The tiny but award-winning independent book - @TheEdinburghBookshop - is moving! Only a couple of blocks, but to much bigger premises.
It's a lot more than we planned for & will take a lot of work to make it ready, so we'll be adding fundraisers to help, & you can see some architect designs & plans on the bookshop site now https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/newshop
Chatting with a visiting Kiwi author, Rachael King, in the bookshop today, she recognised me - turned out I had chaired her fellow Kiwi scribe at @edbookfest a few years ago, and she remembered me!
It really is a small planet (especially the literary part of it!)....
We're having a Fabulous Friday with our little readers and special Storytime guest, Lillias Kinsman-Chauvet , reading Too Snappy to Wear a Nappy from Boxer Books.
We have singing, reading and making paper puppets!!!!!
#WhatTheGruffalosReading : the G-Man is chortling over Nelly Buchet & Andrea Zuill's delightful Dog Vs Strawberry. Dog's expressions alone are cracking up all of us.
#WhatWereReading :
Omar Abed & Hatem Aly's picture book The Book That Almost Rhymed has totally delighted our little bookshop crew! Yes of course we read it out loud to each other!
#WhatWereReading : Joe enjoyed
Roger Highfield's Stephen Hawking: Genius at Work from DK Books, exploring his life through the objects in his study, from scientific papers to Monty Python memorabilia to photos from his cameoes in Star Trek and the Big Bang Theory.
We are totally delighted to be shortlisted alongside some of our fabulous bookselling chums for the British Book Awards, alongside Typewronger, Atkinson Pryce, Far From the Madding Crowd, The Book Nook, The Highland Bookshop, The Bookmark,Ullapool Bookshop, Night Owl Books and Heron & Willow
We won last year, and have won a couple of times before, which was fabulous. And even nicer because we're sharing the list with a lot of great Indy bookselling chums all around the country.
January can be a quiet month for new releases, but this year we have a smorgasbord of new fiction in paperback & hardback to tickle your book-browsing fancy, from Alexander McCall Smith and Kim SHerwood to Louise Welsh, Ali Millar and Hannah Kaner.
It's #BookshopDay ! Please support your local Indy bookshops - Jeff Bezos doesn't need money for another yacht, we pay our fair share of taxes and also offer a community service.
Yes, I am biased, being a bookseller, but it's still true ! Indy bookshops are a wonderful thing.
Ouverture d’une #librairiecafe#cooperative « Nos madeleines de Proust", à #stjuststrambert associée à "Un monde enchanthé" pour vous restaurer, ou boire un petit coup dans les mêmes locaux!
Nous serons heureuses de vous accueillir les 22 et 23/09 à notre inauguration, en présence d’auteurs et d’ateliers d’illustration et vous voir devenir coopérateurs
First episode of new season features Michelle Caswell (co-founder of South Asian American Digital Library, and co-Director of the UCLA Community Archives Lab, and author of “Urgent Archives). We talked about the radical potential of archives and causing trouble at work.