We have a large children's section in our inner room ranging from babies to young adult. Most of our young children's books are from 'Barefoot Books' a publisher which specialises in beautifully illustrated multi-cultural and traditional tales but also has branched out into audio and games. This is why many of our picture books contain a CD ROM too and why there will always be small jigsaws; counting bricks and pram books to choose from.

Our older children's / teen / young-adult sections contain the best of the traditional and the contemporary. Philip Pullman, Alan Garner, Susan Cooper and J.K. Rowling are here alongside Jacqueline Wilson, Eoin Colfer, Darren Shan, Neil Gaiman, Anthony Horowitz, Trudi Canavan... We agonised over where we should put the young adult section. In the end we decided it needed to be next to teen-fiction as there is so much cross-over between the age-ranges.

Other sections include Family Matters, Cookery, Gardening, Politics (especially green issues, the environment and sustainable living), Beliefs - including a good selection of titles on Magic(k), the Tarot and Mysticism - not to mention titles on Art, Culture, Biography and a growing substantial section on Travel and Travel Writing. Most recently we have been starting to build our Graphic Novels section.

As for our Fiction shelves, again due to space being at a premium, we have had to be really selective but I think we have the balance between popular fiction and the classics just right (though we are open to opinion!). We stock the current most popular Richard and Judy selection (R&J is proving an exceptional filter for solidly entertaining and well written titles) through to contemporary classics. We also have nearly a whole bookcase of traditional classics. Acknowledging the rise of our supermarket competitors, we are completely happy to see them continue to stuff their expansive shelves with pulp fiction and 'airport' novels. :-)