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Shop Hours Easter 2025

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Happy Easter! Enjoy Easter, read a book.

HAPPY EASTER READING! We’re open every day of Easter, but opening hours change a bit so that the staff can eat their weight in candy and eggs.

Welcome to the shop to stock up on påskekrim (”Easter crime”) and all sorts of great reads for sunny Easter days!

UPPSALA
Fri 18 April – Good Friday – open 12–17
Sat 19 April – Easter Eve – open 10–17
Sun 20 April – Easter Day – open 12–17
Mon 21 April – Easter Monday – open 12–17

STOCKHOLM
Thurs 17 April – Maundy Thursday – open 11–17
Fri 18 April – Good Friday – open 12–17
Sat 19 April – Easter Eve – open 12–17
Sun 20 April – Easter Day – open 12–17
Mon 21 April – Easter Monday – open 12–17

GÖTEBORG
Fri 18 April – Good Friday – open 12–16
Sat 19 April – Easter Eve – open 10–17.30
Sun 20 April – Easter Day – open 12–16
Mon 21 April – Easter Monday – open 12–16 (event at 19)

PS. The traditional perfect Easter gift might be chocolate, but if you really want to show someone you like them: give them a book! Just imagine the joy of an Easter egg filled with our very own English Bookshop tea blend, some tasty sweets, and a lovely new book. Who wouldn’t love that?

How to order

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How to order from us

We’re retiring this website

This old clunker of a website has served us well (and long), but now it’s oh so tired and it is time to let it enjoy its golden days on a beautiful (server) farm in the country side, with puppies and goldfishes, time to pull th… (Husch, let’s not go there…)

While we’re setting up the brand new shiny newer model in the background, your are – as always – welcome to just contact your local, nearest or dearest bookshop and we’ll be happy to help you out with any and all of your reading wants and needs.

Thanks for your patience while we tinker on. 

What can we do for you today? Just get in touch below and we’ll sort it.

Ordering from us is still easy – just let us know what you’re looking for and we’ll help you out in our very personal way.

The best way, and easiest way, is to email your local (or favourite) bookshop:

UPPSALA uppsala@bookshop.se

STOCKHOLM stockholm@bookshop.se

GÖTEBORG goteborg@bookshop.se


You can also send a facebook messenger message to the shop:


UPPSALA m.me/UppsalaEnglishBookshop   
fb page: fb.com/UppsalaEnglishBookshop

STOCKHOLM m.me/EnglishBookshopSthlm   
fb page: fb.com/EnglishBookshopSthlm

GÖTEBORG m.me/EnglishBookshopGbg   
fb page: fb.com/EnglishBookshopGbg


Just let us know what you are looking for
(author and title, any specific edition) and we’ll sort it. Or if you’re just looking for tips – let us know.

Please include your contact details so we have them ready if you decide to order (we’ll confirm prices and availability with you first): your full name, full postal address (if you’re not picking up at a local shop), and email and mobile number so we can reach you.

Now, what can we do for you today?

Order Stina’s Advent Calendar 2024

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Order Stina’s Advent Calendar 2024

Brighten your December with Stina’s Advent Calendar

Four secret and numbered gifts in every calendar, one for every week until Christmas, with a hand-picked book, a bag of loose-leaf tea, and a sweet snack.

Five different calendars to choose from:
– CLASSICS – classic (and modern) Christmas books to enjoy before a roaring fire
– FEEL-GOOD – books to warm your heart
– MYSTERY – crime with a seasonal hint of frost
– FANTASTIKA – ghost stories & fantasy to chill your bones
– SANTA’S SELECTION – a magical mix of all categories, all in one surprise calendar

Order no later than Thursday 31 October!

» Read all about them and order yours now! (time-limited offer & limited edition)

Pre-order signed copy of the definitive ABBA biography

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Pre-order your author signed copy of Bright Lights Dark Shadows

PRE-ORDER YOUR SIGNED COPY of Bright Lights Dark Shadows – The Definitive Biography of ABBA (revised & updated 2024), signed by author Carl Magnus Palm, recognised as the world’s foremost Abba historian. Release date: October 10, 2024 – Order your copy by October 10!

Read more & pre-order here:

» www.bit.ly/signed-abba-bio

Bea Fitzgerald readalong in socials

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Bea Fitzgerald readalong

Follow the readalong for Bea Fitzgerald’s The End Crowns All on instagram and tiktok, follow the hashtag #TheEndCrownsAllReadalong

» follow on instagram
» follow on tiktok 

Discover Bea Fitzgerald’s books in the bookshop, or order your copy here

Walpurgis Shop Hours 2024

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Our shops are open on Walpurgis and First of May, welcome in!

UPPSALA
Tuesday 30 April Walpurgis 10–15
Wednesday 1 May 12–16

STOCKHOLM
Tuesday 30 April Walpurgis 10.30–18
Wednesday 1 May 12–17

GÖTEBORG
Tuesday 30 April Walpurgis 10.30–18
Wednesday 1 May 12–16

Thursday 1 February shops closed for inventory

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Closed for inventory Thursday 1 February 2024

ALL SHOPS | Thursday 1 February

It’s that time of year again: we’re going to scan every single barcode in the shop to make sure that every single book is accounted for. This means all three shops are closed on Thursday 1st of February for stock-taking, so please plan your purchases accordingly.

We’ll be open as usual again on Friday (or as soon as we’re done with the inventory on Thursday).

Let’s see now; there’s 1, 2, 3, 4...

Epiphany Shop Hours 2024

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Happy Epiphany

Our bookshops are open this Twelfth Night and Epiphany weekend for finding great reads, discoveries and epiphanies ;-)

UPPSALA
Fri 5 Jan Twelfth Night 10–18
Sat 6 Jan Epiphany 12–17
Sun 7 Jan open as usual 12–17

STOCKHOLM
Fri 5 Jan Twelfth Night 10.30–18
Sat 6 Jan Epiphany 11–17
Sun 7 Jan open as usual 12–17

GÖTEBORG
Fri 5 Jan 
Twelfth Night 10–17.30
Sat 6 Jan 
Epiphany 10–17.30
Sun 7 Jan 
open as usual 12–16

Books of the Month – March 2025

Daniel Mason
North Woods
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Stendhal
Love
Paperback

Classic of the month

*Join the reading group

Cressida McLaughlin
The Happy Hour
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

*Join the reading group in Uppsala

Jonny Sweet
The Kellerby Code
Paperback

Mystery of the month

*Join the reading group

Henry Wise
Holy City
Paperback

Noir of the month

Hao Jingfang
Jumpnauts
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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Robert Jackson Bennett
The Tainted Cup
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

*Join the reading group

George A. Romero & Daniel Kraus
Pay the Piper
Paperback
Andrew McMillan
Pity
Paperback

Queer book of the month

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Sophie Elmhirst
Maurice and Maralyn
Paperback

– A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story

Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – February 2025

Ferdia Lennon
Glorious Exploits
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
Paperback

Classic of the month

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Annie Darling
The Vintage Dress Shop in Primrose Hill
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

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Jo Cunningham
Death By Numbers
Paperback

Mystery of the month

*Join the Crime reading group

Matthew Harffy
Dark Frontier
Paperback

Noir of the month

Lavanya Lakshminarayan
The Ten Percent Thief
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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Wole Talabi
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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Fiona Barnett
The Dark Between the Trees
Paperback
Jiaming Tang
Cinema Love
Paperback

Queer book of the month

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Emma Tarlo
Under the Hornbeams
Paperback

– A true story of life in the open

Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – January 2025

Samantha Harvey
Orbital
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Barbara Pym
Excellent Women
Paperback

Classic of the month

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Iris Costello
The Story Collector
Paperback

Feel-Good of the month

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Annette Dashofy
Where the Guilty Hide
Paperback

Mystery of the month

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Kenneth Fearing
The Big Clock
Paperback

Noir of the month

Adrian Tchaikovsky
Alien Clay
Paperback

Sci-Fi of the month

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Simon Jimenez
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Paperback

Fantasy of the month

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Hiron Ennes
Leech
Paperback
Justin Torres
Blackouts
Paperback

Queer book of the month

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Pandora Sykes (ed.)
What Writers Read
Paperback

– 35 Writers on their Favourite Book

Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – December 2024

Celina Baljeet Basra
Happy
Paperback

Modern Fiction of the month

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Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Paperback

Classic of the month

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