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Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick
https://www.forumbooksshop.com
Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
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👋 !! 🌊 !! 💙 !!

hiya! Less than a week til
@lenniesaurus.bsky.social joins us with poyums annaw - grab last few tickets here + we’ll see you there
www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/a...

@thecrackmagazine.bsky.social
@canongate.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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💙 ONE WEEK!! 💙

Still time to grab tickets for @anncleeves.bsky.social talking Orkney + Jimmy #TheKillingStones w/ Stuart Bain on Oct 1st

PLUS you’ll get *exclusive* short story The Lonely Man !!
Grab tickets www.theexchange1856.com/event-detail...
September 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Our September events kick off with KEEGAN // Anthony Quinn chatting to @camsell59.bsky.social @livetheatre.bsky.social 🤍🖤
🎟️ www.live.org.uk/whats-on/kee...
Total result!!
@faberbooks.bsky.social
@thecrackmagazine.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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We have tempted @damianbarr.bsky.social to FORUM’s pulpit to celebrate his new book The Two Roberts
& we’d love you to join us 🩵🩷

🗓️ 8th Sept
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...
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@canongate.co.uk
Damian Barr event poster for The Two Roberts at FORUM Books 8th Sept Damian Barr in the pulpit at FORUM Books
August 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Wow!! What a night launching #DEADLINE the fab debut thriller from @stephmcgovern.bsky.social 💙 thanks to Steph & @anncleeves.bsky.social for brilliant interview & all who came 🙌

Gorgeous signed indie editions available from us if you missed www.forumbooksshop.com/product/dead...
Stage set for DEADLINE launch Steph McGovern chatting to Ann Cleeves about her debut thriller Signing queue for Steph View from upper balcony showing packed house for Steph
July 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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We 💙 Len!

Join us!!

🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/a...
June 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Gorgeous evening chatting Victorian gothic & Egypt w/ Rachel Louise Driscoll 💚 Nephthys is stunning - a captivating blend of myth, adventure and obsession … thanks to all who came & signed, special editions available if you missed

#IndieBookshopWeek

✍️ www.forumbooksshop.com/product/neph...
June 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Tick! Tock! ⏰!!

We’re on a #DEADLINE … just TWO WEEKS til @stephmcgovern.bsky.social is @ The Exchange, North Shields chatting to @anncleeves.bsky.social
about her debut thriller 🩵 join us!

🗓️ Mon 30 June
🎟️ www.theexchange1856.com/event-detail...
June 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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What a week!

It’s #IndieBookshopWeek & we’re celebrating in Corbridge, Whitley Bay & Alnwick 💖🫶 📚 !!
Events, book signing + @brianbilston.bsky.social listening party 🎧
@booksaremybag.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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💚 ONE WEEK! 💚

Next Thursday Mel Rockett joins us at FORUM Books to talk Ratty and the 10 year project to reintroduce the water vole to Kielder. Come along!

🗓️ Thurs 12 June
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...

@northwildlife.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Looking forward to @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social at FORUM Books talking #UncommonGround - vital, engaging & highly relevant to our Northumberland community 💚 we’d love to see you there!

🗓️ Mon 9 June
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...
June 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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💛🩷THIS THURSDAY!🩷💛

💛 ’Extraordinary’ The Scotsman
🩷 'Phenomenal' Matt Haig
💛 ‘A dream’ My Weekly
🩷 'A thing of magic’ The Skinny

@michaelpedersen.bsky.social will be at FORUM Bookschatting gorgeously about his debut novel Muckle Flugga - come along! www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...
May 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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THRILLED that Mick Herron is back with CLOWN TOWN talking to Ann Cleeves @ The exchange1856

Spies lie. Spies betray. It’s what they do. IT’S TIME TO SEND IN THE CLOWNS. 🤡

🗓️ Sept 16th
🎟️ www.theexchange1856.com/event-detail...
May 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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🩵TONIGHT!🩵 Last chance to join us w/ Stephanie Butland at The Accidental Bookshop, Alnwick 😉

More info + tickets here www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/t...

Signed book here www.forumbooksshop.com/product/the-...
May 21, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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🧡Memories of love and heartbreak during the Aids epidemic are brought vividly to life in this exhilarating, risk-taking debut

Join us May 15 w/ writer, fashion critic, curator Charlie Porter at FORUM Books

Tickets + more info
www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...
Charlie Porter & his debut novel Nova Scotia House Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter on wooden counter top
May 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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☀️ Brilliant Bank Holiday Sunday w/ @robinince.bsky.social being normally weird & wonderfully lovely chatting to @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social - pure joy, energy + inspiration 🫶 we 💜 his new book & we’ve signed ones for you!

www.forumbooksshop.com/product/norm...
Robin Ince talking to Kate Fox at the bound Whitley Bay Robin Ince upstairs at the bound Robin Ince signing his new book the bound Robin signed our wall - Spectrum minds make rainbows 🌈
May 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Normally & weirdly signed copies of @robinince.bsky.social ‘s NEW book available from us 🙌 thanks for stopping by Robin!
@panmacmillan.bsky.social

www.forumbooksshop.com/product/norm...
Robin Ince holding up his new book in the pulpit of FORUM Books with Read ON painted on the wall behind him
May 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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From the Farne Islands to Greece … diving in search of Atlantis 💦

Damian Le Bas joins us at The Accidental Bookshop Wed May 7th

Tickets + more info www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/t...
Author Damian Le Bas in a.wetsuit & his new book The Drowned Places
April 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🕯️ Join us w/ @naomikelsey.bsky.social to talk explorers’ wives, haunted objects, gaslighting, secrets, colonialism, sisterhood and mist. Lots of mist … #TheDarkeningGlobe
at the bound

🗓️ Wed 23 April
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/t...
Naomi Kelsey & her new book The Darkening Globe
April 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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⏰ Tick! Tock! ⏰

The NEW
@robertrutherford.bsky.social is out next week 10 APRIL + we’re celebrating at the bound as he joins us
chatting to @trevorwoodwrite.bsky.social all about THE MISSING HOUR - join us for time well spent!
@orionbooks.bsky.social

🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/t...
Robert Rutherford & his new book The Missing Hour
April 3, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Seriously delicious event at The Biscuit Factory’s Garden a room last night to celebrate Anna Hedworth’s stunning new book #Service 🧡
Signed copies if you missed .. www.forumbooksshop.com/product/serv...
April 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Seriously … our events programme is 🔥 in April!
w / Anna Hedworth @robertrutherford.bsky.social Sinclair McKay @naomikelsey.bsky.social

Join us! Tickets for all these & more
🎟️ ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
📧 mailchi.mp/forumbooks/a...
March 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Thanks @adellestripe.bsky.social + @newwritingnorth.bsky.social for a lush night talking #BaseNotes 🩷 @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
Signed copies from us if you missed
Adelle Stripe chatting to Claire Malcolm about her new book Base Notes Pre event book + chairs + spangly pink back drop
March 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Now reading … come for the northern nostalgia but man, Adelle Stripe has *some story, some life … and the scents are sooo evocative 💅
@thecrackmagazine.bsky.social

newwritingnorth.com/event/base-n...
March 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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mine
March 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM