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It's Friday and we feel the need, the need to read!!

Totally packed Under Fives Storytime today, happy kids, adults and doggos!

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Looking into a packed children's room in the Edinburgh Bookshop, during a very busy Under Fives Storytime.

Celebrating ninety years of Penguin Books!!!

Loving our new window art by our own Jack, and these delightful Penguin Archive editions, which criss-cross decades of publishing history.

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The finished Penguin 90 painted window and book display in the Edinburgh Bookshop, taken from further back to include the whole frontage of the bookshop

The finished Penguin 90 painted window and book display in the Edinburgh Bookshop

Looking out the front window of the Edinburgh Bookshop, as bookseller Jack starts painting a design on the glass

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#LunchtimeReading : lunch on the Links again, handily close to our bookshop. And Muybridge, by the always excellent Guy Delisle, just arrived from Drawn & Quarterly ; #photography and #comics ? I can't resist...

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A copy of the graphic biography of Muybridge by Guy Delisle

A view along a path lined by trees now in their spring greenery

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You know who we’ve missed at Story Hour? Madeleine E. Robins. And you know who we’ve been missing out on? Kemi Ashing-Giwa. But don’t despair—they’re both going to read SFF stories for us this week! Join us Wednesday at 7:00 PDT! #Bookstodon #StoryHour2020 #ShortStories #ShortFiction #AuthorReading #FantasyFiction #ScienceFiction #SFF #KemiAshing-Giwa #MadeleineERobins https://www.storyhour2020.com/

Black-and-white photo of Kemi Ashing-Giwa, a Black woman with a natural worn short on the sides and tall on the top. She wears a fine-gauge crew-neck sweater in a light tone and lip gloss. They sit on a chair or sofa with an upholstered back, in front of a light source (a curved window with panes, or perhaps a translucent tent?). She is turned with her face in three-quarters view as she looks attentively toward something or someone off-camera. Their eyes are focused, creased at the corners as part of their warm, broad smile.

@Ghostsheetz If you liked that series, there's a recent on by Mochizuki, The Full Moon Coffee Shop. Very similar territory, but here the coffee shop appears in different locations only on a full moon, visibly to only those who need it - and it is staffed by giant, talking cats who may be Yokai! I quite enjoyed it as a gentle read after a couple of heavyweight books

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Help.

I'm looking for a science fiction story i once read. It's about people who never leave their homes and communicate by phone only. For some reason(?) one person takes the brave step of leaving their home. There might be robots

Please boost. #bookstodon #BookSearch

🏆Edit. I think it's The Machine Stops by E M Forster but feel free to suggest similar! Thank you everyone ❤️❤️

We're always delighted to have a new book from our old chum, Robin Ince.

Clive Penguin is quite taken with the signed, Indie Bookshop Edition of Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal from PanMacmillan.

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Cuddly Clive Penguin plushie holding a hardback of Robin Ince's Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, on a sunny day outside the Edinburgh Bookshop

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Book Review: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
A very British, very brutal take on dark academia that takes it back to its more critical roots.
Our Hugo finalist Roseanna Pendlebury has the review at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/04/book-review-incandescent-by-emily-tesh.html
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@wordybirdy Insert the bad angling "are you hooked yet?" pun here...

It's spring, and the non-fiction books are blooming! This is just a wee selection of some of our most recent arrivals, from nature to history to civil rights.

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a stack of paperback and hardback new non-fiction releases outside the Edinburgh Bookshop, on a bright, spring day

Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane has flowed downstream, to the delta of the new books table.

Joe already thinks it will be one of his books of the year; beautifully written, it pulls no punches on how much damage we have done to our world, but it also instils hope and that equally precious commodity, the sense of wonder.

Signed Indie Bookshop editions available now.

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(cover artwork by Stanley Donwood)

Green cover, criss-crossed by meandering, curving lines in shades of blue to denote rivers crossing the landscape, on the hardback of Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane, outside the Edinburgh Bookshop. Cover painting by Stanley Donwood

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Here's an interview of me, talking about writing thrillers. My new thriller, ATACAMA, comes out May 13. https://www.youtube.com/live/EmRhjRiap1I?si=lXonZ4BSjHC0LWn1

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And here's Olga with her delightful, latest novel! https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54480477823/in/photostream/

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From the recent launch of her latest novel, Olga Wojtas reading from Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Uncharted Island at the @TheEdinburghBookshop
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It's #IndieBookshopDay for our chums in the US today, please show your local bookshop a lot of love (and cookies, they like cookies too).

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#WhatWereReading : Joe is finding Prof Anna Whitelock's The Sun Rising absolutely fascinating. James VI & I & the foundations of a later, global Britain; #History with lessons pertinent to today's world.

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