Enjoy a coffee at Rhapsody Coffee & Company on the historic High Street of Bridlington Old Town and at your leisure, browse the books – fact and fiction that you won’t find in largechain bookshops.
That’s the message from the creator of a new concept that brings local booksto the high street.
The new venture commences in February 2025 and visitors and coffee connoisseurs are more than welcome to call in.
Books are self-published by authors in the East Riding and cover a variety of genres (historical, family saga, supernatural, crime, romance, fantasy and poetry). They often feature local places, people and local history.
One of the books set to be on the shelf is Witch-bottles and Windlestraws, written by Hornsea author Joy Stonehouse.
The novel is set in the small cliff-top village of Reighton in the year 1702 and begins by describing the November gale that ‘eddies’ through the village during a wedding.
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Describing the trials and tribulations of life in a coastal village in East Yorkshire three hundred years ago, the reader is given the tapestry of the village’s working lives, dominated by the church and ancient superstitions that were the mainstay of life in those days.
Village life back in those days was incredibly difficult and often isolated by deep snow every winter and wassubject to a great storm that hit Filey Bay…some of the descriptions chill you to the bone.
Reighton Sands. Photo: Echo Media Group.
‘Off the Shelf’ will launch on Saturday, February 1st, at Rhapsody Coffee & Co. on High Street in Bridlington Old Town and Joy Stonehouse will be available from 2pm to 4 pm to discuss and sign her book.
For further information – graham@grahamsmith.com or call in at Rhapsody.
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