Thursday 6 October at 7pm we're hosting a book launch in our shop in Gamla stan. M. S. Lyon we'll read from and talk about her debut novel Excerpts from the Life and Times of Tara Malone, loosely based on the author's experiences in Swinging London in the sixties. Snacks and drinkies served.
Tomorrow Saturday, 1/10, at 6pm we're hosting a book launch in the shop. M. S. Lyon we'll read from and talk about her debut novel Excerpts from the Life and Times of Tara Malone, loosely based on the author's experiences in Swinging London in the 60's. Snacks and drinkies served.
This time the price is a signed copy of the new Julian Barnes novel - The Sense of an Ending. Jan has read this and says it's a wonderful book. And it's shortlisted for the Booker prize. So, quite a treat. If you live within the KoS and send us an e-mail at info@bookshop.se with the answer to this question before end-of-month September, you might be the lucky winner!
Under what pen-name did Julian Barnes write four Private Eye-novels; and why did he pick that particular name?
Karen Campbell reads from her book After the Fire and is interviewed by Carina Burman. Helen Fitzgerald reads from her book The Donor and is interviewed by Helena Dahlgren.
Recorded in The Uppsala English Bookshop during "Kulturnatten" 10/9 in Uppsala.
Half the staff are off to the ever exciting Gothenburg Book Fair this week, which means that the shop in Uppsala will have slightly adjusted opening hours from Tuesday 20/9 to Monday 26/9:
The summer holidays are over and weren't they wonderful? But how fantastic to pick up our pencils and books again as school starts! Come and hear stories about holiday fun and starting back at school, suitable for children and their adults."
First story telling is the 18th September at 13 o'clock in The Uppsala English Bookshop.
Helena and Fredrik will takes you on a journey through British and Celtic folk music. Recorded during the Kulturnatt 2011 in the Uppsala English Bookshop.
Ann and Samuel Charters visited us on September 8 2011 at the English Bookshop in Gamla Stan Stockholm and held the first of two performances of Beat Thing! – a performance/reading of Beat literature with the assistance of Björn Lundqvist on the bass. Christer from the bookshop presented.
UPPSALA The Uppsala English Bookshop Svartbäcksgatan 19 753 32 Uppsala Tel 018-10 05 10 uppsala@bookshop.se
STOCKHOLM The English Bookshop Södermannagatan 22 116 23 Stockholm Tel 08-790 55 10 stockholm@bookshop.se
GÖTEBORG The English Bookshop Kungsgatan 19 411 19 Göteborg Tel 031-45 55 10 goteborg@bookshop.se
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