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General Fiction: Frances Osborne – Park Lane

British Crime: Harry Bingham – Talking to the Dead

Tough Crime: Jesse Kellerman – Potboiler (I'll Catch You)

Paranormal: Held Rhiannon – Silver

Fantasy: Hendee Barb – The Mist-Torn Witches

Science Fiction: Eric Brown – The Serene Invasion

Welcome to storytelling at both our shops on Saturday May 11th. Stories about sandwiches, cakes and animals of all kinds.

Uppsala: The sun is shining and we're packing our picnic baskets. Come and listen to stories about sandwiches, cakes and cruising the open road.

• The Rascally Cake by Jeanne Willis, Korky Paul
• Mrs Armitage Queen of the Road by QuentinBlake
• The Giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord, Janet Burroway

Stockholm: The sun shines on the shop in Gamla stan as well, and we gather to listen to Clara and stories about animals of all sorts; Mr Wolf and the Three Bears, Good Little Wolf, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, and The Journey Home.

We are VERY proud to be stocking the full range of titles from the beautiful range of Notting Hill Editions!!! Möhring, Perec, Barthes, Sebald, Mandelstam - they're all here!
And don't miss David Shields much discussed How Literature Saved My Life.

Notting Hill editions in the bookshop

Award-winning British novelist, poet and short story writer Gerard Woodward is best known for his trilogy of stories about the Jones family--the second of which, I'll Go to Bed at Noon, was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Adnan Mahmutovic is a lecturer and writer-in-residence at Stockholm University. He has published a novel, Thinner than a Hair, and recently released his collection of short stories, How to Fare Well and Stay Fair, which provides intimate portraits of Bosnian refugees. Both authors will be reading from their work and will engage in a Q & A with the audience. Light snacks will be provided. This event is open to everyone. No RSVP is required.

There is a mouse, a snake and a football game in this week's stories - something for everyone, in fact.
Come and join us at 11 o'clock on Saturday 27th April.

Pass it, Polly, Sarah Garland
George, the Dragon and the Princess, Chris Wormell
June and August, Vivian Walsh and Adam McCauley

We invite you to an extra special reading group evening in May. Book blogger Helena Dahlgren will lead a discussion on 'Tell the Wolves I'm Home' by Carol Rifka Brunt.

The date: Wednesday 8th May, 7 pm. Wine, cheese and snacks will be served!

For all this you pay only 50:-!

10% discount for any books bought during the evening.

Please let us know if you wish to attend since the number of chairs is limited.

Carol Rifka Brunt in the bookshop

Saturday 20 April, 11 am at the bookshop in Gamla stan, our storyteller, Clara, will read for 3-6 year olds. No need to sign up, just show up at the shop and join the fun. Welcome!

Poetry Evening Thursday, April 18 at Lilla Nygatan 11, Gamla stan: Four international poets living locally will be sharing their verse. The evening will begin at 7 p.m. with light snacks. The readings will begin at 7:15. Welcome!

We're proud to stock the latest book The Rat Machine from one of our all-time favourite thriller writers; Kent Harrington.

A great thing about being an indie bookseller is you can make that extra effort and stock wonderful things as much as you want.

A bunch of years ago we stumbled upon a great noir author from the US west coast by the name of Kent Harrington. Dia de los Muertos was the first one we read and it completely bowled us over. We then kept buying his new titles from Dennis McMillan's publishing house in New Mexico.

Then things went quiet for a bit but we are now in touch with Kent and he has just supplied us with a shipment of his new novel The Rat Machine.

Kent Harrington's web page has more in-depth information: essay about the cover, character dossiers, a playlist, and an excerpt.

We're pretty sure we're the only shop in Northern Europe to stock this. Possibly even Europe? So we ship all over Europe and take PayPal. http://www.kentharrington.com/the-rat-machine-in-europe

Oh - and even though Kent's other titles are not in print we can get you copies anyway. Let us know if you're interested via our Book finder service or write info@bookshop.se

We're getting ready for spring by reading stories of things to do out-doors. Come and join us at 11 o'clock on Saturday 6th April. At The Uppsala English Bookshop.

King of the Woods, David Day
The Big Alfie Out of Doors Storybook, Shirley Hughes
Dashing Dog!, Margaret Mahy
Billy's Beetle, Mick Inkpen