The Story of the Middle Ages
The Folio Society · complete in five volumes, slipcased
Kings, castles, crusades and intrigue — handsomely produced and a standing invitation to a winter's evening.
£65Medieval · Boxed set
In the county that made the Lindisfarne Gospels and kept the Venerable Bede at his desk, it seems only right that a new bookshop should open a little like a manuscript — a few good pages, each given its gold, rather than a shelf run ragged. The room is small and lately painted; the stock is light and chosen; nothing here is stacked three-deep to wear you down.
What follows is a leaf of five, illuminated the modern way — with a photograph in place of a monk's brush, and a plain note from someone who reads them before he sells them.
— the editor, House of Stories
The Leaf · Five Chosen Books
The World of Late Antiquity
Peter Brown · The Folio Society
The hinge of history — Rome loosening its grip, the medieval world taking shape. Scholarly, but told with a rare warmth.
£45Late Antiquity · Illustrated
The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius · The Folio Society
Rome's first emperors at close quarters — power, scandal and excess, told by a man who had the run of the imperial archives. Wall country reading.
£15Roman · Classical
The Eagle of the Ninth
Rosemary Sutcliff · The Folio Society
A young officer, a lost legion, and a march north into our own hills. The book that sends children to the Wall — and a fair few grown-ups too.
£25Roman Britain · Fiction
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
illustrated by W. Heath Robinson · Hodder & Stoughton
Heath Robinson before the machines — all silver line and moonlight. A children's book that quietly belongs to the grown-ups.
£75Illustrated · Fairy tales
Rooted here
A little gold in the margin
Northumberland has been making beautiful books for thirteen hundred years. House of Stories is a small, newly-kept room that would like to add a modest page to that — a few volumes at a time, chosen with care, never crammed.
Where to find us
38 Newgate Street
Morpeth, Northumberland · NE61 1BA
The opening
2026
From The Book Gadgie of Tynemouth Market. Follow for the date and the first-day coffee.