Bookshop.org is an online bookshop with a mission to financially support local, independent bookshops.We believe that bookshops are essential to a healthy culture.

They’re where authors can connect with readers, where we discover new writers, where children get hooked on the thrill of reading that can last a lifetime. They’re also anchors for our high streets and communities.

Bookshop.org works with independent bookshops across the UK to provide online bookshop facilities to the independent booksellers. Together they are able to bring you your books, cutting out the big corporations and taking it straight to the local shop.

On our microsite https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/essexbookfestival, we have started compiling lists that make it easy to find the book you are looking for!!

In the process, the purchase pushes the business to the independents who have your book local to you and send it out, saving the planet at the same time.

Please pop over and check it out, get involved – if you have a book you think we should have let us know via the website supporting the local Independent booksellers and growing Writers and Authors readership is one of our passions.

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We launched The Essex Read in 2018, a project that harnesses the power of reading to bring people together. We want to encourage the whole of Essex, whether lone reader or part of a book club, to be reading the same book: The Oak Papers by James Canton.

 
James Canton is a nature and travel writer who leads the MA in Wild Writing at University of Essex. His writing focuses on the ties between nature, literature and the environment. For this book, James spent two years sitting with and studying the ancient Honywood Oak. Blending personal experience with cultural legacy, The Oak Papers is a meditative and healing book about the lessons we can learn from the natural world, if only we slow down enough to listen.

“An enchanting piece of nature writing and a meditation on finding connection in a disconnected world” 

Independent

Find out more about The Oak Papers https://jamescanton.co.uk/books/the-oak-papers/
Buy the book at https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-oak-papers/9781838851507

We invite you to come together to discuss and share your thoughts about the book. James Canton will be sharing his thoughts, leading walks and workshops in July 2021.

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