WHOOPS - TypeWriters is on the 30th - the Eventbrite deets were correct, the graphic mistakenly showed the 29th. Sorry gang!

Join us for the first TypeWriters session of 2026 where we're going to be finishing each other's... sandwiches? Bring a pen, we'll be providing the paper as we create exquisite corpses by mashing up each other's writing!

New month, new special display! This January, we're encouraging you to ✨ learn something new ✨ with an ever-changing and ever-growing selection of books about all sorts of interesting topics. Come along and have a peek for some nutrition brain food while you continue your winter hibernation!

Happy Birthday J. R. R. Tolkien! Use the secret passphrase "Rhosgobel Rabbits" for 10% off any Tolkien bought in store or via email for the rest of the month! . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #edinburgh #tolkien #happybirthday #lordoftherings #hobbit

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We are, of course OPEN 1pm-4pm with FREE Bloody Marys (and if you want it without booze, we'll fix you a Bloody Shame!) . . #typewroger #typewrogerbooks #opennewyearsday #newyear #open #edinburgh #leithwalk #bloodymary #bloodyshame

As the last rays of 2025 hit the front of the bookshop I want to thank everyone who has supported us over the course of this year. Typewronger is a doorway into the world of words, and it's been a pleasure to keep it open for you all and welcome you in. 2026 is going to be amazing...

January Workshops are LIVE! Risograph Zine-Making workshops are £45 each, we also have monotyping with recycled risograph stencils at just £20, and badge-making also £20 - we try to keep our prices accessible. Check out typewronger.com/product-cate... or email [email protected]

The All Red Line: Issue 2 is out NOW! Printed at Typewronger Studios, TARL is a collection of the best new fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, chock-full with illustrations by local artists. You can pick up your copy in Typewronger or through @theallredline. #magazine #art #leith #bookshop #indie

If you're a bookish type you may well have been given a National Book Token for Chrimbo... if it's burning a hole in your pocket, pop on down to Typewronger Books! #nationalbooktokens #indie #bookshop #typewronger #leith

MERRY CHRISTMAS! We are OPEN 1pm-4pm with FREE lentil soup and Christmas Cheer! Rock on down! . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #christmas #soup #mulledwine

YOU STILL HAVE TIME! Gang, we're doing one last minute order for books to arrive at the shop on the 23rd. Send us your orders NOW for books you know you want to have by Christmas time and if we've not got them in stock we can still put them on order through our wholesaler.

Corin has been zhuzhing up our Zines section which is packed with amazing artbooks, poetry chapbooks, cut and fold obsessions, risographed wonders - it's a cornucopia of ephemeral delights!

Christmas at Typewronger means FREE HOT CHOCOLATE - with a dash of rum and skooshy cream. Available after 5pm Friday-Sunday all the way through December. And remember that no matter what the day or hour or season we ALWAYS have a selection of free hot and cold drinks availabl - just ask at the till!

OUT NOW - Wrong Directions Winter 2025! Wrong Directions is our quarterly poetry and flash fiction zine printed on our risograph machine as a single A3 sheet and sold in store as a scroll or posted out folded into its own origami envelope. Check it out - typewronger.com/shop/wrong-d...

Spotlight on our new monthly display! ✨ This holiday season, come browse our Extremely Specific Interest Books corner to find the next perfect gift for special people in your life! We will keep restocking this as the month goes on, so keep an eye on it! #typewronger #BookSky💙📚

TONIGHT WE CLOSE EARLY AT 6PM! It's the Typewronger Staff Christmas Party. And my god do we know how to party - hardcore party addicts, that's us... ...we're going to the studio to make zines then going for tacos. BACK OPEN AS USUAL AS OF 11AM TOMORROW (Sat)

We're OPEN as usual across the festive period with the following exceptions: 25/12/25 we're open 1pm-4pm, 1/1/26 we're also open 1pm-4pm, and this Friday - 5/12/25 - it's the Typewronger Staff Christmas Party and we're closing at 6pm. Hey - we've gotta live it up a bit too you know!

Frog, shark, dragon, elephant OR NOW - CHRISTMAS PENGUIN!!! They're just so damned cute. And you can even request these when you email us for books, or when you buy things through the Woe of Waterstones, the Bane of Bezos, AKA typewronger.com - we have an origami dropdown at checkout!

Jeff Bezos is gonna be shitting himself when he sees the glow-up we've given our trusty website! Special Offer: FREE UK SHIPPING on any order over £10 until midnight on Sunday. - www.typewronger.com

Our WRONGA cards are BACK! Using them couldn't be simpler - whenever you buy a book from the shop present your WRONGA card and we will stamp it with a wee ladybird. Once you've collected ten ladybirds you can hand it in at the till to receive any book in stock half price!

Tee's been upcycling old risograph ink tubes to make the studio even cosier. Would you like to buy a set of these to decorate your home? Well you CANT! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! But you CAN book yourself on an intro-to-riso zine-making workshop - typewronger.com/product-cate...

Oolala - we're in The Booksellers Association’s new report, Cultural and Community Role of Scotland’s Bookshops, launched today to coincide with @scottishbooktrust annual Book Week Scotland! Have a gander at @booksellersassociation

WRONG DIRECTIONS WINTER SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TOMORROW AT MIDNIGHT! The mysterious editor TSJH famously hates love poetry - so don't send none of that nonsense - and is a stickler for the submissions guidelines which you'll find on the Wrong Directions page under the "about" section of typewronger.com

We've just gained a new BIGGER main display table to show off EVEN MORE BOOKS! And our SIGNED table is overflowing with beautiful signed and indie exclusive titles. Feel free to peruse ye olde typewronger.com or drop by the shop to bask in their glory!

We got asked to take a picture of the team outside the shop for some forthcomming news stuff. The first pic is the winner, but I thought I'd include some of the others of us goofing around. Many thanks to Tai Kedzierski for taking these and enduring our nonsense!

Edinburgh Zine Fair 2025 is OPEN! Follow @edinburghzinefair for details on zinesters, workshops, live risography, and lots more! #zines #ezf #edinburghzinefair #ezf25 #edinburgh

Happy Halloween from TW! We've got a great selection of the weird and unusual - and that's just our booksellers! Check out our gorgeous British Library collections of horror writing and supernatural tales. And our occult section has expanded especially, there's plenty to spook you here!

C U @ #edinburghzinefair 2025! OVER 40 TABLERS! We're excited to be back on the 1st and 2nd of November noon-4.30pm and for the FIRST TIME EVER we're going to bring our risograph machine, Lyra, up to the fair offering FREE WORKSHOPS! Check out @edinburghzinefair and edinburghzinefair.com

EDINBURGH ZINE FAIR NEEDS YOU! It's two weeks until the fair and we need a team of volunteers for the biggest zine fair in Edinburgh! Are you free around the 1st and 2nd of November and do you fancy the glory of being a zine fair volunteer? The sign up form is now LIVE on edinburghzinefair.com

Our Signed Books table is looking excitingly full! 📚 Not only do we stock signed hardbacks and paperbacks, but often we have the pleasure of selling indie bookshop exclusives. Can you spot them here? 👀 Find them all in store or at typewronger.com/product-category/signed-books #BookSky 💙📚

You can post letters from the shop! We sell first and second class stamps & envelopes, if you want to write a letter on our free public Typewriter you can post it at the till, we've even got our own "postmark" to show it was sent through us! And doesn't wee Tee look cute with their toy post office?

We LOVE our poetry section which has just had a major glow-up! So many brilliant titles, from well known names to local poets, from classic to contemporary and so many different genres! What's you're favourite poetry/poet?

Wrong Directions Autumn 2025 is published TODAY! Rock on by the shop to grab a copy, or buy one of our website. We'll be sending out subscriber copies ASAP, and Tee will be sending emails out this evening letting all our contributors know they're in it!

It's JAMES BOND DAY today - 5th October. Now, we don't have James Bond novels in stock. They haven't dated well, to put it kindly. ALL of these alternatives are available on our website or can be bought by emailing us at info@typewronger [dot] com. As can ANY BOOK currently in print!

Witches be Readin'! Our seasonal display has a whole bunch of witchy, occult and horror titles, from the "Art of the Grimoire" by Owen Davies to "Shy Trans Banshee" by Tony Santorella! And we've not even properly stocked up on these titles yet - stay tuned this month for more lore & much magic!

We're not exactly Google, but on Typewronger.com we do like zhuzhing up our banner - and Spooky Season is upon us! In October we offer the option of an origami bat when you buy books in store, or from the website (it's been added to the checkout!) Stay tuned for more spooky developments....

Just over ONE MONTH until EDINBURGH ZINE FAIR 2025! And what do you think of our jazzy new EZF posters printed in bright red and aqua? Check out edinburghzinefair.com and @edinburghzinefair on insta! . . SAVE THE DATES: 1/11/25 - Noon - 5.30pm 2/11/25 - Noon - 4.30pm

As Autumn approaches the Typewronger Studio is a cozy space to be creative! We've just loaded October workshops onto the website, mostly happening on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 6pm - check out typewronger.com !

✨🍄 Back this October, our nature-focused reading group Leafing Through! 📖 Join us on October 6th at 7pm for cosy chats and a drink or two! Copies are available at the shop. #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #leithwalk #nature #naturebookclub #bookclub #edinburgh #independentbookshop

Does my book come with an origami elephant? This question is posed to every bookseller in every bookshop around the globe. But only Typewronger Books can answer YES! Each book purchase - in shop on online - and you get your choice of elephant, dragon, shark, or frog. #bookshop #origami

OUT TODAY! @say_shannon's new book AMONG THE BURNING FLOWERS and @nataliehaynesauthor's NO FRIEND TO THIS HOUSE You can order both as signed editions on our website! And we have copies in for you to pop in and buy. #amongtheburningflowers #nofriendtothishouse @panmacmillan @bloomsburypublishing

STUDENTS! We offer a 10% discount! If we don't have what you need, we can order it in - just send us an email at [email protected] or come into the shop and ask one of our lovely booksellers! #edinburghwelcomeweek #eduni #napier #heriotwatt #qmu

Roll on up and try your luck! Our lucky dip box is ready and waiting. In a reading slump? Needing to switch up genres? Tired of the same old same old? Pop on down to Typewronger and take a leap into the unknown... Open every day 11am-9pm. #books #independentbookshop #typewronger #edinburgh

NEW STAFF PICKS TABLE - It's a truth universally acknowledged that our staff have the best taste around! Now they have a chance to shine on a dedicated table, slap bang in the middle of Typewronger. Pop by and have a gander - maybe you will discover your new favourite read...

Did you know we also sell vinyl? We don't normally have a tonne in, just a few things we like -Namitha recently did an order for this excellent selection of classic and contemporary tunes, a few of which are featured here - drop us a line to order records!

PREORDER NOW - we've got a few signed copies of @say_shannon 's "Among the Burning Flowers" - the dramatic runup to the events of her awesome epic "Priory of the Orange Tree" - arriving at the shop this month. It's on typewronger.com - remember to select origami dragon from the dropdown at checkout!

Join us for a unique evening of time-travel as we celebrate TIME/LIFE, the new book by bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and Women’s Equality Party co-founder Catherine Mayer!

September is PACKED with stories, conversations, and creativity!! Hop on down for anything that tickles your fancy! We'll see you there!

NEW IN STOCK - We have signed indie exclusive editions of Boudicca's Daughter by @elodieharper ! If you've preordered with us your book is now parcelled and winging its way to you in the post, but we do have a few extra for stock it's still available to grab off our website, or of course in store!

TypeWriters is our experimental writing group where Tee sets a monthly challenge to encourage us to examine how we write! This month we're playing a game where we write what we think are the first lines of various books in the shop - then we'll see how close we get...