Osterley Bookshop Annual September Sale


Visit this gem of a bookshop for half price books all month

“ … but will my new periwigg be the fashion after the plague? ‘Tis a wonder what will be the fashion after the plague.”

Samuel Pepys. 3rd September 1665

The indefatigable Pepys (who lived through a modern estimate of 100,000 plague deaths in London - perhaps a quarter of the population) and whose daily waterman (Uber 1665) died: “ … and I believed he did get his infection that day in Brainford [Brentford].”

In 1682 the statistician Sir William Petty predicted the plague would come back every 20 years and kill one Londoner in five on each occasion, thereby keeping the population at 2 million. Petty was wrong. The plague vanished from Britain. Maybe statistics, like fish and chips need to be taken with a pinch of salt?

Books = magic. It's probably impossible to curl up with Google and relive 1665. O.K., we're a tad biased having a shop piled high with the beasts, due to over-buying in huge numbers pre the collapse of civilization, and despite our regulars clawing at the windows throughout shutdown for their fix, and then piling in since, they haven't even made a dent in our stock. Hence …

Once again: Our SEPTEMBER REVAMP & RENEWAL SALE - ALL BOOKS IN THE SHOP HALF PRICE! That's all books in the shop half price from the 1st to the 30th September.

Everything from first editions, pulp fiction, proof copies, paperbacks, cookery, architecture, archdukes etc., all at half price. Crikey!

We're rubbish at blowing our own trumpet (it's why we run a bookshop, not an orchestra) so, please, check the reviews of our shop on Google, Yelp, Heyshops.co.uk etc. Some gems in there – although some are frankly puzzling as they point to some form of eccentricity – maybe because we can't resist books like “I am a Guinea Pig” by James Insight?

We've been featured on ‘The Robert Elms Show' BBC Radio London; as The Bookshop in the film ‘The Buddha of Suburbia'; and in the Desi Movie “Strangers”, featuring Nandana Sen. Despite being two minutes from Robert Adams' masterpiece Osterley House, the Guardian newspaper described us as ‘The Jewel in Osterley's Crown'.

Oh, and for non-bookists we've a tiny room stuffed full of curios, and an equally peculiar range of greetings cards.

Easy parking (half hour free, and no charges on weekends). Only 10 mins by car and 15 by bus (H91) from Chiswick. Seven days a week 9.30-5-30. Situated in the old railway station opposite Osterley Park entrance, 168A Thornbury Road, Osterley, TW7 4QE. Tel: 020 8560 6206

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August 20, 2020

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Easy parking. 
Only 10 mins away by car. Or take the bus so you can read your purchases on the way home.
Seven days 9:30-5:30. 
Situated in the old railway station, 168A Thornbury Road, 
Osterley, TW7 4QE. 
Tel: 020 8560 6206