There’s nothing nicer than getting lost in a good book – or spending hours in a lovely bookshop. As June marks the 17th Independent Bookshop…
There’s nothing nicer than getting lost in a good book – or spending hours in a lovely bookshop. As June marks the 17th Independent Bookshop Week, Victoria Been celebrates Yorkshire’s brilliant independents and their place in our hearts and communities.
The bookshop actually started out life in 2016 as a fund-raising herb shop, set up in the shed at the bottom of my garden as a means of continuing to raise money for the Yorkshire Live Music Project which I founded in 2009 to provide an annual donation to youth-based music groups or projects in Yorkshire each year.
‘After moving back to Yorkshire in 2017 I decided I’d like to open my own bookshop. It was at the time independent bookshops were closing, but then my sister Jacquie offered to come in with me as she’d always wanted to open a tea shop, so that gave us the confidence to start looking for premises that could accommodate us both.
We have become well known for our author events. Our cream tea events in the Coffee Shop on Tuesdays for local and new authors are always a sell out and our bigger events for more well-known authors like Julia Chapman, Dan Jones and Ann Cleeves are held in the village’s Octogen Theatre − we’ve even got Dan Jones returning in October. We’re planning an even more diverse programme of events for 2024.
When I came up to research, I walked down Farsley High Street and just loved that all the shops are independent. There’s also a lot of creatives including the development of Sunny Bank Mills. When I saw the vacant premises, a former haberdasher, they just looked like they were made to be a bookshop. There’d already been a lot of interest in them, but the owner is a book lover and really liked the idea of it being a bookshop. So, we opened in June 2021.
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