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Opening hours Stockholm
Mon-Fri 10.30-18
Sat 11-16
Same postage no matter how much you buy! 45:-
No postage if you pick it up at the bookstore
The Uppsala
English Bookshop
Svartbäcksgatan 19
753 32 Uppsala
Tel 018-10 05 10
Fax 018-60 48 05
info@bookshop.se
The English Bookshop
Lilla Nygatan 11
111 28 Stockholm
Tel 08-7905510
stockholm@bookshop.se
The winner of our fiercly competitive Simon Kernick competition is Mr P. Hurst! Actually he's the only one who got the question right. The answer of course is Tom Hickey. But you all knew that, really, right? (And the question was "What is the name of the lecturer in humanities at Brighton Polytechnic who was a major inspiration to Mr Kernick?")
So congratulations Phil, the book is in the post.
Happy reading.
The answers to the "Signed Salman Rushdie" competition were Lewis Shiner (remember, we should all be reading him....) and Ptosis.
The lucky winners are Therese Granlund and Johan Anglemark!
Congratulations! Get in touch for desired ink.
I've been reading nothing but Booker nominees for the last 8 weeks. I managed to read 8 of the 13 nominees and was lucky enough to finish the entire shortlist. It's been an interesting journey into many different worlds...
Jan Reads the Bookers! Read about my project...
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
A few pictures showing our customers and the staff moving of the bookshop, the opening cermony and the first week in the new place.
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Read the interview - Måndagsmöte: Jan Smedh
Titles and authors mentioned:
We have been in our current location for almost 9 years and have now outgrown them. Sales are excellent (thanks guys!) so we feel this is now the right move for us.
But don't worry! We're not moving far, the new place is 25 meters west of the old one; it's actually in the same building but on the corner. Bigger, better, but just as nice.
The actual move will happen during next weekend, most of it during the Saturday. A lot of you have been kind enough to offer to come help out, which is really amazing of you.We do have the best customers. If you do want to help out, let us know beforehand so we can plan for food and such.
So, wish us good luck and we rely on your forebearance as the start-up will undoubtedly be a bit messy.
Jan, Christer & minions
The american author Barbara Kingsolver has won The Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 with her sixth novel The Lacuna.
"We chose The Lacuna because it is a book of breathtaking scale and shattering moments of poignancy". Daisy Goodwin, chair of judges.
From Saturday June 5 New Stephenie Meyer book - The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner available!
We now stock items from "Keep Calm and Carry On":
Meet the O'Sullivan twins: Pat and Isabel. Cheeky, obstinate and determined to make pests of themselves at their new school.
There are a lot of pranks going on at St. Clare's. From cats in the cabinets to fire- crackers in the fireplace, a secret dog in the attic to a midnight feast, get ready to have some fun with the troublemaking- girls at St. Clare's!
Come for tea and talk about your favorite characters and pranks at St. Clare's. There may be some surprises in store! And there will definitely be cake.
When: Saturday, June 5; 11:00 to 12:00
Where: The English Bookshop,
Lilla Nygatan 11, Gamla Stan
Talk to (or email) the book sellers to book your seat.
Enid Blyton in the bookshop
Titles mentioned in the interview as - "10 books to read before you die":
Other titles and authors mentioned:
Tuesday May 25 or Wednesday May 26 at 7pm in both Uppsala and Stockholm
Read more about the details and talk to (or email) the book sellers to book your seat.
Available in the bookshop and the web-bookshop. Size 59*84cm, excellent print quality.
Lots of good things are happening in Irish crime writing at present. My favourite from the 2009 crop of novels was Stuart Neville's excellent debut The Twelve (published in the US as The Ghosts of Belfast). The NY Times had it on their list of top 5 crime novels of 2009 and just a few days ago The LA Times awarded it the Best Mystery/Thriller Prize!
I heartily recommend reading this immediately!
The winner will be announced the 9th of June 2010. The prize is awarded to the woman (of any nationality) who, in the opinion of the judges, has written the best, eligible full-length novel in English, provided that the novel is published for the first time in the United Kingdom between 1 April of the year before the prize is awarded and 31 March of the year in which the prize is awarded.
Uppsala, Wednesday Apa7 at 7pm.
Stockholm, Tuesday May 4 and Thursday May 6, at 7 pm.
Read more about the details and talk to (or email) the book sellers to book your seat.
I brought four books to the south coast of Cyprus and enjoyed them all:
1. Harlan Coben - Caught. Another stand-alone thriller about the suburban soul. Perhaps not his finest, but quite thrilling and his characters are overall believable and engaging.
2. Don Winslow - Savages. Yeah! This is not actually published until June, but I was lucky and got a hold of a prepublication copy. This is great writing, political, smooth, SoCal/Mexico drug wars/philosophy. Great language, solid points made. Highly recommended. When you can find it...
3. Jonathan L Howard - Johannes Cabal the Necromancer. Good, original, English, somewhat gaimanesque, a bit quirky fantasy. Johannes sold his soul to the devil ten years ago and now he wants it back! A deal is struck, but who's fooling who? Read!
4. Karen Campbell - Shadowplay. The third novel about glaswegian police-woman Anna Cameron, this is not actually published until next month, but Karen was nice enough to present me with a sneak preview copy... These novels are so good. Anna Cameron is such an intriguing character and the writing here really shines. Great intrigue. Do not miss out on these books!
Join us for the NEW interactive book club for ages 9-13.
Saturday, April 24; 11:00 to 12:30
At
The English Bookshop, Gamla stan Stockholm
Saturdays 10.30-16.00
Sundays 12-15
Welcome!
The Reading group meeting in Uppsala will be on Wednesday the 24th of March at 7pm in the bookshop. The book to be read is: A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
"With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, 20-year old Tassie, from the plains of the Midwest, goes to university in the hope of escaping the complex world of culture and politics. As the year unfolds, she is led to new and formative experiences, and the future bursts forth in dramatic and shocking ways."
Interested? Talk to (or email) the book sellers to book your seat.
Uppsala, Tuesday 24/2 at 7pm.
Stockholm, Wednesday 10/3 and 17/3 at 7pm.
Read more about the details and talk to (or email) the book sellers to book your seat.
Uppsala, Tuesday January 26 at 7pm.
Stockholm, Wednesday February 3 and Wednesday February 10 at 7pm.
Read more about the details and talk to (or email) the book sellers to book your seat.
Uppsala, Wednesday November 18 at 7 pm.
Stockholm, Wednesday December 2 at 7 pm.
Read more about the details and talk to (or email) the book sellers to book your seat.
Stephen King's new novel - Under the Dome
Release Tuesday 10/11!
Stephen King -
Under the Dome, Hardback 275 kr.
On a beautiful fall day, the town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one knows what this barrier is and when -or if- it will go away.
Released today 27/10!
Robert Jordan's - The Gathering Storm, Hardback 250 kr.
The Gathering Storm is the first of three novels that will make up the final volume of The Wheel of Time series, A Memory of Light. This short sequence will complete the struggle against the Shadow, bringing to a close a journey begun almost twenty years ago and marking the conclusion of the Wheel of Time, the preeminent fantasy epic of our era.
Herta Müller "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed" is awarded with the 2009 The Nobel Prize in Literature.
Read more about the details and talk to (or email) the book sellers to book your seat.
Hilary Mantel wins the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction with her novel Wolf Hall.
Lee Child |
Chris Ryan |
Elmore Leonard |
Michael Connelly |
Alan Bradley |
Laura Alden |
Douglas Adams |
Jasper Fforde |
Michael Cunningham |
Joyce Carol Oates |
Cathy Kelly |
Katherine Webb |
Tony Blair |
Steven Adler |
Donald Sturrock |
Frank Dikötter |
Edward Hollis |
Stephen Clarke |
Robert Rankin |
Fiona McIntosh |
Karen Miller |
Paolo Bacigalupi |
Samuel R. Delany |
Cory Doctorow |
Ben H. Winters |
John Scalzi (ed.); Elizabeth Bear; Tobias Buckell |
Ken MacLeod |
Jack Kerouac; Allen Ginsberg |
Michaal Palin |
Susan Hill |
William Shawcross |
Greil Marcus |
Mary Karr |
Natasha Solomons - Mr Rosenblum's List
By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
This is the story of Peter Harris, a 44 year old gallery owner in New York and what happens to him over a period of a few days.
This is a wonderful novel, a contemplation on encroaching middle age, on values, marriage, parenthood, art and ideals. The writing is exquisite, the language occasionally stunning. It surprised me, and I like being surprised.
It's astounding how much is in the 238 pages of this novel, how vivid the images are, how vibrant the characters.
Cunningham writes in a self-assured east coast tradition of Fitzgerald and Cheever. It's very erudite and empathic. Wow. Read.
His previous novel The Hours won the Pulitzer and was made into a much lauded film.
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Quick Reads and the Easy-to-Read NovelQuick Reads are fast-paced, bite-sized books by bestselling
writers for emergent readers, anyone who had lost the reading habit or simply wants a short, fast read.
The Easy-to-Read Novel is the Irish equivalent.
Calling All Birdbrains
Rotten School #15
Dumb Clucks
Rotten School
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