Welcome to Hart's Books

Customer notice:

The shop is still closed but you can now order books to be delivered by post from our colleagues at www.dauntbooks.co.uk - To place an order visit the Daunt Books website or email your query to enquiries@dauntbooks.co.uk - Please do use this service, it will help Hart's Books immensely and ensure that once restrictions are removed we can reopen the shop and carry on as before. Take care, keep safe!

Hart's Books

Staff Picks

The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities by Violet Moller | 9781509829620

The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities

Violet Moller

£9.99

Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose | 9781911547525

Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages

Phyllis Rose

£10.99

The Dominant Animal by Kathryn Scanlan | 9781911547563

The Dominant Animal

Kathryn Scanlan

£9.99

The Chain by Adrian McKinty | 9781409189602

The Chain

Adrian McKinty

£8.99

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo | 9780241984994

Girl, Woman, Other

Bernardine Evaristo

£8.99

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A message to our customers https://hartsbooks.co.u

A message to our customers
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Please also direct any urgent queries to @dauntbooks

To all our book-lovers, We have decided that to e

To all our book-lovers,

We have decided that to ensure the safety of our customers and staff and help in the fight against the Coronavirus, we will be temporarily closed to the public from this morning, Monday 23rd March.

We will continue to offer mail order and local delivery services where we can make safe arrangements.

Please do phone or email us if you have any book enquiries.

Telephone 01799 524552 Email enquiries@hartsbooks.co.uk

We are grateful for all your support in this difficult time, and we hope in turn that we can continue to find ways to provide you with the comfort, distraction and inspiration that books will always provide.

Happy reading,

Max, Teresa, Vicky and Zoe

Calling all self-isolators! We want to bring Harts

Calling all self-isolators! We want to bring Harts Books to you! If you’re in need of a book to banish boredom, give us a call on 01799 524552 and tell us about the last book you read that you really enjoyed and we can make a recommendation for you, take payment over the phone and deliver to your home for free.
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Excellent talk this evening with writer @youngsona

Excellent talk this evening with writer @youngsonanne exploring her debut book “Meet me at the Museum”. Thank you to all who came! 📖
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Repost from @charlottesteggz - I heard about this

Repost from @charlottesteggz - I heard about this book a long time ago (potentially on The High Low?), that it was an excellent first novel by Rosie Price, about a young woman working through trauma following rape. A few weeks later, in June, I spotted it in @hartsbooks, and put it on my shelf. I’ve only just been about to pick it up - I knew it would be a hard read. I’ve never experienced rape but being on the outside when someone has been hurt can mean it’s often hard to know how to help. Reading this, I knew, would help me understand better. .
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What Red Was is about a friendship between Kate and Max, who meet at uni. Max’s mum is a famous film director and she helps Kate get into the industry, and the family as a whole brings working-class Kate into their affluent lives. .
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Following the attack we watch Kate work through and live with her trauma. Again, I’m not coming from experience but it seems like a fairly accurate description of how hard it must be - like telling people. In the moment it may be hard to “do the right thing” - go straight to the police while DNA is on you, report the attack etc. But it’s not an easy process to do. .
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I really liked how the book rotated around each of the characters, and the language used with each - the stark contract when we see from the rapist - is incredibly skilful. .
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Not only is this an excellent book but an important one for people to experience. .
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Repost from @sandlivemusic - What a gorgeous eveni

Repost from @sandlivemusic - What a gorgeous evening of song, music and talent! Thank you @hartsbooks for such a brilliant evening. Totally blown away by @hooligans.band (Mauve and Matt) and all the other wonderful musicians. Can’t wait for the next one. We love this town ❤️
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Hart's Books

26 King Street
Saffron Walden
Essex CB10 1ES

Opening times

Monday – Friday 09:00 - 18:00
Saturday 09:00 - 18:00
Sunday 11:00 - 17:00
Bank holidays 11:00 - 17:00