The last ever Osterley Bookshop September Revamp and Renewal Sale
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Woolworths, Debenhams, WHS, Next and the most famous of the lot, Osterley Bookshop is about to go trotting off to that great shopping mall in the sky. You’ve probably heard we’re heading for the hills (metaphorically) and this will be our final September Sale (1st to 30th).
The menu comprises:
- All fictional paperbacks, Penguins, lit etc: £2.00 ea.
- All factual paperbacks: 1/2 our marked prices.
- All Sci Fi, fantasy, romance, thrillers etc: £1.00 ea.
- All hardbacks fact or fiction: art, history, lit, 1sts, signed etc: ½ our marked prices.
- With sales of 10 books or more a further 10% off.
- … and assorted fixtures and fittings (to collect end Oct/Nov in the final days).
- Plus newly added antiques and bric-a-brac.
Facts above, emotions below.
Our original closing announcement caused far more ruck than we ever imagined: phone calls from New York, emails from Japan, stories of people growing up alongside our attempts at playing shop (an inadvertent, too long to explain detour – from original architectural, art-centric reason for getting this ex-railway station, windows still bricked up from the war!) and how much they’d “enjoyed playing customers” … er? “In our obvious charade at pretending to be a real shop” … double … er? Whatever ramshackle business we created all you customers (bar one of two) have been great. From the little girl who popped a note through the door thanking us for the nome which she bought for her nome house which she thought was too cheep – to the thespian who buys several dozen books a year, we’ll miss the oddly assorted lot of you.
Now time to get our art hats back on as 50 years is rather a long procrastination! … also, our accountant pointed out that our art dept has more or less paid for the shop to be open since the beginning of the year (wage rises, parking problems, heating etc and inability go round re-pricing 1000s of books to match current bills). Thinking about it, probably a good job we didn’t open a grocers – we’d be attempting to sell 1990s biscuits to cover current bills.
Future for building? Bit of maths to be done (refer to our accountant for our inability to add more than one apple to a bunch of bananas). We’re rejigging our commercial art space , but the shop itself will close. However, after taking time to exhale, we’ve had passing thoughts of the occasional pop-up shop, all sorts, very short run, not just art and not immediately.
Final closing suspect early to Mid November.
Please do pop in to pick up some stupidly cheap books, or even just to say farewell.
We’re open 7 days a week, 9.30-5.30 weekends, 10-5 weekdays (occasionally we have to dispatch books on Mon, Tues, involving conga lines at the Post Office, so maybe ring 020 8560 6206 to double check we’re open).
Osterley Bookshop.
168A Thornbury Road, Osterley, TW7 4QE. 020 8560 6206.
Easy parking, opposite the main entrance to National Trust’s Osterley Park. Osterley Station on the Piccadilly line. Buses: H91 (from Chiswick), H28 (from Hounslow bus garage), off at Osterley Library.
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