This week's bestsellers! Head to our website to find out more: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/ou...

There are just a couple days left to apply to come work with us at the Bookshop. More details about the position here: www.lrb.co.uk/pages/standa...

perfect for wold bock day

Our Book of the Week is DON'T TRUST FISH, illustrated by ​New York Times bestseller and Caldecott Medal-winning Dan Santat. Recommended by Emily: 'DON’T TRUST FISH is a hilarious, well illustrated book where you even learn about animals' 🐠 www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/don-t-...

seamus heaney's favourite blini (smoked mackerel pate and a cornichon)

On Tuesday 17 March, @lrb.co.uk contributing editor Jeremy Harding will be in the Bookshop to discuss ANALOGUE AFRICA, his new book on anti-colonialism in African art and film, with Kevin Okoth. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980462117...

Our Author of the Month for March is the Palestinian lawyer, human rights activist and writer Raja Shehadeh. Head to our website to find out more: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/collections/...

NEW PODCAST! Nell Stevens in conversation with Olivia Laing about Nell's recent novel THE ORIGINAL. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Freshly signed and doodled Adventuremice books by Philip Reeve and me right now at @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk in Bloomsbury! (Mortal Engines books, too!) ✍️✍️ #London

the miracles attributed to st. bega (who gives her name to st. bees in cumbria) are very dubious quality miracles if you ask me. arranging for a horse-thief to be shot in the bum; severing the hooves of another horse; jailbreaking three men from egmont castle after a drunken brawl

Tonight! Drop into the Bookshop between 6 p.m and 8 p.m. and get 10% off all books. St JOHN will also be open late for food and drink. Attendance is free, but booking is essential! Get your ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/march-late...

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very excited to find out what simon & schuster have chosen for their new corporate brand identity. high hopes it will involve kangol bucket hats, baggy shorts and listening to the first three cypress hill albums on chunky headphones

This week's bestsellers! Head to our website to find out more: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/ou...

🎤 Upcoming events coming up at the Bookshop: Wednesday 8 April: Polly Barton talks to Chal Ravens about her new novel, WHAT AM I, A DEER? Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983351735...

who wants to see some photos of chicken cacciatore with different types of pasta?

which are the two furthest-apart points in the UK, as the crow flies, which you can walk between without leaving urban landscape? my submission is here - Larchwood Drive in Egham (TW20) to Castle Lane in Gravesend (DA12), 42.83 miles. but I am confident someone can beat this

Our Book of the Week is this gorgeous facsimile edition of William Blake's *The Marriage of Heaven and Hell*: pick up your copy here - www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/the-ma...

A few tickets have just been made available for our sold-out event with Isabel Waidner & Sarah Wood this evening Be quick if you'd like to go! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isabel-wai...

NEW PODCAST: Liliane Lijn in conversation with Jennifer Higgie about Liliane's recent book LIQUID REFLECTIONS (Hamish Hamilton). Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

On Monday 16 March, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha will be at the Bookshop to discuss SOMETHING ABOUT LIVING, her National Book Award-winning poetry collection, with @suchmayer.bsky.social. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/something-...

today I learned that allen keys were invented by sir allen lane, of penguin fame. here he is in 1955, demonstrating their maximum diameter to a sceptical audience of booksellers

Join us between 6 p.m and 8 p.m. on Tuesday and get 10% off all books. St JOHN will also be open late for food and drink. Attendance is free, but booking is essential! Get your ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/march-late...

an important anniversary this year: colm tóibín's 2009 novel *brooklyn* is exactly as old as avril lavigne was, when she recorded and released her debut album "let go", featuring "sk8er boi", "complicated", and "i'm with you". congratulations to both

one of the things i'm always surprised by in this job is the very wide knowledge and enthusiasm across the entire book trade - from industry CEOs to lowly booksellers - for the band 'Machine Head'

heard for the first time yesterday about the portuguese sandwich called the Bifana and it sounds magnificent. is there anywhere within walking distance of the shop I could pick one of these up on a lunchbreak? does anyone have any london bifana recommendations in general?

This week's bestsellers! Head to our website to find out more: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/ou...

Our Meek of the Week is James Meek's YOUR LIFE WITHOUT ME. We have plenty of signed copies available in-store and on our website: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/your-l...

a lot of customers have been wondering what william golding would have looked like with a perfectly symmetrical face. as ever our infographics department are happy to oblige

astonishing to think that, if inspector morse had not died in "the remorseful day" and had been a real person rather than a fictional character, he might well have been one of the thames valley police officers who got to arrest prince andrew. and lewis too for that matter

NEW PODCAST! Kathryn Scanlan in conversation with Emily LaBarge about Kathryn's recent book AUG 9 - FOG. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/k...

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ages ago, kazuo ishiguro came into the shop (it was to sign copies of the paperback of "the buried giant") and he had a big plaster on the thumb of his non-signing hand. we asked him about it and he told us he'd been bitten by a swan in the kentish weald [ctd]

This week's bestsellers! Head to our website to find out more: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/ou...

been working with a few other booksellers from different shops to compile a contemporary dictionary of book trade slang. here is how it stands at the moment - please, if you are "in the trade", let us know what we've forgotten. (NOT lingo specific to just one shop, pls - only widely-understood terms

Our Book of the Week is AI WEIWEI ON CENSORSHIP. We have plenty of signed copies here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/ai-wei...

NEW PODCAST: Jeremy Atherton Lin in conversation with Diarmuid Hester about Jeremy's book DEEP HOUSE. Listen here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...

Next Wednesday at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk - tickets going fast!

not a lot of people know that G4S stands for 'Grill For Sausages'. it originally started out as a street-food company, and the iconic dark-blue vans - though they have long since sealed up their hatches - still all have fitted fridges and gas bbqs in the back

Issue 48.03 is now online, featuring: Seamus Perry on pluralism and poetry James Wolcott on John Updike @jamesmeek.bsky.social on the Romanian right Claire Hall on Archimedes John Gallagher on early modern news @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the US Special Forces Read online at lrb.co.uk

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On Wednesday 18 February, journalist, novelist and 𝘓𝘙𝘉 contributing editor @jamesmeek.bsky.social will be at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk to discuss his latest novel, 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘔𝘦, with Lara Pawson. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-meek...

pancho needs your prayers it's true but save a few for lefty too for breakfast he's been drinking brew rudie can't fail

from @ianvisits.co.uk - look how good the names of the sharks in the thames are. "tope, starry smoothound, and spurdog"

maybe it got cleared up in a different song, but imo pancho and lefty still leaves it very mysterious why pancho wore his gun outside his pants for all the honest world to feel

This week's bestsellers! Head to our website to see the full list (the picture does not include Christian Kracht's *Eurotrash* because we sold out over the weekend, but we'll have more copies by this afternoon) www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/ou...

We are closed all day tomorrow for a private event - back as usual on Saturday morning bright and early at 10am.

i have been told by two people I trust that the name 'boyzone' contains a deliberate pun: 'boyzone' = 'boy's own', like the "boy's own paper" etc. Surely this is not the case?

A pleasure to welcome Lauren J Joseph, Sheena Patel, & Odhran O’Donoghue to the bookshop to launch the second issue of Vittles magazine. Order your copy here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/vittle...

NEW PODCAST: Akshi Singh in conversation with Anouchka Grose on her recent book IN DEFENCE OF LEISURE. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...