Welcome to Saturday Books
Saturday Books is pleased to announce that it has reopened fully in its new location at the Tower Street end of the Fountain Arcade, Dudley.
About Saturday Books
Saturday Books has now reopened at 23–25 Fountain Arcade, Tower Street, Dudley DY1 1PF.
Items of old stock will continue to be sold, but ‘bundled’ with books of compatible author/genre/topic. The sale will continue until Easter, as will the traditional middle-of-the-day opening (11–3), with long Saturdays and closed Wednesdays and Sundays.
Gradually the re-stocking will go ahead. Easter should see a thousand new and contemporary books, while the re-accumulation of out-of-prints proceeds as before, under the same roof, but as a separate arm of the business.
At and after Easter, the shop will be open 10–4, six days a week.
Children’s Area
For years, a Children’s Area has been part of the grander aims of the bookshop, but this didn’t prove possible until we moved to our new home in the Fountain Arcade.
Now we have a garden-themed corner, with table, chairs and lawn-representing mat. There are drawing and colouring materials at hand, along with picture-orientated large-format books. Further afield all primary school-aged readers have their shelves, with used book starting at £1.00, rising to £5.99 and above if new. Spanning out, the full Saturday Books collection is on view, where parents may take time to browse and buy as their children absorb themselves in reading and other activities.
A sunny spot and safe situation in which to enter the literary world, to become a reader, to have your life shaped by the books you read, in ways all good. Through continual purchase of new books that interest and delight children, this is what the Children’s Area aims to be.
Saturday Books is headed up by Francis, bookshop proprietor, who is supported by a dedicated team of fellow bibliophiles.
We’re committed to constantly improving our bookshop and we’re always keen to hear our customers’ views – either in person when you visit or via a message.
Local Writers
We stock books by authors and poets from across the West Midlands. We specialise in self-published works and books from small, independent publishers.
We welcome regional authors
Saturday Books aims to promote writing in the West Midlands, from a view that our region – through its high degree of diversity, unique history and present drive towards ultra-modernity – has an emerging voice, or collection of voices that are rooted in the same landscape.
We therefore welcome contact with regional writers whose writing contains something of the conditions of life here in the West Midlands.
We have established an invoicing process through the Booksellers Association so that authors/publishers will be paid within a month of a sale taking place.
Saturday Books offers both bricks-and-mortar bookshop and dedicated local authors’ website for marketing writers’ work. In the case of the website, each book that is posted as for sale will carry a review/recommendation by Saturday Books’ staff or associates. Those who search online for new regional voices are thus guided to the choices they make.
If you’d like to sell through Saturday Books, please write to us.
Used, Rare and Out-of-Print Books
We have an enormous range of second-hand books, just a handful of which are shown here. To browse more of our collection, please visit us in Dudley or view our page at AbeBooks.
Stock images of book covers may not reflect the actual appearance of used items. Please see the specific product page for a note on the condition of the book.
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We blog at irregular intervals. Our posts include announcements of forthcoming events, photos of past events, the proprietor’s musings – and even the occasional poem.
