£29 Nook Simple Touches back in stock: limited time only

Our £29 Nook ereaders are back in stock. There are just a few, so come and get yours now. (This batch sold out.)


A lovely, clear display and plenty of eBooks, magazines and newspapers to choose from… and there's that amazing price.

At the risk of sounding like a market stall, once they're gone, they're gone. Come get!

4 days until #NewmanMcr: how to be a writer

In four days time, you'll get to see the fabulous Anneliese Mackintosh supporting Robert Newman. Anneliese is a writer. We learned this from YouTube. Look!

(Tweeting about the Rob Newman gig on June 4th? Use the hashtag #NewmanMcr!)

#NewmanMcr competition time! Win tickets to see @mrrobnewman

We've teamed up with the lovely bookfluffies at Manchester Wire to bring you a fabulous competition to win free tickets to our Robert Newman event on Tuesday.

We'll even roll out the red carpet for you.*

Click here to enter our Rob Newman competition.

Only five days to go. You can turn up on the night, but to ensure entry, buy yourself a ticket - or win this competition (winner announced on Sunday)!

* subject to Rob arriving with his own personal red carpet and suitable carpet-cleaning shampoo / upholstery brushes

6 days until #NewmanMcr: one for teenagers in Devon

There'll be a few people reading this that may have braved the outdoor stage at the Manchester Book Market. Here's a thoroughly seasoned performer taking on the stage with her poem I Want To Be A Teenager In Devon. Oh and she just happens to be one of our fabulous support acts for our massive Rob Newman book event in just six days time!

(We're selling tickets in the shop if you don't want to buy online. Find our shop via the power of Google.)

7 days until #NewmanMcr: one for people that read things

No video today. Because we are just one week away from our joint gig with Bad Language, here is something more wordy: this link to an interview with Robert Neman on The List.

"Cargo [Publishing] have booked me to do readings of The Trade Secret for the rest of my life."

Yeah, sorry about that, Rob.

This will be one of his biggest book events. Robert Newman, Rosie Garland, Anneliese Mackintosh, June 4 at Gorilla Manchester. Tickets are selling well, oh yes they are, so get yours now.

8 days until #NewmanMcr: one for radio listeners and Clive Anderson

"I've never been congratulated for my oddness before," says Robert Newman on this brief radio interview about a recent tour. From BBC4 to stand-up to novel-writing, this is one chap you will definitely want to see.

As a bonus, below that is a very, very old interview full of awkwardness from the 11th century or something.

Join our Facebook event for the Robert Newman Manchester gig on June 4 - and do share it with your friends.

9 days until #NewmanMcr: one for coffee drinkers

One thing that occurred to us when thinking about the coffee trading of Robert Newman's new book was the  documentary film Black Gold, which did the festivals circuit in the mid-noughties.

Join us on June 4th. Think stand-up meets book launch meets massive literary knees-up!