So we have the exciting new book coming from Jonathan Harding, a companion piece to the immensely popular Mensch, this is Soul: Beyond the Athlete.
We pride ourselves on being honest here at Ockley Towers and we want to make a couple of things clear from the off to make sure everyone who wants one pre-Christmas gets a copy. Please, please, please don’t think this is sales bluster, this is us trying to make sure you get one if you want one.
Firstly for various reasons from supply to delivery, we have 500 coming pre-Christmas. We will, of course, have more in the new year but that is what we can get before the big day. We would like to have got more, three times that amount in truth, but it is what it is - 500 is the maximum.
They will land with us sometime before the 10th of December, probably well before in truth, so plenty of time for us to send out to all who order.
We expect it to be popular and we expect it to do well trade-wise who we will have to supply an amount to. What we are committed to is keeping enough so every retail customer who orders direct from us (obviously before stock runs out) gets one. What we’re saying is order early to avoid a chance of missing out.
Now lots of places say that, but we really mean it - if you order early from the stock we know we will have you will get one. If we sell out, we will have more in the new year but it’s likely to be late January.
We’re happy for you to order from Amazon and other retailers but, again, some honesty. The books will land with us, we will then send to them which takes a day or two. They will have to bring it into stock, which certain systems take longer to do than others, then they will be posted to you which takes a day or two.
There should be time for all that to happen, but it will be tight and we can only supply a certain amount to them. Again this isn’t rhetoric, it really is better to try and order from us if you can and you really want one quickly as we can get them out as soon as humanly possible to you from here.
Things will be normal in the new year and we suspect trade stock will be high everywhere by the end of January - we appreciate it’s easier for some to order from Amazon in certain situations etc - but we don’t want to disappoint anyone if possible.
Thanks for listening as always, hope you enjoy the book and have a good festive season!
Best,
Dave