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Burway Books

Welcome to Burway Books www.burwaybooks.co.uk

 

An Independent Bookshop in Church Stretton in the heart of the Shropshire Hills for over fifty years, a haven of peace and tranquility and one of the most beautiful areas in United Kingdom, and it is an area of especial geological interest. Over 6000 titles in stock.

We will always be here to help you chose the perfect book as a gift for others or yourself; to offer recommendations and suggestions. But we will always leave you free to choose whatever you please; we don’t judge, we don’t discriminate, and all are welcome. 

We have given thought, and we have read the books that are listed here and available now, we hope you enjoy them as much as we have; there are a few on the lists that are not yet available these books we are eager to read as soon as we can. Take time browse awhile here and enjoy, treat yourself to an especially good read. Love Reading, if you love books we Love you. 

 

Happy New Year,

 

Ros, Ceri, Alun, and Lucy

Burway Books

Independent Bookshop of the Year Region & Country Finalist for the British Book Awards 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025

Jane Austen and George Eliot: The Lady and The Radical
Of Thorn & Briar: A Year with the West Country Hedgelayer
The Last Dragon on Mars: The New York Times Bestseller
Poems for Happiness
Nesting: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025; the tender, soaring debut you won't be able to forget
Pachinko: The New York Times Bestseller
Every Day is a Fresh Beginning: The Number 1 Bestseller: Meaningful Poems for Life
Death at the Sign of the Rook
Shrines of Gaiety
Conclave
Nature Trail: A joyful rhyming celebration of the natural wonders on our doorstep
HOPE: The Autobiography
The Frozen People: An Ali Dawson Mystery
Raising Hare: The heart-warming true story of an unlikely friendship
Orbital
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
Fearless: The epic conclusion to the trilogy taking the world by storm!
Hark: How Women Listen
Heart Lamp: Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize
The Hotel Avocado
Muckle Flugga
Jane Austen and George Eliot: The Lady and The Radical
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
The Cat Who Saved the Library
Salka: The exquisite retelling of the tragic myth of the Lady of the Lake from the multi-million bestselling author
On the Calculation of Volume II: 'Impossible to put down.' Kate Briggs
On the Calculation of Volume I: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025
Freewheeling: Essays on Cycling
The First Year
Agent Zo: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025
Midnight Treasure: An immersive new world of werwolves and vampirs, from an award-winning author
Wolf Mountain
The Sad Ghost Club: A Hopeful Guide to Getting Through Bad Days
Impossible Creatures: 'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell' – Michael Morpurgo
Impossible Creatures: 'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell' – Michael Morpurgo
Northern Lights
Murdle Junior: Curious Crimes for Curious Minds: From the SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES
Bluey: Hooray It’s Halloween!
Baby's First Year Journal: A Keepsake of Milestone Moments
Turtle Moon
Adventuremice: Otter Chaos
We Sang Across the Sea: The Empire Windrush and Me
Paws, Claws, Tails, & Roars: Brian Wildsmith's Animal Kingdom
The Night Whale
A Drop of Golden Sun: 'Radiant storytelling. Sublime.' Kiran Millwood Hargrave
No Small Thing: 'One of the best debut novels I’ve read in recent years' Bernardine Evaristo
The First Year
The Ministry of Time: The romantic, sci-fi, comedic, literary, genre-defying bestseller
Nesting: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025; the tender, soaring debut you won't be able to forget
Caledonian Road: The Sunday Times bestseller
Murder! By Narwhal!: Book 1
The Proof of My Innocence
Intermezzo: The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People
Amazing Asia: An Encyclopedia of an Epic Continent
Time Runs Like A River
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Oh, The Places You'll Go!
Gozzle
The First Year
Twenty Dragons at Bedtime (PB)
The Very Young Person's Guide to Christmas Carols
Centenary Facsimile Edition: When We Were Very Young
Paddington in Peru: The Story of the Movie
Indigo Dreaming
Ocean
The Forest of a Thousand Eyes
Amazing Asia: An Encyclopedia of an Epic Continent
Little Grey Rabbit - Baby's First Year
The Night Whale
The Elephant and the Sea
Shropshire Folk Tales for Children
The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections
Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
The Gallows Pole
The Offing: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick
Down and Out in Paris and London
The Enigma of Arrival
The Hobbit Classic Hardback
To Kill A Mockingbird: 60th Anniversary Edition
1984
Lord of the Flies: with an introduction by Stephen King
Charlotte's Web
Winnie-the-Pooh
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Emma
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
My Name Is Why
East West Street: Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
English Pastoral: An Inheritance
The Diary of Anne Frank (Abridged for young readers)
Anne Frank
The Lightless Sky: My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography
My Father And Other Working Class Football Heroes
A Pocketful of Happiness
Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee
An Autobiography
The Year of Magical Thinking
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death
The Safekeep
Stone Yard Devotional: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
Creation Lake: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author
Held: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
James
Orbital
Tell Me Everything
Onyx Storm: DISCOVER THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE GLOBAL PHENOMENONS, FOURTH WING AND IRON FLAME!
There are Rivers in the Sky
Caledonian Road: The Sunday Times bestseller
Birnam Wood: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Strong Female Character: Nero Book Awards Winner
The Swifts
The Bee Sting
Is a River Alive?
Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood
The Bridleway: How Horses Shaped the British Landscape – WINNER OF THE ELWYN HARTLEY-EDWARDS AWARD
Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder
The Curious Life of the Cuckoo
Tir: The Story of the Welsh Landscape
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics
Trees in Winter: Fully illustrated edition
Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Land and How to Take it Back
Outlandish: Walking Europe's Unlikely Landscapes
Twelve Trees: And What They Tell Us About Our Past, Present and Future
What the Wild Sea Can Be: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Nonfiction
The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There
The Outrun
Great British Walkies
Of Thorn & Briar: A Year with the West Country Hedgelayer
Trees in Winter: Fully illustrated edition
One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate
RHS Gardening Through the Year: Month-by-month Planning Instructions and Inspiration
The Garden Against Time: In Search Of A Common Paradise
A Short History of Flowers: The stories that make our gardens
The Physick Garden: Ancient Cures for Modern Maladies
Land Healer: How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside
Grow Your Own Fruit and Vegetables
Healing with Plants: The Chelsea Physic Garden Herbal
Identification of Trees and Shrubs in Winter using Buds and Twigs
In the Garden
Life in the Garden
Love from Kew: A postcard scrapbook
The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden
Sword: D-Day - Trial by Battle
Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm
Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond
The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings From History
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King
A Woman Like Me: A Memoir
Amazing Asia: An Encyclopedia of an Epic Continent
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – a Hidden History
The Roads To Rome: A Journey Into Europe’s Past
The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain's First Labour Government -- A Waterstones Book of the Year 2024
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Emperor of Rome: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: Understanding the Mind-Blowing Building Blocks of the Universe
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III: The New Millennium Edition: Quantum Mechanics
Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima
When the Dust Settles: The gripping behind-the-scenes memoir from the UK's top disaster planner - A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook: a history of the Renaissance mathematics that birthed imaginary numbers, probability, and the
Hollywood Wants to Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies
Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat: Updated Edition
Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA
Seven Pillars of Science: The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises
A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes
Apollo 11: The Inside Story
Mission to Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet
The Food For Life Cookbook: 100+ Recipes Created with ZOE
A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy … a Memoir of Sorts
How to Eat 30 Plants a Week: 100 recipes to boost your health and energy - THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The Hairy Bikers' Ultimate Comfort Food: Over 100 delicious recipes the whole family will love!
The Everyday Family Air Fryer Cookbook: Delicious, quick and easy recipes for busy families using UK measurements
Mary Makes it Easy: The new ultimate stress-free cookbook
The Green Roasting Tin: Vegan and Vegetarian One Dish Dinners
Mary Berry's Christmas Collection: Over 100 fabulous recipes and tips for a hassle-free festive season
The Flavour Thesaurus
The Flavour Thesaurus: More Flavours: Plant-led Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for Cooks
Mary Berry's Baking Bible: Revised and Updated: Over 250 New and Classic Recipes
Mary Berry's Christmas Collection: Over 100 fabulous recipes and tips for a hassle-free festive season
Borough Market: The Knowledge: Produce – Skills – Recipes
Breadsong: How Baking Changed Our Lives
Cooking: Simply and Well, for One or Many
Zoom!
Dwell
Blossomise
Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems 1961-2023
The Collected Poems: 1959 – 2024
The Forward Book of Poetry 2025
Ten Poems about Walking
Come Here To This Gate
The Instrumentalist: A spellbinding debut novel that will transport you to 18th-century Venice this summer
BBC Proms 2024
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us
Refugee Boy
Too Black, Too Strong
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography
The Letters of Seamus Heaney
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
Invasion
A Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the Two Flying Scotsmen: Solve the Puzzles to Escape the Pages
The Silver Bone: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club: Classic crime for Agatha Christie fans
The Franchise Affair: Their country house will soon play host to a nightmare…
The Last Devil To Die: The Thursday Murder Club 4
The Bullet That Missed: (The Thursday Murder Club 3)
The Thursday Murder Club: (The Thursday Murder Club 1)
The Dry: THE ABSOLUTELY COMPELLING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Exiles
A Game of Lies: a twisty, gripping thriller about the dark side of reality TV
A Murder of Quality
Unnatural Death: The classic crime novel you need to read
Whose Body?: The classic detective fiction series
The Repair Shop Puzzle Book: Train your brain with puzzles inspired by the Repair Shop barn
Restore
Tools A Visual History: The Hardware that Built, Measured and Repaired the World
Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art
Nordic Knits for Children: 15 Cosy Knits for Ages 3 to 9
Welsh Quilts
This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain’s Knitted History
How to Crochet Animals: Farm: 25 Mini Menagerie Patterns
Beginner's Guide to Bobbin Lace
Spinning 101: Step by Step from Fleece to Yarn with Wheel or Spindle
The Very Easy Guide to Cable Knitting: Step-By-Step Techniques, Easy-to-Follow Stitch Patterns and Projects to Get You Started
100 Essential Crochet Stitches
Simple Crochet Hats: 15 Beautiful Designs to Create with Ease
Making Winter: A Creative Guide for Surviving the Winter Months
The Great British Sewing Bee: Sustainable Style
The Silver Bone: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
Strong Roots: A Ukrainian Family Story of War, Exile and Hope
The Russo-Ukrainian War: From the bestselling author of Chernobyl
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia
Gates of Europe (Revised Edition) : A History of Ukraine
Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches From Kiev
Dancing in Odessa
Deaf Republic
Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine
Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine & beyond
Your Ad Could Go Here: Stories
Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series): **AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**
Sweet Darusya: A Tale Of Two Villages
The Country Where Everyone's Name Is Fear: Selected Poems
The Gardener from Ochakov
Roar: A Celebration of Great Sporting Women
Who Am I?
Beryl - WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete, Beryl Burton
Cycling Climbs of Wales
You Have the Power: Find Your Strength and Believe You Can by the Euros Winning Captain of the Lionesses
The Inner Game of Golf
The Winning Edge in Badminton: Momentum, Match Flow and the Art of Competing
Warne in Wisden: An Anthology
Playfair Cricket Annual 2023
On the Ashes
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2023
Fearless: The epic conclusion to the trilogy taking the world by storm!
The Cat Who Saved the Library
Salka: The exquisite retelling of the tragic myth of the Lady of the Lake from the multi-million bestselling author
The Ministry of Time: The romantic, sci-fi, comedic, literary, genre-defying bestseller
Guards! Guards!: The Play
Not for the Faint of Heart: from the award-winning author of Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
The Peripheral: Now a major new TV series with Amazon Prime
Agency: Sequel to The Peripheral, now a major new TV series with Amazon Prime
Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The 42nd Anniversary Edition of Douglas Adams's International Bestseller
42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams (No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller)
Perilous Times: The Sunday Times Bestseller compared to 'Good Omens with Arthurian knights'
Amongst Our Weapons: Book 9 in the #1 bestselling Rivers of London series
The Hobbit
Good Omens
White Boots
Dream Count
Pity
Butter
Cuddy: Winner of the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize
Mercia'S Take: Winner of the Betty Trask Prize 2023
Mercia'S Take: Winner of the Betty Trask Prize 2023
The Gardener
Half of a Yellow Sun
Mr Loverman
Girl, Woman, Other
The Luminaries
All the Light We Cannot See
The Secret Scripture: AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy: Or the letter that was never sent to Harold Fry