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Aardvark Books & Cafe

                                                                                    Welcome to Aardvark Books on Bookshop.org! 

We are delighted to be part of this successful ethical CIC/B Corp supporting independent bookselling in the UK through profit-sharing. 

Make Aardvark your favourite starting point, and you will be helping us directly when you purchase your books here.

If you can come to the borders of England and Wales, you will find our enormous 19th century barn nestling in the historic village of Brampton Bryan in beautiful Marches countryside, and inside it a tardis of books with a café in the middle! 

Our current hours are 10am-4pm Tuesday-Sunday, (Closed on Mondays, apart from Bank Holidays) 

Most of our books are listed on our own online shop: to browse our own stock of some 50,000 titles: new, rare and secondhand books online visit  https://www.aardvark-books.com/shop

Look at our lists below - we have great fun making reading recommendations: newly published or beautiful classics, and sometimes more eclectic or unusual reads. Thank you so much for your support, and happy browsing!

Good Looking Cooking: Bringing love to your kitchen table with delicious food
Mushroom Miscellany: An Illustrated Guide Featuring Fun Facts, Mushroom Profiles, Recipes & More
The Hedgerow Handbook: Recipes, Remedies and Rituals – THE NEW 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Sandy's Great Northern Cookbook: 70 Delicious Recipes for Every Occasion to Capture the Essence of the North
Biting Biting: Snacking Gujarati-Style
Knead to Know: A History of Baking
The Good Chicken Cookbook: Over 100 Delicious and Sustainable Recipes
Pulse: Truly Modern Recipes for Beans, Chickpeas and Lentils, to Tempt Meat Eaters and Vegetarians Alike
Charred: The Complete Guide to Vegetarian Grilling and Barbecue
Seared: The Ultimate Guide to Barbecuing Meat
Scorched: The Ultimate Guide to Barbecuing Fish
Honey & Co: At Home: Middle Eastern recipes from our kitchen
Honey & Co: Food from the Middle East
Fire Feasts: The Awesome BBQ Book for Feasting with Friends and Family
DJ BBQ's Backyard Baking: 50 Awesome Recipes for Baking Over Live Fire
Anderby Wold
The Land Of Green Ginger: A Virago Modern Classic
Now and Forever
Dandelion Wine
Farewell Summer
Thornyhold: A gothic romance featuring sparkling prose, delightful characterisation and classic intrigue from the Queen of the R
Nine Coaches Waiting: The twisty, unputdownable classic from the Queen of the Romantic Mystery
The Ivy Tree: The beloved love story from the Queen of Romantic Mystery
The Moon-Spinners: The perfect comforting summer read from the Queen of the Romantic Mystery
Judas Country
Venus with Pistol
Nightingale Wood
Enbury Heath
Starlight
Palladian
The Corfu Trilogy
Pietr the Latvian: Inspector Maigret #1
The Little Paris Bookshop
Cosi Fan Tutti
The Road to Oxiana
Summer's Lease
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Perseus in the Wind: A Life of Travel
The Valleys of the Assassins: A John Murray Journey
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
A Room with a View
The Fountainhead
East of Eden
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Enchanted April
Lost in the Garden
The Story Spinner
The Moonlight Market: NEVERWHERE meets STARDUST in this spellbinding new fantasy from the million copy bestseller
Hotel World
My Favourite Mistake
You Are Here: The Instant Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller, from the author of One Day
Before We Say Goodbye
Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown: 'this novel makes Henry VIII’s story feel like it has never been told before' (Tracy Borman
A Court of Betrayal: The gripping new historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author!
Overboard: V.I. Warshawski 21
Our Wives Under The Sea
The Full Moon Coffee Shop: The internationally bestselling cult Japanese novel
Blacktop Wasteland: the acclaimed and award-winning crime hit of the year
I Have Some Questions For You: 'A perfect crime' NEW YORKER
A Refiner's Fire
James: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
The Last Quarter of the Moon: A Novel
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
The Line of Beauty
Headlong
Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
The Bomber Mafia: A Tale of Innovation and Obsession
And Quiet Flows the Don
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1: The Way by Swann's
Long Island
Fish Can Sing
Earthlings
The Summer Book: A Novel
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The Marriage Portrait: the Instant Sunday Times Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
The Seventh Veil of Salome: the sumptuous historical epic from the author of MEXICAN GOTHIC
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
Nora Goes Off Script: The unmissable summer romance for fans of Beth O'Leary and Rosie Walsh!
The Switch
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
This Time Tomorrow: The tender and witty new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of All Adults Here
Tales of the Celestial Kingdom
Fourth Wing: DISCOVER THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT EVERYONE CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT!
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
If I Had Your Face: 'Assured, bold, and electrifying' Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of MALIBU RISING
Little Weirds: ‘Funny, positive, completely original and inspiring' George Saunders
Malibu Rising
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
Weyward
Heaven: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten
Kitchen
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: The international bestseller
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
DallerGut Dream Department Store: Grab your PJs and enter a magical world where healing is just a dream away
Lonely Castle in the Mirror: The no. 1 Japanese bestseller and Guardian 2021 highlight
When I Sing, Mountains Dance
Convenience Store Woman
Hard Copy: A story of girl meets printer
Poems: The Centenary Edition
The Collected Poems
The Night Circus: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
Butter
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 1
Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Hans von Luck
Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War
Never Let Me Go
The Little Drummer Girl: Now a BBC series
The Ides of April
A Home for All Seasons
Fool Moon: The Dresden Files, Book Two
Storm Front: The Dresden Files, Book One
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
George: A Magpie Memoir
Across a Waking Land: A 1,000-Mile Walk Through a British Spring
And Still theBirdSings: A Memoir of Finding Light After Loss
One Midsummer's Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
Birdwatching with Your Eyes Closed: An Introduction to Birdsong
A Bird A Day
Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong
Birdsong
Spring: 'A dazzling hymn to hope’ Observer
Birdsong
Britain's Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Second Edition, fully revised and updated
1001 Birds
Watching the Swallows: A Book of Bird Poems
Homemade Dog Food Recipes: Discover The Importance Of Healthy Dog Food & Make Your Own Natural Dog Food
New Puppy!: From New Puppy to Brilliant Family Dog
Dog Bingo
Dog-Friendly Weekends: 50 breaks in Britain for you and your dog
Marley & Me
Dog Friendly Britain: Cool Places to Stay with your Dog
Wonder Dogs: Inspirational True Stories of Real-Life Dog Heroes That Will Melt Your Heart
Doggie Language: A Dog Lover's Guide to Understanding Your Best Friend
The Pursuit of Love: With Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing
The Blessing
Hons and Rebels: The Mitford Family Memoir
The American Way Of Death Revisited
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
One Pair of Hands: From Upstairs to Downstairs, in this charming 1930s memoir
Gaudy Night: the classic Oxford college mystery
The Constant Nymph
The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters
Kazimir Malevich: The Climax of Disclosure
Sonia Delaunay: Artist of the Lost Generation
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches From Kiev
Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine
From “the Ukraine” to Ukraine: A Contemporary History of 1991-2021
The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation
English-Ukrainian & Ukrainian-English One-to-One Dictionary (exam-suitable)
Crimea
The Emigrants
On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Road to Unfreedom
The Odessans
Precious Bane
The Smile of a Ghost
Dead Man's Ransom: 9
The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
On The Black Hill
The Errant Hours
Meadowland: the private life of an English field
Howards End
Heartbreak Hotel
The Punishment She Deserves: An Inspector Lynley Novel: 20
The Stranger Diaries
The Dark Angel
The Outcast Dead: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 6
The Ghost Fields: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 7
Dying Fall: A spooky, gripping read from a bestselling author (Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 5)
The Midnight Hour: Twisty mystery from the bestselling author of The Locked Room
A Girl Called Justice: Book 1
Bleeding Heart Yard : Breathtaking new thriller from Ruth Galloway's author
The Zig Zag Girl: The Brighton Mysteries 1
The Crossing Places: Ruth Galloway's first mystery - start this megaselling series here
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
Silverland
A Month By The Sea: Encounters in Gaza
Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru
The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba
A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s
Where the Indus is Young: A Winter in Baltistan
On a Shoestring to Coorg
Tibetan Foothold
Through Siberia by Accident
The Amateur Marriage
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Digging to America
A Patchwork Planet
Searching For Caleb
Saint Maybe
Clock Dance
The Accidental Tourist
French Braid: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Redhead by the Side of the Road
Vinegar Girl
The Anonymous Venetian: The Atmospheric Murder Mystery Set in Venice
Acqua Alta: Another Intriguing Murder Mystery in the Venetian Crime Series
Friends In High Places
Uniform Justice
Fatal Remedies
The Girl of His Dreams
Drawing Conclusions
Earthly Remains
Unto Us a Son Is Given: Shortlisted for the Gold Dagger
Transient Desires
The Paris Library: the bestselling novel of courage and betrayal in Occupied Paris
Giovanni's Room
The Paris Architect: The stunning novel of WW2 Paris and the German Occupation
Murder on the Eiffel Tower: Victor Legris Bk 1
A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
Quiet Days in Clichy
Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris
Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs: Enchanting memoir of a struggling writer and an eccentric Paris bookshop
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
Mastering The Art Of French Eating: From Paris Bistros to Farmhouse Kitchens, Lessons in Food and Love
Paris to the Moon: A Family in France
Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939
Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Destination Unknown
Desert Star: The Brand New Blockbuster Ballard & Bosch Thriller
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
How to make the best coffee at home: Sunday Times bestseller from world-class barista
In Too Deep
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
The Stranger Diaries
No Plan B
A Heart Full of Headstones: The Gripping Must-Read Thriller from the No.1 Bestseller Ian Rankin
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Bad-tempered Ladybird
The Tiny Seed
From Head to Toe
The Very Busy Spider
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Mister Seahorse
Do You Want to be My Friend?
Does A Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?
The Gabriel Hounds
The Pursuit of Love: Now a major series on BBC and Prime Video directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James and Andrew Sco
Devil's Cub: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance
False Lights
Rebecca
Sense and Sensibility (Vintage Classics Austen Series)
Wuthering Heights (Vintage Classics Bronte Series)
Wicked By Design
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Best of Archy and Mehitabel
PS, I Love You
Circle Of Friends: From the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle
Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe
Dr Zhivago
Rachel's Holiday
Writing and Difference
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984
Tristes Tropiques
Society of the Spectacle
The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language
The Outsider
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Man's Fate
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
The Second Sex
A Gramsci Reader
An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida
Frank Lloyd Wright: American Master
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus
Saarinen Houses
Wells Coates
Post-Modern Buildings in Britain
Som
Niemeyer
La Maison de Verre: Pierre Chareau's Modernist Masterwork
Mies van der Rohe – The Built Work
Aalto
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Our Bauhaus: Memories of Bauhaus People
The Complete Zaha Hadid: Expanded and Updated
Learning From Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
Good Housekeeping Cookery Book: The Cook's Classic Companion
Asma's Indian Kitchen: Home-cooked food brought to you by Darjeeling Express
Mastering the Art of French Cooking Volumes 1 & 2
The National Trust Book of Scones: 50 delicious recipes and some curious crumbs of history
East: 120 Easy and Delicious Asian-inspired Vegetarian and Vegan recipes
How To Be A Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking (Nigella Collection)
Curry Easy: 175 quick, easy and delicious curry recipes from the Queen of Curry
Delia's Complete Cookery Course: kitchen classics from the Queen of Cookery
River Cottage Veg Every Day!
At Elizabeth David's Table: Her Very Best Everyday Recipes
Persepolis: Vegetarian Recipes from Peckham, Persia and beyond
The Burger Book: Banging Burgers, Sides and Sauces to Cook Indoors and Out
Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, recipes and stories.
Chinese Takeaway Cookbook: From Chop Suey to Sweet 'n' Sour, Over 70 Recipes to Re-create Your Favourites
Leiths Cookery Bible: 3rd ed.
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
American Psycho
The Black Dahlia: The first book in the classic L.A. Quartet crime series
Bright Lights, Big City
Junky
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Bizarre Mass Murderer
The Subterraneans
Hell's Angels
Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend
Trent's Last Case
To Love and Be Wise
Why Shoot a Butler?
With a Bare Bodkin
Things Fall Apart: A Novel
Foreign Affairs
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relatio
The Life and Loves of a She Devil
Misery
Bacchae
The Distance Between Us
Before She Met Me
Loving, Living, Party Going
Time Will Darken It
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