EVENT! Start spooky season right with Anna Bogutskaya, in conversation on the enduring popularity of the horror genre, to celebrate the paperback publication of her book FEEDING THE MONSTER. Thursday October 2nd, doors 6.30pm, tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anna-bogut...

Thank you Tom at @stokeybookshop.bsky.social for picking @cbeditions.bsky.social SPENT LIGHT. Your description, "this stupendously strange book", has made my day. Many many thanks🙏🏼. And thanks to Michelle Strange for the photo.

It's International Cat Day and we're a bookshop so we are duty-bound to share some photos of authors and their cats

TONIGHT! We're slinging books (gently) at Abney Park's Harriet Delph room for the wonderful Sarah Stein Lubrano. The talk: Living (and Reading) Our Way through the Apocalypse. The book: Don't Talk About Politics : How to Change 21st-Century Minds. More info here

It's the final week of pride month 👎 But we have a new Book of the Week 👍 It's Jon Savage's THE SECRET PUBLIC, his characteristically wide-reaching queer history of pop, from Little Richard and Brian Epstein through to Studio 54 and the Village People

TOMORROW! We'll be back in Abney Park for the annual Bronterre O'Brien Memorial Commemoration, which this year is being given by Bruno Leipold. We'll be selling copies of Bruno's book Citizen Marx before, after, but probably not during (respectful) All the deets here

We were chuffed to see THE NIGHT TREMBLES featured in @stokeybookshop.bsky.social's Small Press Spotlight this month — especially alongside such brilliant company!

TOMORROW! We'll be at Abney Park Chapel for the paperback launch of A WOMAN LIKE ME, the triffic memoir from @hackneyabbott.bsky.social , as part of the Radical Writers Festival. All the info is on their website

Regrettably we’ve had to cancel this year’s festival due to (literally) unforeseen circumstances but will be back next year with an absolute belter. See you then xx

TONIGHT! We'll be down the road at Doña (great cocktails, sparkly curtained entrance) for the launch of SPIRITED WOMEN. RSVP for ZERO POUNDS right here

Been having some issues with the phone line the past few days (cheers for the """"upgrade,"""" BT) — so if we don't pick up or yoy get cuts off mid-call, it's not JUST us being rude

April's theme is SMALL BOOKS LIKE THESE. Slim tomes to help you out of a reading slump, punchy book-length essays that make their point then scarper, small yet perfectly formed non-fiction you can carry in your jacket pocket, and so on

NEW ZINE now shipping over at the shoppe! shop.weirdwalk.co.uk

A gentle reminder that we will be CLOSED tomorrow, April 1st. Not a prank! Not a hoax! Not an imaginary tale! We're going to be doing our annual stock take. And bear in mind our strong suit is words, not numbers. Thoughts and prayers pls. Back to normal hours Wednesday 🙏

TONIGHT! The Abney Park Radical Writer's Festival kicks off with an evening of live poetry, conversation and the like with IAIN SINCLAIR AND CHRIS MCCABE. More info and tickets here

IT'S 10AM. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR BOOKS ARE. (We're open!)

Available for preorder in-store now!

20 March marks the Spring Equinox: a time to celebrate the shifting balance of light and dark. During this time of reflection and renewal, we bring you our 2025 publishing: featuring writing from Anne Carson, Shulamith Firestone, Ursula K. Le Guin, and more! www.silverpress.org/blogs/news/a...

Wasafiri is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Alex Wheatle, a renowned British novelist known as the ‘Brixton Bard’. His contributions to literature, youth, and community will be greatly missed — please join us in remembrance.

In honour of the Spring Equinox (it happened an hour before we opened, rude), here is a thread of authors with woodland creatures

You guys heard about these "books" they have now

Did a post on our Insta about a fresh crop of film books being added to our Media section and now my camera roll is full of photos of James Dean reading

Another from the 2025 Women’s Prize longlist, Rosanna Pike’s boisterous A Little Trickerie is a fine example of historical fiction being used to explore injustices of the past. anzlitlovers.com/2025/03/18/a...

NEW WEEK=NEW BOOK OF THE WEEK! Emma recommends this surreal novella touching on collective memory and the politics of ownership

SCHEDULED TWEET: It's a bright/normal/miserable day! Why not begin your stroll to Clissold/break up the tedium/seek shelter in our lovely shop? It has books! And air conditioning/room temperature/central heating! THIS IS A SCHEDULED POST

Did you read our last newsletter yet? Do you not like us? Did we do something to hurt you? It's not too late to atone: have a gander at the books our staff read and recommended over the past month

EVENT! On April 10th we'll be at Doña selling books at the launch for SPIRITED WOMEN, Sammi Katz and Olivia McGiff's toast to the trailblazing women shaking up the drinks industry. There will be cocktail demos! And you can drink them, too! RSVP here for free

Keep up with our 2025 THEMED READING CHALLENGES right here 📚

We're doing a monthly reading challenge in 2025. Does this mean we're reading something every month? Yes, but WAIT! There's more! We're also recommending books according to a particular theme each of those months...

My beloved @stokeybookshop.bsky.social is here - do give them a follow.

Faber is reissuing The Lowlife by Alexander Baron, 8.5.25 a BANGER a young colleague snapped up our early copy (for which many thanks) I note, not unrelatedly, that this edition has a (discreet) health warning about some of the (1963...) language The older edition didn't. But this seems right

This is great. The History of Every Shop on Stoke Newington Church Street by @historyofstokey.bsky.social I miss Lucky Seven - a great record shop. The book is free from @stokeybookshop.bsky.social

Only gone and sent out our first newsletter of 2025 — our 100th overall, that is — with highlights of the half price sale and what we read over Christmas us8.campaign-archive.com?u=1c2ff4eae1...

Half price sale is in full swing! Fiction! Non-Fiction! Cookery! Children's! 50% of the price for 100% of a book! We don't tear a single page out!

Heaps of cracking new Penguin titles on the tables as of today, but special consideration must be given to this "new classic" — three generations of a Sicilian family ecsaping their slow decline by disappearing into fairy-tale tinged delusion. Beloved of Ferrante, Calvino 'n' Ginzburg, naturally~

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