Prudence and the Crow
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The UK-based vintage paperback book subscription box and online bookshop.
Find our subscriptions and books for sale at https://prudenceandthecrow.com - and shop our art prints and stationery at https://mymble.com !
Find our subscriptions and books for sale at https://prudenceandthecrow.com - and shop our art prints and stationery at https://mymble.com !
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Every month we send out exciting book boxes to our wonderful subscribers containing a hand-selected vintage paperback book, a handmade book bag, a library card to catalogue their growing collection an...
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We are Prudence and the Crow, a UK-based vintage paperback subscription box and online bookshop.
We choose a book just for you, in the genre of your choice 💙📚
Founded in 2013, available as a monthly subscription or 1, 3, 6 or 12-month bundle, for yourself, or as a gift:
prudenceandthecrow.com
We choose a book just for you, in the genre of your choice 💙📚
Founded in 2013, available as a monthly subscription or 1, 3, 6 or 12-month bundle, for yourself, or as a gift:
prudenceandthecrow.com
Day 6, #patcadvent winter-y, seasonal-ish read is Soonchild, by Russell Hoban,
illustrated by Alexis Deacon. It's a very peculiar, different piece of storytelling, audience unclear, which leaves you with a fair bit to reflect on. The illustrations make this quite the experience 💙📚
illustrated by Alexis Deacon. It's a very peculiar, different piece of storytelling, audience unclear, which leaves you with a fair bit to reflect on. The illustrations make this quite the experience 💙📚
December 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Day 6, #patcadvent winter-y, seasonal-ish read is Soonchild, by Russell Hoban,
illustrated by Alexis Deacon. It's a very peculiar, different piece of storytelling, audience unclear, which leaves you with a fair bit to reflect on. The illustrations make this quite the experience 💙📚
illustrated by Alexis Deacon. It's a very peculiar, different piece of storytelling, audience unclear, which leaves you with a fair bit to reflect on. The illustrations make this quite the experience 💙📚
Day 5 of #patcadvent is Shirley Hughes' Snow in the Garden: A First Book of Christmas. I have to admit to not having heard of this lovely anthology of winter stories, poems, recipies and crafts until this year. Published in 2018, every page is decorated with Shirley Hughes' beautiful illustrations.
December 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Day 5 of #patcadvent is Shirley Hughes' Snow in the Garden: A First Book of Christmas. I have to admit to not having heard of this lovely anthology of winter stories, poems, recipies and crafts until this year. Published in 2018, every page is decorated with Shirley Hughes' beautiful illustrations.
Day 4 of #patcadvent is Lotta's Christmas Surprise by Astrid Lindgren.
Lotta saves Christmas with the aid of her tenaciousness and ever-present toy pig, Bamsen 🐖🎄
Tragically out of print in its English translation so if you see a copy be sure to snap it up!
Illustration by Ilon Wilkland. 💙📚
Lotta saves Christmas with the aid of her tenaciousness and ever-present toy pig, Bamsen 🐖🎄
Tragically out of print in its English translation so if you see a copy be sure to snap it up!
Illustration by Ilon Wilkland. 💙📚
December 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Day 4 of #patcadvent is Lotta's Christmas Surprise by Astrid Lindgren.
Lotta saves Christmas with the aid of her tenaciousness and ever-present toy pig, Bamsen 🐖🎄
Tragically out of print in its English translation so if you see a copy be sure to snap it up!
Illustration by Ilon Wilkland. 💙📚
Lotta saves Christmas with the aid of her tenaciousness and ever-present toy pig, Bamsen 🐖🎄
Tragically out of print in its English translation so if you see a copy be sure to snap it up!
Illustration by Ilon Wilkland. 💙📚
Day 3 of #patcadvent is Waiting for Christmas by Monica Greenfield. Published in 1996, Waiting for Christmas follows the gentle adventures of two children as they decorate the tree, visit relatives and generally look forward to Christmas Day.
Illustration by Jan Spivey Gilchrist.
Illustration by Jan Spivey Gilchrist.
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Day 3 of #patcadvent is Waiting for Christmas by Monica Greenfield. Published in 1996, Waiting for Christmas follows the gentle adventures of two children as they decorate the tree, visit relatives and generally look forward to Christmas Day.
Illustration by Jan Spivey Gilchrist.
Illustration by Jan Spivey Gilchrist.
Merry #patcadvent Day 2! Moving westwards for this beautiful illustration, often used as a cover, by Edward Ardizzone, for Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales. If you've not heard Thomas reading it himself, very much recommend tinyurl.com/achildschris... where you can hear this in full.
December 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Merry #patcadvent Day 2! Moving westwards for this beautiful illustration, often used as a cover, by Edward Ardizzone, for Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales. If you've not heard Thomas reading it himself, very much recommend tinyurl.com/achildschris... where you can hear this in full.
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Welcome once again to Prudence and the Crow Advent! Follow along (or mute!) with the hashtag #patcadvent
We begin with John Masefield's The Box of Delights - an intensely wintery tale. Perhaps you remember the (frankly a bit scary) '80s BBC adaptation?
Illustration: Sara Ogilvie 💙📚
We begin with John Masefield's The Box of Delights - an intensely wintery tale. Perhaps you remember the (frankly a bit scary) '80s BBC adaptation?
Illustration: Sara Ogilvie 💙📚
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Welcome once again to Prudence and the Crow Advent! Follow along (or mute!) with the hashtag #patcadvent
We begin with John Masefield's The Box of Delights - an intensely wintery tale. Perhaps you remember the (frankly a bit scary) '80s BBC adaptation?
Illustration: Sara Ogilvie 💙📚
We begin with John Masefield's The Box of Delights - an intensely wintery tale. Perhaps you remember the (frankly a bit scary) '80s BBC adaptation?
Illustration: Sara Ogilvie 💙📚
Today (1st December) is the last day to buy a Yuletide bundle!
The PatC Yuletide Bundle 2025 is here!
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
The Yuletide Bundle! Available until 1st December
December gifting sorted! A vintage book, beautifully wrapped with a handwritten seasonal greetings card containing your gift message, a library card AND candy*. What more could you ask for? All this f...
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Today (1st December) is the last day to buy a Yuletide bundle!
Welcome once again to Prudence and the Crow Advent! Follow along (or mute!) with the hashtag #patcadvent
We begin with John Masefield's The Box of Delights - an intensely wintery tale. Perhaps you remember the (frankly a bit scary) '80s BBC adaptation?
Illustration: Sara Ogilvie 💙📚
We begin with John Masefield's The Box of Delights - an intensely wintery tale. Perhaps you remember the (frankly a bit scary) '80s BBC adaptation?
Illustration: Sara Ogilvie 💙📚
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Welcome once again to Prudence and the Crow Advent! Follow along (or mute!) with the hashtag #patcadvent
We begin with John Masefield's The Box of Delights - an intensely wintery tale. Perhaps you remember the (frankly a bit scary) '80s BBC adaptation?
Illustration: Sara Ogilvie 💙📚
We begin with John Masefield's The Box of Delights - an intensely wintery tale. Perhaps you remember the (frankly a bit scary) '80s BBC adaptation?
Illustration: Sara Ogilvie 💙📚
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It's that time of year again! Tomorrow is the 1st of December which means it's time for our most beloved annual tradition - the Prudence and the Crow Advent!
This year sees the return of the Prudence and the Crow advent greatest hits. Each day we'll pull a post from one of our past eleven year's.
This year sees the return of the Prudence and the Crow advent greatest hits. Each day we'll pull a post from one of our past eleven year's.
November 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
It's that time of year again! Tomorrow is the 1st of December which means it's time for our most beloved annual tradition - the Prudence and the Crow Advent!
This year sees the return of the Prudence and the Crow advent greatest hits. Each day we'll pull a post from one of our past eleven year's.
This year sees the return of the Prudence and the Crow advent greatest hits. Each day we'll pull a post from one of our past eleven year's.
It's that time of year again! Tomorrow is the 1st of December which means it's time for our most beloved annual tradition - the Prudence and the Crow Advent!
This year sees the return of the Prudence and the Crow advent greatest hits. Each day we'll pull a post from one of our past eleven year's.
This year sees the return of the Prudence and the Crow advent greatest hits. Each day we'll pull a post from one of our past eleven year's.
November 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
It's that time of year again! Tomorrow is the 1st of December which means it's time for our most beloved annual tradition - the Prudence and the Crow Advent!
This year sees the return of the Prudence and the Crow advent greatest hits. Each day we'll pull a post from one of our past eleven year's.
This year sees the return of the Prudence and the Crow advent greatest hits. Each day we'll pull a post from one of our past eleven year's.
We will be doing the #patcadvent posts this year and it's another Best Of, revisiting a decade of our posts of bookish illustration and artwork! You may, of course, mute the tag, which pre-coffee me promises to try to remember to use (why I commit myself to these early morning tasks, who can say...)
November 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
We will be doing the #patcadvent posts this year and it's another Best Of, revisiting a decade of our posts of bookish illustration and artwork! You may, of course, mute the tag, which pre-coffee me promises to try to remember to use (why I commit myself to these early morning tasks, who can say...)
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or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
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November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
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today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
Anyone have any good recommendations for short story / fiction / general written stuff subscriptions at this time? Any genre, any size (mainstream, independent, individual), digital or physical - I feel like it's a long time since I looked around!
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Anyone have any good recommendations for short story / fiction / general written stuff subscriptions at this time? Any genre, any size (mainstream, independent, individual), digital or physical - I feel like it's a long time since I looked around!
This is our only offer of the year, no discounts, deals, Cyber Monday bits and pieces, just one Yuletide bundle!
The PatC Yuletide Bundle 2025 is here!
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
The Yuletide Bundle! Available until 1st December
December gifting sorted! A vintage book, beautifully wrapped with a handwritten seasonal greetings card containing your gift message, a library card AND candy*. What more could you ask for? All this f...
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 AM
This is our only offer of the year, no discounts, deals, Cyber Monday bits and pieces, just one Yuletide bundle!
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🎁 If you're in the UK and you need a fun little gift for a book lover, or someone you'd like to turn into a book lover, or even for yourself…Prudence and the Crow have got you covered! 📖💝
The PatC Yuletide Bundle 2025 is here!
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
The Yuletide Bundle! Available until 1st December
December gifting sorted! A vintage book, beautifully wrapped with a handwritten seasonal greetings card containing your gift message, a library card AND candy*. What more could you ask for? All this f...
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🎁 If you're in the UK and you need a fun little gift for a book lover, or someone you'd like to turn into a book lover, or even for yourself…Prudence and the Crow have got you covered! 📖💝
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The PatC Yuletide Bundle 2025 is here!
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
The Yuletide Bundle! Available until 1st December
December gifting sorted! A vintage book, beautifully wrapped with a handwritten seasonal greetings card containing your gift message, a library card AND candy*. What more could you ask for? All this f...
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The PatC Yuletide Bundle 2025 is here!
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
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Fully recommend this for Hard To Buy For folks, such as my parents, who will be getting these for the third year on the trot.
The PatC Yuletide Bundle 2025 is here!
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
The Yuletide Bundle! Available until 1st December
December gifting sorted! A vintage book, beautifully wrapped with a handwritten seasonal greetings card containing your gift message, a library card AND candy*. What more could you ask for? All this f...
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Fully recommend this for Hard To Buy For folks, such as my parents, who will be getting these for the third year on the trot.
The PatC Yuletide Bundle 2025 is here!
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
The Yuletide Bundle! Available until 1st December
December gifting sorted! A vintage book, beautifully wrapped with a handwritten seasonal greetings card containing your gift message, a library card AND candy*. What more could you ask for? All this f...
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The PatC Yuletide Bundle 2025 is here!
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
If you're wondering if we'll be doing our usual Yuletide offering this year, the answer is yes, yes we will, keep an eye out over, oo, the next day or so :)
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
If you're wondering if we'll be doing our usual Yuletide offering this year, the answer is yes, yes we will, keep an eye out over, oo, the next day or so :)
Wondering if I want to listen to this - I have such a love/trauma relationship with Wind in the Willows...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Drama on 4 - The Wind in the Willows: A Weasel’s Tale - BBC Sounds
Kenneth Grahame's classic reimagined from the margins. Narrated by Penelope Wilton.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Wondering if I want to listen to this - I have such a love/trauma relationship with Wind in the Willows...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Watching a random Canadian YouTube video and this YouTuber has already shown us so many solid PatC books, I have never felt so connected to Canada...
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Watching a random Canadian YouTube video and this YouTuber has already shown us so many solid PatC books, I have never felt so connected to Canada...
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NEW in the #patcshop - J R R Tolkien's translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo.
Unwin Press 1981. Paperback.
£15 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/j-r...
Unwin Press 1981. Paperback.
£15 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/j-r...
J R R Tolkien - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo
J R R Tolkien's translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo. Unwin Press 1981. Paperback. Condition: Scuffing to edges. Creasing to back cover. White marks where a label was o...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
NEW in the #patcshop - J R R Tolkien's translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo.
Unwin Press 1981. Paperback.
£15 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/j-r...
Unwin Press 1981. Paperback.
£15 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/j-r...
NEW in the #patcshop - J R R Tolkien's translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo.
Unwin Press 1981. Paperback.
£15 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/j-r...
Unwin Press 1981. Paperback.
£15 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/j-r...
J R R Tolkien - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo
J R R Tolkien's translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo. Unwin Press 1981. Paperback. Condition: Scuffing to edges. Creasing to back cover. White marks where a label was o...
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
NEW in the #patcshop - J R R Tolkien's translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo.
Unwin Press 1981. Paperback.
£15 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/j-r...
Unwin Press 1981. Paperback.
£15 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/j-r...
absolutely let's do this!
CJ Cherryh's Downbelow Station is considered a classic for a reason. Let's discuss this thrilling tale of space warfare, which focuses more on suffering and survival than on tactics and strategy...
Warfare and Survival: Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh - Reactor
A science fiction classic about the true costs and consequences of war.
reactormag.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
absolutely let's do this!