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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
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
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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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
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…an unforgettable story of friendship, redemption and a life-changing voyage of discovery on a remote Norwegian island…

@herdyshepherd.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Great to see @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social in the Owl today! Absolution is the latest and fourth volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series, which began with Annihilation and continued with Authority and Acceptance.
November 19, 2024 at 6:57 PM
'No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades' Financial Times
November 19, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Join us for an evening of Martini talk and get ahead with your Christmas shopping.
November 16, 2024 at 12:37 PM
We have some lovely signed copies of the sprayed edge edition of The Glassmaker. Tracy Chevalier was at the Owl talking to Emily Rhodes last week…
November 13, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Let’s get things moving! A date for your Christmas shopping diary…
November 12, 2024 at 8:03 PM