The Aardvark Events Programme for 2025!
We are excited to announce the full programme of Aardvark events, including regular fixtures like our Easter Fair and Vide Grenier, PLUS new for this year, two book sale launches! Read on for more...
Dates for your diaries; the Aardvark Events Calendar for 2025 is now live! Unless otherwise specified, all Flea Markets will be taking place outside. Stallholders, please come prepared for the British weather!
For those familar with the nature of our Flea Markets, stalls will be on the gravel car park. We are hopeful that we can open the field up to stallholders for all our Flea Markets (excluding the Christmas Fair) being held this year, allowing for additional pitches. Various reasons, including our Easter Event being held in mid-April this year, should be favourable towards this happening. Updates will be provided on the events section of our website here.
For stallholders interested in booking a pitch for the Flea Markets, pitches begin at £15 per vehicle or £18 if you require the hire of one of our tables. Call 01547 530744 for stallholder enquiries or call in, Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 4pm.
Saturday 19th April: Easter Fair Garden Event and Spring Book Sale Launch, 10am - 3pm
With lots of stalls featuring vintage, gardenalia and unique and unusual plants to buy, a perfect way to herald the beginning of Spring!
The Aardvark Outpost team will be back with the BBQ, serving piping hot bacon rolls and warming drinks. The Aardvark Café will be open too, from 10am - 4pm, serving tea, coffee, cake, light lunches and lots of delicious chocolatey treats. The bookshop will also be open from 10am - 4pm.
As this event will be held outdoors and we hope, weather permitting, to open up the field as well to stallholders, please come prepared for the weather!
NEW for this year: The Spring Book Sale Launch
Saturday 19th April - Sunday 5th May
NEW for this year, the Aardvark Spring Book Sale will launch on Saturday 19th April, the date of our Easter Flea Market (Aardvark will then be closed on Sunday 20th April, Easter Sunday and OPEN on Easter Monday) and will conclude with a marvellous May Bank holiday shopping weekend on Saturday 3rd to Monday 5th May!
For those of you who are familar with Mr A's Big Book Sale in the summer months, the Spring Sale will work on a similar basis!
Hundreds of books will be available to purchase from tables in the warehouse organised by genre for only 50p each! The warehouse doors will open at 10am sharp. But please note, the Spring Book sale will be fleeting in nature, concluding in early May. So be quick, come to Brampton Bryan, make a day of it!
Monday 25th May: Spring Bank Holiday Brocante, 10am - 3pm
Come for a fun day out browsing over 20+ stalls spread across the gravel car park and field with the old perry tree for vintage items, antiques, bric-a-brac, and lots lots more! For more information on our website, read here.
We will also be featuring live music over the lunchtime period; this is to be confirmed, so watch this space!
The Aardvark Outpost team will be back, serving hot rolls, a firm favourite! The Aardvark Café will be open from 10am - 4pm, serving tea, coffee, cake and light lunches. The bookshop will be open too, from 10am - 4pm.
Free entry, free parking, all welcome! Come for a fun and relaxing day out in Brampton Bryan!
Saturday 12th July: Summer Flea Market plus the Big Summer Book Sale launch! 10am - 3pm.
Summer Book Sale dates - Saturday 12th July - Sunday 17th August
The Aardvark Big Summer Sale will begin on Saturday 12th July alongside our Summer Flea Market. The warehouse doors will open at 10am and you will find hundreds, nay thousands, of amazing book bargains, organised by genre, piled on tables in the warehouse. A cornucopia of choice for the book lover!
During the whole month of July, and into August too, come and browse, and select your bargain reads in all topics from amongst our extensive range of warehouse bargains. What better activity on a hot summer's day than relaxed book browsing?
The Sale Finale, Saturday 16th - Sunday 17th August will be a special end of sale weekend with the ever popular 'fill a bag for £2' returning, amongst other special discounts!
Monday 25th August: Vide-Grenier/Empty Your Attic Flea Market, 10am - 3pm
The popular Aardvark August Bank Holiday Vide-Grenier(Empty Your Attic) Flea Market returns Monday 25th August, 10am - 3pm.
Pitches are to be held on our gravel car park and the field by the bookshop. There will be live music and hot and cold cafe refreshments. Free entry and free parking, all welcome!
Saturday 6th - Sunday 14th September: Herefordshire Art Week 2025
The h.Art exhibition at Aardvark Books is a September fixture, and we love creating a show and exhibiting the work of artists who often live and work locally to us in Herefordshire and the Borders of England and Wales. Artists from the Abstract Edge group will be exhibiting!
Sunday 7th December: Aardvark Christmas Fair, 9am - 3pm
You are invited to the Aardvark Christmas Fair, 9am-3pm on Sunday 7th December! Come and begin (or round off!) your Christmas shopping with unusual and original gifts: there will be lots of stalls featuring vintage, crafts and decorative items, with live music, delicious mince pies, complimentary mulled wine and festive treats in the café.
For stallholders, booking a Christmas Fair pitch in readiness is essential, as all stalls are indoors and there are a limited number of spaces available. Please do not leave booking too late to avoid disappointment!
Christmas Fair Stalls begin at £18, or £21 if you require the hire of one of our tables and payment is to be taken on booking please, to confirm your space. Call 01547 530744 for booking enquiries or call in from Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 4pm.
And that’s a wrap! Pitch booking for ALL of our Flea Markets is open; give us a call on 01547 530744 for booking enquiries or call in from Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 4pm.
We and the Aardvark team - and of course Byron - look forward to seeing you in the coming months at The Bookery! We are open Tuesday - Sunday, and Bank Holiday Mondays.
Until the next newsletter, which will carry more book news (the London Book Fair is in March), have a look at Mr Aardvark’s blog and if you’re looking for new reading inspiration, check out our lists on Bookshop.org and browse there too!
