Sacrifice is the latest in the unputdownable DC Jack Warr series.

‘Warr leads Scotland Yard’s fledgling anti-fraud unit, and its survival hinges on exposing a suspected forgery - a multimillion-dollar masterpiece.

When his informant is brutally murdered, Jack’s hunt spirals into obsession.’


This June marks the 50th anniversary of the Soweto student uprising. In The End of Normal, Max du Preez, veteran journal...
08/05/2026

This June marks the 50th anniversary of the Soweto student uprising.

In The End of Normal, Max du Preez, veteran journalist and founder of the former Vrye Weekblad, chronicles the road to democracy after 16 June 1976.

Du Preez will be in conversation with Adriaan Basson at FynArts Festival on 11 June, together with authors Pieter du Toit and Anthony Butler.
Book now at Webtickets

Merry Christmas from The Book Cottage 🎄and thank you to all who’ve supported us this year by buying books, joining our e...
25/12/2025

Merry Christmas from The Book Cottage 🎄and thank you to all who’ve supported us this year by buying books, joining our events, and sharing your love of reading 📖✨

Wishing you a day of comfort, good cheer, and a story worth staying up past your bedtime for.

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