The team behind The Bookshop on the Green have finally found a new premises! We will be opening our doors on Greenfield Crescent in Edgbaston this summer.
For all enquiries, book orders or just to say hello, click here!
Please note: We are not currently accepting book orders until we open our doors in June.
Green Heart Books sells a wide range of thoughtfully curated titles for both adults and children, along with beautiful cards. Our new shop will feature a Poetry Coffee Bar as well as a Community Garden!
Green Heart Books will also put on wonderful, memorable events throughout the year.
We are proud to have been the booksellers for Birmingham Literature Festival and to play our part in the local Literature ecology, giving back wherever we can, not only to our local community but our city-wide community.
The Bookshop on the Green was shortlisted as Midlands Regional Finalist for Independent Bookshop of the Year 2020. It is currently in the Regional Finals for a Muddy Stilettos Award 2023 for Best Bookshop in Warwickshire and the West Midlands!
Our Director, Sarah, was shortlisted for Individual Bookseller of the Year at The British Book Awards 2024!
Sarah spent the first 14 years of her career as a Solicitor with a city-centre law firm, spending every available lunchtime in bookshops or libraries. It seems inevitable that she would turn to bookselling...
Since launching Bournville BookFest in 2013, she has become a multiple award-winning Festival Director, Arts Producer and Bookshop owner. Winning multiple national and local awards, BookFest became one of the best-loved children's book festivals in the UK and Birmingham's only dedicated book festival for 0-12s.
Whilst growing Bournville BookFest, Sarah looked in vain for an independent bookseller to run the festival bookshop. When no-one could be found, Sarah's small and dedicated BookFest team rolled up their sleeves and ran the festival bookshop too.
When the pandemic hit, running Bournville BookFest was no longer financially viable, so Sarah and two wonderful friends opened The Bookshop on the Green in October 2020. It was a completely crazy time to open an independent bookshop! However, Sarah's local community were hugely supportive and the word began to spread of a small bookshop with a big heart and a warm welcome.
With a strong penchant for community interest projects, Sarah is a social entrepreneur. She is also Artistic Director for Hosking Houses Trust’s Open House Project, which provides a room of ones own to women writers, artists and creative practitioners over the age of 40.
Peri Cimen is a Cypriot Turkish-British writer and photographer originally from North London. She graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2020 with a first-class degree in English with Philosophy, followed by a master's degree in Creative Writing in 2022.
As Manager of Green Heart Books, Peri assists Sarah with event organisation and bookselling and leads on staff management, social media marketing, graphic design and copywriting.
She is also a Publishing Assistant at independent Birmingham-based publisher The Emma Press.
Peri's favourite books are Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, The Idiot by Elif Batuman and Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.
She highly recommends: Assembly by Natasha Brown, Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin and the poetry collection Poor by Caleb Femi.
