Shelf talker Ada Quinn, Owner
The Salt Orchard
Mira Ellowen · £9.99
I read this on a wet Sunday and put it in three pairs of hands before lunch. Tender, without being soft.
If you liked Lantern Mile, start here.
York · books and stationery
A bookshop for slow afternoons.
We are a single room on Quill Court for new fiction, the odd poem, notebooks you will actually use, and the next book someone here cannot stop talking about.
Open Tuesday to Sunday · 14 Quill Court, York
Click & collect
Reserve a book and pick it up from the counter. The checkout on this site is a demo.
A monthly club
One novel, a handful of chairs, and questions we do not hide behind a spoiler warning unless you ask.
Shelf talkers
If a book stays with someone on the team, they write the card themselves. No scripts.
01 · The counter
Notes the staff actually wrote
Shelf talkers from the people who read the book, not a marketing line.
All staff picks
Shelf talker Ben Okoye, Events
The Night Ferry Index
Jonah Pell · £8.99
A mystery that trusts you to notice the quiet clue. I finished it on the late train and checked my ticket twice.
If you liked The Listening Room, start here.
Shelf talker Maeve Lin, Poetry & windows
Weather for Two Hands
Sable Quince · £9.99
Poems you can read between customers. They are about coats and weather, which is to say looking after people.
If you liked Keeping the Margins, start here.
Shelf talker Samir Patel, Fiction
A Pocket of Tools
Arthur Fenwick · £17.99
Fenwick writes about a bread knife the way other people write about cathedrals. I keep it by the till.
If you liked The Long Footpath, start here.
02 · Just in
New and nearly here
Fresh on the table, plus a few we are still waiting on.
03 · Thursday on the mezzanine
Book club is reading The Salt Orchard
We meet on 12 November. Come even if you are only halfway through.
Mira Ellowen
Thursday 12 November · 18:30
04 · A steer
Find my next read
Four questions: mood, pace, length, shelf. We will put three fictional titles in your hands.
- Mood
- Pace
- Length
- Shelf
06 · The stationery table
A notebook with your name in foil
A6, A5 or A4. Six cloth colours. Up to twenty characters. From £9.
Design a notebook
07 · A private tally
Keep a reading challenge
Set a yearly number, add what you finish, and download a summary card. It stays in this browser.
Open the tracker08 · Sample reviews
What people say, in this demo
These are sample reviews written for the site. They are not quotations from real customers.
“I came in for a map and left with two novels and a notebook with my name on it.”
Sample review Jordan P. “Story time is calm and short, which is exactly what we can manage on a Thursday.”
Sample review Camille H. “They ordered a book that was not on the shelf and it was ready to collect two days later.”
Sample review Ellis R.
Come in
One room, 14 Quill Court
York YO1 7HL. Closed on Mondays. Reserve a book on this site and collect it from the counter.
| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 10:00–18:00 |
| Wednesday | 10:00–18:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00–19:00 |
| Friday | 10:00–18:00 |
| Saturday | 09:30–17:30 |
| Sunday | 11:00–16:00 |