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Owl Bookshop
@owlbookshop.bsky.social
Independent bookseller in Kentish Town, London.

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Mon-Sat 9am-6pm
Sun 11am-6pm

www.owlbookshop.co.uk

owlbookshop@gmail.com

Tel. 020 7485 7793
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Deep in the English countryside an evil presence awakes…

The Decadence by Leon Craig is the queer horror lockdown novel you’ve been waiting for. It's absolutely brilliant and launches this Thursday at @owlbookshop.bsky.social
#debutfiction #leoncraig @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Tonight at @owlbookshop.bsky.social in London's Kentish Town I'll be speaking with the wonderful @ruthpadel.bsky.social to start my book tour for Lifelines!
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June 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
So looking forward to Sara Wheeler talking to Tony Peake about his reissued biography of Derek Jarman. Tickets available here owlbookshop.co.uk/product/tony...
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May 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Tomorrow (23 April) at 6:30 pm BST: Join @owlbookshop.bsky.social in welcoming documentary filmmaker Amanda Rubin & psychotherapist Robin Shohet for a discussion on The Third Reich of Dreams by Charlotte Beradt, now re-published in a new translation.

Learn more:
Amanda Rubin and Robin Shohet in Conversation – Owl Bookshop
£0.00
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April 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Looking forward to this event next month with The Witches of Scotland! Tickets here

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April 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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So excited to be joining the wonderful @ruthpadel.bsky.social at London's @owlbookshop.bsky.social on June 11th for stories and poetry from Greece, on what will be the first stop of my book tour for LIFELINES this summer. Details and tickets via the link: owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...
April 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I am very happy to be in conversation with the brilliant
Ewan Morrison about his extraordinary new novel 'For Emma', @leamington.bsky.social a page-turning thriller, fusing futurism with a powerful emotional core.
Join us @owlbookshop.bsky.social 27/03 6.30pm.
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Ewan Morrison – Owl Bookshop
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March 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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I'll be interviewing Ewan Morrison about his excellent new novel For Emma @leamington.bsky.social 27/03/25 @owlbookshop.bsky.social, a story of a Silicon Valley prodigy who dies in a secret AI brain chip experiment. It's a brilliant book, come join us! Can't wait
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March 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Join us at @owlbookshop.bsky.social on the 27th to launch For Emma by Ewan Morrison — in conversation with Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social 

“For Emma is as disturbing as it is convincing, a tale of love and guilt and grief, and an apt tract for our chaotic times.”

John Banville
March 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Join us at @owlbookshop.bsky.social on 30th January at 6:30pm for a special event with #HowLabourWins author Douglas Beattie. Douglas tells the dramatic story of how the Labour Party changed modern Britain, through the lens of each election from 1900 to today.
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January 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Get into the Christmas spirit and celebrate the 180th anniversary of A Christmas Carol with this irresistible clothbound edition. Ebenezer Scrooge was a mean, miserable, bitter old man, until one Christmas Eve changed everything... 'Bah! Humbug!'
December 18, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention.
December 18, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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What if you had the chance to tell your hero just how much they meant to you? If Nick Drake came to my house and knocked upon the door I’m sure I’d be more happy than I’ve ever been before…
December 14, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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Main dishes bursting with flavour like baked butter paneer, kimchi and tomato spaghetti or marbled egg omelette with nam pla.

Mouthwatering desserts and exciting side dishes like bubble tea ice cream or salt and vinegar potato salad.
December 13, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood – a writer who has fundamentally shaped our contemporary literary landscapes – Paper Boat assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume.
December 12, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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A book for the romantic-realist in all of us, You Don’t Have to Have a Dream offers Tim Minchin’s inimitable thoughts and advice on life, art, success, kindness, love, and thriving in a meaningless universe.
December 11, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Extended opening hours until 23rd December 9am-7pm Monday to Saturday, 11am-6pm on Sunday
and if you’re really desperate 9am-5pm on Christmas Eve
December 10, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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Signed copies of There and Back - Diaries Volume 4 now available. Thank you Michael Palin, a full house and happy crowd!
December 10, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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‘Everyone wants to spend a day and share a meal with Stanley Tucci and this is the perfect way to do it … A true joy’ Ina Garten
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December 9, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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… a beautiful and exacting account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of gardens: not as a place to hide from the world but as a site of encounter and discovery, bee-loud and pollen-laden.

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November 28, 2024 at 8:28 AM
We have some lovely Advent calendars in the shop, Art Angels, Roger La Borde, Flame Tree and more…
November 28, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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Tracy Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is vivid, inventive, spellbinding: a virtuoso portrait of a woman, a family and a city that are as everlasting as their glass.
November 26, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Signed copies of There and Back, Diaries 1999-2009 will be available after our upcoming sold out talk with Michael Palin on 3rd of December- reserve copies here
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November 23, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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‘The best novel that’s been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It’s funny but desperately moving too’ – The Sunday Times
November 23, 2024 at 10:37 AM
And so it begins….🎄🎅📚
November 21, 2024 at 4:42 PM