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 – March 2025

Daniel Mason
North Woods
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Stendhal
Love
Paperback

Classic of the month

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Cressida McLaughlin
The Happy Hour
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

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Jonny Sweet
The Kellerby Code
Paperback

Mystery of the month

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Henry Wise
Holy City
Paperback

Noir of the month

Hao Jingfang
Jumpnauts
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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Robert Jackson Bennett
The Tainted Cup
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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George A. Romero & Daniel Kraus
Pay the Piper
Paperback
Andrew McMillan
Pity
Paperback

Queer book of the month

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Sophie Elmhirst
Maurice and Maralyn
Paperback

– A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story

Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – February 2025

Ferdia Lennon
Glorious Exploits
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
Paperback

Classic of the month

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Annie Darling
The Vintage Dress Shop in Primrose Hill
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

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Jo Cunningham
Death By Numbers
Paperback

Mystery of the month

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Matthew Harffy
Dark Frontier
Paperback

Noir of the month

Lavanya Lakshminarayan
The Ten Percent Thief
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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Wole Talabi
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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Fiona Barnett
The Dark Between the Trees
Paperback
Jiaming Tang
Cinema Love
Paperback

Queer book of the month

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Emma Tarlo
Under the Hornbeams
Paperback

– A true story of life in the open

Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – January 2025

Samantha Harvey
Orbital
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Barbara Pym
Excellent Women
Paperback

Classic of the month

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Iris Costello
The Story Collector
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

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Annette Dashofy
Where the Guilty Hide
Paperback

Mystery of the month

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Kenneth Fearing
The Big Clock
Paperback

Noir of the month

Adrian Tchaikovsky
Alien Clay
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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Simon Jimenez
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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Hiron Ennes
Leech
Paperback
Justin Torres
Blackouts
Paperback

Queer book of the month

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Pandora Sykes (ed.)
What Writers Read
Paperback

– 35 Writers on their Favourite Book

Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – December 2024

Celina Baljeet Basra
Happy
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Paperback

Classic of the month

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