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Independent Booksellers' Network

Stella & Rose's Books are members of the Independent Booksellers' Network (ibooknet).  Ibooknet is the only co-operative association of independent booksellers in the British Isles.  All its members value their independence as it preserves their ability to serve customers directly; something which is continually being eroded by some of the largest bookselling sites on the internet.  By choosing books from ibooknet members you can be assured of dealing directly with knowledgeable booksellers who value their customers as well as their books and their independence.

The ibooknet website offers over a quarter of a million books in all genres.  That number is growing daily. The range of books offered by ibooknet booksellers includes second hand, rare and collectible books, first editions and signed fiction and non-fiction.  Ibooknet also  provides much information on books and book buying on the internet.  The specialist stock offered by ibooknet members is diverse - reflecting the different interests (read obsessions in some cases) of the co-operative's membership.  Examples include:

Buy books from the Independent Booksellers' Network (ibooknet)

ibooknet Booksellers' Specialist Book Selections

  • Science & technology
  • Medical books
  • Psychology
  • Art & Architecture
  • Design
  • Archaeology
  • Gardening
  • Ecology
  • DIY
  • Construction
  • Woodwork
  • Railways
  • Natural history
  • Writing
  • IT
  • Observers' Books
  • Books relating to Scotland
  • Bristol
  • Shropshire
  • Gloucestershire
  • Yorkshire
  • History
  • Military history
  • Naval history
  • Esoteric
  • Occult
  • Ancient history
  • Equine books
  • Theatre history
  • Telecoms
  • Music
  • Modern 1st editions
  • Genre fiction
  • Romance
  • Antiquarian books
  • Decorative & applied arts
  • Crime fiction
  • Historical novels
  • Science fiction, fantasy & horror
  • Literary criticism
  • Biography
  • Poetry
  • Drama
  • Journalism
  • Cats
  • Illustrated books
  • Travel & topography
  • Children's books
  • Fine bindings
  • Ornithology
  • Pulp fiction
  • Theology
  • Church history
  • Bible studies
  • World religions
  • Philosophy
  • Social sciences
  • Cookery books
  • Food & drink
  • Politics

Some members also offer specialist book selections relating to the works of specific authors, illustrators or poets.  These include:

Author-specific Specialist Book Selections from ibooknet Booksellers

  • Dornford Yates
  • Enid Blyton
  • Henry Williamson
  • Dorothy Dunnett
  • Georgette Heyer
  • Malcolm Saville
  • Iain Naill
  • Angus MacVicar
  • Miss Read
  • John Clare
  • J B Priestley
  • Arnold Bennett
  • John S Goodall
  • Anthony Trollope
  • P G Wodehouse

There's a monthly newsletter with book-related news and features on specific authors, genres and related topics. Recent features have included Collecting Science Fiction and Fantasy, Dorothy Dunnett - A Personal Perspective and The Magical Tale of Victoria Walker, author of the Winter of Enchantment among other novels.

Most ibooknet members also offer booksearch services.

Directory of ibooknet Booksellers' websites

The links on booksellers' names will take you directly to their individual websites where you can browse and search for books and place orders. Some ibooknet members do not maintain their own websites. In these cases you can search their stock at ibooknet.

Aucott & Thomas carries a constantly changing stock of around 3,700 books in all categories - although you may find a preponderance of books about the English countryside, folk music, fishing, horse riding, childrens books (especially 1950's and 60's pony stories) and crime fiction. Plurabelle Books specialises in academic titles in all scientific disciplines. Michael Cahn (Dr phil habil) has been selling books for almost 6 years and is pleased to receive inquiries in German, Italian and French. He employs three members of staff and the store room is situated on an old stonemason's yard, just across from Cambridge University Press. Visitors are welcome, but being a mail order outlet, the stock is not ordered by subject. A Book for All Reasons offers second-hand, collectable and out-of-print books and our main author interest is in popular fiction from the first half of the 20th century, notably Georgette Heyer & Dornford Yates. Also good stock of historical, maritime and war fiction. Non-fiction specialities include World War II (WW2), the Royal Naval Patrol Service and Coastal Forces, and books about Suffolk, Norfolk & The Broads. The Old Bookshelf is a family-run business maintaining a general stock of around 16,000 titles with an interesting selection of Scottish material, alongside new and out of print publications related to the West of Scotland (including military) particularly Kintyre. We also advertise a small number of Antiquarian books and have had opportunity to market some scarce modern firsts in recent years.
Courtyard Books, based in Glastonbury, specialises in high quality 'remaindered' esoteric books from publishers in the Mind, Body and Spirit domain. Courtyard Books' stock includes spirituality, world religion, healing, new age and underground culture, ecology, alternative fiction and children's titles. Courtyard Books also has a strong section on Gloucester & Gloucestershire. Stella and Rose's Books is a family-owned business with two bookshops, one in the famous book town of Hay On Wye and the other in the environs of the historic Tintern Abbey. Their combined stock of over 50,000 titles is all online and includes some 22,000 children's books. Other specialist subjects are UK topography, railways and natural history, Observers books, music and cats. Stephen Foster offers a strong general stock with a leaning towards the Arts, including Books on Art, Architecture, Decorative and Applied Arts, History, Literature, Travel, Archaeology and Ancient History. Also Childrens' books, Illustrated, Fine Bindings and First Editions. There is also a good range of antiquarian and out of print titles. Brown Studies - The Friendly Book Seller Brenda and Mike Brown have been buying, selling and finding used books since 1990. A stock of over 25,000 books covers every subject known to mankind. Special interests are in gardening, herbs, ecology, construction, DIY, donkeys, Miss Read and John S Goodall. Brown Studies also has a range of texts used by students.
C L Hawley specialises in literary criticism, literary theory, literary biography and literary texts. In addition they stock academic history, children's fiction, poetry and local history, especially Yorkshire. Also a good general stock in the arts and humanities. Hessay Books is a family-run business based in a small village on the edge of the historic city of York. We have been selling books on the internet since 1998 and carry a large general stock, in addition to our specialist areas of modern literature, travel and history. Marijana Dworski Books specialises in academic and scholarly books as well as good travel writing and guides, including Baedekers and Murrays on the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, Russia, Siberia and Central Asia. Orangeberry books has a general stock covering most subjects from Antiques and Collecting to Travel and Topography. Their main specialties are science and technology, literature and poetry.
Yesteryear Books is friendly, down-to-earth, independent Internet book dealers specialising in out-of-print, hard-to-find, used and rare books. Philip Lund Theological Bookseller offers books in the areas of Theology Church History, Biblical Studies, Liturgy, Patristics, and World Religions. Uncle Phil's Books is run by Phil and Susie James and based in Coventry. Their on-line stock is around 10,000. Bagot Books, a virtual shop only, selling via mail order, is based in the village of Ashtead in Surry and carries a stock of around 5,000 books.
March House Books is a family-run business based in a small village in the heart of the Blackmore Vale. Specialist internet booksellers since 1997 offering a wide range of children's, illustrated and general books. Peakirk Books, established in 1997, is a small family run business operating both a physical and virtual used book shop. A strong general stock of 15 to 20,000 books is complemented by specialist lists on Children's and juvenile Fiction, illustrated books, and the poetry of John Clare. Magpie Books, now based in the Upper Calder Valley after many years in London's East End Robertson Books are specialists in rare and collectable children's fiction from the 20th century with interests in the works of Enid Blyton, Elinor Brent-Dyer, Monica Edwards, Antonia Fores, Arthur Ransome, KM Peyton, Richmal Crompton, Capt. WE Johns and
Malcolm Saville.
John Chancellor of Kew Books says "When I founded Kew Books in the early 1970's I lived in a Queen Anne house on Kew Green with a garden sloping down to the Thames. It was impossible, in those surroundings, not to get absorbed by plants and gardens and the books which described them. Botanical and natural history books now rub shoulders in the old stables and attic with books of travel, literature, biography; art, music, maps etc"   These booksellers are also members of ibooknet. Follow the links to visit their member pages on ibooknet or website.



 
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