We've been LOVING The Ending Writes Itself by @evelynclarkewrites ( @veschwab and @catclarkewriter ) - and we're proud to announce a 72 hour typing competition to give away this amazing Golden Book!

SECTION SPOTLIGHT - have you ever noticed the tiny wee section in the back of the shop called "Books, Words & Letters"? Alongside various literary biographies this section contains a BUNCH of books about writing, so if you're looking for inspiration maybe check it out...

Check out our Events Board! We run a series of FREE events EVERY MONTH at the shop. We always write them up on the board, but you can find out more information on typewronger.com/events and if you register it helps us get an idea of numbers!

We partnered with The Bookshop Crawl UK to host their book swap and bookish group meetup! On Sunday April 19th @ 5pm, come along to chat about whatever you've been reading, and bring along books you no longer want to swap for ones you do! Free tickets, booking recommended at ko-fi.com/s/938e3a115c️

Bookselling can be murder... so thank goodness we have a CRIMINALLY good selection of crime fiction and mysteries. We've got classics, short story collections, new fiction, and even some sci-fi murders too. Check out the sprayed edges on Jess Kidd's Murder at Gull's Nest - and it's signed too!

Jamie has April Fool's pranked Tee by hiding a series of ridiculous photographs all around the shop. Tee has removed most of them but... two seem to be missing. £10 store credit or a free tote to anyone who finds and hands over one of these ridiculous pictures at the till today!

April (and start of May!) workshops are now LIVE on typewronger.com/product-cate... - as always we have our standard zine-making workshop and our super-affordable monotyping workshop, but the advanced print workshop is BACK and we have a NEW option for a course of 3 sessions making deluxe zines!

On April 12th, our bookseller Alex Victor will be hosting Typewronger's own No Homework Book Club, a format that requires no prior reading! Limited to 12 spaces - info & booking at typewronger.com/events. This month's theme is Horror!

Our Website is MIGRATED! Use the code TYPEBOTILOVEYOU at checkout for 20% off your online purchases - offer ends at close of business on Sunday. Our new server has made typewronger.com harder, better, faster & stronger than any other website including A****n.

GREETINGS PUNY HUMAN! Our website, the glorious TYPEWRONGER.COM is being migrated to a new server. The online shop is now on holiday, but you can still email us orders on [email protected] The main website will likely be down most of tomorrow, all systems should be restored by the weekend.

TONIGHT! There's still a wee bit of space for our FREE poetry event where we launch Transpiration by @mairmacleod with readings from @alyciap_ and @jeehan.asher Rock on down this evening @ 7pm! You can just turn up, but registering on our events page is helpful, and we'll stream live on insta. .

Our Deluxe Totes have had a glow up! With bright flashing on the sides, they're Gocco printed by hand down the road by our pals at @ootblueprint on recycled canvas. Large, durable & colourful - grab them in store or here: typewronger.com/shop/deluxe-...

The Spring Edition of Wrong Directions is available in store, online, typewronger.com/shop/wrong-d... or today (15/3/26) at the @stanzapoetry Poetry Market at Parliament Hall in St Andrews where we'll be tabling 11am-3pm. And these pics of Tee as a student there are 20 years old.

I recently did a zine risograph workshop with @typewronger.bsky.social and loved it! Definitely gotta play with riso more soon!

SUBMISSIONS ARE REOPENED - Wrong Directions Spring 2026. Wrong Directions is a place for new poetry and flash fiction. SEND YOUR WORK to [email protected] before 9pm on the 13th (Friday!) Especially looking for poems that don't use the full word count - typewronger.com/wrong-direct...

We've been so excited for the release of Hooked by @yuzukiasako (Tee in particular was has been devouring their proof) We've got some free promo totes if you preorder on our website typewronger.com/shop/hooked-... or reserve one by emailing [email protected]

Check out our upcoming events! All out events are FREE. Find out more on our events page - typewronger.com/events/

WE'VE JUST RESTOCKED! One of the best bits of working in a bookshop is when all the deliveries arrive like wee gifts. We've had a big old restock since our marathon all-nighter, so rock on by to check out what's new and discover old favourites! . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #edinburgh

On March 8th, our bookseller Alex Victor will be hosting Typewronger's own No Homework Book Club, a format that requires no prior reading! Limited to 12 spaces - info & booking at typewronger.com/events. This month's theme is Fantasy! #edinburgh #BookSky💙📚 #bookclub

A CAPTCHA asks a simple question: can you prove you're human? Let's ask a better question: are you the most human? Find this out and more at the Folly Problem late-night human quiz starting at 11pm.

Allie Kerper & RJ Arkhipov are going to be reading their poetry at the Typewronger All-Night Bookshop at ten past ten! Rock on by to hear them!

Comming to the All Night Bookhsop on Saturday? Fionnbarr Byrne and Emma Capponi are doing a mini-gig at 9.30pm! Photo credit Laura Meek

We've just been gifted a rose for Valentine's Day - it's such a lovely gesture, but also to learn that we're this person's safe space when the world is overwhelming has touched our hearts. A rose is a rose is a rose - so shines a good deed in a naughty world.

These are Typewronger All-Night Bookshop deluxe tote bags, hand printed by our friends at @ootblueprint in Night Shop Purple, with purple handles and purple sides. The logo is a combination of our shop stamp and the time stamp. These will only be available in the Typewronger All Night Bookshop!

Support us by booking in for a WORKSHOP! Our February workshops just went live here: typewronger.com/product-cate... - Riso Zine Making Workshops (£45) Badge Making / Monotyping (£20) and the Risograph Day Course is back for those of you feeling flush (£110). Go check them out!

Typewronger All-Night Bookshop Fundraiser: How to Help! - After our last post we've had so many comments and emails with folk asking how best to support the shop, so here goes! #typewronger #fundraising #notforproffit #donate #books #bookshop #comunity

On Saturday the 21st of February the shop will be open all the way through the night as we're fundraising to pay our bills! We'll be switching over to a purple ink stamp for the night shift featuring a time stamp so you can prove you were chilling in a bookshop at 3am. Stay tuned for more details...

WE'RE OPEN! Stock Take is DONE, and though it's always a bit of a slog, this year it was wonderful to discover so many titles we have on our shelves - I know it's a wee shop, but there's a couple of thousand books in stock and yesterday we uncovered many hidden gems - come take a look!

URGH! Stock Take! Disgusting! Gang, you know how much I detest closing the shop, but I'm afraid we've got to for annual stock take - that's right, tomorrow (Thursday the 22nd) is the one day of the year Typewronger will not open to the public at all - we'll be back as usual at 11am on Friday!

Every 2nd Sunday of the month starting from February, our bookseller Alex Victor will be hosting Typewronger's own No Homework Book Club, a format that requires no prior reading! Limited to 12 spaces - info & booking at typewronger.com/events #edinburgh #BookSky💙📚 #bookclub

Our bookseller Jamie just finished THE TOWER by Fiona Carr. A phenomenal period piece set in Lochleven Castle, where Mary Queen of Scots, recently deposed, is locked up with her three most trusted women. We only have ONE singed copy left, but a regular copy can be ordered on our website!

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