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About
Us:
'The Cowbridge Bookshop' opened for business in 1984 with
ourselves, John and Kyrie MacLean, as business partners.
Our 500sq ft shop is situated in a traditional building in
the main street of the old South Wales market town of Cowbridge,
in the beautiful Vale of Glamorgan.
We
stock new books (not second-hand or antiquarian) across a
general range. We have 15,000 books in stock at all times.
Click here for a list of the subjects
we stock in depth.
In
addition to our regular local customers, and those who use
us via mail order over longer distances, we have built up
a substantial and continuing turnover in the supply of books
to Schools, Colleges and Health Authorities in the local area.
Credit
terms can be arranged by negotiation.
Our
Strengths (Why use us):
Competence: You deal directly with one of the partners,
each with 18 years experience of bookselling.
We have state of the art book selling I.T. in store enabling
us to identify a book even with incomplete details and get
it out for delivery fast..
Speed: Whether your order or inquiry is by e-mail, telephone,
fax or post it is dealt with promptly upon receipt.
Stock orders are dispatched the same day.
Many non-stock books can be obtained via Securicor within
one day for next-day dispatch.
Even obscure titles rarely take longer than a week.
All postage is charged at cost.
Convenience: We offer a prompt Mail-order Service.
We'll send to any address in the UK or abroad.
We accept all major Credit cards including:
If
you visit us, you can take advantage of the FREE car parking
nearby (see map).
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The
following subjects are stocked in depth:
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Fiction:
Hardback and paperback bestsellers, plus a considerable
range of popular and proven quality reads.
- Biography:
Biographies and autobiographies of the famous and infamous.
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Travel:
Most Ordnance Survey and Michelin maps as well as worldwide
guides and travel books.
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Welsh
Interest: These are mainly in the English language and
include titles concerning learning the Welsh language, Welsh
history and Welsh travel guides.
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Gardening/Cookery:
We have ten shelves of these popular subjects.
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Reference:
Comprehensive range of dictionaries and thesauruses and
books for grammar and quotations.
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Languages:
Aids in learning all the major European languages (and Welsh
of course).
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Children's
(0-15): Picture books, stories, fairy tales, classics
and books on tape.
National Curriculum levels 1, 2, 3 and 4 and study guides
for GCSE and A-Level.
- Open
University texts: A selection of Open University textbooks.
- Other
subjects with a smaller range: History, Geography,
Geology, Popular Science, Medical, Pregnancy and childcare,
Mind/Body/Spirit, Arts/Crafts, Poetry, Classics, Natural History.
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