Event Information

Everybody is welcome to the Stratford book fair.

There will be around 15 dealers offering for sale a selection of their secondhand, rare and antiquarian books, maps, prints and more, to suit all pockets.

Free admission.  Refreshments available.

The image you see is of William Shakespeare who was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on 26th April 1564, sometimes called Britain's national poet and "Bard of Avon". 

Key Details

Time & Date 29th August 2026, 10:00 - 16:00

Venue Charlecote & Harwood Suite, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Bridgefoot, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6YR

Organisers Georgia Mullen Tel: 07909 901078 Email: info@bookswrittenby.co.uk

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Travel Information

Driving

M40 Junction 15.

Parking

Available at the hotel. £4 all day, but you must register with the hotel reception.

Train

One mile from main station.

Bus

Several routes via National Express; Park and Ride from Birmingham Road.

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Highlights

If you are thinking of attending this fair, why not have a look at some of the books recommended by some of the Members who will be there.

When She Was Good

Philip Roth

Jonathan Cape

£100.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Girls In Their Married Bliss

Edna O'Brien

Jonathan Cape

£100.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Shakespeare Complete Works

W J Craig (Edited with a Glossary by)

Oxford University Press

£25.00

Offered by Books Written By

A series of antient allegorical, historical and le...

Guild Chapel Stratford

Nichols and son

£440.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Concerning the Shakespeare Annual Festival ( the f...

T. Edgar Pemberton

John Morgan, Stratford upon Avon

£30.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Autograph album 1915 - 1923 Stratford and area

Stratford WWI hospital connection

£90.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Miscellaneous papers and legal instruments under t...

Shakespeare - William Henry Ireland

Mr Egerton, Whitehall

£750.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

The Second World War (6 Vols) - The Chartwell Edit...

Winston S. Churchill

The Educational Book Company Limited

£395.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Harvill Secker

£80.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Canal Dreams

Iain Banks

Macmillan

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Sula

Toni Morrison

Bantam Press

£125.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

The Giant Jumperee- Signed

Julia Donaldson and Helen Oxenbury

Puffin Books

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

Collins and Harvill Press

£250.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Alone In Berlin

Hans Fallada

Penguin Classics

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Thursbitch

Alan Garner

The Harvill Press

£50.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Remainder - Signed

Tom McCarthy

Alma Books

£60.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

The new birth: or, a treatise of regeneration, del...

William Whately, Preacher and minister of Banbury in Oxfordshiere

London, Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man and are to be sold at his shop in Pater-noster-row at the signe of the Talbot

£320.00

Offered by Stephen Rench

Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power.

Cox, John D.

Princeton University Press, Princeton.

£15.00

Offered by Peter Moore

Censorship and Interpretation. The Conditions of W...

Patterson, Annabel

University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.

£15.00

Offered by Peter Moore

Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare's Drama.

Erickson, Peter.

University of California Press, Berkeley.

£15.00

Offered by Peter Moore

Millenium Trilogy + 3 (6 Books)

Stieg Larsson & David Lagercrantz

Maclehose Press

£225.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Man-Eaters Of Kumaon

Jim Corbett

Oxford University Press

£150.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

Dancing In The Dark: My Struggle: 4 - SIGNED

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Harvill Secker

£65.00

Offered by Grimes Hill Books

SAXTON /LEA MAP OF WARWICKSHIRE/LEICESTERSHIRE

SAXTON LEA

£650.00

Offered by Claremont Books and Prints

Fair Exhibitors

If you would like to see which Members will be at this fair, you can browse through them all below. Just select the letter their name starts with and click their name to see their specific page.

Exhibitors A-Z

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Showing 2 Results

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Books

C

Name & Trading Name

Showing 2 Results

Name

Books

Claremont Books and Prints | Suzanne & Gordon Leete Market Harborough

91

F

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

Fiona Edwards | Fiona Edwards Mansfield

66

G

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

I

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

Images in Print | Jane Jaques Nottingham

0

J

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

M

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

Missing Books | Chris Missing Chelmsford

453

P

Name & Trading Name

Showing 1 Results

Name

Books

Peter Moore | Peter Moore Cambridge

448

S

Name & Trading Name

Showing 2 Results

Name

Books

Salsus Books | David T Salt Kidderminster

115

Stephen Rench | Stephen Rench Shipston on Stour

17

Guest Exhibitors

We are pleased to announce that we will have some special guests at this fair! Have a look at who they are.

Terry Sims
Gloucestershire and Worcestershire topography.

Contact:

Telephone: 01452 546879
Address

Abbeydale
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL4 5XY

Simply Read Ltd, Harry Johnson

Contact:

Telephone: 07873 963365
Address

Barton Seagrave
Kettering
Northamptonshire

KC Automotive, Ken Cowdry
Children's books of 1940s to 60s; books/magazines on aviation and motoring from 1950s/60s; Ordnance Survey maps -7th series 1958/62.

Contact:

Telephone: 01384 392590
Address

Norton
Stourbridge

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