Prudence and the Crow
@prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social
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 !
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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
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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 💙📚
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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!
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NEW in the #patcshop - C E Lucas Phillips' The Greatest Raid of All.
A fully illustrated account of WWII's "Operation Chariot" with multiple maps, drawings and maps.
The Companion Book Club, 1958 FIRST EDITION.
£12 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
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A fully illustrated account of WWII's "Operation Chariot" with multiple maps, drawings and maps.
The Companion Book Club, 1958 FIRST EDITION.
£12 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/c-e...
C E Lucas Phillips - The Greatest Raid of All - FIRST EDITION
C E Lucas Phillips' The Greatest Raid of All. A fully illustrated account of WWII's "Operation Chariot" with multiple maps, drawings and maps. Beautiful patterned dust jacket and detailing to spine. T...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
NEW in the #patcshop - C E Lucas Phillips' The Greatest Raid of All.
A fully illustrated account of WWII's "Operation Chariot" with multiple maps, drawings and maps.
The Companion Book Club, 1958 FIRST EDITION.
£12 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/c-e...
A fully illustrated account of WWII's "Operation Chariot" with multiple maps, drawings and maps.
The Companion Book Club, 1958 FIRST EDITION.
£12 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/c-e...
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A joy and privilege to be a juror for Best Short Story at the BFS Awards this year: this was the most discussion I can remember having, across a very competitive field. Huge congratulations to the winner, which you can read for free here at Uncanny Magazine:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...
November 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
A joy and privilege to be a juror for Best Short Story at the BFS Awards this year: this was the most discussion I can remember having, across a very competitive field. Huge congratulations to the winner, which you can read for free here at Uncanny Magazine:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...
A joy and privilege to be a juror for Best Short Story at the BFS Awards this year: this was the most discussion I can remember having, across a very competitive field. Huge congratulations to the winner, which you can read for free here at Uncanny Magazine:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...
November 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
A joy and privilege to be a juror for Best Short Story at the BFS Awards this year: this was the most discussion I can remember having, across a very competitive field. Huge congratulations to the winner, which you can read for free here at Uncanny Magazine:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...
Finished both this and the drinks: all excellent. Yoshimoto has such a magnificent line in identifying the sharp, transformative moments in life as small narrative twists that feel like little pinches as I read. 💙📚
Dead-End Memories, by Banana Yoshimoto (Hallowe'en gift!). Proper rainy Sunday morning reading scenario today.
November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Finished both this and the drinks: all excellent. Yoshimoto has such a magnificent line in identifying the sharp, transformative moments in life as small narrative twists that feel like little pinches as I read. 💙📚
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GIVE ME YA Jackson Lamb you cowards!
Like, 17. So we're thinking Charlie Higson's Young Bond adventures but with a shit load more swearing.
November 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
GIVE ME YA Jackson Lamb you cowards!
This is my Hallowe'en reading gift for Crow this year, and whilst I've not read it myself yet, it looks absolutely gorgeous. Beautiful edition, as all reads from @averyhill.bsky.social always are! 💙📚
THE WITCH'S EGG is psychedelic medieval multidisciplinary comics synthesis. which is to say, a blend of traditional comics, illuminated manuscript storytelling, and diagrams of ancient and occult symbolism. the child of angel and witch will end the world unless his family can escape him, escape fate
Graphic Novel Review: Cute apocalypse within THE WITCH’S EGG
Angels. Chimeras. Ghosts. Witches. The Worm King. Within THE WITCH'S EGG, Donya Todd's modern medieval murals go incredibly hard.
www.comicsbeat.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is my Hallowe'en reading gift for Crow this year, and whilst I've not read it myself yet, it looks absolutely gorgeous. Beautiful edition, as all reads from @averyhill.bsky.social always are! 💙📚
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becoming increasingly convinced that the best way to push back against AI slopification of everything is via BOOKS. Physical, paper books. An object you can trade, gift to people, carry around, stick your nose in and smell, and generally attach yourself to.
nowadays, "having read more than one book ever" is an incredibly effective way to be an absolute pain in the ass to people on both ends of the ideological spectrum, and i for one have always treasured that
October 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
becoming increasingly convinced that the best way to push back against AI slopification of everything is via BOOKS. Physical, paper books. An object you can trade, gift to people, carry around, stick your nose in and smell, and generally attach yourself to.
NEW in the #patcshop - The Novels of George Eliot by Barbara Hardy.
The Athlone Press 1963 edition. Apparently, "...the whole book must be carefully read by everyone concerned with form in the novel". So now you know.
£5.25 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
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The Athlone Press 1963 edition. Apparently, "...the whole book must be carefully read by everyone concerned with form in the novel". So now you know.
£5.25 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
The Novels of George Eliot - Barbara Hardy
The Novels of George Eliot by Barbara Hardy. The Athlone Press 1963 edition. Paperback. Condition: Some scuffing to edges and creasing to spine. Minor tanning to edges of pages. Very small ink marks ...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
NEW in the #patcshop - The Novels of George Eliot by Barbara Hardy.
The Athlone Press 1963 edition. Apparently, "...the whole book must be carefully read by everyone concerned with form in the novel". So now you know.
£5.25 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
The Athlone Press 1963 edition. Apparently, "...the whole book must be carefully read by everyone concerned with form in the novel". So now you know.
£5.25 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
My favourite time to read was in class, during the teacher going on about whatever they were possibly teaching. Silent reading time was useless to me but I'm always grateful for the teachers that left me alone to plough through whatever was in the classroom instead of doing a geography or whatever.
It's sunday so I am finally reading the links I opened during the week. Or possibly last week. Anyway, this one is worth your time (should be a free link, it was for me at least). Katherine Rundell on reading for pleasure. #UKKidLit #KidLitUK www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
There is a silver bullet for childhood happiness: a love of reading
Bestselling children’s author Katherine Rundell says to reverse the reading crisis we must let young people rediscover the enjoyment of books — whatever they may be
www.thetimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
My favourite time to read was in class, during the teacher going on about whatever they were possibly teaching. Silent reading time was useless to me but I'm always grateful for the teachers that left me alone to plough through whatever was in the classroom instead of doing a geography or whatever.
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If you've 11-odd hours spare, a full reading of 1984 from Senate House in London might be just the ticket (courtesy of @ucl.ac.uk and the Orwell Foundation, back in 2017) 💙📚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrSk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrSk...
1984 LIVE
YouTube video by UCL
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October 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
If you've 11-odd hours spare, a full reading of 1984 from Senate House in London might be just the ticket (courtesy of @ucl.ac.uk and the Orwell Foundation, back in 2017) 💙📚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrSk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrSk...
If you've 11-odd hours spare, a full reading of 1984 from Senate House in London might be just the ticket (courtesy of @ucl.ac.uk and the Orwell Foundation, back in 2017) 💙📚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrSk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrSk...
1984 LIVE
YouTube video by UCL
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
If you've 11-odd hours spare, a full reading of 1984 from Senate House in London might be just the ticket (courtesy of @ucl.ac.uk and the Orwell Foundation, back in 2017) 💙📚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrSk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrSk...
NEW in the #patcshop - Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch.
Young Puffin 1979 paperback edition with rare alternative cover artwork. Fully illustrated.
£10 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
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Young Puffin 1979 paperback edition with rare alternative cover artwork. Fully illustrated.
£10 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/jil...
Jill Murphy - The Worst Witch
Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch. Puffin 1979. Paperback. Rare edition with alternative cover art. Condition: Some scuffing and creasing to edges. Pages tanned but still holding together well. Overall ve...
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October 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
NEW in the #patcshop - Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch.
Young Puffin 1979 paperback edition with rare alternative cover artwork. Fully illustrated.
£10 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/jil...
Young Puffin 1979 paperback edition with rare alternative cover artwork. Fully illustrated.
£10 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/jil...
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The @wtpress.bsky.social Kickstarter campaign has a lot of fun stories from Welsh history and mythology. They are best read in order, so I am going to make a mega-thread of them, starting with @julietemckenna.bsky.social on why she used Welsh folklore: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...
Update 2: Juliet McKenna on Welsh folklore · They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)
As promised, here is the first of our updates about Welsh history and legend. This one is from Juliet McKenna.I was drawn to the Welsh myths underpinning The Green Man’s Gift for several reasons. Firs...
www.kickstarter.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The @wtpress.bsky.social Kickstarter campaign has a lot of fun stories from Welsh history and mythology. They are best read in order, so I am going to make a mega-thread of them, starting with @julietemckenna.bsky.social on why she used Welsh folklore: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...
NEW in the #patcshop - T S Eliot's Collected Poems 1909-1962.
Faber and Faber 1974 edition. Paperback.
Complete with previous owners' annotations.
£8 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/t-s...
Faber and Faber 1974 edition. Paperback.
Complete with previous owners' annotations.
£8 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/t-s...
T S Eliot - Collected Poems 1909-1962
T S Eliot's Collected Poems 1909-1962 Faber and Faber 1974 edition. Paperback. Condition: Minor tanning and marks to edges of pages. Minor scuffing to corners. Inscribed by previous owner inside fron...
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October 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
NEW in the #patcshop - T S Eliot's Collected Poems 1909-1962.
Faber and Faber 1974 edition. Paperback.
Complete with previous owners' annotations.
£8 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/t-s...
Faber and Faber 1974 edition. Paperback.
Complete with previous owners' annotations.
£8 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/t-s...
Paper arguing this in the comments; I want to start every Tuesday morning with a take this good
Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Paper arguing this in the comments; I want to start every Tuesday morning with a take this good
On the 1st January this year I started reading Crow The Fellowship of the Ring at bedtime, mostly 1-2 bits a night. It is indeed perfectly chunked for bedtime reading. I did not sing the songs. There is a lot of walking. I relearnt many obscure nature words. My Elves are all Welsh. We continue. 💙📚
October 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
On the 1st January this year I started reading Crow The Fellowship of the Ring at bedtime, mostly 1-2 bits a night. It is indeed perfectly chunked for bedtime reading. I did not sing the songs. There is a lot of walking. I relearnt many obscure nature words. My Elves are all Welsh. We continue. 💙📚
Just write a memoir if you really want to talk about yourself, you do not need to make it a pretend fictional book
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Just write a memoir if you really want to talk about yourself, you do not need to make it a pretend fictional book
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If it wouldn’t be a good story if you told it in chronological order with a single narrator, it cannot be made a good story by jumping around in time and switching narrators every chapter
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If it wouldn’t be a good story if you told it in chronological order with a single narrator, it cannot be made a good story by jumping around in time and switching narrators every chapter
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Did you enjoy #scifi #horror The Waking Dream in my translated horror anthology Sinophagia? Here's a chance to hear the author Fan Zhou and myself chat to Babel Scifi this Saturday at 1pm. The page is in Chinese but it's a bilingual event, English speakers welcome! mp.weixin.qq.com/s/E81bLWyt1t...
October 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Did you enjoy #scifi #horror The Waking Dream in my translated horror anthology Sinophagia? Here's a chance to hear the author Fan Zhou and myself chat to Babel Scifi this Saturday at 1pm. The page is in Chinese but it's a bilingual event, English speakers welcome! mp.weixin.qq.com/s/E81bLWyt1t...
spoilers but
October 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
spoilers but
Met someone in the pub last night who'd received a very favourite long-wanted, fairly unusual paperback when he was given a PatC subscription box as a gift a couple of years' ago and he was so delighted, still, it is just such a magical thing that happens when you unite someone with a favourite.
October 9, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Met someone in the pub last night who'd received a very favourite long-wanted, fairly unusual paperback when he was given a PatC subscription box as a gift a couple of years' ago and he was so delighted, still, it is just such a magical thing that happens when you unite someone with a favourite.