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Our Sofo shop is turning two!

Sofo shop turning two! 3-for-2 on everything

STOCKHOLM | Fri 18th–Sun 20th

Our Stockholm shop in Sofo is TURNING TWO! This is cause for celebration!

SPECIAL OFFER 3–for–2 on everything in the Stockholm shop all weekend, Friday 18th – Sunday 20th (shop open late).

The neighbourhood festival NYTORGSFESTEN is also on all weekend; music & festivities all over the neighbourhood until late. The bookshop also stays open late, so do come by for a fun evening in Sofo!

The famous jazz club Fasching celebrates 40 years on Saturday with concerts in Vitabergsparken, and on Saturday night Södermalm is hosting the festive midnight running event Midnattsloppet.

Welcome to a very special weekend in Sofo!

Writing Workshop with Gillian Polack

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Writing Workshop with Gillian Polack

UPPSALA | Wed 16th August

Workshop in writing fantasy and historical fiction with Australian author, historian and narrative specialist Gillian Polack.

Let Gillian Polack guide you through some interesting questions of culture and other unintentional markers and inspire you to use new knowledge and research when writing both fantasy and historical fiction.

Books of the Month for August 2017

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Discover the Books of the Month for August – there’s something for everyone!

Modern Fiction – Classics – Short stories

MODERN FICTION
The Comet Seekers – Helen Sedgwick
One Day meets The Time Traveler’s Wife in this spellbinding, magical debut novel about love, loss, hope and heartbreak that shows us that for each of us, the world can be as lonely or as beautiful as the comets that illuminate the skies above us. Roisin and Francois first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica. And everything changes.
Paperback 130:-

CLASSICS
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town – Stephen Leacock 
Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a colourful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining portrait of small town Ontario. It's a brilliant satire about small towns, small-town people, and small-town occurrences. Life in Mariposa is never dull or ordinary.
Paperback 155:-

SHORT STORIES
The Best Place on Earth – Ayelet Tsabari
These eleven spellbinding stories often focus on Israel’s Mizrahi Jews, featuring mothers and children, soldiers and bohemians, lovers and best friends, all searching for their place in the world.
Paperback 150:-

British Crime – Tough Crime

BRITISH ISLES CRIME
The City in Darkness – Michael Russell
Christmas 1939. In Europe the Phoney War hides carnage to come. In Ireland Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie keeps tabs on Irishmen joining the British Forces. It's unpleasant work, but when an IRA raid on a military arsenal sends Garda Special Branch in search of guns and explosives, Stefan is soon convinced his boss, Superintendent Terry Gregory, is working for the IRA…
Paperback 150:-

TOUGH CRIME
The Disappeared – Anthony J. Quinn
Irish journalist Quinn’s fiction debut kicks off a series featuring Northern Ireland police inspector Celcius Daly. This first installment manages to both entertain and enlighten, taking decades of sectarian violence that preceded present-day calm and using this as the background for a suspenseful whodunit.
Paperback 130:-

Science-Fiction – Fantasy – Urban Fantasy

SCIENCE FICTION
Red Rising – Pierce Brown
Darrow is a Helldiver. A pioneer of Mars.Born to slave beneath the earth so that one day, future generations might live above it.He is a Red – humankind’s lowest caste. But he has something the Golds - the ruthless ruling class - will never understand. He has a wife he worships, a family who give him strength. He has love. And when they take that from him, all that remains is revenge…
Paperback 130:-

FANTASY
Age of Myth – Michael J. Sullivan
Since time immemorial, humans have worshipped the gods they call Fhrey, truly a race apart: invincible in battle, masters of magic, and seemingly immortal. But when a god falls to a human blade, the balance of power between humans and those they thought were gods changes forever.
Paperback 120:-

URBAN FANTASY/PARANORMAL
Strange Practice – Vivian Shaw
Dr. Greta Helsing has inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. She treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies.

It's a quiet, supernatural-adjacent life, until a sect of murderous monks emerges, killing human and undead Londoners alike. As terror takes hold of the city, Greta must use her unusual skills to stop the cult if she hopes to save her practice, and her life.
Paperback 130:-

Teen/Young Adult – Non-Fiction

NON-FICTION
Another Day in the Death of America – Gary Younge
24 hours. 8 states. 10 young lives lost to gun violence. A sharp portrait of America, painted in blood. ”Utterly gripping” – Naomi Klein.
Paperback 150:-

TEEN / YOUNG ADULT
History is All You Left Me – Adam Silvera
Griffin has lost his first love in a drowning accident. Theo was his best friend, his ex-boyfriend and the one he believed he would end up with. Now, reeling from grief and worsening OCD, Griffin turns to an unexpected person for help. Theo's new boyfriend. But as their relationship becomes increasingly complicated, dangerous truths begin to surface. Griffin must make a choice: confront the past, or miss out on the future...
Paperback 130:-

Reading: Meet Nick Holdstock from Edinburgh

Reading Nick Holdstock Thursday 3rd Aug in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM | Thursday 3rd August at 18:30. Free!

Nick Holdstock will visit us from Edinburgh to read from his novel The Casualties. Join us for this interesting evening event. Free. 

In The Casualties, a man recounts the final weeks of his neighborhood in Edinburgh before the apocalyptic event that only a few of the eccentric residents will survive.

The Casualties explores how we see ourselves, our past and our possible futures. It asks the biggest question: How can we be saved?

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Party - Histories of the Future - Aug 5th


Signing and Mingling Party - Histories of the Future

UPPSALA | Saturday 5th August from 18:00

We are proud to be able to welcome you to a Signing & Mingling Party with authors & guests from Reception Histories of the Future – a conference on byzantinisms, speculative fiction, and the literary heritage of medieval empire.

Meet & mingle with the guests and authors, get their books and have them signed. Drinks & refreshments. Free!

Click Read more to, well, read more about this exciting evening in the bookshop.

Find your summer reading in Books of the Month for July

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Summertime is indeed reading time. If you need to restock your reading pile, we’ll be open every day all summer to help you find your next book.

In fact, we have quite a few great reads in this month’s Books of the Month-pick. Check out the list below, and then check them out at the shop :-)

Smiley is back in September

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Cover A Legacy of Spies – John le CarréCOVER REVEAL | Release in September

We are delighted to reveal the cover for A Legacy of Spies, the new novel from global bestselling author John le Carré. Release date: September 7th. Put in your pre-order today! (Hardback and trade paperback)

Meet Johan Theorin and discover the four (deadly) seasons of Öland

Nordic Noir Talks – Johan Theorin

STOCKHOLM | Thursday 6th July at 18:30

The Öland Quartet – dark mystery novels with some supernatural overtones, which mainly take place on the Swedish island of Öland; a small island in the Baltic Sea and a sunny and popular place for tourists to visit in the summer. In the winter however, the island is dark and cold and very few people live there.

The quartet covers the four seasons on the island. The stand-alone psychological thriller The Asylum takes place on the Swedish west coast.

Meet Johan Theorin at the Nordic Noir Talk in the Stockholm shop. Tickets 60:- (incl. refreshments) available at the Stockholm shop or online at www.billetto.se/nordic-noir-theorin

Titles by Johan Theorin

Happy Midsummer!

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Happy Midsummer

UPPSALA & STOCKHOLM

Happy midsummer weekend to all of you! We at the bookshop will be taking a few days off to read some long-anticipated books – but we’ll be back again after the Midsummer festivities.

After the weekend, we’ll be open 7 days a week all summer! So no need for you to suffer from a lack of page turners, isn’t that great?

As always, feel free to ask us for our best recommendations! Our motto is ”the right book, in the right hand, at the right time” – and we have more than ten thousand books to choose from right now.

Sweet Midsummer Night’s Dreams to all of you!
the festive bookshop crew in Uppsala and Stockholm

UPPSALA Shop Hours:
Friday: Closed • Saturday: Closed • Sunday: OPEN 12–15

STOCKHOLM Shop Hours:
Friday–Sunday: Closed

Nordic Noir Talk: Meet Anita Shenoi & Gabriella Ullberg Westin

Nordic Noir Talks: Anita Shenoi & Gabriella Ullberg Westin

STOCKHOLM | Thursday 15th June at 18:30

Sweden – a haven of tranquility and benevolence or a cesspit of corruption and dastardly deeds? One thing’s for sure: it has captured the imagination of crime fiction enthusiasts around the world. From the pretty little coastal villages in the south to the wide open expanses of the north, Sweden has become the setting for some of the most intriguing crime writing in modern time.

Prepare for a spine-chilling adventure as we investigate the famous people and places that have made Sweden a crime fiction wonderland together with Anita Shenoi (author of several books on Sweden) and Gabriella Ullberg Westin (author of the Swedish crime series Murders in Hudiksvall).

Advance tickets 60:- (incl. refreshments) are available at the bookshop or online from www.billetto.se/nordic-noir-sweden

Limited seating – get your ticket today.

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