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May Book Fair: Fiction!

Get ready for the summer with our book fair celebrating fiction. We'll have plenty of modern paperbacks and hardbacks as well as lots of older classics, from Shakespeare to Hemingway.

  • Booking not needed
  • Free event (admission applies)

Garden ticket entry is free for National Trust members or £1 for adults and 50p for children and this gives you access to the garden, tea-room and second-hand bookshop. Our May book fair will be in the garden and the second-hand bookshop from 11.30am to 3.30pm.

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