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Christmas Hours at the bookshops

Christmas Hours at the bookshops

To help Santa out, we keep the bookshop open longer these last days before Christmas:

In UPPSALA
Mon–Fri 10–19
Saturday 10–18
Sunday 11–18
Monday 23rd Dec 10–18

Christmas Eve & Christmas Day closed for festivities.
Boxing Day 26th Dec 12–16

In STOCKHOLM
Wed–Fri 10–19
Saturday 10–17
Sunday 12–17
Monday 23rd Dec 10–18

Christmas Eve, Christmas Day & Boxing Day closed for festivities.

Final storytelling of the year

Storytelling for Children

UPPSALA & STOCKHOLM | Saturday 7th Dec at 11:00. Free!

Welcome all children 2–6 years old to storytime in our bookshops. Join us for the last storytelling of the year.

No need to sign up, just show up and join the fun! Bring a friend!

Author visit & tasting: In Search of the Best Swedish Chokladbollar

In Search of the Best Swedish Chokladbollar – Christmas Special

UPPSALA | Saturday 14th Dec 12.00–16.00
STOCKHOLM | Sunday 15th Dec 12.00–16.00

Welcome to an author visit from Alaine Handa, whose fascination with Swedish “fika” made her try loads of recipes for chokladbollar.

Come and sample the Christmas specials, some of her favourites and see her ­collection of the very best varieties in her cookbook In Search of the Best Swedish Chokladbollar. Yummy!

Get your copy here, have it signed and get baking!
Your Christmas fika will never be the same again ;-)

Free – bring family & friends!

Author visit & book release: Theodor Kallifatides – The Siege of Troy

Theodor Kallifatides – The Siege of Troy

STOCKHOLM | Thursday 17th October at 19.00. Tickets 60:-

We’re excited to once again welcome Theodor Kallifatides to the bookshop! This time to present & celebrate the release of his latest novel The Siege of Troy – a perceptive retelling of The Iliad, where a young Greek teacher draws on the enduring power of myth to help her students cope with the terrors of Nazi occupation.

Author conversation • Signing • Refreshments

Join us in the Stockholm bookshop to celebrate the release together with the author!

Get your advance ticket 60:- today in the Stockholm bookshop.
» Tickets also available online at billetto.se

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Author visit & book release: Jonas Karlsson

Author visit Jonas Karlsson

STOCKHOLM | Monday 7th Oct at 19.00. Tickets 60:-

We are excited that Jonas Karlsson is taking time out from his rehearsals for ”Waiting for Godot” at Dramaten to present his latest book in the Stockholm bookshop – a trilogy of novellas, where he explores the quirkier side of human nature, helping us to see the world anew via three eccentric narrators.

Author conversation • Signing • Refreshments

Join us in the Stockholm bookshop to celebrate the release together with the author!
Get your advance ticket 60:- today in the bookshop. Tickets also available online at billetto.se

Crime Writing While Feminist

Crime Writing While Feminist

STOCKHOLM | Thursday 3rd October at 18:30. Free!

Join VIVECA STEN, bestselling author of the Sandhamn series, and journalist, criminologist and author KICKI SEHLSTEDT in conversation with crime writer and screenwriter CS DUFFY to discuss writing crime while feminist.

How do we approach writing violence against women in the #metoo era? Should we consider the messages our stories send or expose the world as it is?

Concert: Ryan O’Reilly & Hayley Reardon


Concert in Stockholm - Ryan O’Reilly and Hayley Reardon

STOCKHOLM | Sunday 15 Sept at 16:30. Free!

Musical Sunday at the Stockholm bookshop! Concert with Ryan O’Reilly (UK) & Hayley Reardon (US). Come along to a brilliant singer-songwriter afternoon with two excellent musicians!

Free! (voluntary contributions to the artist, pass-the-hat).

A Bookshop Night for book lovers

A Bookshop Night with Jen Campbell & Jorge Carrión

Interview with Jen Campbell

STOCKHOLM Thurs 5th Sept (fully booked) | UPPSALA Saturday 7th Sept

Welcome to a night to celebrate books and bookshops with Spanish writer and literary critic Jorge Carrión and long-standing bookseller, now bestselling author Jen Campbell. Two events, in two cities, one night, one love for books and bookshops!

All events are free, but sign up at the bookshop(s) to reserve your spot!

Concert: Joules the Fox

Concert Joules the Fox

STOCKHOLM & UPPSALA

Concert in the bookshop! ­Free!

Joules the Fox is a wanderer: Her music will take you with her to islands, cities and the burrow. This voice of many colours, warmth and brilliance has been opening act to Veronica Maggio and now visits us to play in the bookshop!

STOCKHOLM Monday 29th July at 18.30
UPPSALA Tuesday 30th July at 19:00
Free – voluntary contributions. (Bring cash for the passing hat)

Meet illustrator Brian Rea – ”Death Wins a Goldfish”

Author visit Brian Rea in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM | Thursday 18th July at 18.30

Death never takes a day off. Until he gets a letter from the HR department insisting he uses up his accrued vacation time, that is.

In his humorous and heartfelt book Death Wins a Goldfish, illustrator Brian Rea (illustrator of New York Times “Modern Love” column) let us take a peek at Death’s journal entries as he documents his mandatory sabbatical in the world of the living.

»This book is not about dying, this book is about living.«

Meet Brian in the Stockholm shop at this author visit event. Free.

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