News From the Front

MOVING CHURCHILL #3: William Manchester

Inescapably, as we look forward to our impending move, our thoughts also tend back to the many grand visitors who have come through these doors over the past 43 years.
This week, we reflect on one of the first.

MOVING CHURCHILL #2

Yes, we are still moving. As we shared with you last week, the impending demolition of our arcade space at Park Avenue Plaza will propel us to new premises before the end of this year. And so, on with our Sale. This week, we focus on books by the Churchill family.

MOVING CHURCHILL

Winston Churchill moved at least 20 times in his grownup lifetime. Chartwell Booksellers, on the other hand, has never moved, occupying the same address for all of our 43-years of life.

Until now…
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CHURCHILL IN FEBRUARY

After a January of atrocities in our country that surely would have shocked Winston Churchill, saddened Winston Churchill and impelled Winston Churchill to take action, we invite you to take solace with us in a new month, and all that Churchill accomplished in February, throughout a life defined by his opposition to dictatorship in any form.

READ “THE GREYHOUND DIARY”

A sharp-eyed memoir by Judy Montagu, daughter of Clementine Churchill’s infamous cousin, Venetia Stanley, “THE GREYHOUND DIARY” captures Montagu’s raucous 1949 roadtrip through America by bus (including a brief romance with Adlei Stevenson). Order your copy now.

CHURCHILL IN DECEMBER & A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We want to wish you the happiest, healthiest new year, and wrap up the month of December with our final Churchill-by-the-month. Winston Churchill was a particularly busy fellow in December.

JOIN US THIS SATURDAY FOR “HOLIDAY TEA AT THREE”!

We look forward to tea dancing with you this Saturday, December 20, from 3:00-6:00pm here in the lobby of the Park Avenue Plaza building, featuring Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, live and free!

CELEBRATE WINSTON CHURCHILL’S BIRTHDAY WITH OUR NEW CATALOGUE

As per tradition, our new catalogue of Churchilliana is out November 30, in celebration of Winston Churchill’s 151st birthday.The catalogue this year features something completely different. Join us in celebrating our past, our future and Churchill’s birthday.

CHURCHILL IN NOVEMBER

Onwards with our appreciation of Churchill month-by-month; let’s dive into what Winston Churchill accomplished in November over the grand span of his long  life (including being born!).

BANNED BOOKS WEEK 2025

We honor Banned Books Week (October 5-12) by donating one dollar from every sale to PEN America in support of their Banned Books Week fight for the freedom to read whatever you (and your children) want to read. We are also donating actual banned books to Little Free Libraries—book-sharing boxes placed in neighborhoods around the country—in states where these books are being banned. ~Join us!

CHURCHILL IN OCTOBER

We continue our appreciation of Churchill by-the-month with a look at what Winston Churchill achieved in the month of October over the course of his expansive career.
Plus “Banned Book Week” at Chartwell Booksellers.

CHURCHILL IN SEPTEMBER

The response to our “Churchill in August” post was so… responsive, that we now bring you, by acclamation, Churchill in September, a look at what Winston Churchill accomplished in the month of September over the long course of his career (a good deal of it involving Chartwell, as it happens).