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Welcome to Write & Shine's Bookshop page!

 

Write & Shine offers a seasonal programme of early morning writing workshops, peaceful retreats and an online library of writing courses and is run by author Gemma Seltzer. 

 

On our Bookshop page, we share titles we love and that have inspired our programme. Every purchase supports independent bookshops and Write & Shine. 

 

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Spring Salon 2025—books with rich, sensory details!
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Woman on the Edge of Time: The classic feminist dystopian novel
Cathedral
How to be a Poet
Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page
Mrs S
The Beauty
Tiger Girl
When We Were Sisters
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1: The Way by Swann's
Postcolonial Love Poem
Sanatorium
Places I've Taken My Body
Small Bodies of Water
A Thousand Mornings
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
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Writing the City
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Selected Poems: Frank O'Hara
Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny
These Days: 'A gem of a novel, I adored it.' MARIAN KEYES
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
Street Haunting and Other Essays
NW
Girl, Woman, Other
The Street
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
Urban Geometry
The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
My Brilliant Friend
Fierce Attachments
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Short story collections we love
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Dance Move
Dark Neighbourhood
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works
In the Middle of the Fields
Birds of America
Selected Stories
The Dog of the Marriage
The Collected Short Stories
The Lottery: And Other Stories
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: A special edition of the feminist cult classic
Guestbook: Ghost Stories
Sweet Home
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
Nudibranch: the collection from MBE for Literature recipient Irenosen Okojie
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Poetry collections we love
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Inheritance: Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection
Selected Poems
These Days
My Darling from the Lions
C+NTO: & Othered Poems
Wild Persistence
The Perseverance
Portable Paradise
The Courtesans Reply
Darling, It's Me
Citizen: An American Lyric
New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Sanatorium
Magnolia
is, thinks Pearl
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Write & Shine guest tutors
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Inheritance: Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection
Outlandish
A House for Alice: From the Women’s Prize shortlisted author of Ordinary People
Alphabetical Diaries
Winter Solstice: An Essay
Great Goddesses: Life lessons from myths and monsters
Tiger Girl
The Room Between Us
Protest!: How People Have Come Together to Change the World
Velkom to Inklandt: Poems in my grandmother's Inklisch
The Kids
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales
Wild Persistence
The Taxidermist
Small Bodies of Water
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Comfort Reads - chosen by Write & Shine members
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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
Following the Moon
Soviet Bus Stops
Human Sadness
Wolf Hall
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1: The Way by Swann's
The Argonauts
Death of an Avid Reader: Book 6 in the Kate Shackleton mysteries
The Position of Spoons: and other intimacies
Nature Tales for Winter Nights
How to Be Animal: What it Means to Be Human
Winter
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
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