Author visit: Risto Pakarinen – ”Someday Jennifer”

Published on Wed, 2019-11-27 16:15
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”Someday Jennifer” – Risto Pakarinen

UPPSALA | Tuesday 3rd December at 19.00 Free, but ticketed!

»What if the only way forward is to go back?«

Author Visit & Reading
Risto Pakarinen – author of ”Someday Jennifer”

Risto Pakarinen, author and one-time wanna-be hockey agent, reads from his book and talks about the serendipitous way from idea and script to finding a literary agent and publication – in Canada!

Someday Jennifer is a feelgood book about a middle-aged man who wants to escape his miserable life and go back in time. And he figures out a way to do it in a quick and efficient way. Once back in the 1980s, he goes looking for Jennifer, his first love.

Tuesday 3rd December at 19.00

Free – but ticketed. Get your ticket at the bookshop today! (Or contact the bookshop to reserve a ticket if you can't make it to the shop before the event.)

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Kids' event: How does the brain work?

Published on Wed, 2019-11-27 15:37
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Kids event – How does the brain work?

UPPSALA | Saturday 30th November at 11.00

KIDS’ EVENT – ”How Does the Brain Work?”
Fantastic Facts for Kids – Release Party & Reading

A book about the brain for children! In the book you will find out more about how the brain works, what nerve cells are and how they talk to each other, the different parts of the brain and what they do. Most importantly you’ll find out that the brain wants to be used and that it gets better the more you use it!

Meet author Klas Kullander, a professor at Upp­sala University. He sure knows a thing or two about the brain!

Release party • Reading/Storytelling

Welcome all kids! Free, bring a friend! Fika!

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Talk: A Death in the Rainforest – Don Kulick

Published on Mon, 2019-11-04 08:16
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A Death in the Rainforest – Don Kulick

UPPSALA | Thursday 14th Nov at 19:00. Tickets 50:-

Author Visit & Talk – Don Kulick:
A DEATH IN THE RAINFOREST
How a language and a way of life came to an end in Papua New Guinea


Don Kulick is an anthropologist who has spent some 30 years visi­ting an isolated community in Papua New Guinea trying to learn the language and the culture, making friends, but also dodging ambushes and witnessing deep changes to the villagers’ way of life.

Listen to him talking about his experiences and learn more about a very different way of life – maybe one on the brink of extinction.

Time Magazine named his book one of their 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer, and National Geographic put it on their Best Travel Books of Summer list.

Tickets 50:- Get your ticket at the bookshop today! (or contact the shop to reserve a ticket)

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Author visit & reading: Bryan Furuness – ”Do Not Go On”

Published on Sun, 2019-11-03 14:35
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Author visit: Bryan Furuness

UPPSALA | Wednesday 6th Nov at 18.30. Free!

Author Visit & Reading:
Bryan Furuness – Do Not Go On

”The witness protection program is supposed to be a fresh start, but for the newly inducted Easterday family, it’s more like a personal apocalypse…”

Book release & Talk: Shining in the Dark – Hans-Åke Lilja

Published on Wed, 2019-10-09 13:49
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Shining in the Dark – Hans-Åke Lilja

UPPSALA | Tuesday 5th November at 19.00. Tickets 70:-

Book release & Talk:
Shining in the Dark – Hans-Åke Lilja on Stephen King

Our Hallowe'en week continues with a special author visit: Hans-Åke Lilja presents his new book Shining in the dark and lets us know everything we ever wanted to know about Stephen King, and loads of other great horror writers and stories.

Talk: Ghost and the World They Inhabit – Daniel Ogden

Published on Wed, 2019-10-09 13:48
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Talk Daniel Ogden – Ghosts and the Worlds They Inhabit

UPPSALA | Thursday 31st October at 19.00. Tickets 70:-

Celebrate Hallowe'en at The English Bookshop!

Listen to Daniel Ogden talk about Ghosts and the Worlds They Inhabit: A look at ghost stories in English literature through the ages, and afterwards enjoy tea and ghostly cake, and maybe look at our collections of ghost stories and other suitable spooky reads.

Thursday 31st October at 19.00
Advance tickets 70:-available at the bookshop. Tea and cake included. Get your ticket today!

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Author visit & book release: Theodor Kallifatides – The Siege of Troy

Published on Sat, 2019-10-05 13:49
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Theodor Kallifatides – The Siege of Troy

STOCKHOLM | Thursday 17th October at 19.00. Tickets 60:-

We’re excited to once again welcome Theodor Kallifatides to the bookshop! This time to present & celebrate the release of his latest novel The Siege of Troy – a perceptive retelling of The Iliad, where a young Greek teacher draws on the enduring power of myth to help her students cope with the terrors of Nazi occupation.

Author conversation • Signing • Refreshments

Join us in the Stockholm bookshop to celebrate the release together with the author!

Get your advance ticket 60:- today in the Stockholm bookshop.
» Tickets also available online at billetto.se

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Author visit & book release: Jonas Karlsson

Published on Fri, 2019-10-04 13:05
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Author visit Jonas Karlsson

STOCKHOLM | Monday 7th Oct at 19.00. Tickets 60:-

We are excited that Jonas Karlsson is taking time out from his rehearsals for ”Waiting for Godot” at Dramaten to present his latest book in the Stockholm bookshop – a trilogy of novellas, where he explores the quirkier side of human nature, helping us to see the world anew via three eccentric narrators.

Author conversation • Signing • Refreshments

Join us in the Stockholm bookshop to celebrate the release together with the author!
Get your advance ticket 60:- today in the bookshop. Tickets also available online at billetto.se

Crime Writing While Feminist

Published on Sun, 2019-09-29 06:49
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Crime Writing While Feminist

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

Join VIVECA STEN, bestselling author of the Sandhamn series, and journalist, criminologist and author KICKI SEHLSTEDT in conversation with crime writer and screenwriter CS DUFFY to discuss writing crime while feminist.

How do we approach writing violence against women in the #metoo era? Should we consider the messages our stories send or expose the world as it is?

Signings at Gothenburg Book Fair 2019

Published on Fri, 2019-09-27 06:50
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Author signings at the book fair

GOTHENBURG | Sept 26–29

Welcome to visit us at the Gothenburg Book Fair! Find us at stand C 04:29, discover our book fair special offers, meet authors and have your books signed. See our author signing schedule below.

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Daniel Mason, North Woods
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Modern Fiction of the month

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Stendhal, Love
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Classic of the month

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Cressida McLaughlin, The Happy Hour
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Jonny Sweet, The Kellerby Code
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Henry Wise, Holy City
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Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup
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George A. Romero & Daniel Kraus, Pay the Piper
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Andrew McMillan, Pity
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Sophie Elmhirst, Maurice and Maralyn
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Modern Fiction of the month

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Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Invisible Man
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Classic of the month

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Annie Darling, The Vintage Dress Shop in Primrose Hill
Annie Darling
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Feel-Good of the month

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Jo Cunningham, Death By Numbers
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Death By Numbers
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Mystery of the month

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Matthew Harffy, Dark Frontier
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Noir of the month
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Sci-Fi of the month

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Wole Talabi, Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
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Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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Fiona Barnett, The Dark Between the Trees
Fiona Barnett
The Dark Between the Trees
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Horror of the month

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Jiaming Tang, Cinema Love
Jiaming Tang
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Queer book of the month

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Emma Tarlo, Under the Hornbeams
Emma Tarlo
Under the Hornbeams
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Samantha Harvey, Orbital
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Modern Fiction of the month

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Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
Barbara Pym
Excellent Women
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Iris Costello, The Story Collector
Iris Costello
The Story Collector
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Annette Dashofy, Where the Guilty Hide
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Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock
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Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water
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Hiron Ennes, Leech
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Leech
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Justin Torres, Blackouts
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Pandora Sykes (ed.), What Writers Read
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What Writers Read
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Celina Baljeet Basra, Happy
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