Latest News from Wivenhoe Bookshop
I have made the difficult decision, for the safety of all, to close the bookshop during the continuing 2021 lockdown until the end of February. I’ll be reviewing this situation in line with ongoing government advice. Friends we miss you all, and we miss the gregarious daily hubbub in the bookshop – but be assured […]
Recent Posts

Jan 2021 – Ian Longhurst
We are delighted to be showing work by Suffolk born artist, and local builder, Ian Longhurst in our window during January. Ian takes his inspiration from a childhood spent keeping and showing canaries and native birds, and studying their form and behaviour. Being a nature lover, he can often be found around the North Essex […]

Dec 2020 – David Purdey
David Purdey, in his own words – “I’m a landscape painter and I work from my observation and experience of the actual places I have visited on my travels in the West country, France and Spain. All my paintings begin with sketches and drawings and I try to show the world in a new and personal […]

Oct 2020 – Chris White
Chris White’s beautiful raku fired porcelain will be showing in our gallery for October. He talks about his work here: “The basis of this work is my continued exploration into the process of using liquid porcelain to create fine sheets that I transform into objects. I work quickly by rolling and tearing the clay, investigating how […]
‘I Wanna be Yours’
We will have a limited number of signed editions of Dr John Cooper Clarke’s forthcoming memoir I Wanna Be Yours. This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as only the inimitable John Cooper Clarke could deliver. His book will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation. […]