Say hello ho ho to our 2024 Clemo Christmas Gift Guide! Chock full of book suggestions for those friends and family members you just...

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,...

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...

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...

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

It was a customer, we shall call him William, who inspired me to start writing little notes about Clemo Books. He pre-orders fascinating...

To celebrate Independent Bookshop Week, Saturday 15 June – Saturday 22 June, we’re hosting a poetry competition and asking children and...

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 –...

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...

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...

Some may call it hocus pocus, however, I believe manifestation works. Manifestation is a tool based on the law of attraction where an...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

There is a Japanese word ‘tsundoku’ which doesn’t have a direct English translation, however, I expect everyone reading this right now...

Jack Clemo, or ‘Poet of the Clay’, was a remarkable Cornishman and considered a significant figure in 20th century literature. Clemo was...

Clemo Books will be hosting Cornish author Charlie Carroll on his book tour on Wednesday 2 March, 7pm at Urban Kelt Cafe in Newquay....

Last year was a good year for books. Here are some of my favourites from 2021: Mermaid of the Black Conch by Monique Roffey This book was...