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Our signing schedule at the Gothenburg book fair!

Published on Fri, 2011-09-23 13:28

Our signing schedule for the Gothenburg book fair,
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Friday
14.00 Nathan Larson
15.00 Peter Temple
15.30 Miral al-Tahawy

Saturday
11.00 Sebastian Junger
12.00 Peter Temple
14.00 Salim Bachi
14.30 M. S. Lyons
15.00 Nathan Larson
16.30 Siobhan Parkinson
17.00 Lionel Shriver

Video - The Queens of Scotland

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.

Special Opening Hours in Uppsala 20-26/9!

Published on Tue, 2011-09-20 13:50

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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:

Monday - Friday: 11-18
Saturday: 11-15
Sunday: 12-15

Just so we can unpack the recently arrived boxes of books and give you the best service there is - as usual!

The Restoration Game

By Anna (Blogger) on Sun, 2011-09-18 20:28

To summarise: I think you might like this book if you

like Ken MacLeods earlier work
are interested in history, or big political questions
want realistic female protagonists (not superwomen)
enjoy reality leakage and sense of wonder in your fiction

Through most of The Restoration Game you can safely allow yourself to believe that you are reading a kind of contemporary spy thriller, although kind of light on the action and violence and heavy on the personal history of the geek girl protagonist Lucy.

Storytelling for Children – in the Uppsala bookshop 18/9

Published on Thu, 2011-09-15 19:28

Storytelling for Children 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.

Video - British & Celtic Folk Music

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.

Video - Beat Thing! in Gamla Stan Stockholm

Published on Mon, 2011-09-12 21:02

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.

The program was:

In Gamla Stan: The Queens of Scotland

Published on Sun, 2011-08-28 22:22

11/9 The Queens of Scotland 15 o'clock in Gamla Stan.

Glaswegian writers Karen Campbell & Helen Fitzgerald, strong fresh voices of the current generation of Scottish authors, visit The English Bookshop for a reading and Q&A. Karen Campbell has written four of the strongest police novels to emerge from the UK in the last decade. Helen Fitzgerald has written six astounding novels that defy definition with their unorthodox portrayals of women.

In Gamla Stan: Beat Thing

Published on Sun, 2011-08-28 22:21

The 8/9 at 19 o'clock we are holding the Beat Thing event at the bookshop in Gamla Stan, Stockholm.

An evening of diverse Beat Generation writing performed by Ann Charters (beat generation scholar and the first biographer of Jack Kerouac) and Sam Charters (eminent jazz/blues historian and biographer). This program was performed last year at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York.

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Books of the Month – September 2024

Amanda Peters The Berry Pickers Paperback Modern Fiction of the month *Join the reading group	Leslie Marmon Silko Ceremony Paperback Classic of the month *Join the reading group	Sophie Kinsella The Burnout Paperback Feel-Good of the month *Join the reading group in Uppsala
Alice Slater Death of a Bookseller Paperback Mystery of the month *Join the Crime reading group	Dervla McTiernan What Happened to Nina? Paperback Noir of the month	Kali Wallace Dead Space Paperback Sci-Fi of the month *Join the reading group
Shannon Chakraborty The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi Paperback Fantasy of the month *Join the reading group	A.M. Shine The Watchers Paperback Horror of the month	Dustin Thao When Haru Was Here Paperback Teen/YA of the month
Sarah Waters Affinity Paperback Queer book of the month *Join the reading group	Hannah Ritchie Not the End of the World Paperback – How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – August 2024

James McBride The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store Paperback Modern Fiction of the month *Join the reading group	Anne Brontë Agnes Grey Paperback Classic of the month *Join the reading group	Laura Wood Under Your Spell Paperback Feel-Good of the month *Join the reading group in Uppsala
Cate Quinn The Clinic Paperback Mystery of the month *Join the Crime reading group	Pamela Samuels Young Sounds Like a Plan Paperback & Dwayne Alexander Smith Noir of the month	Yume Kitasei The Deep Sky Paperback Sci-Fi of the month *Join the reading group
Vajra Chandrasekera The Saint of Bright Doors Paperback Fantasy of the month *Join the reading group	Chuck Tingle Bury Your Gays Paperback Horror of the month	Ibi Zoboi Nigeria Jones Paperback Teen/YA of the month
Neil Blackmore Radical Love Paperback Queer book of the month *Join the reading group	Nathan Thrall A Day in the Life of Abed Salama Paperback – A Palestine Story Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – July 2024

Michiko Aoyama What You Are Looking for is in the Library Paperback Modern Fiction of the month *Join the reading group	Malcolm Lowry Under the Volcano Paperback Classics of the month *Join the reading group	Julie Shackman The Bookshop by the Loch Paperback Feel-Good of the month
Maz Evans Over My Dead Body Paperback Mystery of the month *Join the Crime reading group	Michael McGarrity The Long Ago Paperback Noir of the month	Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Chain-Gang All-Stars Paperback Sci-Fi of the month *Join the reading group
Genoveva Dimova Foul Days Paperback Fantasy of the month *Join the reading group	Megan Kamalei Kakimoto Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare Paperback – Stories Horror of the month	Chelsea Ichaso The Summer She Went Missing Paperback Teen/YA of the month
Claudia Cravens Lucky Red Paperback Queer book of the month *Join the reading group

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Modern Fiction Book of the Month – September 2024

One family’s deepest pain. Another’s darkest secret. Who will they be when the truth comes out? On a hot day in 1960s Maine, six-year-old Joe watches his little sister Ruthie, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of the blueberry fields, while their family, Mi’kmaq people from Nova Scotia, pick fruit. That afternoon, Ruthie vanishes without a trace. As the last person to see her, Joe will be forever haunted by grief, guilt, and the agony of imagining how his life could have been… The Berry Pickers is an exquisitely moving story of unrelenting hope, unwavering love, and the power of family – even in the face of grief and betrayal. // Discuss in the Fiction reading group //
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Mystery Book of the Month – September 2024

Would you kill for a good story? Roach – bookseller, loner and true crime fanatic – is not interested in making friends. She has all the company she needs in her serial killer books, murder podcasts and her pet snail, Bleep. That is, until Laura joins the bookshop. With her cute literary tote bags and sunny smile, she’s everyone’s favourite bookseller. But beneath the shiny veneer, Roach senses a darkness within Laura, the same darkness Roach possesses… Bringing together toxic female relationships and our cultural obsession with true crime, Death of a Bookseller is a compulsively readable roller-coaster of suspense that prompts discussion and reflection about the ethics of true crime and who really owns the stories we tell. // Discuss in the Crime reading group //
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