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Below are books currently in print:

At Home With Agatha Christie
~the Wallingford & Cholsey connection~

by Judy Dewey & Tony Rayner

This 42-page booklet provides a setting in words and pictures for Agatha Christie’s Winterbrook home and neighbourhood, drawing together a wealth of collected local memories which give an intimate glimpse of the 42 happy years Agatha and her second husband Max Mallowan spent there.
It also celebrates the continuing world-wide interest in Agatha Christie that has made Cholsey churchyard a place of modern pilgrimage and brings people from all over the world to visit Wallingford Museum.

Life Under Lockdown

PoW Sketch Book (2014)

by Clive Fewins
The ups and downs of Life during the Spring and Summer Lockdown of 2020 are vividly portrayed in this witty and reflective diary in verse.

At least £5 from the sale of each book will be donated to:
NHS Charities Together Covid-19 Appeal
(registered charity no. 1186569)

by Judy & Stuart Dewey

Window on Wallingford 1837-1914

by Judy & Stuart Dewey and David Beasley
Profusely illustrated view of life in the Victorian & Edwardian town, seen entirely through the eyes of those who lived here then

Abbot Richard of Wallingford 14th century Scholar, Astronomer & Instrument Maker

by George Henwood
Remarkable story of the son of a Wallingford blacksmith who became Abbot of St Albans and a leading mathematician and inventor

A Hundred Years of South Moreton School (1896-1996)

A very readable account of how life in a village school has changed over a century

Wallingford & the Civil War

by Judy & Stuart Dewey
The story of Wallingford's vital role in the 17th century Civil War war between Royalists and Puritans

Benson: A Village Through its History

edited by Kate Tiller
A scholarly guide to the history of this Oxfordshire village

Change at Cholsey - Again!

by Judy & Stuart Dewey
Over a thousand years of history are featured in this profusely illustrated and highly readable book.

Benson: A Century of Change 1900-2000

by Janet Burtt and Peter Clarke
Profusely illustrated picture of family and business life in the village and the huge social and physical changes of the century

Goring School - the First 150 Years

by Michael Anderson
The former headteacher of this village school traces the changes in village life and education from 1855 to the present day, illustrated with evocative photographs of the school and the children at work

1155 and All That!

by Judy & Stuart Dewey
A fully illustrated account of the story behind Wallingford's remarkable Charter: why it was granted, who was involved and what effect it had on the people of Wallingford then and in the centuries to come

Flights of Fancy

Collected Poems of Barbara Poskitt
A charming collection of poems and verse, some witty, some thoughtful, all illustrated with the author's delightful drawings and cartoons

Victorian Artists of Wallingford - A Tale of Two Dynasties

by Anthony Wilder
A fascinating insight into the lives and work of two families of painters who lived in Wallingford in the late 19th century, illustrated with over 70 reproductions, 50 in full colour

Benson War Memorial & Graves Book of Remembrance

by William Burtt & Alastair Jack
The deeply moving stories of the people behind the names on the War Memorial and the War Graves, arranged chronologically and indexed alphabetically

The Ditmas History of Benson

by Edith Ditmas with Appendices by Paul Smith & John Leighfield
The third in the trilogy of books about Benson - a comprehensive history written in the 1980s but never before published. Illustrated with maps and photographs and with two new Appendices - one on the recent archaeology of Benson and the other a fascinating series of historic maps, some in full colour

Parish Potters Around Cholsey (new edition)

Nine circular 'potters' all starting from the village of Cholsey in Oxfordshire are described with notes on the flora, fauna and historical features that you will see on the way.

Below are books currently out of print:

Winterbrook & Cholsey's East End

by Tony Rayner