advertising slogans coined by famous authors: DOROTHY L. SAYERS: "guinness is good for you" SALMAN RUSHDIE: "irresistibubble" (for aero), "that'll do nicely" (for amex) FAY WELDON: "go to work on an egg" NANCY MITFORD: "don't drink and drive, smoke and fly", "i like the pope, the pope smokes dope"

he sings the songs that remind him of the whiskey drink he sings the songs that remind him of the water drink

Today, after 12 glorious years, Gayle is saying goodbye to the Bookshop 😭😭😭 Here she is in her new professional habitat 👇 Find out more about her midlife crisis, and the books that encouraged it here: lrb.me/880e47

In a live episode of the 𝘓𝘙𝘉 podcast 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘬at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk, Daniel Soar, Patrick Cockburn, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social and @tomstevenson.bsky.social will discuss the long aftermath of 9/11 and the War on Terror. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aftershock...

Sex and food at the LRB Bookshop with a discussion by writers Sheena Patel and Lauren J Joseph whose work is in the new issue of @vittles.bsky.social magazine! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vittles-2-...

snow!!!

THIS WEDNESDAY! Escape the cold at our first late shopping evening of the year! Join us 6-8pm for 10% off books St. JOHN will be open late as well, for all your wine, doughnut and cocktail needs! Tickets free, but booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/january-la...

Pls quote this with your most underwhelming anecdotes about meeting minor celebrities, but also, this is important, after the anecdote please add in caps "LRB BOOKSHOP JANUARY SALE IS NOW ON". it was going to be delayed because we didn't have any sale stickers, but charlie found some in a drawer

Our bestsellers for the first week of the new year 🎆⁣ lrb.me/6jh

If you want a change of pace and topic - I have been listening to this today whilst cooking soup, and it is a really insightful and generous discussion.

*cough* Frank O'Hara is what, chopped liver to you?

1926 - 100 years ago in 10 hours and 4 minutes - was a very auspicious year for American poetry (births of Merrill, Ginsberg, Creeley) and American jazz (Coltrane & Davis). not much else going on. sad news about rilke

In our final podcast of 2025, geographer Danny Dorling, author of THE NEXT CRISIS, and philosopher Arianne Shahvisi look to the future to find out what we should be worried about and what we should do about it Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: lrb.me/ba9764 @versobooks.bsky.social

our infographics department have been hard at work over the festive season, putting together their objective ranking of stations on the piccadilly line, best to worst. (when station serves more than one line, only the piccadilly line elements are counted.) notes in adjacent column

This week's bestsellers - the last one of 2025! 🎉✨🎉 www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/ou...

a customer who works in the city told me about the McCrab and i went out on my lunchbreak on the elizabeth line to try it, and ye gods, it is amazing, the best new McDonalds menu item for at least a decade

In our penultimate podcast of 2025, Lamorna Ash discusses a new generation’s search for religion, as explored in her latest book DON’T FORGET WE’RE HERE FOREVER, with the LRB’s James Butler Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: lrb.me/8821d5 @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

In today’s podcast, psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster, author of ON BREATHING, talks to Katherine Angel about care, dependence and what it means to breathe in an age of environmental catastrophe Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: lrb.me/8cf0cd

here is my little drummer boy theory

Happy Christmas Eve! The perfect time to listen to a podcast about the many evils of late capitalism! In our latest podcast, Laleh Khalili discusses her book EXTRACTIVE CAPITALISM with David Wearing Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: lrb.me/ac2119

🎶 Merry Christmas to me Merry Christmas to me Merry Christmas to Jeremy Merry Christmas to me 🎶 Thanks to @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk for shipping so quickly

have just received word that the faber & faber christmas crackers this year contain this as a 'fun fact': "DID YOU KNOW - in 2024, an ocelot was trained to be a Bookseller". this is just not the case. they did indeed let it loose in the shop, but it very rapidly had to be gathered up again

There’s still time to come and pick up any last minute Christmas presents! We’re open today until 6.30 p.m. and tomorrow until 4!

Two more podcasts for your festive entertainment! 🍐 Laura Beatty discusses her Hazel Press pamphlet PEAR TREES with Edmund de Waal lrb.me/0d4e14

Our final bestseller list before Christmas 🎄🎁📚⁣ lrb.me/6jh

🚨🚨🚨NEW PRYNNE ALERT🚨🚨🚨

it's a Christmas miracle - new poems from the one & only J.H. Prynne, in full "Doric Plumage". Order your copy here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/doric-...

Our current Bestsellers! 🥖 Find out more here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/ou...

it's got smaller because i've been eating it

would people please stop hanging novels on nails and festooning them with glory? it is not remotely christmassy, and as virginia woolf has pointed out, the novel actually walks the high road, alive and alert, and brushes shoulders with real men and women

We're closing at 5.30pm today for a private event - come in before then for all your book-buying needs!

Nigel Slater kindly stopped by to sign some copies of A Thousand Feasts. Grab your signed copies here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/a-thou...

This week’s Books of the Year list comes from Liv and features fiction, memoir, poetry and essays, but top of the list is Paul B. Preciado’s DYSPHORIA MUNDI Find out more about all Liv’s picks here: lrb.me/22889b

more important information on the surnames of booker prize winning authors, from our infographics department

The London Review Bookshop Christmas gift guide is here! Together we've selected books across every genre, which you can order for in-store collection or delivery anywhere in the world. Find out more here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/collections/...

Not only that, no author with a Q or an X in their surnames has ever been nominated. However, Anthony Quinn was a judge in 2006 and Paul Theroux was in 1979.

is david szalay the first writer with a 'z' in his surname to win the booker prize? far from it - penelope fitzgerald beat him to it, in 1979, followed by J.M. Coetzee in 1983 and 1999. our infographics department has put together a chart of the first appearance of each letter in the booker surnames

🎧 New on the podcast! 🎧 Jenny Uglow talks to Fiona Stafford about the life and work of ‘the father of ecology’ Gilbert White Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: lrb.me/355bbe We have signed copies of A YEAR WITH GILBERT WHITE in stock - order here: lrb.me/d82c48

TONIGHT! Come to our Late Shopping Evening and get 10% off all books and free gift-wrapping. We’ll be on hand to give recommendations and our neighbours at St. JOHN will also be open late for wine and their famous mince pies. Get a free ticket here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/christmas...

Today’s extra podcast for advent features Emily LaBarge in conversation with Olivia Laing, discussing LaBarge’s DOG DAYS, a dazzling exploration of trauma, writing, art and the imagination Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: lrb.me/09fb4a

Our current bestsellers 🇫🇷⁣ lrb.me/6jh

it doesn't seem right that the verbs 'deduce' and 'deduct' both make the same noun. like we've been cheated of a word

Tomorrow Night! Join us at the Garden Cinema for our next LRB Screen film: 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦, set in east and south London, including Brixton and Billingsgate fish market. Co-director Andrea Luka Zimmerman will be in conversation after the film. Find out more: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...

If you see this please share (i.e. repost, not just like)! The Barbellion Prize is a unique award for writers with disabilities. We need to raise £20k to secure its future, so please make a donation, no matter how large, no matter how small, here: barbellionprize.org/donate/ Thank you!

This week it’s Natalia’s turn to select her books of the year. Her number 1 pick is THE CAFÉ WITH NO NAME by Robert Seethaler, ‘a book I would be happy to give to all as a present, anytime of the year’. Find out more about Natalia’s picks here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/na...

if you put together the names of the Mouse, Fox, Owl, Snake and Gruffalo - the animals from julia donaldson's beloved book "the gruffalo" - you will find they are a perfect anagram of 'muskox, goofs, a funereal wolf' - giving a strong hint what creatures will star in the upcoming third installment

something is rattan in the state of denmark

New on the podcast: Ali Smith talks to Sarah Wood about her novel, GLIFF. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Need to get your Christmas shopping done? Get 10% off all books and free gift wrapping at our late shopping evening tomorrow night. Our neighbours at St. JOHN will also be open for mulled wine and their famous mince pies. Free tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1962217839...

It's mangling an authentic anecdote - Spielberg did approach Stoppard, but didn't want him to write the script (the script had been completed by this point) - the idea was for him to appear in the film, playing the mayor