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STOCKHOLM | Thursday 18th May at 18:30. Free!

What can a bullied teenager learn from an old man spending his days in a retirement home? For example, she’ll learn that it ain’t got a thing, if it ain’t got that swing…

Join us in the Stockholm bookshop to celebrate the English release of the novel Wonderful Feels Like This with author Sara Lövestam.

Wonderful Feels Like This is a compelling feel-good crossover novel celebrating being a little bit odd, finding your people, and the power of music to connect us.

Think The Elegance of the Hedgehog meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

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UPPSALA | Saturday 20th May at 11:00

CHANGE OF DATE! Storytelling for Children in the Uppsala shop will be on May 20th (instead of on the 13th). 

What happens when things are not quite what they seem and people says things they don't really mean?

Come to storytelling on Saturday 20th May in Uppsala and hear some stories about trickers who get a taste of their own medicine!

The English Bookshop in Uppsala was awarded the Årets Handel 2017 award (Shop of the Year) at an awards ceremony at Uppsala Castle last night!

”Wow. What a great night and wonderful morning.
Thank you, everyone, for your kindness and love.
We wouldn't be here without you!”

– Jan, Christer & Fantabulous Crew – custodians of the 2017 Uppsala Shop of the Year Award!

In the media:

» Videointervju UNT: De vann årets handel
» Svensk Bokhandel: Bokhandel vinner pris
» Uppgång/Näringsliv i Uppland: Galans alla vinnare

Plenty of interesting titles in our picks for May!

General Fiction: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan – Harmless Like You 

Classic: Virginia Woolf – Orlando

British Crime: Kate Ellis – A High Mortality of Doves

Tough Crime: Christopher Charles – The Exiled

Fantasy: Renée Ahdieh – The Wrath and the Dawn

Science Fiction: Kameron – The Stars are Legion

Paranormal/Urban Fantasy: Tim Powers – Medusa’s Web

Teen reading: Angie Thomas – The Hate U Give

Non-Fiction: Hisham Matar – The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between

Short Story Collection: Rebecca Schiff – The Bed Moved

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STOCKHOLM | Friday 12th May at 10:00

Meet Mexican author Yuri Herrera, author of the critically acclaimed Signs Preceding the End of the World, The Transmigration of Bodies and the just released Kingdom Cons.

Advance tickets 60:- (includes coffee/tea and a light breakfast) are available at the Stockholm bookshop or online at Billetto www.billetto.se/195035

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UPPSALA & STOCKHOLM | Walpurgis 2017

For the Walpurgis weekend the shops are open:

Saturday 29th April:
Uppsala 10–17, Stockholm 11–16

Sunday 30th April – Walpurgis:
Uppsala 10–14, Stockholm 12–16

Monday 1st May – First of May:
Uppsala 12–15, Stockholm 12–16

Welcome in!

UPPSALA | Tuesday 9th May at 12:30

ROBIN HOBB signs her new book Assassin’s Fate, the concluding third part in the Fitz and the Fool trilogy, in the Uppsala shop on Tuesday 9th May at 12:30.

PRE-BOOK your copy of Assassin’s Fate to make sure you get a copy at the signing. 

PRE-ORDER a personalized signed copy if you can’t make it to the signing in person. (Or if you want to pick it up at the Stockholm shop.)

Limited number of copies in this delivery, so do get your pre-booking/order in right away!

STOCKHOLM | Thursday 27th April at 18:30

The Stockholm Noir trilogy has already become a phenomenon in Sweden and abroad. His own professional experience as a criminal defense lawyer has given him unusual insights into a world that most people would rather not acknowledge.

Critics have tagged him ”a Swedish James Ellroy”, a truth-telling author who writes about life on the streets and depicts the underbelly of Swedish society.

Just released in English: Stockholm Delete.

Meet Jens on Thursday 27th April at 18:30 in the Stockholm shop on Södermannagatan 22.

Advance tickets (60:- incl. refreshments) are available online at www.billetto.se/nordic-noir-lapidus or at the Stockholm bookshop

Read all about the Nordic Noir Talk series at www.bookshop.se/nordicnoir
Next up in the series is Viveca Sten on May 30th.

UPPSALA | Thursday 27th April at 19:00

Two young men (one from Britain, one from Poland) were parachuted into German occupied Europe during the 2nd World War. Both became heroes in their own right and wrote books about their experiences.

Join us in the bookhshop and listen to their sons Paul Kessel and Janusz Zabielski recall their fathers’ unique contributions to the fight against Nazism and talk about the books ­Surgeon at Arms and First to Return.

Tickets 60 kr – get your ticket today at the bookshop.

UPPSALA

Reader of mystery novels?
Lover of crimes?

Join the Crime Reading Group in Uppsala! We meet once a month to discuss a mystery novel, either a more hard-boiled, noir kind of book (Tough Crime), or a more classic crime (British Crime). Leading the discussions is author James van Loon.

On Monday 24 April we’re dissecting Sunset City by Melissa Ginsburg and on Monday 22 May we discuss what’s making A High Mortality of Doves by Kate Ellis fly. (The novel that is, the doves aren’t flying anywhere...)

Sign up at the bookshop.