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...

We only have THREE workshops available for the whole month of September! We've stuck to our most popular Risograph Zine Making Workshop - these are available from the website and there's three spaces on each for the 16th, 23rd and 30th of the month!

BOOK FRINGE 2025: SECOND SLICE! We've got a bunch more events on this month, as part of the ALT Book Fringe which we are so proud to be a part of with our friends at @argonautbooks and @lighthousebks - check out our website for more details!

ZINES! We sell a lot of them, but we also print them in our risograph studio - here's three recent jobs - "Cherry Print" by Rebecca O'Hagan, "Waiting In A Sushi Restaurant " by Sky-Maya Groom and "Vigilante Returns" by Constantine.

There are SO MANY BEAUTIFUL BOOKS coming up, and we've got the inside line on a bunch of SIGNED and INDIE EXCLUSIVE copies! There's a preorder section on our website where you can see what we've already got on order in the signed copies department and do a preorder to avoid disappointment

You've got just over 2 WEEKS if you want to submit your work to our poetry and flash fiction quarterly, Wrong Directions! Check out the Wrong Directions page on our website (under the "About" tab) for more info on how to submit - and also how to subscribe!

Back by popular demand this September......our nature focused reading group 'Leafing Through!' We are reading Claire Keegan's 'Foster'. Copies available at the shop! See you there on September 1st at 7pm for chats and drinks! #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #leithwalk #naturebookclub

COMMING UP - Some EXCELLENT Book Fringe Events! All of these events are FREE, part of the ALT Book Fringe which we are so proud to be a part of with our friends at @argonautbooks and @lighthousebks - check out our website for more details!

Look at all these amazing posters and flyers! We rarely post pictures of this part of the shop - it's the doorway right? It's just how you get in. But it's so important to the community ethos of the shop. Come have a browse!

OPEN 10am-9pm for August! Oh yeah, we're ready for the festival, where the population triples with wall-to-wall chainsaw-juggling unicyclists. We're just that wee bit off the beaten track and still a lovely calm environment to escape some of the beautiful mayhem going on outside - come say hi!

NEW BOOKMARKS! Our bookmarks were due a zhuzh, and who else would we commission but the supremely talented @joannakrobson who did our original silhouette bookmarks back in 2017! Stop on by if you want to pick one up - much to the disbelief of various customers so far today they are still FREE.

What really is a lit mag? Why do we read them, why do we publish them? What’s a cover letter?Get the answer to all these questions and more from your local magazines! Join us for a panel featuring guava, Palimpsest, and Butch Femme Press, moderated by the fabulous Lauren Galligan.

Have you seen the new Book Fringe Programs? They're FREE, and available from @argonautbooks , @lighthousebks and us! Book Fringe is a grass roots free festival complimenting the official @edbookfest . Check it out!

DO I LOOK HOT IN THIS HOODIE? Because I'm fucking roasting! This is NOT the time of year to buy one of our Typewronger Hoodies, but we're selling these and our T-Shirts from Everpress and through our website!

We've been cutting and folding zines in anticipation of our event TONIGHT with Éadaoín Lynch and Zosia Kuczynska to launch a new zine "Remember How You Are Liberated." Rock on by to find out more...

@elspethwrites stopped by today to sign copies of her newly published book "These Mortal Bodies" - Dark Academic Horror - and signed copies are available now on our website, in store, or by emailing [email protected] - we're also looking forward to welcoming Elspeth back for Book Fringe!

Check out our heatwave playlist... open.spotify.com/playlist/1Uv...

TO THE BOOKS! With chilled sparkling water and an electric fan. Delicious. Need I say more? . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #edinburgh #chilledsparklingwater #fan #books #heatwave

Check our our Typewronger Clothing! These are only available through our website, which is connected to a third party called Everpress who print them every three weeks. You too can look like Typewronger Staff with these stylish t-shirts and hoodies!

SCIFI/FANTASY/HORROR HAS EXPLODED! Right through into where our infamous MURDER section used to be. Don't worry, MURDER fans, the section is now lurking round the corner next to HOT & BOTHERED which has just had a GLOW up. TRAVEL, POLITICS, HISTORY, BOOKS, WORDS & LETTERS are now housed at the back.

July is Begun! And we've got a lovely bunch of events for you... mostly squished toward the end of the month! All our events are FREE - you don't pay, not even for refreshments. Check out typewronger.com for more deets!

Our mugs are BACK! We've kept the C. S. Lewis quotation - "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." but we now also have a line from Jorge Luis Borges - "I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typography, the taste of coffee and the prose of Stevenson."

It's HOT! If the sun's fiery rays are becoming too much, descend into our lovely cool basement complete with electric fan & chilled sparkling water. Oh yeah, might be some books around too... . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #edinburgh #indiebookshoplife #leithwalk #fan #water #hot

Join us for an experimental writing exercise using the shop's gong, a stop-watch, and dice! Check it out on our events page...

We're hyper-excited for the launch of Nazaret Ranea's debut collection "Nettles" at 730pm on 28/7/25. Joining her are Gabrielle Tse, Hermione Byron, and Olivia Calderon - this event looks like it's going to fill up pretty quickly so do jump on our Eventbrite to reserve yourself a spot!

July & August workshops are now LIVE on the website! We restart on the the 20th when we've got risgraph zine-making @ 2pm. Then we'll do them most Sundays at 2pm, and most Tuesdays at 6pm. Jump on the website ASAP to snag your preffered dates. Badge-making and monotyping sessions also available!

We've had a few more Kaweco fountain pens arrive in stock, and we're expecting a few more but we're wondering what colours to order? What colour of fountain pen would you want - and what colour ink would you put in it? . #typewronger #bookshop #edinburgh #indiebookshoplife #fountainpen #kaweco #ink

Namitha's been writing a bunch of new staff picks of her favourite books - here's a wee selection! All of these are available on our website, or you can drop us an email if you want to reserve a copy from stock... . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #edinburgh #indiebookshop #staffpicks

FREE BOOK VOUCHERS! We are giving out free vouchers from National Book Tokens to celebrate Indie Bookshop Week! If you buy... a BOOK from us in store we'll give you a ticket for a £5 National Book token. If whilst buying said book you use the secret phrase "fuck Bezos" I'll slip you two of 'em.

WRONG DIRECTIONS SUMMER 2025 IS OUT NOW! We publish this little single sheet poetry zine each season filled with writing from across our community both in Edinburgh and around the world - check out the website for more info or pick up a copy from the shop!

Oh gang - sometimes I get so wistful, and I miss so many of you who have gone on to pastures new. Like right now, when I thought "I wish Viv were here... dealing with this fucking order instead of me!" :p We are getting stocked UP!!! . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #edinburgh #restock

Do you know what's HOT? Our new window display. Sadly Tee got in front of it demonstrating what's COOL... the bottle of sparkling water they grabbed out our fridge. So... rock on down? IDK, heat's doing funny things to me... . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #windowdisplay #edinburgh

WE ARE TABLING AT GLASGOW ZINE FEST! We're thrilled to be back at the GZF next month with a table featuring tonnes of zines and a triceratops. We always bring the triceratops. The Glasgow Zine Fest (@glasgowzinefest) is the BIGGEST Zine Fest in Scotland - be there or be rectangulaire.

The next instalment of our nature reading group "Leafing Through" where we will be discussing "Finding the Mother Tree" by Suzanne Simard! Check out this and other FREE events we have listed on our events page on the website or through Eventbrite! .

I've finished producing our colour interaction charts! Now gang, this job was a pain in the ARSE! Trying to get nine different colour layers to register across an A3 sheet with all the idiosyncrasies of riso is not easy, but I hope you agree these charts look ace! Available in store and online...

TypeWRITErs! is our monthly writing group where workshop leader Tee sets a new challenge to push the boundaries with your writing!

We are overjoyed to be hosting Theophilus Kwek to launch his new collection 'Uncommon' published by Carcanet With Cynthia Miller, Tim Tim Cheng & Shze-Hui Tjoa joining to read their own work, this promises to be a gorgeous evening of poetry! So join us on Sunday the 15th!