Signed
Harrowgate Press
The Salt Almanac
Imogen Rea
Independent since 2011 · Rowan Street
The book you didn't know you were looking for.
Foxglove is a 400-square-foot bookshop with opinions. Every title on our shelves was read by someone who works here — and if we can't defend it, we don't stock it.
The Salt AlmanacImogen Rea
Nightjar, NightjarD. Okonkwo
A Field Guide to LeavingM. Verhoeven
The Quiet CartographerInes Bellweather
Bright Hollow FeverAmara Voss
Everything We Owe the RainJ. Calloway
Small Hours, Long WinterPetra Lindqvist
this week's stack — all seven read & argued over by the staff
New
Coldwater Editions
The Quiet Cartographer
Ines Bellweather
Harrowgate Press
A Field Guide to Leaving
M. Verhoeven
New
Nightjar Books
Nightjar, Nightjar
D. Okonkwo
Coldwater Editions
Bright Hollow Fever
Amara Voss
Rowan Street Press
Small Hours, Long Winter
Petra Lindqvist
Secondhand
Marlin & Sons, 1974
Everything We Owe the Rain
J. Calloway
Rowan Street Press
Foxglove & Other Warnings
Halle Marchetti
Handwritten, taped to the shelf
Staff picks
The little cards you find under the books at Foxglove. We write them ourselves, and nobody is paid to like anything.
The Salt Almanac
I. Rea
I sold my own copy to a customer who wouldn't stop asking about it, then bought it again the same week. A widow catalogues the tide for forty years. Sounds slow. Reader, I missed my stop twice.
Marguerite, buyer14 yrs here
$26.00 Signed 1st ed.
The Quiet Cartographer
I. Bellweather
Nature
The Quiet Cartographer
Ines Bellweather · 240pp
A woman walks the same six miles of moor for a year and maps what changes. It rewired how I look at the hill behind my flat. Buy it for the person who says they "don't read nature writing."
Theo, eveningsPoetry Hour host
$24.00 Hardback
Nightjar, Nightjar
D. Okonkwo
Fiction
Nightjar, Nightjar
D. Okonkwo · 312pp
Two brothers, one bird, and a village that keeps its promises badly. The last forty pages are the best thing published this year and I will happily argue about that at the till.
Ruth, ownerSince 2011
$19.00 Club pick
Upstairs, most evenings
Events & the reading club
We move the front table, put out thirty chairs, and open the wine. No tickets to most of it — just turn up.
Jul18
Imogen Rea reads from The Salt Almanac
Reading, then a proper Q&A. Signing until we run out of pens.
Ticketed · 7:30pmJul24
Poetry Hour
Open mic, eight minutes each. Bring a poem or bring nothing.
Free · 7:00pmJust turn up
Aug02
Reading Club: Nightjar, Nightjar
Members and first-timers both welcome. We start at the ending.
Members free · 7:00pmAug09
Secondhand Saturday
Bring a box, leave with credit. We value on the spot, cash or trade.
Free · 11am–4pmWalk in
Aug16
Small Presses Night
Four independent publishers, one table, far too much to carry home.
Ticketed · 7:30pm
The shop
Four hundred square feet, and not one filler shelf
Ruth opened Foxglove in 2011 in a room that had been a cobbler's, then a phone repair place, then empty for three years. The brick was already there. The ladder came from a farm sale in Ardleigh and it does, we promise, hold.
We're small on purpose. A chain carries 40,000 titles because it can; we carry 1,900 because that's how many we can genuinely vouch for. Ask any of us for a recommendation and you'll get a real one — occasionally a long one.
"If I can't tell you why it's on the shelf, it comes off the shelf."
— Ruth Ellery, owner
1,900
Titles, each one read
60+
Reading club members
42
Author events last year
Foxglove Membership
Let us choose for you. We're very good at it.
Tell us three books you loved and one you couldn't finish. Every month we post you something we're confident about — with a card explaining exactly why.
- A hand-picked book each month, wrapped in paper
- 10% off everything else, in shop and online
- Free seat at every ticketed event upstairs
- Swap it, no questions, if we get it wrong
The Reader's Subscription
$22per month, cancel any time
Books are $15–$28 retail. Most months you're up on the deal, and we're fine with that.
- One hand-picked book, posted free
- Reading club seat included
- 10% off the whole shop
- First refusal on signed stock
No contract. Pause it in December like everyone does.
From the people who keep coming back
What the regulars say
“I asked for something like a novel I'd loved in 2009 and Theo didn't even blink. Third recommendation in a row they've nailed. I've stopped browsing online entirely.”
Hannah MbekiMember since 2019
“The reading club is the only standing plan in my calendar I've never cancelled. Ruth's notes are better than most reviews I've paid to read.”
Danny CruzReading club, 4 years
“Bought the subscription for my dad, who claimed he didn't read anymore. He now phones me about the books. I don't know what they put in the wrapping paper.”
Sara OkaforGifted a membership
The Foxglove Letter
One email a month. Nothing to unsubscribe from twice.
What we've unpacked, what's coming upstairs, and one book we can't stop pressing on people. Written by Ruth, on a Sunday, badly.
About 900 people get it. Roughly 11 have ever left.
You're on the list — see you on a Sunday.
