Happy New Year

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Happy New Year!

From all of us, to all of you – a Happy New Book Year!

This weekend, the bookshops are open:

New Year’s Eve, Dec 31st:
UPPSALA 12–15
STOCKHOLM 11–15
GÖTEBORG 11–15

New Year’s Day, Jan 1st:
All shops are closed for celebrations.

What will be your first read of 2023?

The gift of choice and the gift that keeps on giving

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Gift Voucher – the Gift of Choice

Our bookshops are filled with great reads and lovely merchandise to gift for Christmas, and you are most welcome in to browse and get recommendations.

Here are some last-minute gift ideas that you even can sort from home.

The gift of choice. For last-minute gifts, for that voracious reader you can’t keep track of what they’ve read, or for the ones eagerly awaiting a new release – why not give them the gift of choice: our Gift Vouchers! You get to choose the amount, and the receiver can choose whatever they want.

Buy your gift voucher in the shops or order online at bookshop.se/giftvouchers


The gift that keeps on giving
. Why not give that someone special a subscription to our Book Club: a new book in the post every month from our curated Book of the Month picks. Give them reading joy for 3 months, 6 months, or an entire year. Choose from 10 different categories – there’s something for everyone!

Read more and order on bookshop.se/bookclub

Christmas Shop Hours 2022

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Christmas Shop Hours

Welcome in to our bookshops to find that perfect gift.

––– UPPSALA –––

Monday–Friday 19th–23rd Dec  10–19

Christmas Eve & Day  Closed
Boxing Day 26th Dec  12–17


––– STOCKHOLM –––

Monday–Friday 19th–23rd Dec  10.30–18

Christmas Eve & Day  Closed
Boxing Day 26th Dec  12–17

––– GÖTEBORG –––

Monday–Friday 19th–23rd Dec  10–19*
* Thursday 22nd Dec  10–20

Christmas Eve & Day  Closed
Boxing Day 26th Dec  12–16

 

 

How to order

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How to order from us

Our webshop is on the blink, and while we prepare for the new and improved shop – here’s how to order from us:

Just get in touch! We love talking to you and helping you personally with any books you might be looking for.

For mailorders you can email uppsala@bookshop.se or message us on facebook messenger: m.me/UppsalaEnglishBookshop (with the Ask us chat bubble on this page you can chat also as a guest)

If you have a question for your local bookshop, want to order for pick-up, or have a favourite bookshop to talk to – get in touch with your local bookshop:

UPPSALA email: uppsala@bookshop.se 
or messenger: m.me/UppsalaEnglishBookshop (or use the Ask us chat bubble on this page)

STOCKHOLM email: stockholm@bookshop.se 
or messenger: m.me/EnglishBookshopSthlm

GÖTEBORG email: goteborg@bookshop.se 
or messenger: m.me/EnglishBookshopGBG

Or get in touch any other way, we’re happy to help with your questions and orders!

Poetry Friday in Göteborg

Poetry Friday at the Göteborg shop

GÖTEBORG | Friday 9th Dec at 19:15. Free!

Poetry Friday in the Göteborg bookshop together with poets Linda Ghaderi and Tom Madeley who will read from and present their poetry.

Open Mic: Bring your own – if you got works of your own you would like to share with others, bring them to the event for an open mic possibility.

Welcome to a relaxing evening with poetry, a resting place in the midst of the hustle & bustle of the holiday season.

Göteborg: Friday 9th December at 19:15
Free event! Refreshments!

Book Release ”See You in Ezra Street”

Book Release ”See You in Ezra Street”

GÖTEBORG | Saturday 10th Dec at 17:30. Free.

See You in Ezra Street by Ranjita Dutta Roy captures the dramatic uncertainty of a young woman striking up new roots, dealing with her love affair, while absorbing the dramatic lessons from her grandfather’s life in colonial India.

Born and raised in Sweden, the introverted life of Tanushree Roy Choudhury, a young music scholar with Indian roots, takes a dramatic turn when she suddenly gets strong hallucinations about her family’s past and starts searching for answers. Answers which her parents had always left unknown.

Join us in the Göteborg shop for a presentation and book release festivities. Yummy food bites served.

Göteborg: Saturday 10th December at 17:30
Free – bring a friend. Yummy food bites served.

Author visit: Maria Bournoncle

Author visit Maria Bournoncle

GÖTEBORG | Tuesday 6th December at 19.15. Free.

Maria Bouroncle presents It Came to Me on a Whim – The Story of Ingeborg Andersson, Child Murderess.

It is a cold Easter in the spring of 1929. Artur leaves his wife and three children alone for a few hours to go fetch firewood in the forest. When he returns, his world has collapsed…

Author visit: Emma Noyes – The Sunken City

Author visit: Emme Noyes – The Sunken City

STOCKHOLM | Saturday 3rd Dec at 17.00

Meet Emma Noyes, as she presents her fantasy trilogy The Sunken City – in conversation with Veronica from the bookshop about building worlds, writings books, and ABBA-dancing boyfriends…

Buy her books and get them signed at the event!
The Sunken City / The Fallen Witch / War of Shadows (release Dec 2022)

STOCKHOLM Saturday 3rd December at 17.00
Free event – bring a friend! Refreshments.

Poetry Friday: Sally Anderson Boström – ”Harvest”

Peotry Friday at the Stockholm shop with Sally Anderson Boström

STOCKHOLM | Friday 11 Nov at 18:00

Poetry reading & talk:
Sally Anderson Boström presents Harvest

Meet Sally Anderson Boström, as she reads from and presents her poetry collection, Harvest.

Welcome to a Poetry Friday at the Stockholm bookshop!

Friday 11th November at 18:00
Free event. Refreshments.

Online author event: Ali Hazelwood

Online author event – Meet Ali Hazelwood

ONLINE | Tuesday 8th Nov at 19:00

Meet Ali Hazelwood

Join us online for a conversation with bestselling author (and neuroscientist) Ali Hazelwood, about every­thing from fan fiction to book-tok to incorporating science in romantic fiction and beyond!

In conversation with Else from the Uppsala shop (a Hazelwood fan).

Thursday 8th Nov at 19:00 CET Swedish time (or watch the replay anytime)

Watch the replay:

» replay on facebook

» replay on youtube

» Order Ali’s books on this link

» Visit Ali’s website

» Visit Ali’s facebook page

Books of the Month – March 2023

Stacey Swann
Olympus, Texas
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

*Join the reading group

Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five
Paperback

Classic of the month

*Join the reading group

Helen Paris
Lost Property
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

Richard Coles
Murder Before Evensong
Paperback

Mystery of the month

*Join the Crime reading group

Jordan Harper
The Last King of California
Paperback

Noir of the month

Doug Johnstone
The Space Between Us
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

*Join the reading group

H.M. Long
Hall of Smoke
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

*Join the reading group

Tess Sharpe
Six Times We Almost Kissed (And One Time We Did)
Paperback

Teen/YA of the month

Philip Oltermann
Stasi Poetry Circle
Paperback

- The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War

Non-Fiction of the month

E.M. Forster
Maurice
Paperback

Queer book of the month

*Join the reading group

Books of the Month – February 2023

Jason Mott
Hell of a Book
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

*Join the reading group

Philip Larkin
Jill
Paperback

Classic of the month

*Join the reading group

Mary Jayne Baker
A Bicycle Made For Two
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

Peggy Rothschild
A Deadly Bone to Pick
Paperback

Mystery of the month

*Join the Crime reading group

Fabian Nicieza
Suburban Dicks
Paperback

Noir of the month

John Scalzi
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

*Join the reading group

Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Certain Dark Things
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

*Join the reading group

Val Emmich
Maybe We’re Electric
Paperback

Teen/YA of the month

Maureen Quilligan Maureen Quilligan
When Women Ruled the World
Paperback

– Making the Renaissance in Europe

Non-Fiction of the month

Torrey Peters
Detransition, Baby
Paperback

Queer book of the month

*Join the reading group

Books of the Month – January 2023

Lee Cole
Groundskeeping
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Gerard Reve
The Evenings
Paperback

Classic of the month

*Join the reading group

Jackie Fraser
The Bookshop of Second Chances
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

Nita Prose
The Maid
Paperback
James Kestrel
Five Decembers
Paperback
Lucy Kissick
Plutoshine
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

*Join the reading group

Richard Swan
The Justice of Kings
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

*Join the reading group

Amara Sage
Influential

Teen/YA of the month

Jennifer Clement
Widow Basquiat – A Memoir
Paperback

Non-Fiction of the month

Rita Mae Brown
Rubyfruit Jungle
Paperback

Books of the Month – December 2022

Hannah Lillith Assadi
The Stars are Not Yet Bells
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

*Join the reading group

Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
Paperback

Classic of the month

*Join the reading group