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Real Magic Books
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Independent bookshop celebrating the people and pages where real magic is made✨

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We are back for the fourth edition of our magic mini-festival! This time over four days from Thursday 13th to Sunday 16th November 2025.

This is not your normal book festival. THIS IS REAL MAGIC✨

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October 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
We are back for the fourth edition of our magic mini-festival! This time over four days from Thursday 13th to Sunday 16th November 2025.

This is not your normal book festival. THIS IS REAL MAGIC✨

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October 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Ebook readers you can now support Real Magic. It is time to ditch the other billionaire supporting options, support a real bookshop whilst still enjoying your Kindle. Bookshop.org have set up ebooks on their website which means every time you buy through them you’re supporting the shop.
October 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Book of the day, How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis. @katemuir.bsky.social a women’s health expert, documentary maker, and author of How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis, as well as groundbreaking books on the menopause and the pill.

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August 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Heads up music fans, Modern Nature return to Wendover on Friday 10 October with a new record, the full band and on the very last date of their UK tour here at the British Legion. A third of the tickets have gone already.

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Real Magic Music with Modern Nature
When Modern Nature toured their last album, 2023’s No Fixed Point In Space, it became apparent to Jack Cooper – the band’s main creative force – that they were already pulling away from the free, open...
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August 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
July 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Tomorrow night (Wednesday 9 July) we welcome @robinince.bsky.social back to Real Magic to celebrate the release of his new book, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity. There are a small amount of tickets still available below

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Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal
A powerful, personal exploration of anxiety, ADHD and neurodiversity, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal reminds us all – no matter how weird we feel – that it’s okay to be a little different. We all a...
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July 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
We’re bookselling @thesociallondon.bsky.social tonight to celebrate the launch of Ted Kessler and Hamish MacBain’s Oasis book, A Sound So Very Loud.

Welcoming them to Wendover on 17 July as well, in conversation with Sean Rowley and Oasis quiz at the pub after!

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July 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Our third Real Magic Weekend starts on Friday. Three days of talks, music and more in Wendover✨

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May 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We’ll be serving a special @lostandgrounded.bsky.social festival beer this weekend! Our own Real Magic Ale, available at the King and Queen and shop
May 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Real Magic Weekend III
30 May-1 June 2025
A Magic Mini Festival in Wendover

Join us for three days of music and talks, workshops and walks, drinking and dancing.

This is our biggest mini festival yet!

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April 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Join us and authors @joedunthorne.bsky.social, @drtombolton.bsky.social & Rowe Irvin at the third annual @realmagicbooks.bsky.social Real Magic Weekend in Wendover at the end of the month. More info/tickets: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/real...
May 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
On 30 May @rosatkins.bsky.social will be appearing as our very special guest for the first event of our third Real Magic Weekend! We’ll be discussing his book, The Art of Explanation, talking about his career as a BBC journalist, and his recent adventures in DJing too

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May 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Real Magic Weekend III
30 May-1 June 2025
A Magic Mini Festival in Wendover

Join us for three days of music and talks, workshops and walks, drinking and dancing.

This is our biggest mini festival yet!

realmagicbooks.com/real-magic-w...
April 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Book of the day, Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes

Prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes tells the story of how cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century in this lovely cultural history 🐈
April 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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“I’ve got a teams call at 11 and then I have to go up to Russell Square for a meeting at 1. What are your plans for today?”

“The paperback version of my book is out”

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April 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Book of the day, Children of Radium by @joedunthorne.bsky.social ☢️ I love this book. An unusual, funny and utterly intriguing family memoir.

‘The best book I’ve read in the past year . . . A masterpiece’ Financial Times
April 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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A new @johnhiggs.bsky.social publication is always a reason to celebrate so we are delighted to be inviting him back to Wendover on Friday 11 April to mark the release of his new book, Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who.

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March 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Book of the day, Nine Lives - In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple.

This is our current non fiction book group selection, we’ll be meeting on Wednesday 2 April to chat about it. I love this writing and the stories of these fascinating people. Brilliant.
March 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Beautiful out there, @troubledstriker.bsky.social has called it, the bench is out for the first day of the season ☀️
March 26, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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On release day of Songs In The Key of MP3 (April 3rd) I’ll be heading to @realmagicbooks.bsky.social to talk to novelist Will Burns (@troubledstriker.bsky.social) about my book and modern musical pioneers from FKA twigs to SOPHIE… tickets here! realmagicbooks.com/events/songs...
March 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Here until 5pm today and the shop is packed full of excellent books!✨
March 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Music writer and journalist Liam Inscoe-Jones joins Real Magic’s Will Burns on Thursday 3 April to discuss his fascinating new book on music in the internet age, Songs in the Key of MP3 @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

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March 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A new @johnhiggs.bsky.social publication is always a reason to celebrate so we are delighted to be inviting him back to Wendover on Friday 11 April to mark the release of his new book, Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who.

wegottickets.com/event/653922/
March 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
We’ve waited 10 years for a follow up to Americanah by the brilliant Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, so it feels right to be celebrating it at book group. Described as a searing exploration of love itself it’s a front runner for many of this year’s big prizes.

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March 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM