The book trade has moved to Yorkshire for the weekend ...

The amazing experience that is the York Book Fair is due to open at 12 noon tomorrow (Friday 18th September). There are three floors of stands: over 200 booksellers and thousands and thousands of rare, unusual, collectable and just plain readable books. Not to be missed!

You can download a free ticket here: admission is otherwise £2 on the door. The fair is open 12-7pm on Friday and 10-5pm on Saturday at the Knavesmire Suite, York Racecourse, YO23 1EX. There is a free shuttle bus from outside York railway station. There is some parking available at/near the racecourse. There is a cafe and a bar at the venue.

Three Ibooknet members are exhibiting and I caught some pictures of their stands as they were busy setting up today:

Heather and Jeff of Peakirk Books are on the mezzanine floor and already their beautiful children's books catch the eye.

 

 

Stephen Foster on the ground floor has an eclectic range of books and also a large bowl of humbugs on his stand so if your blood sugar is flagging as you browse all those stalls you know who to visit!

 

 

 

 

And my own stock (literary criticism, literary biographies, fiction, poetry and philosophy mainly) is safely shelved on the first floor:

 

 

 

 

We hope to see you there! In the meantime some close ups of my stock - click to enlarge:

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, that's a signed Dorothy Whipple - my favourite book on my stand! You never know it might still be available after the fair. 

 

And here's the rest of the volumes in situ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you come to the fair do come and say hello!

 

A version of this blog post was first posted onto the Ibooknet blog.