The Thank You Sale

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Book Sale

2012 was our best year ever.  We want to give something back.

Book sale starts Friday March 1st. Both shops. All weekend March 1-3.

 

HELENA’S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK RELEASES OF 2013 (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)

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With 2013 already well underway, am I correct in thinking it is high
time to focus on some of the most anticipated new books of the year?
Why yes, of course I am! This is in no way a definitive list, seeing
a) how new releases tend to keep popping up throughout the year, b)
how some of the best reads of the year will be dark horses; titles and
authors that somehow have managed to slip under my radar, and c) how
there is something to be said for spontaneity. It is, however,
somewhat consistent with my current literary cravings. So, without

Reading Group with Karen Thompson Walker - Age of Miracles

BOOK FOR FEBRUARY 2013: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

Welcome to a cozy evening meeting in the bookshop to discuss the month's book – The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker. During the evening we'll talk about the book and enjoy each other's company as well as a nice cuppa' tea and some delicious cake. And you get 10% discount on everything!

The cost is only 50:- + book 95:-. (Oh, that includes the delicious cake as well!) Limited number of participants (max 10), so talk to the book- sellers and book your seat today.

Uppsala: Wed Feb 27th or Thu Feb 28th at 7 pm
Stockholm: Tue March 5th or Wed March 6th at 7 pm

I Capture the Castle

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I am a great fan of Dodie Smith's lovely children's book One hundred and one Dalmatians, and have been curious to read something else by her for a long time. This is a completely different novel, but equally good. Cassandra's eccentric father is a writer whose first book took the literary world by storm but he has since failed to write a single word. This tells the story of seventeen-year-old, Cassandra and her extraordinary family of an older sister, an artistic and loving stepmother and the non-writing father, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle English castle in the (possibly) 1930s.

23rd Feb 2013, 11 o'clock – Story-time at the English Bookshop

The Perfect Baby by Tony Bradman and Holly Swain Wanted: The Perfect Pet by Fiona Roberton Cat Dreams by Ursula K. Le Guin and S.D. Schindler

Would you rather have a new pet or a new baby? Or perhaps you've already got both?
Stories about what to expect from your pets and your babies.

Mr. Zimmer’s gut feeling

Carl Zimmer - Microcosm How well do you know yourself? Did you know that your body contains ten times more bacterial cells than its own cells? We are used to having the story of life told to us from a human perspective.

Story-time: 9th Feb 2013, 11 o'clock

Don't Dip your Chips in your Drink, Kate! by Caryl Hart and Leigh Hodgkinson  Don't kick up a fuss Gus! by Adria Meserve  What's Cooking Jamela? by Niki Daly

9th Feb 2013, 11 o'clock – Story-time at the English Bookshop

Why do grown-ups tell kids what to do all the time? Especially about at meal times!

Come and enjoy stories about determined and wilful children.

Robert Jordan - A Memory of Light

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Robert Jordan – A Memory of Light (A Memory of Light #3) (Wheel of Time #14) is now available in the bookshop.

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Books of the Month – November 2024

Joyce Carol Oates
Breathe
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Thomas Bernhard
The Loser
Paperback

Classic of the month

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Lauren Bravo
Preloved
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

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Nina Simon
Mother-Daughter Murder Night
Paperback
Morgan Greene
A Place Called Hope
Paperback
Cory Doctorow
The Lost Cause
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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Patricia McKillip
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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Alisa Alering
Smothermoss
Paperback

Horror of the month

Elle McNicoll
Some Like it Cold
Paperback

Teen/YA of the month

Lamya H
Hijab Butch Blues
Paperback

– A Memoir

Queer book of the month

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Roland Allen
The Notebook
Paperback

– A History of Thinking on Paper

Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – October 2024

Michael Magee
Close to Home
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla
Hardback

Classic of the month

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Jennifer Page
The Little Board Game Café
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

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Kemper Donovan
The Busy Body
Paperback
Richard John Parfitt
Stray Dogs
Paperback
Ann Leckie
Translation State
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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C. S. E. Cooney
Saint Death’s Daughter
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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Christopher Golden
All Hallows
Paperback

Horror of the month

Randy Ribay
Everything We Never Had
Paperback

Teen/YA of the month

Jade Song
Chlorine
Paperback

Queer book of the month

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Daisy Dunn
Not Far From Brideshead
Paperback

– Oxford Between the Wars

Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – September 2024

Amanda Peters
The Berry Pickers
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony
Paperback

Classic of the month

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Sophie Kinsella
The Burnout
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

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Alice Slater
Death of a Bookseller
Paperback

Mystery of the month

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Dervla McTiernan
What Happened to Nina?
Paperback

Noir of the month

Kali Wallace
Dead Space
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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Shannon Chakraborty
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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A.M. Shine
The Watchers
Paperback

Horror of the month

Dustin Thao
When Haru Was Here
Paperback

Teen/YA of the month

Sarah Waters
Affinity
Paperback

Queer book of the month

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