Wasn't on my radar but it is now!
26.09.2025 09:50
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Wasn't on my radar but it is now!
I loved it! Glad it found its way to you!
EVENT! Start spooky season right with Anna Bogutskaya, in conversation on the enduring popularity of the horror genre, to celebrate the paperback publication of her book FEEDING THE MONSTER. Thursday October 2nd, doors 6.30pm, tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anna-bogut...
Raymond Chandler and his "positively tyrannical" and much-loved cat Taki
William S. Burroughs cradling the aptly-named Ginger
Colette with her famous grey Chartreuse who inspired her 1933 novel La Chatte
Famed softie Hemingway with a descendant of his six-toed cat Snow White
Silent Spring writer Rachel Carson and her moggy Moppet (whom, in keeping with her eco credentials, she kept inside)
It's International Cat Day and we're a bookshop so we are duty-bound to share some photos of authors and their cats
TONIGHT! We're slinging books (gently) at Abney Park's Harriet Delph room for the wonderful Sarah Stein Lubrano. The talk: Living (and Reading) Our Way through the Apocalypse. The book: Don't Talk About Politics : How to Change 21st-Century Minds. More info here
It got a proper good write up at @nytimes.com by no less an authority than Stephen Merritt off of the Magnetic Fields (!) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...
It's the final week of pride month π But we have a new Book of the Week π It's Jon Savage's THE SECRET PUBLIC, his characteristically wide-reaching queer history of pop, from Little Richard and Brian Epstein through to Studio 54 and the Village People
TOMORROW! We'll be back in Abney Park for the annual Bronterre O'Brien Memorial Commemoration, which this year is being given by Bruno Leipold. We'll be selling copies of Bruno's book Citizen Marx before, after, but probably not during (respectful) All the deets here
We were chuffed to see THE NIGHT TREMBLES featured in @stokeybookshop.bsky.social's Small Press Spotlight this month β especially alongside such brilliant company!
TOMORROW! We'll be at Abney Park Chapel for the paperback launch of A WOMAN LIKE ME, the triffic memoir from @hackneyabbott.bsky.social , as part of the Radical Writers Festival. All the info is on their website
Regrettably weβve had to cancel this yearβs festival due to (literally) unforeseen circumstances but will be back next year with an absolute belter. See you then xx
TONIGHT! We'll be down the road at DoΓ±a (great cocktails, sparkly curtained entrance) for the launch of SPIRITED WOMEN. RSVP for ZERO POUNDS right here
Email/Instagram DMs/Bluesky all remain fully operational if you need to pester us about anything!
Been having some issues with the phone line the past few days (cheers for the """"upgrade,"""" BT) β so if we don't pick up or yoy get cuts off mid-call, it's not JUST us being rude
What about something genre-y? We can heartily endorse Becky Chambers's meditative sci-fi TO BE TAUGHT, IF FORTUNATE, propulsive and fiendishly constructed whodunit TOKYO EXPRESS by SeichΕ Matsumoto, and T Kingfisher's atmospheric fairy tale riff THORNHEDGE...
In non-fiction we have THE SCENT OF FLOWERS AT NIGHT, LeΓ―la Slimani's account of an overnight stay at the Punga della Dogana, John Sellars's accessible Epicurean crash course THE FOURFOLD REMEDY, and Alli Patton's BLITZKREIG BOP, a canned history of punks in wartime
April's theme is SMALL BOOKS LIKE THESE. Slim tomes to help you out of a reading slump, punchy book-length essays that make their point then scarper, small yet perfectly formed non-fiction you can carry in your jacket pocket, and so on
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Need some inspiration? We got you: there's Helen Garner's recently reissued 100% perfect family drama THE CHILDREN'S BACH, dark Benidorm crooked cop comedy SPANISH BEAUTY by Esther GarcΓa Llovet, or how about Lara Haworth's wonderful and strange debut novella MONUMENTA?
April's theme is SMALL BOOKS LIKE THESE. Slim tomes to help you out of a reading slump, punchy book-length essays that make their point then scarper, small yet perfectly formed non-fiction you can carry in your jacket pocket, and so on
And just like that...it's April and time for a new theme in our year-long READING CHALLENGE! We hope you're still following at home
A gentle reminder that we will be CLOSED tomorrow, April 1st. Not a prank! Not a hoax! Not an imaginary tale! We're going to be doing our annual stock take. And bear in mind our strong suit is words, not numbers. Thoughts and prayers pls. Back to normal hours Wednesday π
TONIGHT! The Abney Park Radical Writer's Festival kicks off with an evening of live poetry, conversation and the like with IAIN SINCLAIR AND CHRIS MCCABE. More info and tickets here
IT'S 10AM. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR BOOKS ARE. (We're open!)