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The 12 days of Christmas

What will your true love give to you?

We’ve got ideas aplenty here at your local bookshop
Twelve festive must-reads

Eleven wooden beauties 

Ten children’s favourites

Nine cracking fun games

Eight soft and cuddlies

Seven arty-crafties

Six handmade one-offs

Five proud Mancunians

Four gorgeous notebooks

Three musical treats

Two scented candles

And a gift of the gift of reading!

Merry Christmas from us all at Urmston Bookshop!Call in and see us over the festive season for a little bit of local, independent shopping magic

Dr Rangan Chatterjee is back in the house

It only takes 5 minutes to start changing your life. For good.

Dr Chatterjee will join us to talk about his new book and to give some inspirational tips to lose weight, improve sleep, and much more.

Wednesday 15th January

7:30pm

Urmston Library

Dr Rangan Chatterjee is regarded as one of the most influential doctors in the UK. A practising GP for the last two decades and resident BBC Breakfast doctor, Dr Chatterjee wants to inspire people to transform their health through making small, sustainable changes to their lifestyles. Host of the No. 1 iTunes podcast, Feel Better, Live More, and presenter of BBC 1’s Doctor in the House, Dr Chatterjee is the author of two Sunday Times bestselling books and his TED talk, How to Make Diseases Disappear, has now been viewed over 1.8 million times. 

Tickets cost £5.00; this includes a glass of wine.

To buy your ticket: call in to the bookshop, phone us on 0161 747 7442, or email books@urmston-bookshop.co.uk. You can also buy your ticket via Eventbrite.

An evening with Jordan Wylie

Tuesday 12th November

7pm
Jordan Wylie is a former soldier, bestselling author, extreme adventurer and also one of the stars of Channel 4’s BAFTA nominated shows Hunted and Celebrity Hunted.

Growing up on the largest council estate in the UK, Jordan left school early with no qualifications to his name but took the life-changing decision to join the British Army at 16 years old. 

Jordan has since gone on to successfully complete numerous major charity expeditions, including the highly publicised Running Dangerously, which saw him run through Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, and Barefoot Warrior which involved climbing Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, completely barefoot! He has raised over a million pounds for charity and some of his expeditions have been made into documentaries on Sky TV.

A determined, fearless adventurer and an inspiring man

– Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE

Tickets are £3 and inc glass of wine and is redeemable against the cost of a book

Call 0161 747 7442 or email books@urmston-bookshop.co.uk

An evening of crime


Marnie RichesTightrope is the first outing for flawed but fabulous PI, Bev Saunders, who takes on a corrupt politician although she becomes the one being hunted.
I stayed up super-late last night racing to the end, hardly daring to breathe‘ Gill Paul, author of The Secret Wife.
Come and meet the award-winning, best-selling Marnie here for a double act of crime!


Paul Finch is a former cop and journalist, now turned full-time writer. He started his career penning episodes of the British drama, The Bill, and has written extensively in the field of film, audio drama and children’s animation. 
The Sunday Times bestseller will be here to talk about his latest nail-shredding thriller, Stolen – a must for all fans of Happy Valley and M.J. Arlidge.

The Song of Peterloo

The heartbreaking historical tale of courage in the face of tragedy

Come and meet local author Carolyn O’Brien as she talks about the inspiration for her powerful new novel.

The Song of Peterloo tells the dramatic story of Manchester mill-worker, Nancy Kay. Desperate to provide for her ailing mother and sensitive son, Nancy is drawn into the agitation for reform. But as she risks everything to attend a great assembly on St Peter’s Field, Nancy is unaware the day will go down in history not as triumph, but as tragedy; the Peterloo massacre.

Carolyn will be here on Thursday 19th September at 7pm.

Tickets cost £3.00 – this includes a glass of wine and is redeemable against the cost of a book on the evening.