Real Magic Books

We are back for the fourth edition of our magic mini-festival! This time over four days from Thursday 13th to Sunday 16th November 2025.

This is not your normal book festival. THIS IS REAL MAGIC✨

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We are back for the fourth edition of our magic mini-festival! This time over four days from Thursday 13th to Sunday 16th November 2025.

This is not your normal book festival. THIS IS REAL MAGIC✨

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Bookshop.org: Store Locator Discover local and indie bookshops in the United Kingdom. Choose your favourite bookshop to support with your order. They'll receive the full profit from your purchase.

You can find us on here, select us as your bookshop and you’ll be supporting us with your online purchases 📚👍

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Ebook readers you can now support Real Magic. It is time to ditch the other billionaire supporting options, support a real bookshop whilst still enjoying your Kindle. Bookshop.org have set up ebooks on their website which means every time you buy through them you’re supporting the shop.

How To Have A Magnificent Midlife Crisis with Kate Muir Kate Muir is a women’s health expert, documentary maker, and author of How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis, as well as groundbreaking books on the menopause and the pill. She will be in conversat...

She will be in conversation with Sophie here at Real Magic Books on 19 September✨

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Book of the day, How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis. @katemuir.bsky.social a women’s health expert, documentary maker, and author of How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis, as well as groundbreaking books on the menopause and the pill.

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Real Magic Music with Modern Nature When Modern Nature toured their last album, 2023’s No Fixed Point In Space, it became apparent to Jack Cooper – the band’s main creative force – that they were already pulling away from the free, open...

Heads up music fans, Modern Nature return to Wendover on Friday 10 October with a new record, the full band and on the very last date of their UK tour here at the British Legion. A third of the tickets have gone already.

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Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal A powerful, personal exploration of anxiety, ADHD and neurodiversity, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal reminds us all – no matter how weird we feel – that it’s okay to be a little different. We all a...

Tomorrow night (Wednesday 9 July) we welcome @robinince.bsky.social back to Real Magic to celebrate the release of his new book, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity. There are a small amount of tickets still available below

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We’re bookselling @thesociallondon.bsky.social tonight to celebrate the launch of Ted Kessler and Hamish MacBain’s Oasis book, A Sound So Very Loud.

Welcoming them to Wendover on 17 July as well, in conversation with Sean Rowley and Oasis quiz at the pub after!

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Our third Real Magic Weekend starts on Friday. Three days of talks, music and more in Wendover✨

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We’ll be serving a special @lostandgrounded.bsky.social festival beer this weekend! Our own Real Magic Ale, available at the King and Queen and shop

Real Magic Weekend III
30 May-1 June 2025
A Magic Mini Festival in Wendover

Join us for three days of music and talks, workshops and walks, drinking and dancing.

This is our biggest mini festival yet!

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Join us and authors @joedunthorne.bsky.social, @drtombolton.bsky.social & Rowe Irvin at the third annual @realmagicbooks.bsky.social Real Magic Weekend in Wendover at the end of the month. More info/tickets: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/real...

Full festival info

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On 30 May @rosatkins.bsky.social will be appearing as our very special guest for the first event of our third Real Magic Weekend! We’ll be discussing his book, The Art of Explanation, talking about his career as a BBC journalist, and his recent adventures in DJing too

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Thank you!

Real Magic Weekend III
30 May-1 June 2025
A Magic Mini Festival in Wendover

Join us for three days of music and talks, workshops and walks, drinking and dancing.

This is our biggest mini festival yet!

realmagicbooks.com/real-magic-w...

Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World a book by Kathryn Hughes. *Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize* A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year...

‘Smart, gorgeously written cultural history’ TLS

‘Delightful’ Guardian

‘Excellent’ Spectator

‘Joyous cultural history’ The Times

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Book of the day, Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes

Prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes tells the story of how cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century in this lovely cultural history 🐈

“I’ve got a teams call at 11 and then I have to go up to Russell Square for a meeting at 1. What are your plans for today?”

“The paperback version of my book is out”

@bonnierbooksuk.bsky.social @blinkbooks.bsky.social

Great isn’t it!

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance a book by Joe Dunthorne. Off-beat, irreverent and subversive – a Jewish family memoir about convenient delusions and unsayable truths, from the acclaimed author of the cult classic novel, Submarine'The best book I’ve read in ...

Find out more and preorder the book here

Can’t wait to welcome Joe to the shop soon to talk about this too, keep your eyes peeled for the full announcement very soon!

‘Joe Dunthorne has written a contemporary classic’ Andrew O’Hagan

Book of the day, Children of Radium by @joedunthorne.bsky.social ☢️ I love this book. An unusual, funny and utterly intriguing family memoir.

‘The best book I’ve read in the past year . . . A masterpiece’ Financial Times

A new @johnhiggs.bsky.social publication is always a reason to celebrate so we are delighted to be inviting him back to Wendover on Friday 11 April to mark the release of his new book, Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who.

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Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India a book by William Dalrymple. LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE‘Beautifully written, ridiculously erudite, warm and open-hearted’ The Times‘Compelling and poignant’ Guardian‘This is travel writing at its best’ Observer Inter...

‘This is travel writing at its best’ Observer

‘Beautifully written, ridiculously erudite, warm and open-hearted’ The Times

‘Compelling and poignant’ Guardian

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Book of the day, Nine Lives - In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple.

This is our current non fiction book group selection, we’ll be meeting on Wednesday 2 April to chat about it. I love this writing and the stories of these fascinating people. Brilliant.

Beautiful out there, @troubledstriker.bsky.social has called it, the bench is out for the first day of the season ☀️