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Astor's Bookshop & Art Materials

A charming locally owned independent bookshop in Chagford, West Devon. We stock a personally curated wide range of new books for adults and children. We are a community space and actively encourage lengthy browsing, we invite you in to discover and chat about books. We promise no algorithms are used here and we will never send you a follow up email suggesting you may like 'this or that' because you made a purchase from the shop. 

 

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Astor's Bookshop Pick of the Latest Releases
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Perfection
The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time
Caledonian Road: The Sunday Times bestseller
The Last Truths We Told: 'Seriously good' Sarah Vaughan
The End of Drum-Time: 'Sweeping Sami Epic' Guardian
The Challenges of Democracy: And The Rule of Law
Piglet
Slum Boy: 'One of the most moving accounts of non-fiction ever written' GUARDIAN
Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity’s Common Interests in Space
Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Three Days in June
The Wardrobe Department
We Do Not Part
Beartooth
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Astor's Bookshop Fiction Recommendations:
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Carrion Crow
Clear
Pity
The Cafe with No Name
Dream Count
My Friends
Lost in the Garden
Eurotrash - A Novel
Three Burials
Everyone I Know is Dying
Mongrel: 'So beautiful ... It must be read' - LISA TADDEO
James
Levitation for Beginners: SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO FICTION PRIZE 2024
Piglet
Hard by a Great Forest
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Astor's Bookshop Natural History Selections:
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The Book of Garden Flowers
Lost Gardens of the World: An Atlas of Forgotten Horticultural Treasures
Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes
My Head For A Tree: The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, the World’s First Eco-Warriors
Rough Patch: How a Year in the Garden Brought Me Back to Life
An Almost Impossible Thing: The radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners
Intertidal: The hidden world between land and sea
The Great Auk: Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication
England: A Natural History
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance
Renaturing: Small Ways to Wild the World
The Curious Life of the Cuckoo
Raising Hare: The heart-warming true story of an unlikely friendship
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What the Astor's Bookshop Team is Currently Reading:
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The List of Suspicious Things
Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time
Geomancer: The Storm and the Sea Hawk: An epic fantasy adventure from a bestselling author
The Beck
Molloy: Introduced by Colm Toibin
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
Conclave
The Three Graces: 'The book everybody should be reading this summer' Andrew O'Hagan
Wellness
Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves
Why We Swim
The Moth and the Mountain: Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2021
The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
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Astor's Bookshop Bookclub Reads:
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Apeirogon: a novel about Israel, Palestine and shared grief, nominated for the 2020 Booker Prize
Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
The Swimmers
Butter
Orbital
Pew
Olga Dies Dreaming
Time Song: Searching for Doggerland
The Lamplighters
Unquiet
Nervous Conditions
Lessons in Chemistry
Quicksand
Still Life
The Book Thief: TikTok made me buy it! The life-affirming reader favourite
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Astor's Bookshop Non-Fiction Recommendations:
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Sociopath: The Eye-opening True Story Everyone's Talking About
The Trading Game: A Confession
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World
Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King
The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War
The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War
Mountains before Mountaineering: The Call of the Peaks before the Modern Age
Three Wild Dogs (and the truth): A Memoir
The Secret Painter: A portrait of my uncle – boxer, labourer and unlikely artist
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Reading Lessons: An English Teacher’s Love Letter to the Books that Shape Us
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
The North Pole: The History of an Obsession
Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World
This Volcanic Isle: The Violent Processes that forged the British Landscape
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More Than Just A Coffee Table Book:
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The English Country House: From the Archives of Country Life
English Gardens: From the Archives of Country Life Magazine
Vogue: The Editor's Eye
Mars. Photographs from the NASA Archives
John Derian Picture Book II
John Derian Picture Book
Leonhart Fuchs. The New Herbal
This Pleasant Land: New British Landscape Photography
Rare Trees: The Fascinating Stories of the World’s Most Threatened Species
Trees: From Root to Leaf – A Financial Times Book of the Year
Mid-Century Modern Furniture
An English Summer
A Garden Eden. Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration
Ancient Oaks in the English Landscape
Aerial Atlas of Ancient Britain
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