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TheEdinburghBookshop

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We are a small but mighty, award-winning, proudly independent bookshop in Bruntsfield, Edinburgh.

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TheEdinburghBookshop, to books
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Our children's book wizard Fiona was delighted to get an early copy of Rachel Plummer & Forrest Burdett's upcoming The Big Day from Little Tiger, reading it to the Gruffalo in the spring sunshine!

Out in early June, just in time for !

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Bookseller Fiona reading The Big Day picture book to a cuddly Gruffalo plushie on a bench outside the Edinburgh Bookshop

TheEdinburghBookshop, to music
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We're so looking forward to our evening with Tiffany Murray on 20th May for her delightful My Family and Other Rock Stars from Fleet Books.
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fans we're looking at you! 🎸 - you're going to love this. Memoir, food, music and growing up around the legendary Rockfield Studios farm

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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!!!!!

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #ChildrensBooks #Bruntsfield #TooSnappyToWearANappy #PictureBooks #LivresJeunesse #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #LilliasKinsmanChauvet #UnderFivesStorytime

Author Lillias Kinsman-Chauvet reading and playing with children at the Under Fives Storytime in the Edinburgh Bookshop
Author Lillias Kinsman-Chauvet reading and playing with children at the Under Fives Storytime in the Edinburgh Bookshop

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: 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.

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It's Friday, the sun has come out to play, and we have Storytime!!!

Under Fives Storytime is free, and takes place each Thursday and Friday from 9.30

#Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #UnderFivesStorytime #Storytime #PictureBooks #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies

NerdsofaFeather, to books
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http://www.nerds-feather.com/2024/04/review-someone-you-can-build-nest-in-by.html

At the NOAF blog, @arifel reviews SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN by John Wiswell

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@NerdsofaFeather @arifel @bookstodon Loved this one!

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"There's a shark in the park!!! 🦈"

Under Fives Storytime is free and takes place each Thursday and Friday from 9.30

GinaRCollia, to books
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A lovely recent arrival!... 'Child of the Dawn' by Ron Weighell, published by the ever wonderful Zagava Books. Just look at that beautiful cover!

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@GinaRCollia @bookstodon sudden urge to do the Mummy bit and shout "No! You must not read from the Book of the Dead!!!!" 😀

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@GinaRCollia @bookstodon we have a lovely retired academic who we order a lot of Egyptian history books for. He once ordered a huge facsimile edition of The Book of the Dead. Sadly he had never seen the movies, so he was bemused when we tried that line on him as he picked up the book!

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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!

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How gorgeous is this fiftieth anniversary edition of Carrie by the legendary Stephen King? Out now from Hodder & Stoughton, hardback with metallic leaf embossed cover, and foreword by Margaret Atwood

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#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.

#PopularScience #books #livres #science #StephenHawking #bookshops #librairies #ScienceBooks #RecommendedReading #NewReleases #bookstodon #RogerHighfield #ScienceMuseum

kimlockhartga, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon Even if it doesn't catch on, I would like to institute a hashtag which already exists, I believe? Anywho, whatcha reading?

Ben H. Winter's new book BIG TIME, and it's really good so far. It is lean, so perfect for those who hate padding in their stories. I don't want to give away the premise, so I will just say that it's a bit of a thriller that involves time itself.

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@rabbit_fighter @kimlockhartga @bookstodon Reading advance copies of Pariah Genius by Iain Sinclair (coming out April). First time I have read "psychobiographic fiction"!!!

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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

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It's Storytime and we have Bunnies on the Bus!!!

Under Fives Storytime is free and takes place each Thursday and Friday from,9.30

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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.

a pile of paperback new fiction, spin-on towards the viewer

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It's Friday, it's time for STORYTIME!!!! We have stories, we have stickers!

Under Fives Storytime is free, and takes place each Thursday and Friday from 9.30



Princejvstin, to books
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Godkiller by Hannah Kaner.

New review at Nerds of a Feather by me:

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/11/review-godkiller-by-hannah-kaner.html



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TheEdinburghBookshop,
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@Princejvstin @bookstodon Loved this one, we were lucky enough to have Hannah for a book launch event along with L.R. Lam, good evening!

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Last week I asked for short book recommendations from folks, and got some great suggestions.

Yesterday I finished Something Wicked This Way Comes which was eerie and wonderful (thanks @witewulf), and immediately started The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/abed019a-491b-4c7d-80c5-10d4a080e4c5). I’m about half way through, and am fairly sure it’s going to make me cry. I can’t find who recommended it though, but thank you whoever you were.

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@DJDarren if you like that, I read a lovely Japanese one in translation last year, She and Her Cat. We see the lives of people in a neighbourhood, but through the eyes of the cats who live with them.

seanbala, (edited ) to books
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Hey - a question for you! Currently in India and purchasing to bring home. Planning on buying "The Priory of the Orange Tree" by Samantha Shannon. I've been wanting to read it but the library waiting list is 1,000 miles long.

Is it worth also buying its sequel "A Day of Fallen Night" as well?

Both are CRAZY cheap but quite thick. I also don't usually purchase both books in a series before reading the first. Thanks!

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@seanbala @bookstodon They are both excellent reads, although the second one isn't a sequel, per se, I think it is set in a different period to the first novel (same world though)

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Hey , have you come across any books with misleading and / or bad blurbs? Please share!
I just finished Wole Soyinka's "Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth" and.. that book has a misleading blurb with a big spoiler. Wish I hadn't read the blurb. (Good book, though. More on that later.)
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TheEdinburghBookshop,
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@ferngirl @writingcommunity @bookstodon Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police was being promoted as some sort of Japanese take on 1984, which it really isn't. Had my book group do it, everyone loved it, but going in reading the "echoes of 1984" blurb" meant we all had the wrong impression at the start.

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