There have been a few questions on when we lock up on event nights, we like to lock up around midnight on week-nights, around 3:30 on Friday Nights, and on weekends around 6 pm unless something special is going on.

Halloween is on Wed. this year so we will be having our Halloween Party the Friday before on the 26th of October. This is always a special night at the bookshop and should not be missed so please get on the list that you are going to come, Start planning your costume now and come as your favorite fictional person. If you are at a loss on who to be, Alan will be glad to help you come up with someone special.

The bookshop will host a workshop reading with the director of a new science fiction play on the 1st of November. This should be fun and seating will be limited more info to follow.

Sunday 14 Oct. 14:00 Bridge and Brunch Old time radio "Sherlock Holmes" Card Games, Board Games and Word Games come by today at 14:00 for our Bridge Afternoon, Learning, playing and making lots of mistakes if Alan is your partner. All is possible great fun for all.

Tuesday 16 Oct. 9 pm The Innocents (1961) Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) isn't a very experienced governess so she can't be certain, but surely orphans Miles (Martin Stephens ) and Flora (Pamela Franklin) aren't like other children. They're polite, of course, to the point of being patronising ('my dear,' they call her), and their dark, placid eyes defy suspicion, but there's something unsettling in his self-possession, macabre in her delights ('Oh, look, a lovely spider. And it's eating a butterfly!'). Having already experienced weird apparitions on her arrival at Bly, the beautiful country estate to which the children's indifferent uncle has consigned them, the governess learns of the violent deaths of her wanton predecessor and her cruel lover, and begins to suspect a supernatural cause for her charges' unsettling behaviour. And so Miss Giddens' war on terror begins; but does Bly have nothing to fear but fear itself? Adapted (byTruman Capote and John Mortimer, among others) from Henry James's 'The Turn of the Screw', Jack Claytom's 1961 chiller lives up to the story's title, incrementally tightening the nerves through suggestive technical artistry in a way that few contemporary ghost stories manage. The story's profound, unsettling ambiguity is perfectly served by George Auric's soundtrack of laughs and whispers and the constricting or fleeting forms at the edges of Freddie Francis 's B&W 'Scope frame (seen here in a new print). Meanwhile, slow fades and a bravura dream sequence hint at the blurring of boundaries – between life and death, rationality and imagination – that so disturbs Miss Giddens, endowed by Kerr with a frisson of hysteria from the start. Whatever is happening, she knows it is 'something secretive and whispery and indecent'. review by

Thursday 18 Oct. 8:00 pm 8:00 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares La Lanterna The venue for the first programme is La Lanterna in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. Twenty-eight-year-old owner and head chef Alex offers modern Italian cuisine, a taste of Little Italy in England's first garden city, and the restaurant is run by his best mate, maitre d' Gavin, helped by Alex's ex-air hostess girlfriend Emily. Alex has no customers, cookers that don't work and an expensive menu that's about as authentically Italian as a Hawaiian Pizza. He re-mortgaged his house to buy the business, it's losing £1,000 a week, he hasn't slept for months but still runs round town in a flash car (number plate: A1CHEF) that's worth more than the restaurant. Running out of money, inspiration and energy, Alex is on the verge of losing EVERYTHING. It's a prime restaurant for a dose of TOUGH LOVE - Ramsay-style. But can a strict diet of brutal honesty, radical food surgery and undiluted energy turn things round, or is it only a matter of time before the lights go out at La Lanterna for good? D Place Gordon Ramsey looks to turn aruond the trendy cafe bar D PLACE Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack Gordon Ramsey travels to the Brighton sea front to Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack La Riviera Gordon Ramsey travels to Inverness, Scotland to turn around La Riviera

9:30 pm The Book Group (Series Two part 2 of 2) Drowning After Lachlan's accident – he fell into an empty pool while wooing Jean – he's behaving helplessly and driving Claire mad. Meanwhile, Jean moves in with Fist and Janice is troubled by her feelings for Rab. Research With the group all reading a book about sex (The Sexual History of Catherine M by Catherine Millet), Fist decides to organise an orgy involving Dirka and their husbands. A'Salaam Insh'Allah (Peace, God Willing) Clare prepares to dump Lachlan, as he prepares to propose marriage (by singing a karaoke version of Gilbert O'Sullivan's Clair). Meanwhile, Jean lands a deal for her book, Getting Over People, and a drunken Janice makes another move on Rab.