Annie's Book Stop of Worcester

The little bookstore that's bigger on the inside

We just finished stocking the shelves at Annie’s with brand new DOCTOR WHO and BLAKE’S 7 audio releases, as well as a few suprises that are guaranteed to delight Big Finish fans out there. Up first: the Fourth Doctor and Romana’s adventures continue in The Sands of Life, starring Tom Baker and Mary Tamm reprising …

Continue reading

Wednesday nights starting at 7pm. Bring your textile craft, your drawing pad, your journal, or your laptop to this weekly social event where we listen to audiobooks and radio plays while devoting time to our various works in progress.  Everyone is welcome! This Wednesday, February 27th, we’re listening to the fourth CD of  Robert B. …

Continue reading

They’re cute. Cuddily. Loveable. And they come from your fat!! But aren’t they sooooo cute!! And they’ve landed here at Annie’s for you to take home with you!! Well, in soft plush form. The perfect Birthday gift for that young Doctor Who fan in your life. Or if you’re looking to surprise your sweetie with a …

Continue reading

 Fans of comics, graphic novels and “old skool” DC/Vertigo style storytelling and art should check out Alabaster: Wolves by Caitlín R. Kiernan, one of our store’s favorite writers. Originally published as a five-issue series by Dark Horse Comics, this is now available as a hardcover collection of all five installments, with a gorgeous cover by …

Continue reading

All of us at Annie’s Book Stop of Worcester were saddened to learn of the sudden death of local author Kenneth Amidon, whose debut novel STRAY THREADS hit our shelves earlier this year. Ken’s obituary in the Telegram & Gazette paints a picture of a wonderful, warm, and witty man, as seen at http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/telegram/obituary.aspx?n=kenneth-a-amidon&pid=163095263&fhid=7029#fbLoggedOut. We …

Continue reading

Love is in the air, still, as ABSW continues to share our love of books with you through our special events! Thanks to Blizzard Nemo of 20,000 flakes of snow, we rescheduled our Parentalia celebration to Saturday, February 23. Yu can still come and hear our four New England authors discuss writing about the dead …

Continue reading

Wednesday nights starting at 7pm. Bring your textile craft, your drawing pad, your journal, or your laptop to this weekly social event where we listen to audiobooks and radio plays while devoting time to our various works in progress.  Everyone is welcome! This Wednesday, February 20th, we’re listening to the third CD of  Robert B. …

Continue reading

 New on the spinner this week is The Salmon of Doubt by the late great Douglas Adams. Released posthumously after Adams’s death, Salmon of Doubt was originally intended to be a Dirk Gently novel. The plot, set a few weeks after the events in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, involves Dirk Gently refusing …

Continue reading

Third Doctor Jon Pertwee is the focus of this month’s Doctor Who Magazine reprinting an interview he conducted with two young journalists Matt Adams and David Southwell back in 1994. In the article Jon talks about his early life growing up in a family of actors and playwrights.  His time as the Third Doctor as well …

Continue reading