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STOCKHOLM | Thursday 30th March at 18:30

Hajime! Let’s play the ancient (and action packed) poetry game Ogoola Karuta. Join us in the Stockholm shop for a poetry game night. We'll play an English version, so no need to know Japanese, or even English poetry – no prior knowledge needed! Fun for all ages. Free. Hajime!

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STOCKHOLM | Starting April 6th

We are extremely proud to announce NORDIC NOIR TALKS in our Stockholm shop – a series of talks on Nordic Noir and Scandinavian Mystery with some of the most well-known Swedish crime writers.

First out is Carin Gerhardsen on April 6th, followed by Jens Lapidus on April 27th.

Advance tickets available at the Stockholm bookshop or online at billetto.se

» Read more about the entire series and all the authors at www.bookshop.se/nordicnoir

UPPSALA | Tuesday 21st March at 19:00. Free.

WORLD POETRY DAY
with Guests of Honour from the SoCal underground poetry scene!

CHRIS VANNOY (San Diego)
DAVID McINTIRE (Los Angeles)
ARMINE IKNADOSSIAN (LA)

Come celebrate the power of poetry with us on Unesco’s dedicated World Poetry Day. International & local poets performing. Night headed by Chris, David and Armine from the LA poetry scene.

Anisur Rahman • Dennis Renfors • Sara Lessing 
Linnea Kjellberg • Sam Kessel • Henry Bowers
Kajsa Ragnarsson • Jessica Rose Middleton • and guests

Be there or be hopelessly rectangular!

UPPSALA | Saturday 18th March at 11:00

How many babies should a tall man have?
(Twelve, it would seem.)
How many names should those babies have?
(Two, in this case.)
How annoying is to be copied by three gull chicks?
(Extremely.)

Developments of these brief answers at Storytime, eleven o’clock, Saturday 18th March at The English Bookshop in Uppsala.

UPPSALA | Wednesday 15th March at 19:00

Lois Banner, visiting Fulbright professor in American Studies, gives a talk about two iconic film stars:

GRETA GARBO, MARILYN MONROE, 
and the Creation of Ideal Beauty

Drawing from her best-selling biography of Marilyn Monroe and current work on Greta Garbo, she will evaluate the lives and careers of these two iconic film stars. She will take a feminist perspective, focusing on their self-creation, their innovative politics, and their ultimate failure.

Wednesday 15th March at 19:00 
Tickets 60:-, incl. refreshments.
Limited number of seats, buy your ticket in the bookshop today!

STOCKHOLM | until Sunday 12th March

Final days of our Book Sale in Stockholm:
WEEKEND WIPEOUT!

Help us clear the sales table to make room for all the new titles. Still plenty of great finds on the replenished sales tables. Ends this Sunday, so don't delay.

UPPSALA | Saturday 11th March at 15:00

Andy and Terry live in a treehouse. But it’s not just any old treehouse, it’s the most amazing treehouse in the world! Just about anything can happen there, and it does. And it keeps growing bigger and bigger and BIGGER…

UPPSALA | Saturday 4th March at 11:00

What can you do if you get a pig stuck up your nose?
Or find a lost penguin?
Or get invited to tea by some sneaky dogs?

Come along to story time on Saturday in the Uppsala shop to find out!
No need to sign up, just show up and join the fun! Free.

Plenty of interesting titles in our picks for March!

General Fiction: Bradley Somer – Fishbowl

Classic: Joan Didion – Play it as it Lays

British Crime: Joanne Harris – Different Class

Tough Crime: Rod Reynolds – The Dark Inside

Fantasy: Peter Newman – The Vagrant

Science Fiction: James L. Cambias – A Darkling Sea

Paranormal/Urban Fantasy: Mark Morris – Wolves of London

Teen reading: Nicola Yoon – The Sun is Also a Star

Non-Fiction: Witze & Kanipe – Island on Fire

Short Story Collection: Helen Oyeyemi – What is Not Yours is Not Yours

Click Read more to... eh, read more in the title presentations.

What a celebration we hade last weekend in the Uppsala shop! Thanks to everyone who came to the Celebration Sale to celebrate our nomination to the Shop of the Year Award in Uppsala – we wouldn’t be there without you!

The book sale in the Stockholm shop continues all week. It might be a more ”traditional” book sale, but it’s anything but ordinary. Sales table refilled all the time, so there’s always finds to be made!

Show your book sale hauls! Show off your hauls on instagram or twitter: tag with @bookshop_se and #booksalehaul