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Before opening Meg's Bookshop in 1991, the Arnolds were told kids 'didn't read' in Port Pirie

After 35 years, Margie and Mark Arnold have closed the doors for the final time at Meg's Bookshop in the smelter city of Port Pirie.

The couple are being celebrated for their contribution to the community, including Margie Arnold’s authorship of a children’s book helping families to understand the effects of lead exposure and protect children’s health.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/meg-s-bookshop-port-pirie-closes-after-35-years-south-australia/106277430

#Australia
#bookshops

"Over the sea to Skye..." 🎼

Coinneach Maclean's An T-Eilean, Skye - Places & People, explores this beautiful Scottish island's history, landscape and culture, in English and Scots Gaelic.

#Scotland #Ecosse #books #livres #Skye #AnTEilean #ScottishBooks #LivresEcossaises #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies #ScottishLiterature #Gaelic #ScotsGaelic

Cover to Skye - People and Places, a Scottish rural scene of loch and mountains, a white painted croft in the distance, in the foreground purple coloured silhouettes of a man and woman on the left and a stag on the right, observing the scene

When Tad Kicked Vlad: we're chortling at this kick that goes around the world, from Julian Gough & Ross Collins (published Faber)

Warning: also contains farts! !

#books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #JulianGough #RossCollins #PictureBooks #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies #WhenTadKickedVlad

Green coloured cover to the picture book, When Tad Kicked Vlad, showing Tad booting Vlad in the backside, between the lettering of the title

We feel the need, the need to read!!! 📚📖

Under Fives Storytime is free, and takes place every Thursday & Friday from 9.30

#books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #Edinburgh #Edinbourg #Bruntsfield #UnderFivesStorytime #Storytime #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

Looking into a busy Children's Room during Under Fives Storytime, in the Edinburgh Bookshop, as bookseller Fiona reads to the little ones

It may not look like it out there, but we've just seen one of our first, annual signs that spring *is* coming: the Scottish Gardens Open For Charity guide is out!!!

#Books #livres #Scotland #Ecosse #Spring #printemps #ScottishGardensOpenForChairty #ScottishGardensGuide #ScottishBooks #LivresEocssaise #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies

bright yellow cover to the annual Scottish Gardens Open For Charity guide, 2026 edition, showing a garden filled with yellow flowers

Another upcoming author event 🚨 klaxon 🚨 !

On Thursday 26th February, we have a creative writing workshop with One Came Back author, Rose McDonagh.

Details on the website - https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theedinburghbookshop/2031127

#books #livres #writing #ecriture #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #writing #ecriture #RoseMcDonagh #author #AuthorEvent

poster advertising upcoming creative writing workshop with author Rose McDonagh, in the Edinburgh Bookshop

Outside it's cold, it's wet. But inside it's cosy and we have started a new jigsaw of the week (Charles Darwin's Beagle voyages, so it's educational to boot!).

Why not sit down, warm up, relax, & try & add a few more pieces?

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield #books #livres #bookshops #librairies #jigsaw #JigsawOfTheWeek #Puzzle #evolution #CharlesDarwin #HMSBeagle #bookstodon

An angled puzzle table in the Edinburgh Bookshop window, with a partly completed jigsaw of Charles Darwin's voyages on it

Another upcoming author event alert 🚨 klaxon🚨

Join us on Thursday 19th February, to hear Sarah Moss & Gavin Francis discuss their latest books, My Good Bright Wolf, & The Unfragile Mind. Details on the website:

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theedinburghbookshop/2031258

#books #Livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Author #Auteur #AuthorEvents #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #BookEvents #GavinFrancis #SarahMoss #MentalHealth #TheUnfragileMind #MyGoodBrightWolf

Poster advertising the double author event at the Edinburgh Bookshop, with Gavin Francis and Sarah Moss

#WhatWereReading : Joe found John Scalzi's When the Moon Hits Your Eyes - where, in an almost Wallace & Gromit move, the Moon literally becomes cheese! - to be a total delight!

Out now in paperback from Tor / Macmillan , an ideal fun distraction from all the current woes.

#books #livres #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies #ScienceFiction #WhenTheMoonHitsYourEye #JohnScalzi #Moon #Lune

Paperback copy of When The Moon Hits Your Eye, on a table in the Edinburgh Bookshop, showing an astraonuat standing on a curving piece of cheese (with holes for craters)

We have signed copies of Vigil, by Booker winning author George Saunders, just arrived from Bloomsbury.

#books #livres #Vigil #GeorgeSaunders #Vigil #Fiction #Roman #SignedBooks #SignedEdition #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

Signed hardback of Vigil by George Saunders, a purple sky behind a single story large rural mansion with a portico on the cover

Hey #readers, followers, friends.

Please consider writing a #review of my #books on #Kobo, or in whatever news, blog, or video channel you are on. It helps my work to get into #libraries, #bookshops, and on your eReader

Thanks!

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=humphrey+archer

It's miserably dreich outside, but inside it's cosy & we've started a new Jigsaw of the week (Angela Harding's gorgeous Marsh Owl artwork!).

Come in, warm up, relax with a few puzzle pieces.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #jigsaw #Bruntsfield #puzzle #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

Angled puzzle table with a partially completed jigsaw on it, in the window of the Edinburgh Bookshop

Upcoming events 🚨 klaxon 🚨

Jess Robinson will be talking about her own life & her grandmother's with Life is Rosi with Eleanor Morton on Wednesday 4th February

https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/events-1/life-is-rosi-jess-robinson-in-conversation-with-eleanor-morton

#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield #JessRobinson #LifeIsRosi #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #biographie #biography #Author #AuthorEvents #Auteur

Poster advertising upcoming author event with Jess Robinson in the Edinburgh Bookshop on Wednesday 4th February at 7pm

This just in from libro.fm:

"we’re lowering the #price of your 1-credit monthly membership! Effective 26 February 2026, your subscription price will decrease from 11.99 to 9.99 €. [...] We believe this price adjustment will allow more people to switch from Audible to #Libro.fm in support of local #bookshops."

A #review of the #book “The Bookshop: A History Of The American Bookstore” by Evan Friss:

“Bookselling Out” [2024], The Baffler (https://thebaffler.com/latest/bookselling-out-sinykin).

#Books #BookReviews #Bookselling #Bookshops #Bookstores #Business #Reading #Publishing #Reviews

"I am afraid to own a Body -
I am afraid to own a Soul -
Profound - precarious Property -
Possession, not optional -"

A gorgeous, wee hardback edition of Emily Dickinson in Gemini's Women in Poetry series.

#books #livres #poetry #EmilyDickinson #WomenInPoetry #GeminiBooks #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

Small hardback edition of Emily Dickinson's poetry, with a colourful, painted image of a bird on the cover

We feel the need, the need to read!!!

Forget the grey skies outside! We have Oh No, George & there may be sharks in parks...

Under Fives Storytime is free, every Thurs & Fri at 9.30

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #Bruntsfield #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #UnderFivesStorytime #Storytime #EdinburghBookshop #bookshops #librairies #Ecosse #Scotland #bookstodon

Looking into the Children's Room of the Edinburgh Bookshop during a busy Under Fives Storytime

Joe loved Isabel Greenberg's One Hundred Nights of Hero, a very female-centric reworking of Scheherazade.

With a #film adaptation imminent, Vintage Books has a new edition of this compelling graphic novel. Highly recommended.

#books #livres #GraphicNovels #BandeDessinee #OneHundredNightsOfHero #IsabelGreenberg #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies #comics #Scheherezade #film

Cover to the graphic novel One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg, showing a map of the constellations, with a white, three masted sailing ship in the centre, and two women holding hands in the foreground

"I believe I can fly..."

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery has a remarkable exhibition of Alfred Buckham's pioneering early aerial photography, including many over 1920s #Edinburgh , & this fascinating book accompanies it.

There's also an amazing section on an expedition around the Americas, sponsored by a photo-magazine of the time, with pics flying over the Andes, live volcanoes and Manhattan from the air in 1931, the brand-new Empire State building just added to her skyline.

The exhibition runs until mid-April: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/alfred-buckham-daredevil-photographer

#books #livres #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #AlfredBuckham #daredevil #History #Histoire #Art #Ecosse #Scotland #NationalGalleriesOfScotland #NationalPortraitGallery #bookshops #librairies #gallery #gallerie #bookstodon