Our latest Real Magic Mail newsletter, all our latest event announcements, music nights, talks, walks, books and music we love x mailchi.mp/e8031d7fd840...

Our latest Real Magic Mail newsletter, all our latest event announcements, music nights, talks, walks, books and music we love x mailchi.mp/e8031d7fd840...

Our Real Magic Christmas list 🎄 Shop with us and support the shop on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social this festive season✨ FREE SHIPPING all weekend (until 1 Dec) uk.bookshop.org/lists/real-m...

We are back for the fourth edition of our magic mini-festival! This time over four days from Thursday 13th to Sunday 16th November 2025. This is not your normal book festival. THIS IS REAL MAGIC✨ realmagicbooks.com/real-magic-w...

We are back for the fourth edition of our magic mini-festival! This time over four days from Thursday 13th to Sunday 16th November 2025. This is not your normal book festival. THIS IS REAL MAGIC✨ realmagicbooks.com/real-magic-w...

Ebook readers you can now support Real Magic. It is time to ditch the other billionaire supporting options, support a real bookshop whilst still enjoying your Kindle. Bookshop.org have set up ebooks on their website which means every time you buy through them you’re supporting the shop.

Book of the day, How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis. @katemuir.bsky.social a women’s health expert, documentary maker, and author of How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis, as well as groundbreaking books on the menopause and the pill. wegottickets.com/event/673121/

Heads up music fans, Modern Nature return to Wendover on Friday 10 October with a new record, the full band and on the very last date of their UK tour here at the British Legion. A third of the tickets have gone already. wegottickets.com/event/661465

Tomorrow night (Wednesday 9 July) we welcome @robinince.bsky.social back to Real Magic to celebrate the release of his new book, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity. There are a small amount of tickets still available below wegottickets.com/event/662278

We’re bookselling @thesociallondon.bsky.social tonight to celebrate the launch of Ted Kessler and Hamish MacBain’s Oasis book, A Sound So Very Loud. Welcoming them to Wendover on 17 July as well, in conversation with Sean Rowley and Oasis quiz at the pub after! wegottickets.com/event/668401/

Our third Real Magic Weekend starts on Friday. Three days of talks, music and more in Wendover✨ Info and tickets realmagicbooks.com/real-magic-w...

We’ll be serving a special @lostandgrounded.bsky.social festival beer this weekend! Our own Real Magic Ale, available at the King and Queen and shop

Real Magic Weekend III 30 May-1 June 2025 A Magic Mini Festival in Wendover Join us for three days of music and talks, workshops and walks, drinking and dancing. This is our biggest mini festival yet! realmagicbooks.com/real-magic-w...

Join us and authors @joedunthorne.bsky.social, @drtombolton.bsky.social & Rowe Irvin at the third annual @realmagicbooks.bsky.social Real Magic Weekend in Wendover at the end of the month. More info/tickets: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/real...

On 30 May @rosatkins.bsky.social will be appearing as our very special guest for the first event of our third Real Magic Weekend! We’ll be discussing his book, The Art of Explanation, talking about his career as a BBC journalist, and his recent adventures in DJing too wegottickets.com/event/658914

Real Magic Weekend III 30 May-1 June 2025 A Magic Mini Festival in Wendover Join us for three days of music and talks, workshops and walks, drinking and dancing. This is our biggest mini festival yet! realmagicbooks.com/real-magic-w...

Book of the day, Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes Prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes tells the story of how cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century in this lovely cultural history 🐈

“I’ve got a teams call at 11 and then I have to go up to Russell Square for a meeting at 1. What are your plans for today?” “The paperback version of my book is out” @bonnierbooksuk.bsky.social @blinkbooks.bsky.social

Book of the day, Children of Radium by @joedunthorne.bsky.social ☢️ I love this book. An unusual, funny and utterly intriguing family memoir. ‘The best book I’ve read in the past year . . . A masterpiece’ Financial Times

A new @johnhiggs.bsky.social publication is always a reason to celebrate so we are delighted to be inviting him back to Wendover on Friday 11 April to mark the release of his new book, Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who. wegottickets.com/event/653922/

Book of the day, Nine Lives - In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple. This is our current non fiction book group selection, we’ll be meeting on Wednesday 2 April to chat about it. I love this writing and the stories of these fascinating people. Brilliant.

Beautiful out there, @troubledstriker.bsky.social has called it, the bench is out for the first day of the season ☀️

On release day of Songs In The Key of MP3 (April 3rd) I’ll be heading to @realmagicbooks.bsky.social to talk to novelist Will Burns (@troubledstriker.bsky.social) about my book and modern musical pioneers from FKA twigs to SOPHIE… tickets here! realmagicbooks.com/events/songs...

Here until 5pm today and the shop is packed full of excellent books!✨

Music writer and journalist Liam Inscoe-Jones joins Real Magic’s Will Burns on Thursday 3 April to discuss his fascinating new book on music in the internet age, Songs in the Key of MP3 @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social wegottickets.com/event/654329/

A new @johnhiggs.bsky.social publication is always a reason to celebrate so we are delighted to be inviting him back to Wendover on Friday 11 April to mark the release of his new book, Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who. wegottickets.com/event/653922/

We’ve waited 10 years for a follow up to Americanah by the brilliant Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, so it feels right to be celebrating it at book group. Described as a searing exploration of love itself it’s a front runner for many of this year’s big prizes. uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...

Lovely day for it. Here until 5pm playing country music and selling good books✨

Book of the day, Careless People: A story of where I used to work by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Shocking and darkly funny, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to the decisions that are shaping our world and the people who make them. Welcome to Facebook. uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9781...

Book of the day, Give it Grow: Simple Projects to Nurture Food, Flowers and Wildlife in any Outdoor Space by Martha Swales. We’ve got a few lovely gardening and allotment books for all ages in at the moment. It’s a lovely weekend ahead for it ☀️🌱 uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...

Book of the day, Flesh by David Szalay (@vintagebooks.bsky.social). Comes very very highly recommended this one. Tipped as a book of the year by lots of people, described as a straight up masterpiece by some too. ‘Brilliance on every page’ Samantha Harvey uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...

Two floors of the best books and greatest records. Real Magic Records is upstairs all weekend, Real Magic everything, always. Good books for bad times✨ Come and see us!

Last few days to #ReadItForward! Buy ANY children’s book via Bookshop.org during February and we’ll donate 10% of the sale to the leading children’s reading charities, @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social 📚 Every sale supports independent bookshops 📚 bit.ly/RIFEB25

Check out the International @thebookerprizes.bsky.social Longlist here on our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page✨ uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-in...?

Book of the day is this beautiful 16 page 2 colour risograph A4 zine, A Radical Garden 💚🌱❤️ We only have 10 copies in stock and not sure if we can get more. Big love to the always brilliant @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social for the tip off on this one✨

Book of the day! Goodlord: An Email by Ella Frears 🩷🔑 Ella is our very special guest here tomorrow (Friday) night at the shop, reading for us and in conversation with Will Burns. ‘A dazzling treat of a book, genuinely inventive, spiky and funny’ Observer wegottickets.com/event/647993/

Book of the day! Goodlord: An Email by Ella Frears 🩷🔑 Ella is our very special guest here tomorrow (Friday) night at the shop, reading for us and in conversation with Will Burns. ‘A dazzling treat of a book, genuinely inventive, spiky and funny’ Observer wegottickets.com/event/647993/

Book of the day. I wouldn’t mind taking the rest of the week off and reading this one to be honest, sounds fascinating. uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...

Join our friends Rough Trade Books and @realmagicbooks.bsky.social in Wendover, Buckinghamshire for a series of day-long writing workshops with counter-cultural panache https://buff.ly/3CEOu9K

We are honoured and excited to be hosting an evening with Ella Frears here at Real Magic Books on Friday 21 February, celebrating her fierce, dark, funny and unique novel-in-verse, Goodlord: An Email. Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/647993/

A very special hometown show from Wendover’s own The Boy Least Likely To ✨🎈 Celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut album - The Best Party Ever - and also the first night of our third Real Magic Weekend on Friday 30 May! wegottickets.com/event/648546/

We are honoured and excited to be hosting an evening with Ella Frears here at Real Magic Books on Friday 21 February, celebrating her fierce, dark, funny and unique novel-in-verse, Goodlord: An Email. Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/647993/

Book of the day, out this week in paperback and straight to the top of the Real Magic reading pile. Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9781...

Evening all. You can find us @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social on the link below. I’m sure you all know how it works, support us and other independent bookshops by buying your books online here 👍 ✨ uk.bookshop.org/shop/realmag...

It’s hard to imagine a more special celebration of the new year than last night. Love to Ryley Walker for coming to little old Wendover on his tour, it was an incredible set. Esme White was totally brilliant as well in support. More Real Magic Music to come!✨

it's burns night tomorrow! here's your cut-out-and-keep Will Burns mask (if you're under 10, ask a grown-up to help you with the scissors). and order your copy of Natural Burial Ground here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/natura...

Book of the day and our next fiction book group choice, Enduring Love by Ian McEwan. A romantic, funny, and unsettling page turning 90s classic (partly set in the Chilterns) that totally warrants reading and celebrating in 2025. We’re meeting on Wednesday 12 February at 1900 to discuss✨

Buy ANY book 18-19 Jan, and you could win a £250 Bookshop.org digital gift card! Every sale supports independent bookshops ❤️ uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...