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NEW PODCAST!! Karl Ove Knausgaard & Helen Charman discuss The Third Realm... lrb.me/q53

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hadn't realised until today, but looking at the original draft pages for the Gruffalo, you can see quite clearly how much the character of the Gruffalo was based on George Smiley

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Please note we'll be closed all day tomorrow for our annual stocktake 📚 In the meantime, you can place orders as usual at www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk We'll be back open at 10 a.m. on Tuesday

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touched to discover that ted hughes sent thom gunn a heavy duvet as a birthday present embroidered with the words "happiness is a warm gunn"

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What a joy to have Owen Hatherley and Michael Hofmann in conversation - pick up signed copies of The Alienation Effect here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/the-al...

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New podcast alert!! Helen Castor and Mary Wellesley discuss The Eagle and the Hart: lrb.me/fm3 www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/the-ea...

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ye gods a strange thing happened to me this morning

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Congratulations to Harriet Baker, winner of the 2024 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award! Read an extract from RURAL HOURS on our blog: lrb.me/gm3

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Our next evening of poetry at the Bookshop is two weeks away! @faberbooks.bsky.social debut poet Isabelle Baafi will read from her collection CHAOTIC GOOD alongside Lavinia Greenlaw on 9 April Book tickets here: lrb.me/jm3

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customer comes up to the counter, points to the plug socket at the back and asks if it would be ok if they plugged something in. fine I say, assuming phone charger or bike light or similar. instead they produce a small portable hob and begin cooking the rachel roddy pasta with peas, cream & parmesan

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Our current bestsellers 🐳⁣ lrb.me/6jh

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which was the last bookshop to use shanties for shelving / unboxing etc.? I know they were widespread in the late 19th century, and some of the older booksellers david worked with at 'books etc' in the '90s remembered them still in use on the upper floors of foyles in living memory

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bookshops in the UK get till beers, bookshops in France get mutiny brews

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lovely bloke just came in with a copy of a Sunday Times music supplement from 2003, to show us this interview with Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers fame. it was just after they'd released 'By the Way' - I really do think that we might have been the shop Kiedis is talking about. astonishing

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original pie, rat, mat, eerie L

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A packed house here this evening to hear Xiaolu Guo discussing her new novel CALL ME ISHMAELLE with Philip Hoare You can order a signed copy here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/call-m...

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We have a winner! Erin wins the orecchiette, @susaneebarsby.bsky.social is runner-up and wins a tote bag. DM us your addresses and we will get prizes out in the post asap. Many congratulations to our winners, thanks to all who took part, and once again, welcome to spring

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Michèle Roberts in the top spot of the LRB Bookshop’s bestsellers. Sales of French Cooking for One are a life saver for us, and we can't thank enough booksellers who are supporting the book. We literally owe them our life as a small press this year. Very, very proud, and slightly stunned.

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@lrbbookshop.bsky.social managed 5/6 with a lunchtime walk, just the wrong area of Nottingham for an Italian restaurant... 1/2

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first entries for the LRB Spring Competition Scavenger Hunt are starting to pour in. so far, John has taken the lead with 2 out of 6 items photographed - but it's still all to play for #alltoplayfor

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It's time for the LRB Bookshop's famous Spring Competition! This year it takes the form of a scavenger hunt. so sack off work or take an early lunchbreak, get out into the sunshine, and photograph these six items - then send us the pics, either by replying to this tweet or @ing us

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What a joy to have Didier Eribon and Mendez in the shop, talking about The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Lady. Order your signed copy here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/the-li...

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haven't checked, but i'm pretty sure that DJ Muggs is the only member of cypress hill to be named after an item of LRB merchandise

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spring equinox tomorrow! the word 'equinox' derives from 'equine' + 'ox', meaning 'the ox that looks a bit like a horse'. who this fine specimen was, and how he has insinuated himself into our calendar, has been lost in the midsts of time

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found out to my horror from gayle that these days everyone calls flip-flops "sliders". apparently this has been going on for ages.

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On the blog today, read Edna Bonhomme on the history of HIV/AIDS in the US prison system and the work of Kathy Boudin, a poet, anarchist and co-founder of far-left Marxist group, the Weather Underground, in an extract taken from our Book of the Week A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES lrb.me/2m3

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Our current bestsellers 🥖 lrb.me/6jh

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oh god lady gaga just came into the shop, this is the last thing we need. we have moved trent reznor into the basement for now, and liv has brought up the first aid kit just in case

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he's been standing listlessly by the till for the last hour, shifting from foot to foot and asking every so often for progress reports. what makes it worse is that he keeps referring to the pizzas as his 'provender'

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Our Book of the Week is Edna Bonhomme’s A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES, a revolutionary new social and scientific history, examining the role that confinement has played in fostering and hindering epidemics, from Cholera to COVID-19 Find out more here: lrb.me/dm3

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