Topsy-Turvy has been running now for ten years, and grew out of our shared interest in (passion for ?!!) children’s books.  As a result of expanding our own collections, we started to have copies we no longer wanted - and how better to fuel our hobby than by dabbling in a sale here and there? 

Why Topsy-Turvy?  Well, when we decided to combine forces, we both wanted to keep our own style of catalogue, and we have slightly different collecting interests, so we looked for a way of preserving our independence in a joint catalogue.  The solution was our printed catalogue, which is double ended; start at one end and you get Betula’s books, then turn it upside down and begin at the other end and you get Sally’s books.  Hence the name.  Lots of our e-mail customers wonder about this, since they’ve never seen the printed version which makes it obvious.

We produce three catalogues a year, usually February / March, June / July and October / November, and hope there is something here to interest you.  We are also both happy to take wants lists, although with the following stipulations:

1. we make no promises about finding you the books !  and please don’t shout at us if books you want inadvertantly end up in the catalogue.  Some books slip through the net,  though we do our best;
2. please don’t ask for the books that EVERYONE wants, e.g 1st edition Maids of La Rochelle with a mint dustwrapper - if we ever find one, we’re afraid it is finders keepers !  Before we stopped taking requests for the very popular titles, we just found we were ending up with dozens of identical wants lists. 

If you would like to contact us, click here to email us:

Sally:      sdore@waitrose.com

Betula:  topsyturvy@blueyonder.co.uk