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Welcome to Ripping Yarns! We specialise in children's fiction, juvenilia, annuals, picture books and comics, but also have a wide-ranging stock of poetry, drama, politics and much more!
Click on pictures below to see our online store. We have hundreds more books that are not online, so please call us directly to find what you are looking for!
We are a secondhand bookshop in North London specialising in collectable children's and illustrated books.
We have boys' and girls' school and adventure stories, puffins, annuals, British comics, out-of-print modern children's fiction and a large number of 19th century moral tales.
We also have a large collection of poetry and plays, adult fiction, sci-fi and books of all kinds!
We are situated opposite Highgate underground station. Free parking for up to an hour is available within 50 yards of the shop.
For Adrian Mitchell book catalogue please click here. Make sure to visit his personal website too - www.adrianmitchell.co.uk
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Adrian Mitchell
"In his many public performances in this country and around the world, he shifted English poetry from correctness and formality towards inclusiveness and political passion."
'Adrian Mitchell is no more naïve than Stevie Smith, but like her he has the innocence of his own experience. … real inner freedom and the courage of his own music. Among all the voices of the Court, a voice as welcome as Lear's fool….Humour that can stick deep and stay funny.' - TED HUGHES.
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We have recently acquired over 200 Percy F Westerman titles. If you would like to find out more, please telephone the shop and we will be more than happy to help. Please do visit our friends over at Westerman Yarns blog, a must-read for any Westerman fan! Click here to view a selection of our Westerman titles.
Please visit our Events page to see when the next production of Yes by our friends at Wonderful Beast is happening .
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Poetry and Jazz Returns to Hampstead...Encore!
LJCC - Hampstead
Wednesday 9 November, 8pm
Marat/Sade
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
14 October - 5 November 2011
Verse Adaptation by Adrian Mitchell.
The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
In post revolutionary France the inmates of an asylum present a play about the murder of Jean-Paul Marat under the direction of the notorious Marquis de Sade. As the director of the asylum and his family sit down expecting to see a patriotic display, they are confronted with a performance that is unruly, shocking and outspoken.
our 50th anniversary year.
production.
The RSC offer workshops and events for students to support thisRSC Literary Associate Anthony Neilson directs this bold new production in The RSC audience.
Fifty years after the historic sell-out concert at the old Town Hall, the poets - and the jazz - return, with readings from their work by Dannie Abse, Alan Brownjohn and Jeremy Robson, jazz interludes by the Michael Garrick trio with Dave Green (base) & Trevor Tomkins (drums), poems with jazz, and readings by special guests.
The programme will also feature the poems of other poets who participated in these concerts over the years including Adrian Mitchell (read by his wife Celia), Thomas Blackburn (read by his daughter Julia and granddaughter Natasha), Vernon Scannell, poems by Laurie Lee (read by his daughter Jessy), Spike Milligan, and others.
Arranged by Jeremy Robson
Illustration Credit: Cecily Ben-Tovim
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