Celebration all weekend!

Thursday Nov 18th: All-day celebration in the shop, evening party!

Saturday Nov 20th: Storytelling for children 3-6 at 11.30

Sunday Nov 21st: Literary afternoon with international authors Brian James (Sierra Leone) and Anisur Rahman (Bangladesh) at 15.30

Happy surprises through-out!

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The Uppsala English Bookshop 15 Years!!!!

The Uppsala English Bookshop from the early days  - Jan

Yes! Thursday November 18 is our 15th birthday. Incredible, right?

And we're bigger, better, bolder than ever! All thanks to you guys of course.

So, please sign our Birthday Guestbook here

Winner of a signed copy of Simon Kernick's The Last 10 Seconds!

The winner of our fiercly competitive Simon Kernick competition is Mr P. Hurst! Actually he's the only one who got the question right. The answer of course is Tom Hickey. But you all knew that, really, right? (And the question was "What is the name of the lecturer in humanities at Brighton Polytechnic who was a major inspiration to Mr Kernick?")

So congratulations Phil, the book is in the post. 
Happy reading.

Competition; Win a signed copy of Simon Kernick's The Last 10 Seconds!

Simon Kernick - The Last 10 seconds

Win a signed copy of brit crime great Simon Kernick's latest race-against time bestseller The Last 10 Seconds!

All you have to do this time is send an email to info@bookshop.se with the answer to this question: 
What is the name of the lecturer in humanities at Brighton Polytechnic who was a major inspiration to Mr Kernick?

And, of course, you have to 'like' this post on Facebook!
Deadline for this competition is Sunday November 7. Good luck!

Winners of signed Rushdies!

The answers to the "Signed Salman Rushdie" competition were Lewis Shiner (remember, we should all be reading him....) and Ptosis. 

The lucky winners are Therese Granlund and Johan Anglemark! Congratulations! Get in touch for desired ink.

Pondering the Bookers

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I've been reading nothing but Booker nominees for the last 8 weeks. I managed to read 8 of the 13 nominees and was lucky enough to finish the entire shortlist. It's been an interesting journey into many different worlds; from suburban Australia to a prison garden shed in Canada; from revolutionary America to jewish life in modern London; from the end of Jamaican slavery to airport bars at Gatwick; from backpacking in Lesotho to Egyptian grave excavations in the 1920s... Amazing how much thought has gone into all these works of fiction.

New Competition! Signed Salman Rushdie!

We are running a competition on our Facebook page. Price is a signed copy of Luka and the Fire of Life - signed by the very man himself.

Mario Vargas Llosa - The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010

Mario Vargas LlosaThe Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".

Mario Vargas Llosa - in the bookshop

Jan's Summer Reading

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What I've been reading...

      

Books of the Month – December 2023

Shelby Van Pelt
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Kathleen Farrell
Mistletoe Malice
Paperback

Classic of the month

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Bella Osborne
The Perfect Christmas Village
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

Celia Fremlin
The Long Shadow
Paperback

Mystery of the month

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Natalie Marlow
Needless Alley
Paperback

Noir of the month

Edward Ashton
Mickey7
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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Terry Pratchett
Hogfather
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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John Langan
Fisherman
Paperback

Horror of the month

Kit Heyam
Before We Were Trans
Paperback

– A New History of Gender

Queer book of the month

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Katherine Rundell
The Golden Mole
Paperback

– And Other Living Treasure

Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – November 2023

Jo Browning Wroe
A Terrible Kindness
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
Paperback

Classic of the month

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Megan Clawson
Falling Hard for the Royal Guard
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

Tom Mead
Death and the Conjuror
Paperback

Mystery of the month

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Dane Bahr
The Houseboat
Paperback

Noir of the month

Annalee Newitz
The Terraformers
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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Travis Baldree
Legends & Lattes
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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David Arnold
I Loved You In Another Life
Paperback

Teen/YA of the month

Elizabeth Mavor
A Green Equinox
Paperback

Queer book of the month

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Doireann Ní Ghríofa
A Ghost in the Throat
Paperback

Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – October 2023

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
When We Were Birds
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Henry James
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
Paperback

Classic of the month

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Emily Kerr
Her Fixer-Upper
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

Rupert Holmes
Murder Your Employer
Paperback
Dick Lochte
Sleeping Dog
Paperback
Emily Tesh
Some Desperate Glory
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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Trip Galey
A Market of Dreams and Destiny
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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Margie Fuston
Vampires, Hearts & Other Dead Things
Paperback

Teen/YA of the month

Alison Rumfitt
Tell Me I’m Worthless
Paperback

Queer book of the month

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Charles Spicer
Coffee with Hitler
Paperback

– The British Amateurs who Tried to Civilise the Nazis

Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – September 2023

Ann Morgan
Crossing Over
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Elizabeth Bowen
The Last September
Paperback

Classic of the month

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