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Clemo Books is hiring
Clemo Books looking ever so cute. Clemo Books is looking for a Sunday staff member! The role will be an initial 6 month contract April -...
Mar 91 min read


2024 Clemo Club Books Wrapped
Clemo Club has a lot of opinionated people in it and we think you should hear what they think. Each month our book club meet to discuss a...
Feb 55 min read


Clemo Christmas gift guide 2024
Say hello ho ho to our 2024 Clemo Christmas Gift Guide! Chock full of book suggestions for those friends and family members you just...
Nov 21, 20245 min read


Bookseller's journal: September 2024
I don’t use Good Reads or Storygraph. Instead, I have 5 years of lists pinned in my notes app titled books 2024, books 2023, books 2022,...
Sep 5, 20243 min read


Bookseller's journal: August 2024
A seagull didn’t like the look of his reflection in the bookshop window one day. He pecked furiously at the window, so much so I thought...
Aug 6, 20243 min read


Bookseller's journal: July 2024
This journal is dedicated to a group of people that, I think, may have some things to process. The most visceral emotion I have seen thus...
Jul 2, 20243 min read


Independent Bookshop Week at Clemo Books
Here at Clemo Books we’re preparing to celebrate our first Independent Bookshop Week on Newquay’s high street, come celebrate with us...
Jun 13, 20242 min read


Bookshop Notes: June 2024
It was a customer, we shall call him William, who inspired me to start writing little notes about Clemo Books. He pre-orders fascinating...
Jun 4, 20243 min read


Clemo Books Young People’s Poetry Competition
To celebrate Independent Bookshop Week, Saturday 15 June – Saturday 22 June, we’re hosting a poetry competition and asking children and...
Jun 3, 20242 min read


12 Months of Clemo Club: 2023
Our little book club has been reading together for 2 years! 24 books, countless hours of reading, too many pages to count, 24 meet ups –...
Jan 10, 20246 min read


Reading Resolutions 2024
Have you resolved to reading more in 2024? It can be hard to stick to a resolution however reading resolutions are a nice way of getting...
Jan 3, 20243 min read


Clemo Christmas gift guide 2023
HO HO HO it’s the Clemo Books Christmas gift guide, back again for 2023! Gifting a book during the festive period is almost as nice as...
Nov 17, 20233 min read


Conjuring Clemo Books
Some may call it hocus pocus, however, I believe manifestation works. Manifestation is a tool based on the law of attraction where an...
Apr 11, 20232 min read


Reading resolutions 2023
Reading goals are good for some people but for this bookseller it just doesn’t work. We have enough numerical targets imposed upon us, we...
Dec 30, 20222 min read


12 months of Clemo Club
In terms of books, 2022 has been a fabulous year! (We’ll just ignore everything else…) On a dark January evening Clemo Club joined...
Dec 29, 20224 min read


Clemo Christmas gift guide 2022
It’s almost Christmas bookworms! There’s nothing nicer than finding a book under the tree. A present that you can spend time with later...
Dec 1, 20222 min read


Lego beach-combing author Tracey Williams book signing
Clemo Books will be hosting a book signing with Tracey Williams, author of Adrift: The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost at Sea, at Newquay...
Nov 21, 20222 min read


1 year of Clemo Books: a thank you note
Sunday 30 October is Clemo Books first birthday. It’s been a whole year of pop ups, meeting new people and page turners and I just wanted...
Oct 12, 20222 min read


Booksellers to-be-read list
There is a Japanese word ‘tsundoku’ which doesn’t have a direct English translation, however, I expect everyone reading this right now...
Sep 9, 20222 min read


Jack Clemo: clay country and Christianity
Jack Clemo, or ‘Poet of the Clay’, was a remarkable Cornishman and considered a significant figure in 20th century literature. Clemo was...
Jun 9, 20222 min read
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