About the bookshop
Malvern Book Cooperative is an independent bookshop wholly owned by the shareholder members of the Coop. We are a truly local, independent shop. We sell a wide and eclectic range of new books as well as a small selection of book related gifts and cards.
The future of Malvern Book Coop
Ever wanted to run a book shop or a literary project, a pop-up bookshop or an online store? Now is your chance.
We are seeking interested people and groups that would like to form a new
partnership with Malvern Book Cooperative to take us to the next level. We formed a cooperative to keep an independent bookshop open in Malvern and we have successfully run a community bookshop here for the past 13 years. Our members are our shareholders, and we share a vision to promote literacy and a love of books amongst a wide target audience. We do this by selling new books in a retail environment, employing 5 part-time staff who are paid the real living wage.
We have strong links to local events such as The Festival of Ideas, The Festival of Stories and Borderlines Film Festival and we have our own vibrant events programme. Equally important are our links to local schools where we support author events and World Book Day.
We have also incubated a charity, The Outreach Project, which was conceived to satisfy the social justice element of our mission statement but is now an independent registered charity that seeks to raise literacy levels across our community by working with preschool children, their families, youth groups, a prison and the local food bank.
The time has come for our business to evolve. There are many different models that could be explored from being an online bookshop to holding pop-up events. We have thought of a few but there must be other potential ideas out there that we have not considered. We are inviting you to come and work with us. Please contact us for a pack of information and details of our timeline for submission of ideas. You may email us on enquiries@malvernbook.coop or phone us on 01684564788 during opening hours.
If you cannot make it to our lovely shop you can buy from us on-line! Every purchase you make from bookshop.org earns us a commission. Bookshop.org is an online bookshop with a mission to support local independent bookshops. If you follow the links from this page you will be taken to our store front on bookshop.org from where you can choose from our lists or search for other titles.
If you are unable to come to the shop we also take orders by email or phone.
Email us on enquiries@malvernbook.coop, or call us at the shop during opening hours, and give us the titles you would like to order.
We look forward to helping you with your bookish needs in person or virtually.
Many thanks for your continued support. We look forward to seeing you in our shop very soon.