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So it’s that time of the year again and we thought we’d treat you to some stunningly cool signed books! Just join our contest by the end of the year and you’ll have a chance to win one of these beauties – all signed by the authors!

What to do?
1. Fill in the form, answering three terrifyingly complicated multiple-choice questions
2. No, that’s it. Then just wait and keep your book-loving fingers crossed.

The winners have been announced:
» Winners Christmas Signed Book Contest 2021

Support Matkassen this Christmas

Published on Thu, 2021-12-16 10:24

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We’ll wrap your Christmas book gifts for free in our shops, and instead ask you to kindly consider supporting the project Matkassen at Uppsala Stadsmission, fighting food waste and supporting people in need at the same time – a double whammy!

We have teamed up with Uppsala Stadsmission and Rotary to support the social project Matkassen.

Click Read more below for information on how to support Matkassen and more about the project.

Last call for special orders

Published on Wed, 2021-12-15 11:52

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Last call for special orders

Last Orders!! There’s still a chance to get your special orders in for Christmas for books not already in our 20.000 title stocked range!

Visit, call, email or send us a message and we’ll check with our UK wholesaler that they have stock and include it with our final Christmas order placed on Thursday morning. The deadline for you is Wednesday 15th at midnight.

And if Santa’s reindeer don’t get held up crossing the channel, your book will be here mid next week. Fingers crossed!

If you want to order anything from our regular hoard of books, we’ll be posting books to you for another week!

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» email the Stockholm shop stockholm@bookshop.se
» send a facebook message to the Stockholm shop

”The Squirrel’s Tail” – Author reading for children

Published on Mon, 2021-12-06 11:31

The Squirrel’s Tail – author reading for children

UPPSALA | Saturday 11th December at 11:00

Join us in the bookshop to listen to the story about the bouncy squirrel Hazel and what happened when she lost her tail.

The Squirrel’s Tail is read by author Julian Reisz, who also will tell the story about how the book came to be. A great Christmas gift – get it signed by the author!

No need to sign up, just show up and join the fun!

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”In Every Mirror She’s Black” – Meet Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström

Published on Mon, 2021-11-29 12:18

UPPSALA | Friday 3rd Dec at 18:30. Free, but ticketed – book your seat today!

Meet Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström, award-winning author, speaker, and photographer. Nigerian-American, based in Stockholm.

Presenting her praised debut novel In Every Mirror She’s Black, crowned by The Independent the “most thought-provoking” book on its list of 2021 Best Books by Black Authors.

An arresting debut novel for anyone looking for insight into what it means to be a Black woman in the world.

Friday 3rd December at 18.30
Free, but ticketed – book your seat today!
Email: uppsala@bookshop.se

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The Pastor – online event with Hanne Ørstavik & Martin Aitken

Published on Mon, 2021-11-29 11:24

ONLINE | Thursday 2nd December at 19:00.

Join us online for a conversation about language, belonging, a sense of home and community – and how to convey that in translation, as Hanne Ørstavik and Martin Aitken talk about Hanne’s in English recently published praised novel The Pastor (Presten), together with Hedda from the bookshop.

Give-Away! Join the livestream for a chance to win in a give-away! (Or catch the replay any time.)

» Watch on facebook
» Watch on youtube

Best Books of 2021 by Publisher’s Weekly!

Click Read more to read more about the book and author.

Meet Jen Campbell – online event

Published on Fri, 2021-11-19 14:47

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Meet Jen Campbell – online author event

ONLINE | Wednesday 24 November at 19:00

Meet Jen Campbell, author and booktuber, live in an online conversation with Fanny from the bookshop about Jen’s latest book The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers – and other gruesome tales.

They’ll talk about discovering and reclaiming old fairy tales from around the world, and about queer representation and positive representation of disfigurement and disability.

Give-Away! Join the livestream for a chance to win in our give-away, or catch the replay any time.

» View the livestream on youtube
» View the livestream on facebook

» Order personally signed books

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Books of the Month – January 2025

Samantha Harvey Orbital Paperback Modern Fiction of the month *Join the reading group	Barbara Pym Excellent Women Paperback Classic of the month *Join the reading group	Iris Costello The Story Collector Paperback Feel-Good of the month *Join the reading group in Uppsala
Annette Dashofy Where the Guilty Hide Paperback Mystery of the month *Join the Crime reading group	Kenneth Fearing The Big Clock Paperback Noir of the month	Adrian Tchaikovsky Alien Clay Paperback Sci-Fi of the month *Join the reading group
Simon Jimenez The Spear Cuts Through Water Paperback Fantasy of the month *Join the reading group	Hiron Ennes Leech Paperback Horror of the month *Join the reading group in Uppsala	Justin Torres Blackouts Paperback Queer book of the month *Join the reading group
Pandora Sykes (ed.) What Writers Read Paperback – 35 Writers on their Favourite Book Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – December 2024

Celina Baljeet Basra Happy Paperback Modern Fiction of the month *Join the reading group	Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings Paperback Classic of the month *Join the reading group	Bella Osborne Mistletoe Magic in the Highlands Paperback Feel-Good of the month *Join the reading group in Uppsala
Joyce Carol Oates The Babysitter Paperback Mystery of the month *Join the Crime reading group	Kimi Cunningham Grant These Silent Woods Paperback Noir of the month	H. Beam Piper Little Fuzzy Paperback Sci-Fi of the month *Join the reading group
India Holton The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love Paperback Fantasy of the month *Join the reading group	Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta Feast While You Can Paperback Horror of the month	Sally Nichols Yours From the Tower Paperback Teen/YA of the month
Ashley Herring Blake Make the Season Bright Paperback Queer book of the month *Join the reading group	Susan Casey The Underworld Paperback Non-Fiction of the month

Books of the Month – November 2024

Joyce Carol Oates Breathe Paperback Modern Fiction of the month *Join the reading group	Thomas Bernhard The Loser Paperback Classic of the month *Join the reading group	Lauren Bravo Preloved Paperback Feel-Good of the month *Join the reading group in Uppsala
Nina Simon Mother-Daughter Murder Night Paperback Mystery of the month *Join the Crime reading group in Göteborg	Morgan Greene A Place Called Hope Paperback Noir of the month *Join the Crime reading group in Uppsala	Cory Doctorow The Lost Cause Paperback Sci-Fi of the month *Join the reading group
Patricia McKillip The Forgotten Beasts of Eld Paperback Fantasy of the month *Join the reading group	Alisa Alering Smothermoss Paperback Horror of the month	Elle McNicoll Some Like it Cold Paperback Teen/YA of the month
Lamya H Hijab Butch Blues Paperback – A Memoir Queer book of the month *Join the reading group	Roland Allen The Notebook Paperback – A History of Thinking on Paper Non-Fiction of the month

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Modern Fiction Book of the Month – October 2024

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he’s supposed to do. He works hard, he studies, and he – mostly – stays out of trouble. The thirty-year conflict is over, he’s told, and his future is lit with promise. But when Sean returns home from university, he finds much of the same – the same friends doing the same gear in the same clubs, the same fathers and brothers missing… One night, he assaults a stranger at a party, and everything begins to come undone. Close to Home begins with this sudden act of violence and expands into a startling portrait of working-class Ireland under the long shadow of the Troubles. // Discuss in the Fiction reading group //
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Mystery Book of the Month – October 2024

How to put a positive spin on a murder mystery... What happens when a ghostwriter for the rich and famous lands the ultimate gig: writing the memoir of a disgraced presidential candidate? Our witty, nosy narrator arrives at a secluded estate to meet Dorothy Gibson, the fallen political star everyone’s talking about. But when a neighbor turns up dead, the ghostwriter finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery she never saw coming. Add in a secret investigation, a suspiciously handsome man, and a plot twist no one expected – and suddenly, the story she’s writing becomes her own. Perfect for fans of Knives Out and Agatha Christie, this clever, twisty mystery is full of surprises. // Discuss in the Crime reading group in Göteborg //
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