A booklover’s guide to Peterborough bookstores: Penultimate Edition
Dixon’s Bookstore (Water St. between Simcoe St. and Hunter St.): Christine DePizan’s The Book Of The City Of Ladies is in the classic lit section for ($5.95) and is a …
Books ‘n’ Things
A booklover’s guide to Peterborough bookstores
Knotaknew: (Corner of George St. and Sherbrooke) The collections of paperbacks near the till always provide a wealth of affordable books, and now is no different. Ray Bradbury’s seminal Farenheit …
A booklover’s guide to Peterborough bookstores: Indigenous Awareness Week
Book and Things (Water St. between Hunter and Simcoe): Two great pieces of non-fiction can be found here for Indigenous Awareness Week. The first is Dee Brown’s seminal Bury My …
A booklover’s guide to Peterborough’s bookstores: International Women’s Day
Mark Jokinen’s Wander over to the Arabic Lit. section for Lebanese writer, Hanan al-Shaykh’s Women Of Sand And Myrrh ($10), while out in front in the $2 shelf you’ll find …
Booklover’s guide to Peterborough: Black History Month edition
In this edition we’ll be celebrating Black History Month with a slew of great books to be found downtown. Books And Things (Water St. between Simcoe and Hunter): Start here …
A booklover’s guide to Peterborough’s bookstores: Week 4
Mark Jokinen’s Bookstore (George St. between King and Sherbrooke): A number of great Valentine’s Day books are sitting in the window including Italo Calvino’s Difficult Loves, erotica from the great …
A booklover’s guide to Peterborough bookstores: Week 3
Mark Jokinen’s Bookstore (George St. between King and Sherbrooke): Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain, a semi-autobiographical novel about a man who gets a reprieve from his cancer diagnosis and then travels …
A booklover’s guide to Peterborough’s bookstores: Week 2
Knotaknew Bookstore: I’m Your Man- The Life Of Leonard Cohen ($9.95) by Sylvie Simmons sits in the back of just after the fiction section. On a carousel right beside the …
A booklover’s guide to Peterborough’s bookstores
Photo from Thea’s Books and Violins by Jenny Fisher. With six used bookstores located conveniently in the downtown core, Peterborough is a great place for book lovers looking to build …
A book town waiting for the buyers: Students no longer frequenting local booksellers
“This is a story that happened over a month or so ago. Two university students came in… I thought she had just transferred into Trent but it turns out, first …