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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.

#books #livres #Penguin90 #bookshops #librairies #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #bookstodon #WindowPainting #Painting #Peindre #Publishing

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

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.

#books #livres #MentalHealth #BienEtre #NormallyWeirdAndWeirdlyNormal #RobinInce #NewBooks #bookstodon #Bookshops #Librairies #ClivePenguin #NonFiction

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

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.

#books #livres #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #NewReleases #NonFiction #History #nature #Histoire

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.

#books #livres #nature #RobertMacFarlane #IsARiverAlive #NatureWriting #NatureBooks #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

(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

@TheEdinburghBookshop @sarabandbooks

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

#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield #photography #photographie #bookstodon #Bookshops #Librairies

From the recent launch of her latest novel, Olga Wojtas reading from Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Uncharted Island at the @TheEdinburghBookshop
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54480398849/in/photostream/

#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield #photography #photographie #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #OlgaWojtas

@sarabandbooks

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).

#books #livres #bookshops #librairies #IndieBookstoreDay

#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.

#histoire #books #livres #HistoryBooks #TheSunRising #JamesI #JamesVI #JamesVIAndI #BritishHistory #ScottishHistory #RecommendedReading #AnnaWhitelock #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

Bookseller Joe holding up a hardback copy of The Sun Rising, by Professor Anna Whitelock, a bright yellow cover with a period sailing vessel on it, in the Edinburgh Bookshop

My Family & Other Rock Stars by Tiffany Murray was one of Joe's favourite reads of 2024 (we had a terrific event for the hardback release).

To celebrate the paperback release, we took it on a trip to fab & groovy Thorne Records, our close neighbours and a superb Indie vinyl store.

A total delight, packed with musical memory nuggets

#books #livres #music #musique #TiffanyMurray #MyFamilyAndOtherRockStars #MusicBiography #biography #bookstodon #VinylRecordStores #RecordStores #bookshops #librairies

Rosie of Indie vinyl shop Thorne Records, holding up a paperback copy of My Family and Other Rock Stars by Tiffany Murray

It's that time of year! The BBC Proms guides have arrived!

🎵🎻🎹🎶🎼🪈

#books #livres #music #musique #BBCProms #PromsProgramme #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies

Bookseller Sarah holding up a copy of the 2025 BBC Proms programme in the Edinburgh Bookshop

"We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing..." (Churchill, on VE Day)

The 8th of May will mark 80 years since Victory in Europe was declared, after a back-breaking, titanic struggle by the generations who came before us, to crush the horrendous evil of the Nazi regime.

History to be remembered.

#books #livres #History #Histoire #VEDay #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies #WWII #SecondWorldWar #VEDay2025 #VEDay80

Dans le train direction #Nantes pour l´AG #Mobilis #Paysdelaloire avec quelques exemplaires gratuits de La fille qui sauva Hiroshima @sdesienne
L´occasion de retrouver nombre de "maillons de la chaîne du livre" #librairies #ALIP #autrices #auteurs #correction #traduction #creationgraphique alors que l´existence de Mobilis est mise en danger par les suppressions de budget de la Région...
& de la lecture en retard! #presencesdesprits #aoc #nouvelles #imaginaire #sfff

We're not sure about Mad or Bad, but Essie Fox's #Gothic novel of Lord Byron is certainly Dangerous! And decadently delicious looking with its black & crimson spredges.

Signed copies from Orenda available now!

#books #livres #GothicNovel #LordByron #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #Dangerous #EssieFox #OrendaBooks #Fiction #Roman

Cover of Dangerous by Essie Fox, black and red cover with a partial portrait of Lord Byron, outside the Edinburgh Bookshop

Side on view of the same book, this time angled to show off the psredges (sprayed, painted page edges) in black and red

Sadly as pertinent to today's troubled, divided world as the WWII era it describes, They Called Us Enemy (published Top Shelf Comix), by Star Trek icon @georgetakei recalls the forced interring of his family.

#books #livres #GraphicNovels #BandeDessinee #Biography #TheyCalledUsEnemy #GraphicMemoir #bookstodon #Bookshops #Librairies #GeorgeTakei #WWII #Comics

Cover to the graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy, showing a small boy in a line of adults heading into an internment camp, the child looking back nervously over his shoulder to the viewer

Après #louesthurlant on se prépare pour #ImaJnere
Gestion des stocks, décoration... et peut-être des SP de La fille qui sauva Hiroshima la nouvelle #uchronie de @sdesienne

Et il y aura aussi #Coeurpol de @Macadaniel , sélection du prix #HorsConcours 2025. On y découvre Pedro, prêt à braver la zone interdite pour son fils ; et Camille, "bon citoyen" hermaphrodite curieux de ce génial "quartier tarés".

Ce week-end, rencontrons-nous !
#librairies
#festival #SFFF #imaginaire #Angers

The Hard Switch & Victory Point by Owen D Pomery take us, respectively, from blue-collar space opera (ideal for fans of Firefly or Becky Chambers) to family relationships & Modernist architecture.

Very different but both highly recommended, published by the excellent UK Indie publisher Avery Hill.

#books #livres #GraphicNovels #BandeDessinee #ScienceFiction #Architecture #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies #TheHardSwitch #VictoryPoint #OwenDPomery #AveryHill

Cover for the Hard Switch by Owen D Pomery, showing two women relaxing on the side of a landed spaceship

Cover for Victory Point, showing a 1930s Modernist village overlooking a sunlit coastal scene

Oh, Carrots! Mariajo Ilustrajo's delightful picture book is Bunny Approved!

#books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #OhCarrots #MariajoIlustrajo #PictureBooks #Bookshops #Librairies #bookstodon #rabbits #lapins #Bruntsfield

Cuddly toy rabbit holding up a copy of the picture book "Oh, Carrots!", outside the Edinburgh Bookshop

Through to see dad, we took a drive over to nearby Milngavie, to check out recent Indie store, the Daydreams Bookshop. Lovely wee very community oriented bookshop, about the size of our old bookshop before last year's move to our new location.

#books #livres #bookshops #librairies #DaydreamsBookshop #photography #photographie #Ecosse #Scotland

We're open as usual all over the Easter weekend (although we reserve the right to pause to eat choccy eggs from time to time!)

9.30 to 6 on Friday & Saturday

11 to 5 on Sunday

10 to 6 on Monday

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #Easter #Paques #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #Brunstfield

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