The Guisborough Bookshop & Occasions Cards

29/05/2026

Don't forget we have a HUGE selection balloons.....

Pop 🎉 in store, message or phone to order 😃
All prices include helium, ribbon and weight

27/05/2026

🚀 THE JELLYCAT SPACE COLLECTION HAS LANDED! 🛸✨

Available in Store and Online!
www.Guisboroughbookshop.co.uk

Pop in and meet them all:
✨ Zyllan Alien
🪐 Amuseables Planet Mars
☄️ Amuseables Space Comet
🥚 Amuseables Boiled Egg Scientist
🐶 Munro Scottie Dog Space Outfit

🎁 Each In-store purchase come with FREE gift box & bag, space stickers and exclusive pin badges, while stocks last!

23/05/2026

Just arrived - indie exclusive with sprayed edges

19/05/2026

This post is 👌

Right then, bookworms! After getting my fill of requests for me to "price-match" Amazon and seeing the same request bouncing in and out of seemingly every single independent bookshop on the planet I've decided to treat you to one of my fun and informative rants.

No, I cannot and will not price-match Amazon. Here's why.

Amazon MAKE A LOSS on their books. They DELIBERATELY make a loss on them in order to undercut the competition and retain market domination. If I were to price-match them I would not be here; my profit margins are already tiny and I simply wouldn't be able to pay everything it costs to rent and run a shop space. I'm not here to dictate how people spend their money, especially in this economy, so if you want to use Amazon please carry on - just don't ask your little local indie bookshop to cosplay as Amazon.

Jeff Bezos is on record as having absolutely zero interest in books and reading. He simply doesn't care about them as anything other than a money-making commodity. (Frankly, he doesn't appear to care about anything or anyone other than as a money-making commodity.) Every person running or working in an independent bookshop cares about books, obsessively, enthusiastically. You can buy your book from a soulless, peak-capitalist husk, or from someone who's going to put your purchase in a bag along with a complimentary bookmark whilst thinking fondly about how much you're going to enjoy reading it.

If we want to have lovely high streets with independent shops that understand their local community as well as their product, we have to use those shops. It really is as simple as that. When you buy a book off Amazon, nobody is personally overjoyed by that (not least the minimum-wage employee who's packing your order and hasn't been allowed to even use the loo for the last 7hrs). Buy a book - or a birthday gift, a knitting pattern, a bag of compost, a craft beer, a lightbulb, lunch - from your independent high street and the owner (who probably also served you) will breathe a little sigh of relief and feel some joy that someone has chosen to shop with them. That shop owner will probably spend their money in the local community too, which is much better than the tenner you spent on a book sitting in an off-shore account and making a billionaire a slightly bigger billionaire.

This isn't a rant designed to shame anyone who buys things on Amazon. But it is to highlight that we can't wax lyrical about interesting, aesthetically-pleasing independent small-town high streets unless we are out there actually buying some things from them. Yes, things often cost a bit more - sometimes a lot more - for various different reasons, and cost is a major dealbreaker for a lot of people at the moment (frankly, I am one of those people). But please - take some time to have a think and at least understand why high street indies can't, and shouldn't have to, price match Amazon. We are absolutely worth that.

18/05/2026

What could be landing very soon? 🤔

18/05/2026

Katabasis is out in paperback in 3 days! We will be having a VERY limited stock of the sprayed edged Independent Bookshop edition.

Pre-order yours here: https://guisboroughbookshop.co.uk/products/9780008840273

16/05/2026

Just arrived, SIGNED Blitz by John Nichol

14/05/2026

🌞 ☀️ JELLYCAT SUMMER ☀️ 🌞

Available IN STORE only

👇Please read below 👇

**Puddlesea Bunny & Coral has now sold out**

We operate a fair buying policy. No multi buys, 1 of each design only per person, family or group.

The reason for our policy -

We ARE aware of our store being targeted by some 'resellers' 😠 circumventing this by different family members & or friends making multiple visits to buy our stock to sell at much higher prices on Apps like Vinted and Whatnot 😲 This behavior is unfair and unacceptable, we reserve the right to refuse the sale of any item or items to any persons we believe are operating as above!

More exciting new and returning Jellies to come! 👽 👻🪐🧸🐰

www.Guisboroughbookshop.co.uk 🦇🐶

13/05/2026

Viewing and ordering Autumn, Halloween & Christmas 😁

06/05/2026

If you or a group you are involved with can sing, dance or perform...we're looking for you! This includes circus skills, comedy acts, drama etc.
If you would like to find out how you can be involved in this town wide event, please email [email protected] to find out more.
We really want Guisborough to be seen!