Good morning! The bookshop will not be opening on Thursday 27th August - sincerest apologies for any inconvenience caused. The Reading Room in Melrose will be open as usual. We will be back to normal on Friday 28th.

The spooky season is fast approaching and we have a spooktacular variety of events during our 3rd Halloween week, Galawe’en III, from karaoke to storytelling! With brilliant authors appearing you’ll not find a better #Halloween week anywhere! And our folklore and belief section is here all year!

Delighted to welcome our local MSP @calumkerr.bsky.social to the bookshop today - thanks for popping in!

Thanks so much to everyone who came along tonight to see Ed James and Mark Edwards. A cracking night! Thanks to The Station House Stow again for another brilliant event evening (and for the photo! ☺️)

Hello! Happy Saturday! There are only a few days to go before our free author event with Ed James and Mark Edwards in Stow! We’re delighted to be welcoming Mark for the first time. This event is sure to be brilliant - grab your tickets while you can! See wedalebooks.scot/events for further info.

Sometimes, running a little independent bookshop can bring a tear to the eye, in a good way! Today, we were visited by @disruptersscotland.bsky.social Scotland who gave us a beautiful card and sunflowers! Such a fantastic group, inspiring young people and making the world a better place! 💚

Hello! #IndependentBookshopWeek starts tomorrow but as this is always the same week as Stow Sports Week and Borders Book Festival we tend to be a little quieter. So we're extending the week into the next week, too! Enjoy and help support your #localbookshop

June is LGBTQI+ Pride month. With the politics of hate on the rise, there’s never been a more important time to act together. Why does Pride matter? Hate has no place in a decent society. Pride is a protest. Join us and take a stand.

Choo choo! We love a train! We love a children’s book! We love a children’s book about trains! Less than five minutes’ walk from Stow Railway Station, we are easily accessible by rail (and bus!) so pop along and see our great books for kids ! See you soon, toot toot!

Wow! What a busy morning! Thanks so much to all our visitors today - great to see you! And we hope you’ll be back soon! Just in, with #FathersDay approaching we’re stocking up on Dad books and cards. See what’s new: we’re open Thursday to Sunday 1000-1230/1300-1630. #localbookshop

We love stocking books a little overlooked, especially Scottish. A favourite from ‘96 is Euphemia MacFarrigle and the Laughing Virgin by Christopher Whyte. A magical, absurd look at bigotry redemption and hope, one of the best LGBT books from Scotland out of print. We’d love to see this republished.

We are delighted to stock history and folklore books beautifully reproduced by Llanerch Press. Featuring facsimiles of old books and writing by new authors, we admire their mission to bring life back to out of print books. Stock up on classics including the Life and Times of Thomas of Ercildoune!

To celebrate the first Scottish Borders Pride in August this year there is a #poetry competition open to LGBTQ+ folk living in the Borders. Closing date 20th July! @borderspridepoetry.bsky.social

Good morning, it's Sunday and we are open! Our monthly Poetry Circle met this week - membership is free to all 18+ / details on our website - and we have chosen our first poem of the month written by someone in the group! Here for your poetic enjoyment is 'Overheard' by Kurtani. More next month.

We pride ourselves on our selection of books from or about Scotland, including authors a little forgotten. Therefore, we’re delighted to be welcoming fantastic reprints of Agnes Owen’s novels.Also coming out a new edition of “Scotland’s favourite novel“, Sunset Song. Great stuff from Scotland!

We welcome @joelucbarnes.bsky.social on 5 May to celebrate his book "Farewell to Russia". Snow, concrete, the KGB: that’s the cliché of the USSR. Its collapse in 1991 sparked a story more compelling than any stereotype. But what became of the other 14 states that emerged from the ashes? Free event.

We are very happy to say we are hiring for seasonal / holiday cover! Want to work in Stow / Melrose, then get in touch?

Remembering the teacher and sixteen children murdered in their primary school in Dunblane on this date thirty years ago. No families should suffer such appalling acts of cruelty and loss - wherever they are.

Hello! It may be a dreich Thursday, but in your #localbookshops in Melrose and Stow it’s warm and cosy! There are some great books this week, from fascinating folklore to murderous deeds in bygone Edinburgh, to brand new fiction from the author of Butter… Perfect reads to wile away the afternoon!

Delighted to see Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore longlisted for the #womensprizeforfiction - one of our #bookclubs books of the month for March and a hit with our regular readers! Best of luck! 🤞 @canongate.co.uk

We love supporting local writers and we're so excited to be championing a feminist horror fairy tale by Borders author Amy Jane Stewart. Enter the dark woods and discover Hex House... Free event, Tuesday 28th April at The Station House, Stow. Booking essential - see our website for details.

Times are tough and we really do thank you for supporting your #localbookshops wherever you are! Keeping it local helps the economy, keeps towns and villages vibrant and stops billionaires raking in even more money. Thank you. You're all braw!

2026 is the National Year of Reading! We think there’s a book out there to suit everyone, you just need to find it and we’ll be very happy to help! Pop in for a chat! We have two book groups, an LGBTQI+ book group, a Folklore club, a poetry group and a Gaelic group! Join in! #GoAllIn2026

It’s Imbolc! Traditionally the start of spring and Là Fhèill Brìghde, Saint Brigid’s Day, we are halfway between the winter solstice and spring equinox! Discover ancient traditions in our popular Folklore section or #LGBTplusHistoryMonth with our politics and history and culture ranges.

Times are tough and the world can seem a hard place. Acts of kindness matter, so a reminder that our Pay it Forward scheme gives a little help to those who might need it. Books should be for everyone; come in or gift a book to someone else. You can buy Pay it Forward vouchers through our website. X

Today we are celebrating Scotland through poetry and prose to mark the birthday of #RobertBurns It’s been lovely welcoming so many folk coming in with their Christmas gift vouchers and National Book Tokens throughout January - if you’re stuck for ideas on what to read, pop in for suggestions!

Hello! With #burnsnight fast approaching, we’re making sure we’re full of great Scottish poetry books - and not just Burns! We’re so happy to have these wonderful Gàidhlig-Beurla / Gaelic-English books just in from francis_boutle_publishers - perfect to celebrate Scotland’s poetry… #localbookshop

It’s been wonderful attending the first #outinthehills at Pitlochry FestivalTheatre, a wonderful new queer festival for every one. Well done all the organisers, staff and @alancumming.bsky.social for bringing so many folk together in darkest January! Inspirational. #lgbtqi

Good morning! We are closed today but remember you can also visit our other bookshop The Reading Room in Melrose, which is open 10.00-12.30, 1.00-4.30 today. We reopen again as normal on Saturday and Sunday.

We are huge fans of the Wordsworth and Collins classics, which make great literature just a bit more affordable and we’ve just stocked up our ranges. With the Borders’ very own @jack.lowden set to star as Mr Darcy soon, we’re certain Pride and Prejudice will be a best-seller again!