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Independent bookseller in Kentish Town, London. πŸ¦‰πŸ“šπŸŽ Mon-Sat 9am-6pm Sun 11am-6pm www.owlbookshop.co.uk owlbookshop@gmail.com Tel. 020 7485 7793

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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
#debutfiction #leoncraig @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

22.09.2025 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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11.06.2025 08:07 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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...
@allisonandbusby.bsky.social

02.05.2025 07:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amanda Rubin and Robin Shohet in Conversation – Owl Bookshop Β£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.

Learn more:

22.04.2025 07:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking forward to this event next month with The Witches of Scotland! Tickets here

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12.04.2025 07:41 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
The covers of Lifelines and Ruth Padel's Girl on an event poster.

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...

03.04.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Ewan Morrison – Owl Bookshop

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.
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/ewan...

23.03.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/ewan...

16.03.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us at @owlbookshop.bsky.social on the 27th to launch For Emma by Ewan Morrison β€” in conversation with Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.socialΒ 

β€œFor 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

12.03.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.
dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...

10.01.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!'

18.12.2024 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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.

18.12.2024 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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…

14.12.2024 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

13.12.2024 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

12.12.2024 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

11.12.2024 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

10.12.2024 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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!

10.12.2024 09:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜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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09.12.2024 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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28.11.2024 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We have some lovely Advent calendars in the shop, Art Angels, Roger La Borde, Flame Tree and more…

28.11.2024 08:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

26.11.2024 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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
owlbookshop.co.uk

23.11.2024 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜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

23.11.2024 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And so it begins….πŸŽ„πŸŽ…πŸ“š

21.11.2024 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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…an unforgettable story of friendship, redemption and a life-changing voyage of discovery on a remote Norwegian island…

@herdyshepherd.bsky.social

20.11.2024 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

It was actually last week!

19.11.2024 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

19.11.2024 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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'No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades' Financial Times

19.11.2024 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

14.11.2024 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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