🥸 Movember is not just about the moustache, just like mental health is not just the mind, but body and soul too!
Our Movember focus is to provide you with the tools and ingredients that makes the soul a bit more happy and bit less chilly❄️ Come see our collection!
🥦 Happy World Vegan Day 🥗 With our vegan recipe books, vegan products and our popular Monday Veg Out Cafe, October Books might not just be your community bookshop, but also your community groceries shop!
What is your favourite 'Vegan aspect' of October Books?
❄️ Shortlist for the Booker Prize 2025: add them to your winter reading list!
Suzanne finished The Land in Winter and was moved by its quiet power. With its snowbound setting, subtle tensions, and echoes of lives shaped by war, it reminded us of Claire Keegan’s prose — spare and emotionally sharp.
This week marks Disarmament Week (Oct 24–30): a time to imagine peace beyond the sound of weapons. It’s impossible not to think of Gaza, where lives are shattered by war. We hold space for grief, justice, while empathy can be a form of resistance 🧡
What’s the scariest way to spook yourself out? 👀 Step closer… if you dare. Our shelves are whispering tales of haunted woods, restless spirits, and ghostly mysteries that refuse to stay buried. 💬 Which spine-chiller would you dare to read alone at night?
🍚 We can make Vegetable Biryani with Asma Asif 🧑🍳 Asma will show people how to make a vegetable biryani, and attendees will enjoy it together at the end, taking the recipe with them.
Our shelves are filled with powerful voices, stories, and histories that deserve to be read and remembered. See our display of selected Black authors from all genres; each book offers a unique lens into Black experience, resilience, and creativity.
🔔 We Can Learn to Sing in Festive Harmony Workshop🎄
🗣️ Light up the darkest days in this uplifting, a cappella singing workshop, learning songs about the turning seasons, darkness and light, and being cosy and warm. Tickets 🎟️ octoberbooks.lemonbooking.com/events/113/d...
We know we are your favourite bookshop 😜 We just want to say a huge thank you to everyone! Your ongoing support truly keeps our community vibrant and lively. Keep it coming! Whether it's kind words, purchases, donations, or even just a warm smile means the world to us 😊
This is not another Book Week, but rather raising awareness about how our freedom of speech is being controlled through the exclusion, censorship, and banning of books in schools, libraries and publications.
🌍 In a time when anti-immigration rhetoric and division are on the rise, October Books' doors are open to all. 📍 Visit the display here at October Books and reflect on what colourism means in our society today.
🖤 Exhibitions across town all through Black History Month
Before his October 15th event with Daniel Ash, aka Teenage Waitress, Glenn wanted to share with us why hard copies are important. Read: octoberbooks.org/blogs/news/w...
🎮 Solent Game Developers – Welcome Jam: Meet Your Party 🕹️ Join the first Solent Game Developers meetup! Connect, share, and help shape a brand-new indie game dev community from day one.
Local schools are invited to claim a *free copy* (up to five available in total). This inspiring collection by one of our most beloved poets is a brilliant way to spark imagination and bring the joy of words into the classroom.
⚓ Personal story about Brick Dust🏛️ "I grew up on Thornhill Council Estate in Southampton and I moved away pretty much as fast as I could. I went off to uni and then moved to Brighton..." Read full story on Facebook! Event details: octoberbooks.lemonbooking.com/events/108/d...
🫶 Easy Hand Stitched Ornaments workshop🎄 Join us in making hand-stitched felt decorations - great for the festive season or other occasions. 🎁 Space is limited! Dates 🕰️ 1st November, Saturday 10.30am to 12.30pm Tickets🎟️ £10.00 *including materials octoberbooks.lemonbooking.com/events/110/d...
🌊 World Maritime Day 25: Our Ocean, Our Obligation, Our Opportunity Comment your thoughts: ⚓ How do we demand cleaner shipping and port technologies? ⚓ How can we protect marine life and air quality around our coast? ⚓ What role do we play, as residents, readers, advocates, in caring for our oceans?
👑 Wainwright Prize is for readers who care about our planet and enjoy stories that connect us to land, wildlife, and the urge to shape a better future.
🏛️ Come into the shop to see these award-winning titles for yourself or order them online at octoberbooks.org
🇺🇸 Disorientation of a Taiwanese-American postgraduate life 🛞 For fans of R F Kuang’s ‘Yellowface’ or John Williams’ ‘Stoner’ will greatly enjoy this novel - Review from Catherine of our book-buying group -
‘Disorientation’ by Elaine Hsieh Chou is... Read full review on our Facebook or Instagram 🤲
✨ A Night with Esther Swift🎙️ Harp, Place & Atmosphere Esther brings her unique blend of harp & place (as heard at East Neuk Festival) to our bookshop.
✨ A rare chance to hear harp surrounded by shelves + stories.
