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Little Acorns Bookstore, Derry, N Ireland

Little Acorns Bookstore is the North-west of Ireland’s largest Independent Bookstore with 60K plus books in stock, both new and used, of all genres and suitable for all ages. Specialist sections include local books (most author-signed), Irish history and politics, English literature and a dedicated children's book area (with resident guard dog mascot cuddly toy Scooby Doo that the local kids adore ). Also stock cards, gifts, local arts and crafts, retro toys and literary accessories.

 

Little Acorns Bookstore has just moved to a new premises at 18 Great James St, Derry, N Ireland which reopened on 10 April 2023.  

 

Plans to open Ireland's only (and first!) Typewriter Museum, with over 150 typewriters on display, are scheduled for early 2023. 

Home to two LegenDerry old school teacher chairs - The Writers' Chair and The Theatre & Media Chair - boasting over 350 plus signatures from such luminaries as authors, artists, musicians, actors, media personalities, 'creative politicians' and many more. 

 

The walk-in shop is open every Monday to Saturday from 10am - 6pm 

 

Accepts cash and card payments (chocolate & flowers!), in shop and online, plus can post out orders internationally. One-person business. Established in March 2011. 

 

"I  started out with just a hundred books at a weekend market and nine years later, five shop moves, (and two house moves!) and with lots of genuinely wonderful local encouragement, support, friendship, fun, coffee plus hard work - I'm living the dream!"  

 

 

Website: www.littleacornsbookstore.co.uk 

Email: [email protected] 

 

An Post BOOKSHOP OF THE YEAR - REGIONAL WINNER 2021

The British Book Awards INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP OF THE YEAR - COUNTRY FINALIST 2022 & 2023
North West Business Awards SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR - FINALIST 2022
Overall North West BUSINESS / ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR - WINNER 2022 
Derry Journal BUSINESS PERSON OF THE YEAR 2022 - FINALIST

The Bookseller Magazine - BOOKSHOP HERO 2022

Families First N Ireland Business of the Year 2022 - WINNER

Derry City Centre Initiative Christmas Windows 2022 - FINALIST
An Post BOOKSHOP OF THE YEAR - LONG LIST 2023 

The Booker Prize 2023 -  Indie Bookshop Spotlight Winner 

 

*Please NOTE that all books displayed here and on the general website are fulfilled by the main website distributor and not from Little Acorns Bookstore direct, plus all books are new titles and from publishers who supply the distributor. Any other queries, please do not hesitate to contact me via email or Facebook. Happy browsing, shopping and reading! 

Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island
Who Was Responsible for the Troubles?: The Northern Ireland Conflict
Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Without a Dog's Chance: The Nationalists of Northern Ireland and the Irish Boundary Commission, 1920-1925
The Intelligence War against the IRA
Unfinished Business: The Politics of 'Dissident' Irish Republicanism
The Arms Crisis of 1970: The Plot that Never Was
Fifty Years On: The Troubles and the Struggle for Change in Northern Ireland
Torn Apart: Fifty Years of the Troubles, 1969-2019
My Life in Loyalism
A Broad Church: The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland, 1969-1980
Reporting the Troubles 1: Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict
Northern Ireland: The Troubles: From The Provos to The Det, 1968-1998
Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2020
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
Books from the Attic: Treasures from an Irish Childhood
Burning the Books: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: A History of Knowledge Under Attack
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
The Bookseller's Tale
The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives
84 Charing Cross Road
The Bookshop
The Diary of a Bookseller
Confessions of a Bookseller: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The Librarian: The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller
The Little Paris Bookshop
The Bookshop Book
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
An Accidental Bookseller: A Personal Memoir of Foyles
Tennis Lessons
Forget Me Not
Inventory: A River, A City, A Family
Erin's Diary: An Official Derry Girls Book
Ulster Fairytales and Legends
New Selected Poems 1966-1987
New Selected Poems 1988-2013
Selected Poems
War And An Irish Town
The Jewel
Inch Levels
Oak and Stone
Bad Blood: A compelling, page-turning and current Irish crime thriller
The Liar’s Daughter
Martin McGuinness: A Life Remembered
Eggshells
Big Girl, Small Town: Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award
That Old Country Music
Home Stretch: the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the An Post Irish Popular Fiction Award
The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish short stories
Love
The Dirty South: Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the eighteenth book in the globally bestselling series
Fifty Fifty
Girl
The Women Who Ran Away: And the secrets that followed them . . .
Secrets Never Told
This Is Happiness
This Happy: Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards 2020
Exciting Times: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
The Island Child
Where the Crawdads Sing
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
The Midnight Library
Piranesi: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021
The Offing: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick
Pine: The spine-chilling Sunday Times bestseller
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: ‘A masterpiece’ – Max Porter
Circe: The stunning new anniversary edition from the author of international bestseller The Song of Achilles
Dune: now a major blockbuster film
The Haunting of Hill House
The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two: From the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials - now a major BBC se
Serpentine: A short story from the world of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust
A Gentleman in Moscow: The worldwide bestseller
A Thousand Ships: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
The Beekeeper of Aleppo: The heartbreaking tale that everyone's talking about
Outlawed: The Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
The Death of Francis Bacon
Mrs Death Misses Death
Girl A
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams: From the Booker prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
Unsettled Ground: Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2021
The City of Tears
Lean Fall Stand
Light Perpetual: 'Heartbreaking . . . a boundlessly rich novel.' Telegraph
I Couldn't Love You More
The Strays of Paris
No One Is Talking About This: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
A Net for Small Fishes
Double Blind
Bridgerton: The Duke and I (Bridgertons Book 1): The Sunday Times bestselling inspiration for the Netflix Original Series Bridge
Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons Book 2): The Sunday Times bestselling inspiration for the Netflix Original Se
Bridgerton: An Offer From A Gentleman (Bridgertons Book 3): Inspiration for Bridgerton series four
Bridgerton: To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgertons Book 5): Inspiration for the Netflix Original Series Bridgerton: Eloise's sto
Bridgerton: When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons Book 6): Inspiration for the Netflix Original Series Bridgerton
Bridgerton: On The Way To The Wedding (Bridgertons Book 8): Inspiration for the Netflix Original Series Bridgerton
The Queen's Gambit: Now a Major Netflix Drama
The Home Edit Life: The Complete Guide to Organizing Absolutely Everything at Work, at Home and On the Go, A Netflix Original Se
The Crown: The official book of the hit Netflix series
You: a absolutely addictive serial killer thriller! Now a major Netflix series
Hidden Bodies: The sequel to Netflix smash hit YOU
After
After We Collided MTI
Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess: Now a Netflix film, starring Millie Bobby Brown
The Kissing Booth
Love After Love: Winner of the 2020 Costa First Novel Award
Piranesi: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021
The Less Dead
The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award
Big Girl, Small Town: Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award
The Family Tree
All the Water in the World: Shortlisted for the COSTA First Novel Award
The Historians
Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love, Loss and Consolation
The Air Year
My Darling from the Lions
Citadel
Voyage of the Sparrowhawk: Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2020
Wranglestone
The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End (Book 15)
The Ickabog: A warm and witty fairy-tale adventure to entertain the whole family
Code Name Bananas
The Day I Fell Into a Fairytale: The smash hit classic adventure from Ben Miller
The Snow Dancer
The Boy At the Back of the Class
The Wonky Donkey
The 130-Storey Treehouse
Fearless Fairy Tales
Eco Explorers: A Planet Full of Plastic: and how you can help
The Girl Who Speaks Bear
Boy Swallows Universe
My Brother's Name is Jessica
The Boy with the Butterfly Mind
Wonder: The award-winning, multi-million-copy bestselling phenomenon
The Great Irish Farm Book
The Dead Zoo
An A to Z of an Irish Christmas: All the Craic of the Crimbo!
Eggcorns: From Bumbum Bees to Jellycopters
Aim High: Irish Sports Stars, Trailblazers and Mavericks
Deadly! Irish History - The Celts
Have You Seen the Dublin Vampire?
My First Book of Irish Wildlife
The Sleeping Giant
The One With the Waggly Tail: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood
Ulster Fairytales and Legends
The Children of Lir: Ireland's Favourite Legend
Go To Sleep, Hoglet
Irish Farm Animals
Blazing a Trail: Irish Women Who Changed the World
How to Make a Better World: For Every Kid Who Wants to Make a Difference
The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be
Fearless Fairy Tales
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales
What Are Little Girls Made of?
Stories for Kids Who Dare to be Different
Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2
Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls from Around the World
Forgotten Fairy Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World
Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win
Britannica All New Children's Encyclopedia: What We Know & What We Don't
Grow: Secrets of Our DNA
Shuggie Bain
The Shadow King
This Mournable Body: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020
Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020
Real Life
The Mirror and the Light
Who They Was
Redhead by the Side of the Road: A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKER PRIZE GEM
Love and Other Thought Experiments: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
The Lost Spells: An enchanting, beautiful book for lovers of the natural world
What We’ll Build: Plans for Our Together Future
How to Be More Paddington: A Book of Kindness
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales
The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Million-Copy Bestselling Author of The Salt Path
The Pull of the Stars: The Richard & Judy Book Club Pick and Sunday Times Bestseller
Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER
Actress
As You Were
Diary of a Young Naturalist: WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2020
Old Ireland in Colour
A Ghost In The Throat
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