This Sunday in the shop, we launch our Shakespeare Reading Group from 2pm. Come and discuss the great wordsmith. There will be a fully stocked bard, nope, bar.

It’s going to be a hot bank holiday weekend with temperatures reaching 30 degrees. What a better way to spend your free time than chilling in your local bookshop with a cool drink and a great collection of carefully curated reads.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

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On Saturday 23 May and Sunday 24 May we will be opening the bar at 1pm so you can enjoy a drink and will be open to late (at least 10pm) so you'll have plenty of time to browse books and maybe pick up a gem.

There is a bank holiday coming and what better way to spend an afternoon or evening chilling in a bookshop, browsing books, having a drink and taking time for the self.

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a while ago a podcast was filmed in the shop for The Bookseller podcast: Chapters - a Life In Books. MC Grammar was being interviewed in store and you can see it here: youtu.be/p7kVWczOVh0?...

There is a bank holiday coming and what better way to spend an afternoon or evening chilling in a bookshop, browsing books, having a drink and taking time for the self.

Tomorrow night

Tonight

We're doing Mystery Talks again this Friday evening at @allgoodbookshop.co.uk - two speakers talking about things they're passionate about, and you only find out what they are when the talks begin! There'll be a bar as well!

Here we go for the May session of @srfantasyclub.bsky.social at the Star of Kings in Kings Cross, selling #books for the @allgoodbookshop.co.uk This month's authors are @rymkechacha.bsky.social and Lexy Hudson. #scifi #fantasy #fiction #romantasy #sciencefiction #sf #bookshop #london

hello there the bookshop is open and ready sell books! it’s what we do strange that #bookshop

it would be errant of me not to mention an experimental film screening tonight at @allgoodbookshop.co.uk from 7pm. a couple of films directed and written by my daughter. i’ve seen them and they are thought provoking and original. well worth a view if you get a chance.

A new thing we've started doing that you might find interesting. We're a cooperative, so we're all about transparency. And that means we're starting to publish the minutes of our committee meetings. allgoodbookshop.co.uk/blog/f/all-g...

This is happening tonight!

this is your reminder: if you buy a book today from a bookshop you should dance joyfully and tell everyone about it phone friends email family post images online this is the minimal required it's in the rules

there is an hour to go before the 'bookshop' closes at 6pm however we have storytelling and booklaunch at 7pm so you could buy books then for these nice sunny days and catch some Feline Folk Tales!

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22nd May is #WorldGothDay & I will be reading HP Lovecraft's #horror The Haunter of the Dark at the @allgoodbookshop.co.uk, in a double bill w/ the Dunwich Horror Picture Show. Live sound accompaniment by renowned experimental musician Kinga Janicka. Tix here: allgoodbookshop.co.uk/order-items/...

Hello there We are open we have meditation Sound baths Science tuition coffee Oh we’re also selling books #bookshop

Sunday 17 may ALL GOOD MOVIE NIGHT! Doors 6pm. Free.

friday 15 may ALL GOOD MYSTERY TALKS Doors 7pm. £8 Two speakers, two subjects, twenty minutes each. The subject matter is a mystery - the audience finds out when the talk begins! One of our newest events and already a firm favourite.

Thursday 14 may Film Screening with filmmaker Otho Fitzsimons Doors 7pm. £5 FILMS: A Little Bit More Appetising - a black & white film about identity. Eden - two people aim to have an identity outside of the capitalist, industry driven world by attempting to reconnect with what they have lost

Saturday 9 may Storytelling / Book launch: FELINE FOLK TALES by Anna Maria Vilhemina Hellberg Moberg Doors 7pm for 7.30pm start. £10. Join author and storyteller Anna Maria Vilhelmina Hellberg Moberg for an evening of cat tales from around the world as collected in her new book!

Saturday 9 may Meditation with Maryam and Sound Bath 11am. Donations requested. Saturday 9 may KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP Doors 1 to 3pm. Donations requested.

14 May at the All Good Bookshop www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjLF...

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Events coming up: GALLERY - 8 may to 29 may Art: MOMENTS IN MONOCHROME by Michael Gilroy Free. Michael Gilroy is an award-winning filmmaker who began exploring street photography in 2020.Michael is a three-time winner of Smart Shots in Black + White Photography Magazine.

"While independent bookshop numbers have stabilized or grown in recent years, reaching 1,052 in 2024, they tend to be concentrated in areas with higher footfall and more affluent consumers, according to the Booksellers Association."

just sold a picture book to a child who sang 'i bought this book now it's mine la-la-la-la' which is the correct response to buying a book

This is a-happnin tonite! (That will get some English teachers fuming).

Events this week - Tonight - Thursday 30 Apr Club Verbal Discharge Spoken Word Doors 7pm, start 7.30pm. £5 performers, £7.99 audience. The ever-popular Club Verbal Discharge returns. Probably the best spoken word night in North London. - come along to hear super spoken word readings.

Events this week - Friday 1 May COMEDY CLUB Doors 7pm, start 7.30pm. The best secret on the comedy circuit. Come see up and coming stars of tomorrow perform sets of laughs and giggles. A mix of old and new material.

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Events this week - Friday 1 May COMEDY CLUB Doors 7pm, start 7.30pm. The best secret on the comedy circuit. Come see up and coming stars of tomorrow perform sets of laughs and giggles. A mix of old and new material.

Events this week - Tonight - Thursday 30 Apr Club Verbal Discharge Spoken Word Doors 7pm, start 7.30pm. £5 performers, £7.99 audience. The ever-popular Club Verbal Discharge returns. Probably the best spoken word night in North London. - come along to hear super spoken word readings.

...That was April. Come and see what we've got here in May. :D

In our gallery we hosted the first solo show by brilliant young artist Ellis Lewis-Dragstra. Stalwart AGB trustee Ben Sohawon launched THE ALL GOOD WHISTLE TEST, his new night for members of his songwriting circle to take their work out in front of an audience. And there was more besides...

5) 25th April. Local author Susie Helme launches her new historical novel, DREAMING OF JERUSALEM.

4) 23rd April. The amazing Sonia Bernardo launches a zine and workbook on what's required to create anything these days, especially while holding down a day job. The title: AMBITION, COURAGE OR MADNESS?

3) Same night, a little later. :D

2) 11th April. The shop's 6th birthday party warming up...

Some pics of events here at the shop lately: 1) 4th April. Aaron Oliver took the audience through some tough moral post-apocalyptic choices, while Viola Pippin Wood played a spinetingling soundtrack, in their thrilling interactive storytelling show WHAT WE MUST.

Almost reading the greats. (my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books)

and the traffic rolls by outside a lorry carrying grit a little red bus a post office van a silver fiat a white van a man on an e-bike a paplu fresh veg van how foolish they should be in a bookshop

was told by a customer i reminded them of an actor because of the coat i had on no, they couldn't remember the actor's name yes, i had a coat on yes, i had the electric heaters on yes, i know it is sunny outside no, i don't feel warm #lizard