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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 1d

You can hear more from the shortlisted authors at the British Academy’s event on Tuesday next week - tickets are free, but booking is essential

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British Academy Book Prize 2025 Shortlist Event

Join the shortlisted authors of this year's British Academy Book Prize for a dynamic conversation exploring the issues that define our time. These imaginative writers will share insights from their gr...

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 1d

This week, we’re celebrating the British Academy Book Prize shortlist, with reading recommendations from this year’s nominees

First up, is Bronwen Everill with three books that complement her shortlisted work AFRICONOMICS: lrb.me/b44189

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 2d

Our current bestsellers 💋 lrb.me/6jh

A pile of the following books:

1. BIG KISS, BYE-BYE by Claire-Louise Bennett
2. DOG DAYS by Emily LaBarge
3. SHADOW TICKET by Thomas Pynchon
4. THRILLED TO DEATH by Lynne Tillman
5. FRENCH COOKING FOR ONE by Michèle Roberts
6. L.A. BABY by Tim Key
7. TRANSCENDENCE FOR BEGINNERS by Clare Carlisle
8. THE REST OF OUR LIVES by Ben Markovits
9. MOTHER MARY COME TO ME by Arundhati Roy
10. IMMORTAL THOUGHTS by Christopher Neve

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 2d

𝘋𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘹 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴.

Julia Blackburn’s REMEDIES meditates on the images, amulets & incantations that have been used to cure illnesses from ancient times to the present day

She’ll be at the shop to discuss REMEDIES w/ folklorist Sarah Clegg on Wed 22 Oct – book here: lrb.me/0e2973

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 3d

Our final shortlistee for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection is Sarah Ghazal Ali, who has generously shared some of the books which were especially important to her while writing THEOPHANIES

Head to the blog to read more: lrb.me/f0f7dd

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 4d

On the blog today Desree talks us through some of the books that influenced her Forward Prize shortlisted debut collection ALTAR

Read more here: lrb.me/3e3dbf

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 4d

buying sink and plughole unblocker

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 4d

saw lászló krasznahorkai in acton morrisons yesterday buying sink and plughole unblocker. congratulated him on the nobel but i don't think he heard me - probably still in a daze about the news

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 4d

yes & it was a treat

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 5d

You can also purchase signed copies of BIG KISS, BYE-BYE from our website: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/big-ki...

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye | Claire-Louise Bennett | London Review Bookshop

A woman confronts the unquenchable half-life of passion, in a new novel by one of our most acclaimed and inventive writers of fiction.

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 5d

Claire-Louise Bennett’s BIG KISS, BYE-BYE is our book of the week this week.

To celebrate, we have produced a small number of limited edition @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social X LRB Bookshop totes. The bags cost £10.00 when you purchase a copy of the novel in store. Come get them while stocks last!

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 5d

Our celebration of the Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection shortlist continues, with three poems from Catherine-Esther Cowie’s HEIRLOOM

Head to the blog to read: lrb.me/57169c

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 6d

Krasznahorkai has said of his work: ‘You will never go wrong anticipating doom in my books, any more than you’ll go wrong in anticipating doom in ordinary life.’

In 2012, we recorded a 94-minute conversation with Colm Tóibín for our Bookshop podcast:

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László Krasznahorkai in conversation with Colm Tóibín | London Review Bookshop

Our first Literary Friendships event brought together Colm Tóibín with his friend László Krasznahorkai. Described by the Guardian as a ‘visionary writer’,…

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 6d

NEW PODCAST ALERT!! www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...

Sophie Lewis & Lola Olufemi: Enemy Feminisms | London Review Bookshop

In Enemy Feminisms (Haymarket Books), described by Judith Butler as ‘honest, brutal, historically comprehensive, and brilliant’, Sophie Lewis provides a field guide…

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 6d

Find out more about Michael Mullen’s GOONIE, and the rest of the Forward Prize shortlists here: lrb.me/3eb2ed

LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 6d

Today’s Forward Prize shortlisted first collection is Michael Mullen’s GOONIE, which Hollie McNish calls ‘an essential tribute to life and fight and love and language’

Head to the blog to read an extract: lrb.me/faf6f9

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 6d

j.h. prynne dressed in white tie, sat on a bench behind the stockholms stadshus, smoking a zoot with the king of sweden

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 7d

god we can't can we? anyway what if it isn't him??

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 8d

oh god pretty sure that steve turner the guitarist from mudhoney is in the shop. browsing fiction rn. not absolutely certain it is him, we have had some false alarms in the past, but am pretty sure

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 8d

We helped launch CHAOTIC GOOD with an event at the shop back in April – you can hear Isabelle Baafi read from and discuss her work with Lavinia Greenlaw on our podcast: lrb.me/0307bb

LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 8d

First up, an extract from Isabelle Baafi’s CHAOTIC GOOD – head to the blog to read: lrb.me/e5722a

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 8d

To celebrate the shortlists for this year’s Forward Poetry Prizes, we’re presenting a series of excerpts, interviews and insights into the writing process from some of the shortlisted poets, focusing this week on the nominees for Best First Collection lrb.me/3eb2ed

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 9d

Julia Blackburn will be in the Bookshop on Wednesday 22 October to talk to Sarah Clegg about REMEDIES, her new pamphlet about the images, amulets and incantations that have been used to cure illnesses from ancient times to the present day.

Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/julia-blac...

Julia Blackburn & Sarah Clegg: Remedies

Julia Blackburn discusses her pamphlet Remedies, the latest from Hazel Press, with Sarah Clegg

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 11d

this is a wonderful book

LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 11d

Our Book of the Week is Sarah Perry's "Death of an Ordinary Man" - pick up your signed copies here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/death-...

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 11d

Our Book of the Week is Sarah Perry's "Death of an Ordinary Man" - pick up your signed copies here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/death-...

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