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Charlie Bush
@charliebush.bsky.social
Books. Bookshops. Booksellers. And Stone Circles.

Ordinarily to be found at Blackwell's at Broad Street, Oxford.
A helpful gift shopping algorithm that I made for @theguardian.com a couple of years ago.
December 12, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Huge news coming in overnight from the Nero Book Awards: Blackwell's bookseller Adam S. Leslie shortlisted for the Fiction Prize for his sensational and surreal Lost in the Garden.

We are immensely proud of Adam and his phenomenal novel.
December 3, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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The John Le Carré Advent Calendar - My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books. (with apologies to @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social and @harkaway.bsky.social)
November 30, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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"Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly.
'I do.'
'Which would you choose?'
'There is not a scrap of difference. Arcades ambo. They are the same species of curculio, and there is nothing to choose between them.'"
November 24, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Rainy days call for board games!

Great to break out the brand new Oxford Monopoly with @blackwelloxford.bsky.social on the board. Imagine my delight with drawing the Community Chest card, where player has to give you a Blackwell's gift card.
November 24, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Seasonally pertinent reading is going well with Andrew Miller's The Land in Winter, which I think might just be sensationally brilliant. Four people struggling through life in the Big Freeze at the end of 1962.
November 20, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery kind of afternoon.
November 15, 2024 at 5:02 PM
My recent reading: three excellent novels, a wonderful piece of nature writing and a very welcome return to a brilliant children's series.
November 14, 2024 at 1:01 PM