Malvern Book Cooperative was formed in 2012 to ensure that Malvern had a bookshop to serve local readers and to host bookish events.
The physical bookshop is now closed. After 14 years of trading the time has come to move on. We were set up in 2012, a year when the Booksellers Association reported a net loss of 35 bookshops in the UK. Our motivation was to keep a true independent bookshop in Malvern, for a town without a bookshop is like a meal without wine. We’ve done that. Along the way we have supported local authors, supported Malvern’s festivals, taken books into schools, had reading groups, poetry readings and book launches, introduced people to Japanese fiction, launched a charity, provided 8 people with jobs, and had great fun doing it. We will miss it all and, most especially, our wonderful, supportive Coop members who placed their trust in us.
The cooperative will continue in some form. Keep a look out for news in the new year.
If you cannot make it to our lovely shop you can buy from us on-line! Every purchase you make from bookshop.org earns us a commission. Bookshop.org is an online bookshop with a mission to support local independent bookshops. If you follow the links from this page you will be taken to our store front on bookshop.org from where you can choose from our lists or search for other titles.
If you are unable to come to the shop we also take orders by email or phone.
Email us on enquiries@malvernbook.coop, or call us at the shop during opening hours, and give us the titles you would like to order.
We look forward to helping you with your bookish needs in person or virtually.
Many thanks for your continued support. We look forward to seeing you in our shop very soon.