We’re opening a new bookshop in Göteborg!

Published on Wed, 2022-06-22 17:03
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We’re opening a shop in Göteborg!

THIS JUST IN! We’re ecstatically excited to finally reveal – we’re opening a bookshop in Göteborg! Come September, our third bookshop will open its doors on Kungsgatan 19 in central Göteborg.

Read more here: www.bookshop.se/goteborg

Sign up for the newsletter on the page, follow the facebook page for the Göteborg shop – and do tell all your friends on the west coast!

Support Ukrainian publisher Vivat and their employees

Published on Fri, 2022-06-17 13:11
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Support Ukrainian publisher Vivat and their employees

The Ukrainian publisher Vivat is based in Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine – a city heavily affected by the current war. They need our help.

All the money from their current activities are used to support their employees who have been forced to leave their homes, as well as to print books that are so necessary and important for culture and society, even in times of war.

Help us help our Ukrainian friends. We are donating the proceeds of our sidewalk sales to Vivat, and you can help by swishing funds to us marked ”Ukraina Vivat” and we will pass them on. Send your contribution to our Swish number 123 038 70 01. Thanks for your support!

Click Read more for a Swish QR code and to read more about the publishing house and the situation in Ukraine.

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – June 2022

Published on Fri, 2022-06-03 16:39
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One summer can change everything… Ruth and Hannah are sisters. Bonded by love and friendship, they are perplexingly different characters. Hannah is radiant, organised and hard working. Ruth is forever single and totally aimless. Together they are invincible. Every summer they go on a budget holiday together where they bicker, laugh, fight and make up. But this time is different. Something bad happens. And now everything is changed forever. –  This bittersweet love story is about needing someone else as much as they need you. It is an ode to our most powerful bonds, how they build us and break us, and how, when all seems lost, we can find joy in the most unexpected places. A Sunday Times bestseller.

Mystery Book of the Month – June 2022

Published on Fri, 2022-06-03 16:36
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There’s fowl play in Follet Valley! Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the fictional Val de Follet in the Loire Valley. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that’s the way he likes it. One day, however, one of his older guests disappears, leaving behind a bloody handprint on the wallpaper. Another guest, the enigmatic Valérie, persuades a reluctant Richard to join her in investigating the disappearance. Then things become really serious and someone murders Ava Gardner, one of his beloved hens. The disappearance of a guest is one thing, but you don’t mess with a fellow’s hens! – ’A tricksy whodunnit, and a really, really funny story’. 

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – May 2022

Published on Tue, 2022-05-31 15:22
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Hailed as Shafak’s best work yet, this is the story of two teenagers in Cyprus, one from the Greek and the other from the Turkish side who meet in secret in a taverna where a big fig tree grows. This tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually to their silent departures. It is there when war breaks out and the capital is reduced to rubble. Years later, a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. The tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited, and also to her family history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world. Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction! 

Noir Book of the Month – May 2022

Published on Tue, 2022-05-31 15:18
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”Be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men.” Jia Khan has always lived like this. Successful London lawyer Jia Khan is a long way from the Northern streets she knew as a child, where her father, Akbar Khan, led the Pakistani community and ran the local organised crime syndicate. Often his Jirga rule – the old way – was violent and bloody, but it was always justice of a kind. Now, with her father murdered, Jia must return to take his place. Justice needs to be restored, and Jia is about to discover that justice always comes at a cost.

Anders Fager & Yukiko Duke – a conversation on horror

Published on Wed, 2022-05-18 08:11
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Anders Fager and Yukiko Duke in conversation

STOCKHOLM | Friday 20th May at 18:00. Free.

Come and meet Anders Fager & Yukiko Duke and listen to them discussing their dark past. You will hear the truth about the Mummy of Sätra, the truth about genre literature in Sweden and how ­Anders Fager’s ­graphic novel The Crows is doing in the USA.

And Yukiko will explain to Anders why he never will become ­a national treasure…

Book signing at the event – bring your books or buy at the bookshop.

Friday 20th May at 18:00. Free event!
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The event is part of Stockholms bokhelg.

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Author talk: ”In Every Mirror She’s Black” – Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström

Published on Wed, 2022-05-18 08:10
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”In Every Mirror She’s Black” – Lola Akinmade Åkerström

STOCKHOLM | Saturday 21st May at 17:00. Free.

Meet Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström, award-winning author, speaker, and photographer. Nigerian-American, based in Stockholm.

In a conversation about being a Black woman in Sweden with Palmira Koukkari Mbenga, journalist and ­producer for Dagens Nyheter’s podcast Studio DN.

An arresting debut novel for anyone looking for insight into what it means to be a Black woman in the world.

Book signing at the event – bring your books or buy at the bookshop.

Saturday 21st May at 17:00. Free event!
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The event is part of Stockholms bokhelg.

Author visit & book release ”The Sky Over Rebecca” by Matthew Fox

Published on Thu, 2022-05-05 11:31
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The Sky Over Rebecca – Book release & author visit

STOCKHOLM | Saturday 7th May at 17.00. Free event!

Join the book release celebrations in the Stockholm bookshop together with author Matthew Fox!

The Sky Over Rebecca is a new fantasy novel for readers age 10 and up, set in Stockholm in the deep midwinter. Winner of the Bath Children’s Novel Award!

Reading! Book signing! Celebration & refreshments!
Saturday 7th May at 17.00 in the Stockholm bookshop
Free event – bring a friend.

Click to read more about the book.

Talk by Emma Clery ”Jane Austen and the regency scandal”

Published on Thu, 2022-05-05 11:30
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Talk ”Jane Austen and the regency scandal” by Emma Clery

UPPSALA | Thursday 12th May at 19.00. Ticketed.

** Event fully booked! Contact the bookshop for the waiting list. **

Emma Clery, professor of English Literature at Uppsala University, talks about Jane Austen, her life, and the regency period.

What were the social and economic realities for Austen’s heroines, and what makes her books so popular today – more than 200 years after they were written?

Thursday 12th May at 19:00
Tickets 60:- Tea & yummy cake included.

Event is now fully booked – drop by the shop or email uppsala@bookshop.se to sign up for the waiting list.

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