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 – 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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Hannah Ritchie
Not the End of the World
Paperback

– How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – August 2024

James McBride
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey
Paperback

Classic of the month

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Laura Wood
Under Your Spell
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

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Cate Quinn
The Clinic
Paperback

Mystery of the month

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Pamela Samuels Young
Sounds Like a Plan
Paperback

& Dwayne Alexander Smith

Noir of the month

Yume Kitasei
The Deep Sky
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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Vajra Chandrasekera
The Saint of Bright Doors
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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Chuck Tingle
Bury Your Gays
Paperback

Horror of the month

Ibi Zoboi
Nigeria Jones
Paperback

Teen/YA of the month

Neil Blackmore
Radical Love
Paperback

Queer book of the month

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