#Edinburgh peeps, a fascinating #History event for you on Thursday 29th.
Award-winning author Iain MacGregor joins us, to discuss his latest book, Battle: The Moments That Transformed Warfare from Ancient Greece to Ukraine
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theedinburghbookshop/2355246
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#Edinburgh peeps, with the darker, colder nights, warm, cosy cooking seems all the more welcoming.
Join us on Wednesday 28th with award-winning food writer and historian Alissa Timoshkina
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theedinburghbookshop/2413011
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We are absolutely delighted to be welcoming global bestselling author Jodi Picoult to Edinburgh for an event celebrating her exceptional new novel, Hollow Bones.
Jodi will be in conversation with fellow bestselling author V.E. Schwab, on Sat 7th Nov
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theedinburghbookshop/2334108
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#WhatWereReading : Joe enjoyed Simon Wroe's Ghost Month from Faber Books
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A world where silent dead return to haunt people one month in the year, forcing introspection - why are they back, what do they want?
Some embrace it, some are terrified, some feel guilt, some are being judged. Others make merch or offer ghost busting services to make money from it.
A perfect #SpookySeason read.
#books #livres #Bookstodon #GhostMonth #SimonWroe #RecommendedReading #bookshops #librairies
Rainy #autumn day in Bruntsfield 🌧️
A fine day to retreat into a cosy bookshop 📚 for a leisurely browse.
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#SpookySeason reading for our younger Gothic friends, including the fabulous Wilomina from our Scottish-based storytellers, Metaphrog, & old faves like the Witch's Kitchen!
#books #livres #Halloween #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #Horror #Horreur #GraphicNovels #BandeDessinee #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies
It's a cracking read, lad!!!
The autobiography of a true national treasure: Gromit! Best read while eating cheese, of course!
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Us by Delia Smith is a true surprise of a book. You may (you almost certainly do) know Delia Smith as a national treasure, someone who transformed how people cook in this country.
This book is not about that: Us is Delia’s treatise on how ordinary people hold the key to creating real change. It's a short, impassioned book about the damage that has been done by focussing wealth in fewer and fewer hands, and what we all need to be doing to resist.
"I want it known far and wide that this is a thrilling, sagacious, impassioned, persuasive and profound book" Amol Rajan
There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone is a, deeply researched account of five Atlanta families working hard and still struggling to stay housed. Urgent, gripping and heartbreaking, it focuses on the issues that have created a national crisis of family homelessness.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL AND THE BERNSTEIN AWARD
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Washington Post, Elle, New America, BookPage, Shelf Awareness
The Country Schoolmaster is a mystery in 88 letters, from the Women’s Prize-winning, Booker-shortlisted Kate Grenville (author of The Secret River).
What starts with Grenville's discovery of an innocuous file about a schoolteacher in New South Wales, grows into an investigation that's complex and sometimes sinister. It touches on the abuse of power, on gossip, trust, and the seductions of story-telling.
It's publication day for this wee stack of books:
Us by Delia Smith
There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone
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The Country Schoolmaster by Kate Grenville
You can find them all at your friendly local bookshop and online: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-today
“And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”
Since it is the anniversary of the publication of Return of the King, a little quote from that magnificent book by Tolkien, and a reminder that the darkest days do always pass. Often doesn't feel like it, but they will.
#books #livres #OTD #1955 #JRRTolkien #ReturnOfTheKing #LordOfTheRings
...And let's not forget more recent entries into the booming #horror fiction shelves, from both sides of the Atlantic (& even closer to home with Scottish folk-horror Home Sick by local author Rhiannon Grist)
#SpookySeason #books #livres #horreur #HorrorFiction #Halloween #ModernHorror #RecommendedReading #BuffaloHunter #HomeSick #KingSorrow #ThRedSacrament #bookstodon
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It's #SpookySeason : we all know the Victorian #horror classics, but what about some disturbing, yet often iconic, tales from the 20th Century?
Here are a few of our resident Gothic Fiend, Joe's, favourites.
Bradbury retains such a slow burning sense of mounting unease, Salem's lot brings the vampire mythos into a moder-day small town, I am Legend is one of the finest horrors to capture the paranoia of the Cold War era, and Rice's Interview With the Vampire is arguably the most influential vampire tale since Stoker.
#books #livres #bookstadon #horreur #Halloween #SomethingWickedThisWayComes #InterviewWithTheVampire #IAmLegend #SalemsLot #20thCenturyFiction #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon
A reminder that we have Thom Bateman on Tuesday 20th October, with Home Made. A perfect bit of cosy home-cooking for the darker nights!
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theedinburghbookshop/2401222
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#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #cookery #cuisine #ThomBateman #HomeMade #BookEvents #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #CookeryBooks
#Edinburgh peeps! More upcoming event fun with an extra special Under Fives Storytime on Friday 23rd Oct, with Shona Shirley MacDonald & The Amazing Jam!!
Details on here https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theedinburghbookshop/2380723
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#books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #ShonaShirleyMacDonald #TheAmazingJam #UnderFivesStorytime #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon
"o ma darlin wee one
At last you are here in the wurld
And wi' aa your wisdom
Your een bricht as the stars
You've filled this hoose with licht
Yer trusty wee haun, your globe o' a heid
My cherished yin, my hert's ain"
Selected Poems, 1991-2026, by our own, fabbity-fab Jackie Kay.
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#poetry #poesie #books #livres #ScottishLiterature #ScottishPoetry #PoesieEcossais #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #JackieKay #Scotland #Ecosse #Scots
Signed copies of Elif Shafak's achingly gorgeous In One Brief Moment All Eternity from Penguin Books, with Jack's rather fabulous Phoenix window painting.
Our own Joe read an advance copy of this and absolutely loved it.
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#WhatWereReading : An Argentinian author, living in France, & riffing on a Scottish author.
Joe enjoyed Diego Muzzio's Jekyll and Hyde inspired psychological #horror , The Eye of Goliath, from Pushkin Press. A tale of madness and remote lighthouses, a new psot-WWI psychological hospital, and the famous "Lighthouse Stevensons" (yes, the engineering family of RLS)
An interesting wee read for the Spooky Season!
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#Books #livres #horreur #Halloween #DiegoMuzzio #PsychologicalHorror #HorrorFiction #RomanHorreur #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #RecommendedReading #TheEyeOfGoliath# #DoctorJekyllAndMrHyde #RobertLouisStevenson #SpookySeason
#Edinburgh foodies!
Join us on Tuesday 20th October for some Home Made, with Thom Bateman.
Details & tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/theed...
#books #livres #Edimbourg #cookery #ThomBateman #CookeryBooks #Cuisine #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon
