It's our birthday! (Soon.)

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Hard though it is to believe, Skylark opened its doors for the very first time on Saturday, August 25, 2018 - which means that this year we get to celebrate our FIFTH BIRTHDAY. It’s been a fabulous five years, and we’re grateful for every day of it, and every one of you. (Although, given the choice, we probably would have rather not have had to deal with a global pandemic. Call us picky.)

ANYWAY. As usual, we’ll be throwing our own birthday party on the Saturday nearest the day itself - which, this year, is Saturday August 26. We are celebrating ALL DAY and in lots of different ways, as usual:

  • As our way of saying thank you, everyone who buys a book on Saturday gets to choose an additional book from our towering stacks of gift books (see tine sample above.) No peeking! It will be a lovely surprise for when you get home. While stocks last - but folks, we’ve been wrapping these babies for MONTHS. There are a TON of ‘em.

  • As is now traditional, we will have a raffle with a humungous bag of goodies - everyone who makes a purchase on Saturday will be entered.

  • Aa is also traditional, we will be revealing this year’s new Skylark t-shirt. We love it - it’s very on-brand - and we hope you will, too. They will be available for purchase on the day. We’ll also be introducing two more new items of merchandise - a Skylark tank top and a Skylark water bottle. I know. Remaining stocks of our 2020, 2021, and 2022 t-shirts will be available at a discount on the day as well.

  • If all that wasn’t enough, as a birthday treat our friends across the road at Sparky’s have created a one-off themed ice cream flavor. We’re not sure exactly what’s in it, except for one ingredient: NUTELLA. (If you know, you know.)

  • Finally, we’re going to repeat a modified version of fun thing we did when we celebrated our second birthday in the midst of COVID restrictions. Remember Secret Skylark? It’s a way of sharing your very favorite book with a strangers and getting someone else’s favorite back in return. Here’s how it works. Buy a copy of your favorite book from us (fiction, nonfiction, whatever) and add it to the Skylark book nest, perhaps with a little note about why you love it. You will then receive another book back - one that someone else has donated. And because it’s our birthday, we’ll throw in a free signed hardcover of The Paris Hours for the first 20 people who play. So you’ll get two books for the price of one.

We’re still busy planning other things to surprise and delight you on the day, which - if we remember - we’ll include on an updated post. But swing by and come help us celebrate!