The Violet Bookshop

02/09/2026

✨ Now open! ✨

01/09/2026

⬇️ In stock now! ⬇️

30/08/2026

Today's board, by Ava aged 9 😁

Sunshine Festival Sunday - open until 3pm!

28/08/2026

🌞🌻 Sunshine Festival weekend opening times 🌻🌞

Friday 10am-5pm
Saturday 10am-5pm
Sunday 11am-3pm
Bank Holiday Monday Closed

Have a marvellous weekend all!

27/08/2026

It's publication day for this very eagerly anticipated new title from Robert Harris! I've got 6 signed indie exclusive editions so please shout quickly if you'd like one.

"Julius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever. One is Caesar's 17-year-old nephew, Octavius, whom he has made his heir. The other is Octavius' closest friend, Agrippa. To claim Octavius' inheritance, they must fight the giant figures of the aroma Empire - and, against all odds, they win. Octavius becomes the Emperor Augustus. For twenty years they rule the world together.

Now Agrippa is fifty. Ailing and alone betrayed by his wife's infidelity, he takes refuge in his house on the bay of Naples and begins to write his memoirs. Yet to stir up the past can be dangerous. From his earliest meetings with Julius Caesar, through the epic conflict with Mark Antony and Cleopatra, the great naval battle of Actium and the endless wars to expand the empire, he describes how one man has dominated his life: the cunning, ruthless, unknowable Octavius. When it comes to power, does friendship exist at all?"

Signed indie exclusive hardback £22.

26/08/2026

Very pleased to be featured in the August edition of Midlands Living, along with a few other wonderful local businesses!

Garnet Pearl
J Maverick. Craft Ales and Ciders
My Fabric Store
Albion Meadows
Living Magazine

26/08/2026

Opening a little bit late this morning following an appointment!

23/08/2026

21/08/2026

Fancy coming to see me with my flute hat instead of my book hat on? Tickets available from The Violet Bookshop (cash only) 🎶🎵

🎶🎶 Tickets are selling for The Last Night of the Proms 🎶🎶

At Upton Parish church on Saturday 12th September at 7.30 pm.
Tickets are £10 (under 12’s free) & available from The Violet Bookshop in Upton or ring 07849 974654 for details of how to pay via bank transfer.

** Licensed cash bar selling beer, wine & soft drinks **

There will be flag waving to patriotic anthems, such as ‘Rule Britannia’, ‘Land of Hope & Glory’, ‘Jerusalem’ : audience participation is encouraged!!

🎶 🎤 🎺 🎷 🪊 🪈 🎶

19/08/2026

This autumn is going to be choc-full of exciting new releases! We're now taking pre-orders for:

🐾 Gruffalo Granny by Julia Donaldson - 10th September
🪶 Swan Song by Charles Spencer - 22nd September
🐉 Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros - 29th September
🧝‍♀️ A Court of Splintered Harmony by Sarah J Maas - 27th October
🧝 A Court of Forgotten Melody by Sarah J Maas - 12th January

Get in touch to pre-order your copies now! And if you're not local but would like to support us, you can pre-order for home delivery via Bookshop.org. If you have any queries, or any other titles you'd like to pre-order please get in touch!