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Beginnings are hard. The blizzard-white emptiness of the page in front of you, the empty document with the patiently waiting cursor: they can conspire to give you such awful vertigo...

meet Hazel

Best book you’ve read… don’t overthink it A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel. What’s a book you pretend to have read but have never finished? The Iliad (and the...

Meet Kate: our part time bookseller and resident comedian

Kate is one of our part time booksellers at Rare Birds Book Shop, you may have met her if you have been in. She is studying for her English degree...

National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo. An acronym to either strike fear or send a surge of excitement through the heart of any creative writer. NaNoWriMo, or to give its full title ‘National Novel Writing...

Meet Anna: our full time bookseller extraordinaire

Anna is our very first full time bookseller at Rare Birds Book Shop, you may have met her if you have been in. She has 15 years of bookselling experience...

Does Size Really Matter?

Rare Birds Books sets out to prove, once and for all, that it’s not the length of a book that counts… it’s what the author does with it.

Worth the wait?

Good things come to those who wait… We take a look at some of the most prolific Rare Birds of all time, and those who enjoy a more relaxed approach...

‘Without reason and accountability’ – women written under a male gaze

Rare Birds Books shifts our focus to male writers, to examine why they sometimes have such a hard time writing believable female characters.

An Unexpected Point of View

Following an unfortunate ‘almost exchange’, Rare Birds Books asks the question: why settle for an unreliable narrator, when you could have an unusual one?