This tickles us just right! "My library kit", complete with the iconic date stamp!

Our "Go away, I'm reading" mugs have been joined by a "Go away, I'm writing" mug!

The reading legend also comes on a cool tote bag, available in several bright colours.

Time Out has spoken:

https://www.timeout.com/london/news/this-is-officially-the-best-bookshop-in-london-according-to-time-out-031025

What do you think, #London ?

#books #reading #writing #bookshops #publishing #bookstodon @bookstodon

'There is something that we, the book industry, can do… And that’s to stop linking to your book on Amazon.'

Drew Broussard lays it on the line:

https://lithub.com/stop-linking-to-amazon-already

#books #reading #writing #bookshops #Amazon #publising #bookstodon @bookstodon

Our Peter Pan costumes for #WorldBookDay !

More absolutely fabulous #spredges gorgeousness: the paperback edition of Olivia Lang's The Garden Against Time, out this week from Picador

How fantabulously fab is this Penguin Classics hardback of L Frank Baum's fantasy classic, The Wizard of Oz (plus Emerald City, & Glinda)? The spredges are like a frieze, with scenes and characters running around from the bottom to the side to the top

#books #livres #Oz #fantasy #spredges #LFrankBaum# #TheWizardOfOz #PenguinClassics #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies

#WhatWereReading : Joe loved
John Wiswell's delightful fantasy with dark humour, and a lovely monster in love with a human romance (queer, cross-species romance!), Someone You Can Build a Nest In, from Arcadia / Quercus. Smile-inducing reading.

Spring is (slowly) springing, and the new fiction releases are blossoming! Here are some of the most recent arrivals hitting the shelves.

You can support the Jerusalem Educational Bookshop here https://www.gofundme.com/f/jerusalems-educational-bookshop-emergency-appeal

To hell with every regime that tries to stamp on writing and reading, ban books, censor reading & intimidate authors, readers, publishers, librarians & booksellers.

Yay! We're shortlisted for the Independent Bookshop of the Year Scotland awards, along with our lovely chums at Ullapool Bookshop, Ginger Cat Bookshop, The Book Nook, Bookhouse, Seahorse Bookstore, Night Owl Books, Heron & Willow & Far From the Madding Crowd https://www.thebookseller.com/british-book-awards-content/independent-bookshop-of-the-year?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=nibbies

For those of you who have followed the vile actions of Israelie police raiding and trying to intimidate booksellers in the Jerusalem Educational Bookshop - see here https://www.woolamaloo.org.uk/barbarians/ - there is a Go Fund Me running to help them out, if you are able to help, or share it:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/jerusalems-educational-bookshop-emergency-appeal?qid=4aa41f03e2cc1dd1764c75d12dcc801a

Between Two Rivers: Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid's book explores the first writing, in ancient Mesopotamia. Not just the history, but the little human moments, like a child's teeth marks on a clay tablet. The human story.

Out now from Hodder

Thank you, Iain MacDonald, for dropping by and signing the beautiful William Alister MacDonald: Watercolours From Thurso to the Thames from Unicorn Publishing

There has been a whole slew of new non-fiction releases this week, from biography to ancient history to current events to science, all awaiting your browsing pleasure over the weekend.

Superbusy Storytime! (with added JIM the doggo!)

WhatWereReading : some of the books the EB gang have been enjoying and recommending recently.

How fantabulously luscious is this new TJ Klune novel, The Bones Beneath my Skin, with amazing, colurful spredges ?

Out now from Macmillan /Tor Books

Lots of recent releases, just begging to be browsed! Here is just a selection of the new hardback fiction titles hitting the shelves, from spy fiction to an Edinburgh-based tale of the dreaded Ressurection Men!