Classics Reading Group

Classics Reading GroupWelcome to a cozy evening meeting in the bookshop to discuss the classic book of the month. We’ll have a nice cuppa’ tea (or java) and some delicious cake. And you get 10% discount on everything!

The cost is only 50:- (+ book, we have several editions to choose from). Limited number of participants (max 10), so book your seat today.

Uppsala: Tuesday November 6th at 7 pm

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News for October!

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Just back from the Gothenburg bookfair which was terrific, we got to meet many lovely customers and also were priviliged to spend time with a lot of authors such as Ingrid Betancourt, Jenny Valentine, Paul Muldoon, Colm Toibin... The list goes on - pictures at our Facebook page! We then came home to Swecon 2012 and did signings with Joe Abercrombie, Kelly Link, Peter Watts and Caitlin Sweet! Again - pictures on our facebook page.

This Friday we’re doing a signing with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie! It’s not in the shop but at the Nordic Africa Institute in town. It’s been an amazing author period for us!

Meet us at Kontrast

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We are one of the happy sponsors of Kontrast – this years Swecon, the national Swedish science fiction and fantasy convention.

Meet us at the convention and don't miss to stop by the bookshop in the city to meet the authors when we are having a signing party. We will be selling books at the convention for signings.

Kontrast – this years Swecon, the national Swedish science fiction and fantasy convention

Super signing!

Yes it's true: on Friday at 4.30pm four SF/Fantasy greats will take seats in the Uppsala shop to sign their books exclusively for you!

Joe Abercrombie, Peter Watts, Kelly Link and Caitlin Sweet will all be here and we have plenty of stock of their books. (Including Joe Abercrombie's new book Red Country!!!!!!!).

A Red Country - Abercrombie, Joe Blindsight  -  Watts, Peter Pretty Monsters -  Link, Kelly , Tan, Shaun (Ill.) The Pattern Scars - Sweet, Caitlin

Release of J.K. Rowling's new novel "The Casual Vacancy"

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Releas of J.K. Rowling's new novel "The Casual Vacancy" Tomorrow (27/9), in Uppsala, Stockholm AND at our stand at the Gothenburg bookfair, we are excited to be releasing J.K.

The best buys at Bokmässan - Helena’s definite list!

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The Swedish book blogosphere is going to be a very lonely – or at least singular-minded – place for the upcoming few days, as everyone is headed for the Gothenburg book fair. Everyone, it seems, but me. I could be moping in bed with a pint of Häagendasz and a particularly blood curdling crime novel (I have two words for you: S.J. Bolton!) but instead I thought I'd give all you lucky people who are in fact going some pointers in terms of book shopping. Here's a list of the books you mustn't miss at the book fair.

News for September!

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Another great reading period is upon us. How quickly we moved into autumn! We’ve just had a wonderful Culture Night with the shop packed with literature lovers and authors. If you missed it you can watch the videos now posted on our web site www.bookshop.se!

Books of the Month for September! Our freshest choices!

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

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A heartwarming and endearing book about recent OAP Harold Fry, who one day gets a letter from an old friend saying she's dying of cancer in Berick-upon-Tweed. Struck by this he goes down the road to post a letter, and then just continues to walk, thinking that as long as he's walking to see her, she will not die. He has no proper walking shoes, no maps, no compass, no waterproof clothes, just a will to see Queenie Hennesy again, talk to her, and to save her life. This is the story of Harold Fry, of his wife, and son, of Queenie, who is dying, and of all the people Harold meets along his way from the very south of England up to Berwick.

Beat Thing! – Film from the Culture evening at the Bookshop

As always, a wonderful, buoyant performance by these luminaries joined by Olle on double bass and Jan on swedish haiku. What a treat!

See video

Books of the Month – June 2023

Hernan Diaz
Trust
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Sei Shonagon
The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon
Paperback

– The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan

Classics of the month

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Sidney Karger
Best Men
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

Benjamin Stevenson
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
Paperback

Mystery of the Month

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Eli Cranor
Don’t Know Tough
Paperback

Noir of the month

Adam Oyebanji
Braking Day
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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Shauna Lawless
The Children of Gods and Fighting Men
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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Sonora Reyes
The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School
Paperback

Teen/YA of the month

Laura Kate Dale
Gender Euphoria
Paperback

– Stories of joy from trans, non-binary and intersex writers

Queer book of the month

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Mark Hodkinson
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
Paperback

– Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – May 2023

Ayşegül Savaş
White on White
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Christopher Isherwood
Goodbye to Berlin
Paperback

Classic of the month

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Stephanie Butland
Found in a Bookshop
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

Sulari Gentill
The Woman in the Library
Paperback

Mystery of the month

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Gabriel Iglesias
The Devil Takes You Home
Paperback

Noir of the month

Sequoia Nagamatsu
How High We Go in the Dark
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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Ava Reid
The Wolf and the Woodsman
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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Andrew Joseph White
Hell Followed with Us
Paperback

Teen/YA of the month

Yukio Mishima
Confessions of a Mask
Paperback

Queer book of the month

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Edward Chisholm
A Waiter in Paris
Paperback

– Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – April 2023

Bonnie Garmus
Lessons in Chemistry
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Elizabeth von Arnim
The Enchanted April
Hardback

Classic of the month

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Ashley Poston
The Dead Romantics
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

Deanna Raybourn
Killers of a Certain Age
Paperback
Hayley Scrivenor
Dirt Town
Paperback
Emily St John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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Daniel Abraham
Age of Ash
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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Tessa Gratton & Justina Ireland
Chaos and Flame
Paperback

Teen/YA of the month

Sara Jaffe
Dryland
Paperback

Queer book of the month

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Oliver Mol
Train Lord
Paperback

– The Astonishing True Story of One Man’s Journey to Getting His Life Back On Track

Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – March 2023

Stacey Swann
Olympus, Texas
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five
Paperback

Classic of the month

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