Hunting Raven Books

Someone has left some shopping behind. It's here if you want to come and collect (descriptions of contents will be required).

How very lovely to see our wonderful bookshop given some much-appreciated hype from our friends at Hive ☺️☺️☺️

We are having a total blast at All Hallows! This is day 2 of our two-day book fair here and we've been really enjoying the amazing World Book Day outfits of both the staff and students. Every child has had the chance to take a book home and it's been so fun helping them choose from this brilliant selection of titles! We love running book fairs, so do get in touch if you would like to consider running one in your school.

Conditions are good for tonight's show at with Charlie Connelly 'Attention All Shopping', all about the Shipping Forecast which is celebrating its 100 year anniversary. Fittingly, tonight's performance happens to fall on the 200th anniversary of the RNLI.

What a joyous start to the week! Welcoming in Year One from Trinity First School this morning to exchange their World Book Day vouchers for books . This week we will be welcoming the rest of the school, class by class. We'll also be at St John's First School at school pick-up time on Thursday. Then, on Wednesday and Thursday we'll be at All Hallows running a book fair!

Last Friday we welcomed Skylark, Robin and Goldfinch classes from Vallis to meet author-illustrator Moesha Kellaway.

What a busy couple of weeks. If you are a local school and interested in how we might work together on all things bookish, do get in touch. Our details are in our bio!

And we're off!!! Come and join the bug hotel fun at Hunting Raven 😁😁😁 Moesha will be here until Noon. Two exciting facts we learned yesterday...
1. Moesha grew up in Frome and was a pupil at St John's school
2. Slugs have 27,000 teeth!!!!!

Our arts and craft activity is STILL on this morning. So if your little ones have already exhausted themselves in the snow and you're scratching your head about how to keep them occupied this morning, come on down to our shop. Author-illustrator Moesha Kellaway will be running some fun craft activities this morning from 10-12. No booking required. Turn up and we'll squeeze you in if there's space ☺️

***GET CRAFTY WITH US THIS SATURDAY: 10-12Noon*** Today we were so lucky to have our window painted by the lovely Moesha Kellaway. Moesha's first book Slug Life is such a charming and sweet guide all about what's to live in a slug. With some brilliant jaw dropping facts thrown in for good measure.

Tomorrow Moesha will be running a craft activity suitable for little ones 3-4+. She will be here from 10am-12Noon. No booking is required, but it could get busy!

Copies of the book can be pre-ordered tomorrow ☺️☺️☺️ .kellaway

Join us next Saturday for a fun free craft activity with author illustrator of Slug Life Moesha Kellaway. Yes, you CAN learn to love a slug! No booking required but spaces are limited and there may be a small wait. Moesha will be painting our window on Friday and she will be with us doing the crafting on Saturday 2nd March from 10am until 12noon. .kellaway

Join us NEXT Saturday 2nd March for a fun free craft activity with the lovely Moesha Kellaway, author illustrator of Slug Life. Come and make the slugs your friends... Yes, you can learn to love the slug! No booking required but we do have limited space, so there may be a small wait .kellaway

There's still an hour left to catch Ruth Windle on our porch or buy a beautiful card print from Ukrainian artists from Karin Campagna at Hunting Raven today as we mark two years of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We will hold on to the recommended reading lists Ruth so thoughtfully put together for us. If you would like one, do pop in and ask.

The book choice for the On Air Book Club for Frome FM. Modelled exquisitely here by Sheila! You all know just how much I love it when people buy books that match their clothes! Ada's Realm comes out in paperback in April and sounds utterly brilliant

To mark the two year anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, friend of Hunting Raven and passionate advocate of all things Ukrainian, Ruth Windle, will be on our porch this Saturday from 11am-1pm. She will be on hand to chat with customers and passersby about the very many books she has read about Ukraine's history, culture and politics and is very enthusiastic to share with you. We will have reading lists to take away and you would be very welcome to order books.

When the book, bag, coat and scarf combo works as well as this? There just has to be a picture! Bonus points given for leaving the shop with this month's book club read, Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

Look, .hore, look!!! It has arrived and it is sooooooooo beautiful. Now THAT is a book you'd want to carry around with you everywhere so you could sn**ch moments reading it.

Move over the Costas, there's a new coffee-shop-named book award in town!!! And the category winners are brilliant...

Best Fiction: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Best Debut Fiction: Close to Home by Michael Magee
Best Children's: The Swifts by Beth Lincoln
Best Non-Fiction: Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

We of course have copies of all of these great titles in stock.

Make sure you're following us (of course you are!) and for the announcement of the overall winner on 14th March.

One very special edition of Death of a Bookseller left! Hurry if you want it (Accident Book, model's own).

Our first Ravenous books are flying the nest and will soon land with a satisfying thud onto the doormats of two lucky readers. We now have a subscription service, so you can treat a loved one (or yourself) to a year (or 9 months, or six months, or three months) of books. The Ravenous for Books subscription will be up on our website shortly, but in the meantime you can get in touch for more details or to buy the gift that keeps on giving...

We're loving the little flurry of regeneration that's happening on Cheap Street right now, and it's lovely to be welcoming new neighbours. I just had to snap last night on my way back to the shop post-event as his shop front looked just so stylish and appealing.

Lovely event at hosted by our friends at with the incomparable David Olusoga. He was so generous and lovely to those who queued patiently and happily for their books to be signed. Looking forward to many more events again this year...