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Deep in the English countryside an evil presence awakes…

The Decadence by Leon Craig is the queer horror lockdown novel you’ve been waiting for. It's absolutely brilliant and launches this Thursday at @owlbookshop.bsky.social
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Tonight at @owlbookshop.bsky.social in London's Kentish Town I'll be speaking with the wonderful @ruthpadel.bsky.social to start my book tour for Lifelines!
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So looking forward to Sara Wheeler talking to Tony Peake about his reissued biography of Derek Jarman. Tickets available here owlbookshop.co.uk/product/tony...
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Amanda Rubin and Robin Shohet in Conversation – Owl Bookshop £0.00

Tomorrow (23 April) at 6:30 pm BST: Join @owlbookshop.bsky.social in welcoming documentary filmmaker Amanda Rubin & psychotherapist Robin Shohet for a discussion on The Third Reich of Dreams by Charlotte Beradt, now re-published in a new translation.

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Looking forward to this event next month with The Witches of Scotland! Tickets here

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The covers of Lifelines and Ruth Padel's Girl on an event poster.

So excited to be joining the wonderful @ruthpadel.bsky.social at London's @owlbookshop.bsky.social on June 11th for stories and poetry from Greece, on what will be the first stop of my book tour for LIFELINES this summer. Details and tickets via the link: owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...

I am very happy to be in conversation with the brilliant
Ewan Morrison about his extraordinary new novel 'For Emma', @leamington.bsky.social a page-turning thriller, fusing futurism with a powerful emotional core.
Join us @owlbookshop.bsky.social 27/03 6.30pm.
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I'll be interviewing Ewan Morrison about his excellent new novel For Emma @leamington.bsky.social 27/03/25 @owlbookshop.bsky.social, a story of a Silicon Valley prodigy who dies in a secret AI brain chip experiment. It's a brilliant book, come join us! Can't wait
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Join us at @owlbookshop.bsky.social on the 27th to launch For Emma by Ewan Morrison — in conversation with Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social 

“For Emma is as disturbing as it is convincing, a tale of love and guilt and grief, and an apt tract for our chaotic times.”

John Banville

Join us at @owlbookshop.bsky.social on 30th January at 6:30pm for a special event with #HowLabourWins author Douglas Beattie. Douglas tells the dramatic story of how the Labour Party changed modern Britain, through the lens of each election from 1900 to today.
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Get into the Christmas spirit and celebrate the 180th anniversary of A Christmas Carol with this irresistible clothbound edition. Ebenezer Scrooge was a mean, miserable, bitter old man, until one Christmas Eve changed everything... 'Bah! Humbug!'

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Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention.

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What if you had the chance to tell your hero just how much they meant to you? If Nick Drake came to my house and knocked upon the door I’m sure I’d be more happy than I’ve ever been before…

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Main dishes bursting with flavour like baked butter paneer, kimchi and tomato spaghetti or marbled egg omelette with nam pla.

Mouthwatering desserts and exciting side dishes like bubble tea ice cream or salt and vinegar potato salad.

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Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood – a writer who has fundamentally shaped our contemporary literary landscapes – Paper Boat assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume.

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A book for the romantic-realist in all of us, You Don’t Have to Have a Dream offers Tim Minchin’s inimitable thoughts and advice on life, art, success, kindness, love, and thriving in a meaningless universe.

Extended opening hours until 23rd December 9am-7pm Monday to Saturday, 11am-6pm on Sunday
and if you’re really desperate 9am-5pm on Christmas Eve

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Signed copies of There and Back - Diaries Volume 4 now available. Thank you Michael Palin, a full house and happy crowd!

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‘Everyone wants to spend a day and share a meal with Stanley Tucci and this is the perfect way to do it … A true joy’ Ina Garten
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… a beautiful and exacting account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of gardens: not as a place to hide from the world but as a site of encounter and discovery, bee-loud and pollen-laden.

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We have some lovely Advent calendars in the shop, Art Angels, Roger La Borde, Flame Tree and more…

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Tracy Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is vivid, inventive, spellbinding: a virtuoso portrait of a woman, a family and a city that are as everlasting as their glass.

Signed copies of There and Back, Diaries 1999-2009 will be available after our upcoming sold out talk with Michael Palin on 3rd of December- reserve copies here
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‘The best novel that’s been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It’s funny but desperately moving too’ – The Sunday Times

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…an unforgettable story of friendship, redemption and a life-changing voyage of discovery on a remote Norwegian island…

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It was actually last week!

Great to see @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social in the Owl today! Absolution is the latest and fourth volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series, which began with Annihilation and continued with Authority and Acceptance.

'No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades' Financial Times

Untold London It's a city like no other, a city with a million secret stories right beneath our feet. Historian and journalist Dan Carrier is leading our new Untold London channel which will be sharing some of the ...

Untold London is the history film channel from the offices of the Camden New Journal and Islington Tribune. You can watch it all at www.youtube.co.uk/@untoldldn Dan Carrier leads you through the capital