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BOOK FAIR There's a new bookshop in town. In Gothenburg town. A well assorted English pop-up in-fair bookshop. Do come by stand C04:29 in you're in town for the book fair. We've got treats for you... 

Authors signing in our stand

Thursday:
Antony Beevor 16.15–16.30

Friday:
Dave Goulson 14.00–14.30
Owen Jones 14.30–15.00
Laini Taylor 15.30–16.00

Saturday:
Sally Green 14.30–15.00
Mhairi McFarlane 15.30–16.00

Sunday:
Conn Iggulden 13.30–14.00

Old favourites and new discoveries, picture books and poetry, laughs and sighs.
Come along at eleven o’clock, Saturday 19th September at the English Bookshop in Uppsala.

• Mrs Armitage on Wheels by Quentin Blake
• Mr Magnolia by Quentin Blake

General Fiction: Jill Alexander Essbaum – Hausfrau

British Crime: M. J. Carter – The Strangler Vine

Tough Crime: F. H. Batagan – Smaller and Smaller Circles

Science Fiction: Kieran Shea – Koko Takes a Holiday

Fantasy: Joshua Palmatier – Shattering the Ley (Trilogy Two #1)

Paranormal/Urban Fantasy: Jamie Schulz – Premonitions

Classic of the Month: Dashiell Hammett – Red Harvest

Teen reading: Jenn Bennett – Night Owls

For the Culture Night in Uppsala, Saturday 12th September,  we’re pleased and honored to present you with three great literary afficionados:

At 18.00: Jen Campbell, poet, short story writer and author of the amazingly accurate Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops-books and also The Bookshop Book.

At 19.30: Marie Phillips will discuss her Baileys prize longlisted novel The Table of Less Valued Knights and Gods Behaving Badly (also made into a film starring Sharon Stone and Christopher Walken!).

And, lastly: our grand finale at 21.00: Ann Charters, beat expert extraordinaire, will read poems and pieces by Sam Charters, among others, Things to do in Piccadilly and What Paths, What Journeys.

Read more about the Uppsala Culture Night at www.kulturnattenuppsala.se

The Stockholm shop invites you to a September mini festival. Author Jen Campbell is visiting for an exciting, bookshop themed evening talk on Thursday 10th September, and novelist Marie Phillips will join us for our next Breakfast Talk on the morning of the 11th. Tickets are for sale in the Stockholm shop, please find all info below.

Oooook!
Time for another tribute to our favourite Terry Pratchett!
On Wednesday, September 2nd, at 7 pm, we will throw a launch party (of sorts) for the very last book in the Discworld series: The Shepherd's Crown. Special guest, quiz, prizes, cake and lots of friendly Pratchett fans!

Tickets 75 kr, and net proceeds will go to Terry Pratchett's very own Orangutan foundation – and all participants are very welcome to donate, too!

Be there or be a rectangular thynge!

Stockholm:
Don’t miss one of the foremost authorities on the Beats, doing a special talk at The English Bookshop in Stockholm.

We are thrilled to welcome Ann Charters, a retired professor of English at The University of Connecticut and a patron saint of the bookshop, who on this night will discuss The Beats and The Blues. There will also be an exclusive book sale of the late music historian, writer and producer Sam Charter’s books.

Ann published her critically acclaimed biography of Jack Kerouac in 1973 and it’s never been out of print since. In addition to this, she has edited the Portable Jack Kerouac, The Selected Letters of Jack Kerouac 1940-56 & 1957-69, and several volumes on the Beat Generation.

Tickets 50:- (includes a drink). Get your ticket at the Stockholm bookshop today! 

Book Launch in the Stockholm shop:

Jon Stenhugg and Robert Pacholik are launching their latest books at The English Bookshop in Stockholm. Join us for the Launch Party, meet the authors and mingle.

Wednesday 12th August at 17-19
Free - No need to RSVP

Take this opportunity to listen to Swedish-based author Jon Stenhugg relate the backstory behind his new crime thriller, The Second Child.

General Fiction: Roxanne Gay – Untamed State

British Crime: Quintin Jardine – Mathew's Tale

Tough Crime: Wiley Cash – This Dark Road to Mercy

Science Fiction: John Scalzi – Lock In

Fantasy: Ishbelle Bee – Singular & Extraordinary Tale of Mirror & Goliath: From the Peculiar Adventures of John Lovehar

Paranormal/Urban Fantasy: M. L. Brennan – Generation V

Classic of the Month: Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone

Teen reading: Julie Mayhew – The Big Lie

Ben Aaronovitch is the British mastermind of the critically acclaimed Rivers of London-series, following the young Metropolitan Police Officer Peter Grant in the supernatural, underground world of London. Aaronovitch has also written for television, including two Doctor Who serials.

Join us in the Uppsala or Stockholm shop to hear Aaronovitch discuss fantasy, writing and his latest novel Foxglove Summer. There will of course be plenty of time for questions and signings!

UPPSALA Wednesday 5th August at 19.00.
Tickets 20:-.

STOCKHOLM Thursday 6th August at 10.00 (the first in a series of Breakfast talks at the Stockholm bookshop).
Tickets 30:- (incl a light breakfast)

Get your tickets at the bookshop today, seating is limited.