Event Information

Everybody is welcome to the Stratford book fair.

There will be around 15 dealers offering for sale a selection of their secondhand, rare and antiquarian books, maps, prints and more, to suit all pockets.

Free admission.  Refreshments available.

The image you see is of William Shakespeare who was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on 26th April 1564, sometimes called Britain's national poet and "Bard of Avon". 

Key Details

Time & Date 29th August 2026, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue Charlecote & Harwood Suite, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Bridgefoot, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6YR

Organisers Georgia Mullen Tel: 07909 901078 Email: info@bookswrittenby.co.uk

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Travel Information

Driving

M40 Junction 15.

Parking

Available at the hotel. £4 all day, but you must register with the hotel reception.

Train

One mile from main station.

Bus

Several routes via National Express; Park and Ride from Birmingham Road.

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Highlights

If you are thinking of attending this fair, why not have a look at some of the books recommended by some of the Members who will be there.

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Harvill Secker

£80.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Canal Dreams

Iain Banks

Macmillan

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Sula

Toni Morrison

Bantam Press

£125.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Giant Jumperee- Signed

Julia Donaldson and Helen Oxenbury

Puffin Books

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

Collins and Harvill Press

£250.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Alone In Berlin

Hans Fallada

Penguin Classics

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Thursbitch

Alan Garner

The Harvill Press

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Bone Clocks - Signed

David Mitchell

Sceptre

£60.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Remainder - Signed

Tom McCarthy

Alma Books

£60.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The new birth: or, a treatise of regeneration, del...

William Whately, Preacher and minister of Banbury in Oxfordshiere

London, Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man and are to be sold at his shop in Pater-noster-row at the signe of the Talbot

£320.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power.

Cox, John D.

Princeton University Press, Princeton.

£15.00

Offered by Peter Moore

Censorship and Interpretation. The Conditions of W...

Patterson, Annabel

University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.

£15.00

Offered by Peter Moore

Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare's Drama.

Erickson, Peter.

University of California Press, Berkeley.

£15.00

Offered by Peter Moore

Millenium Trilogy + 3 (6 Books)

Stieg Larsson & David Lagercrantz

Maclehose Press

£225.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Man-Eaters Of Kumaon

Jim Corbett

Oxford University Press

£150.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Dancing In The Dark: My Struggle: 4 - SIGNED

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Harvill Secker

£65.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

SAXTON /LEA MAP OF WARWICKSHIRE/LEICESTERSHIRE

SAXTON LEA

£650.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

nineteen eighty-four (1984)

George Orwell

Secker & Warburg

£3225.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner

Alan Sillitoe

W.H.Allen

£225.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Winston S. Churchill Biography (8 Vols)

Randolph Churchill & Sir Martin Gilbert

Heinemann

£395.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Sword of Honour Trilogy - Men at Arms (1952) -...

Evelyn Waugh

Chapman and Hall

£200.00

Offered by Books Written By

Gaudete

Ted Hughes

Faber and Faber Limited

£60.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Beautiful World, Where Are You? - SIGNED

Sally Rooney

Faber

£65.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

The Female Eunuch

Germaine Greer

Macgibbon & Kee

£100.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Book Club

Fair Exhibitors

If you would like to see which Members will be at this fair, you can browse through them all below. Just select the letter their name starts with and click their name to see their specific page.

Exhibitors A-Z

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Showing 2 Results

Name

Books

C

Name & Trading Name

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Name

Books

Claremont Books and Prints | Suzanne & Gordon Leete Market Harborough

91

F

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

Fiona Edwards | Fiona Edwards Mansfield

66

G

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

I

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

Images in Print | Jane Jaques Nottingham

0

J

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

M

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

Missing Books | Chris Missing Chelmsford

454

P

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

Peter Moore | Peter Moore Cambridge

449

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Name & Trading Name

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Name

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Salsus Books | David T Salt Kidderminster

112

Stephen Rench | Stephen Rench Shipston on Stour

13

Guest Exhibitors

We are pleased to announce that we will have some special guests at this fair! Have a look at who they are.

Terry Sims
Gloucestershire and Worcestershire topography.

Contact:

Telephone: 01452 546879
Address

Abbeydale
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL4 5XY

Simply Read Ltd, Harry Johnson

Contact:

Telephone: 07873 963365
Address

Barton Seagrave
Kettering
Northamptonshire

KC Automotive, Ken Cowdry
Children's books of 1940s to 60s; books/magazines on aviation and motoring from 1950s/60s; Ordnance Survey maps -7th series 1958/62.

Contact:

Telephone: 01384 392590
Address

Norton
Stourbridge

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