Kett’s Books
Description
We always offer a warm welcome, recommendations, and conversations. We offer a full range of books, and anything we don't have we can usually order in for you, often for next-day delivery. Here are a few of our offerings:
- we sell and accept our own Kett's Books vouchers
- we sell and accept National Book Tokens
- a high-quality range of art greetings cards and gift wrap
- a subscription service where books are sent to your door, beautifully wrapped
- a mutually beneficial Friends loyalty scheme
- author events throughout the year
Wymondham has had a bookshop for as long as even our oldest customers can remember. In summer 2013 Ray Rumsby heard that the previous bookshop was going to close forever on Christmas Eve, so he and Tracy got together to start planning how it could be run as a community business.
In September a group of strangers got together in the pub to explore whether a group of volunteers could actually run a bookshop, and we agreed that where we lacked experience, we had goodwill and enthusiasm, and as it turned out quite a lot of determination!
We moved quickly – in only eight weeks we’d formed the Friends group, raised funding, formed as a company with our name and logo, and had the keys!
From our wonderful home in Wharton’s Court, we ran the community bookshop from February 2014 to the end of September 2023, with thousands of volunteer hours happening in a pretty snug space!
Particularly after lockdown we realised that we wanted to be able to reach more customers and to offer more activities to get people back out. We knew that if anything could reach them, the books could, so we wanted to offer more space to browse, more events, and more volunteering opportunities.
When the property at 11 Market Place became vacant, we knew that we had found a place that matched our dream. The Friends of Kett’s Books backed up the plan, and with additional help from South Norfolk District Council, the Norwich Freemens Charity, and the Booksellers Association, and after an awful lot of hard work from our volunteers, we opened the doors to our new home, to a cheering crowd on Saturday 30 September, 2023.
Even though we’re only a few chapters into ‘part two’ of our story, we still think it’s a pretty good one. We hope you’ll join us for what happens next!
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Business Hours
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Monday
- Tuesday
09:30 am - 05:00 pm- Wednesday
09:30 am - 05:00 pm- Thursday
09:30 am - 05:00 pm- Friday
09:30 am - 05:00 pm- Saturday
09:30 am - 05:00 pm- Sunday Closed
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Business Phone NumberBusiness EmailWebsite - Tuesday