With a dedicated children’s area, a focus on Scottish authors and a comfy reading nook, Adventure into Books offers a range of new titles, ‘wouldn’t be without’ favourites, biographies, poetry, histories, travel memoirs, maps, hobby books - in fact, something for all readers, whatever their interests or ages. We also have a range of other gifts, including jigsaws, games and mugs, and offer our own and National Book Tokens, which make a great gift if you’re not quite sure what book someone might like.

We're first and foremost a bookshop for Blairgowrie and its visitors - a place to browse, buy your books, have a blether and swap recommendations. We are open Tuesday-Saturday, 10-5pm.

You can also order from us online by visiting our page on Bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/adventureintobooks. Unlike many other online book sites, Bookshop.org is designed to support independent bookshops on the UK's high streets - or in our case, Blairgowrie's Wellmeadow.

Here are a few of the books we've enjoyed recently - you can also find more recommendations on our website (adventureintobooks.co.uk) and of course in the bookshop:

Paper Cup by Karen Campell. Winner of BOOKMARK's Book of the Year 2023. The hugely moving story of Kelly, who is homeless and living on the streets of Glasgow. As she sets out to do a good deed, she embarks on an emotional and physical pilgrimage back to her home town. The place her own troubles started. It's an emotional and very human story of blame, guilt, hope and redemption. 

 

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Set in 1950s America, Elizabeth Zott is a brilliant and beautiful chemist. She overcomes tragedy, misogyny, plagiarism and social prejudice at every turn. But as her academic career stalls an unlikely TV career blossoms. The story delivers power punches of emotion and tension, lightened with just the right amount of humour and the exceptional observations of Elizabeth’s fabulous dog, Six-Thirty. 

 

Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Gondola of Doom by Olga Wojtas. This is the fourth outing for the enthusiastic, highly accomplished (occasionally clueless), time-travelling, librarian-cum-detective, Shona. This time she is in Venice, investigating the watery disappearance of a number of unfortunate gondolier passengers. Can she solve the clues in time? Always a fun and welcome, escapist delight. Olga Wojtas is appearing on 3rd August at the BOOKMARK Festival Ticket Launch - see the BOOKMARK website for more information, or pop into the bookshop for a ticket.

 

Weyward by Emilia Hart. Shortlisted for this year's Indie Book Awards, this is the story of three women, from three different times and each seen as being different. All three face peril and attempts to control them; all are linked through one story that is gradually revealed.

 

Snail in Space by Rachel Bright. Gail, the snail, is not content with her lot, munching away at (my) garden vegetables, and she determinedly sets off for space camp to see if she can make the grade and go to space. The story and illustrations are brilliant!

 

An Amazing History Atlas of Scotland by local author David MacPhail. This fascinating historical atlas takes readers on a tour through time and place. From the glaciers of the ice age to the settlers of the neolithic. From the Viking invaders and Jacobite supporters, to the great Enlightenment thinkers. From the Highlands, Lowlands and Islands to Scotland’s crofts, castles and cities. Fun and facts galore! Great for the whole family.

 

Adventure into Books Book Blether: first Wednesday of each month, 7pm, in the bookshop

 

An informal gathering at the bookshop, where all are welcome and to chat about our experiences of a particular book and swap recommendations for others. Promise, no exam questions, just friendly blether over a cup of tea.

Coming up: 

•    7th August: Astronomer in Love by Antoine Laurain
•    4th September: The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

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