The Heath Bookshop

Units 3&4 Kings Court, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7JZ

The Heath Bookshop is owned and run by Catherine Gale and Claire Dawes – two friends that met in October 2021 through a love of books. After spending lots of time together, drinking coffee and visiting other bookshops, they finally found the perfect premises, down Kings Court in Kings Heath; a wonderful courtyard full of other independent shops. They opened in September 2022.

Catherine and Claire set out to create somewhere beautiful where everyone is welcome to come and sit with a coffee and browse the shelves. The Heath Bookshop sells new books, specialising mainly in adult fiction, but also sells young-adult titles. There are also small well curated non-fiction sections which include LGBTQIA+, well-being, history, travel, and environmental and gardening. Catherine and Claire curate a varied programme of events each month, including author events, fashion talks and music gigs.

There are four book club meetings per month and to find out more you can join their mailing list by emailing hello@theheathbookshop.co.uk

Catherine and Claire are loving running a bookshop together and were recently featured in The Guardian in an article about female friends opening bookshops together.

Email: hello@theheathbookshop.co.uk

Phone: 0121 444 3958

Instagram & Facebook: @theheathbookshop

Link to tickets: linktr.ee/theheathbookshop

Voce Books

The Warehouse, 54-57 Allison Street, Digbeth, Birmingham

B5 5TH

Voce Books is a new independent bookshop with a focus on the vibrant & boundary-breaking independent publishing scene, the site of the most eclectic & future-focused writing. Located at The Warehouse in Digbeth & run by Clive Judd & Maria Lomunno Judd, we stock fiction, translations, poetry, books on culture & politics, magazines, zines, & a little bit of art.

Originally from Worcester in the West Midlands, Clive began his bookselling career at Waterstones Birmingham in 2009 before moving on to London’s Charing Cross Road to work for Foyles. Clive is also a writer and theatre director. His debut play ‘Here’ won the Papatango Prize for Playwriting in 2022.

Hailing from Bari in Southern Italy, Maria joined Sheffield-based independent publishers And Other Stories on a publishing scholarship in 2012. Moving to Foyles in 2014, Maria soon became a Head of Department, where she developed her extensive knowledge of contemporary bookselling. She speaks three languages and writes for the Italian book blog, Letterevive.

Website: vocebooks.com

Bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/shop/ vocebooks

Phone: 0121 633 5530

Instagram / Twitter / Facebook: @vocebooks

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