Real Magic Books
@realmagicbooks.bsky.social
Independent bookshop celebrating the people and pages where real magic is made✨
https://linktr.ee/realmagicbooks
https://linktr.ee/realmagicbooks
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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This is not your normal book festival. THIS IS REAL MAGIC✨
realmagicbooks.com/real-magic-w...
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✨
realmagicbooks.com/real-magic-w...
This is not your normal book festival. THIS IS REAL MAGIC✨
realmagicbooks.com/real-magic-w...
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
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.
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.
wegottickets.com/event/673121/
wegottickets.com/event/673121/
August 21, 2025 at 12:57 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.
wegottickets.com/event/673121/
wegottickets.com/event/673121/
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!
wegottickets.com/event/668401/
Welcoming them to Wendover on 17 July as well, in conversation with Sean Rowley and Oasis quiz at the pub after!
wegottickets.com/event/668401/
July 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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!
wegottickets.com/event/668401/
Welcoming them to Wendover on 17 July as well, in conversation with Sean Rowley and Oasis quiz at the pub after!
wegottickets.com/event/668401/
Our third Real Magic Weekend starts on Friday. Three days of talks, music and more in Wendover✨
Info and tickets realmagicbooks.com/real-magic-w...
Info and tickets realmagicbooks.com/real-magic-w...
May 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Our third Real Magic Weekend starts on Friday. Three days of talks, music and more in Wendover✨
Info and tickets realmagicbooks.com/real-magic-w...
Info and tickets realmagicbooks.com/real-magic-w...
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
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
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
wegottickets.com/event/658914
wegottickets.com/event/658914
May 4, 2025 at 3:36 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
wegottickets.com/event/658914
wegottickets.com/event/658914
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...
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
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...
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...
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 🐈
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
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 🐈
Prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes tells the story of how cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century in this lovely cultural history 🐈
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
‘The best book I’ve read in the past year . . . A masterpiece’ Financial Times
April 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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
‘The best book I’ve read in the past year . . . A masterpiece’ Financial Times
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Beautiful out there, @troubledstriker.bsky.social has called it, the bench is out for the first day of the season ☀️
Here until 5pm today and the shop is packed full of excellent books!✨
March 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Here until 5pm today and the shop is packed full of excellent books!✨
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
wegottickets.com/event/654329/
wegottickets.com/event/654329/
March 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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
wegottickets.com/event/654329/
wegottickets.com/event/654329/
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/
wegottickets.com/event/653922/
March 17, 2025 at 7:34 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/
wegottickets.com/event/653922/
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.
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...
March 15, 2025 at 1:48 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.
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...
Lovely day for it. Here until 5pm playing country music and selling good books✨
March 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Lovely day for it. Here until 5pm playing country music and selling good books✨
Book of the day, Careless People: A story of where I used to work by
Sarah Wynn-Williams.
Shocking and darkly funny, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to the decisions that are shaping our world and the people who make them. Welcome to Facebook.
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9781...
Sarah Wynn-Williams.
Shocking and darkly funny, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to the decisions that are shaping our world and the people who make them. Welcome to Facebook.
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9781...
March 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Book of the day, Careless People: A story of where I used to work by
Sarah Wynn-Williams.
Shocking and darkly funny, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to the decisions that are shaping our world and the people who make them. Welcome to Facebook.
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9781...
Sarah Wynn-Williams.
Shocking and darkly funny, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to the decisions that are shaping our world and the people who make them. Welcome to Facebook.
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9781...
Book of the day, Give it Grow: Simple Projects to Nurture Food, Flowers and Wildlife in any Outdoor Space by Martha Swales. We’ve got a few lovely gardening and allotment books for all ages in at the moment. It’s a lovely weekend ahead for it ☀️🌱
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...
March 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Book of the day, Give it Grow: Simple Projects to Nurture Food, Flowers and Wildlife in any Outdoor Space by Martha Swales. We’ve got a few lovely gardening and allotment books for all ages in at the moment. It’s a lovely weekend ahead for it ☀️🌱
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...
Book of the day, Flesh by David Szalay (@vintagebooks.bsky.social). Comes very very highly recommended this one. Tipped as a book of the year by lots of people, described as a straight up masterpiece by some too.
‘Brilliance on every page’ Samantha Harvey
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...
‘Brilliance on every page’ Samantha Harvey
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...
March 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Book of the day, Flesh by David Szalay (@vintagebooks.bsky.social). Comes very very highly recommended this one. Tipped as a book of the year by lots of people, described as a straight up masterpiece by some too.
‘Brilliance on every page’ Samantha Harvey
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...
‘Brilliance on every page’ Samantha Harvey
uk.bookshop.org/a/11100/9780...
Two floors of the best books and greatest records. Real Magic Records is upstairs all weekend, Real Magic everything, always. Good books for bad times✨ Come and see us!
March 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Two floors of the best books and greatest records. Real Magic Records is upstairs all weekend, Real Magic everything, always. Good books for bad times✨ Come and see us!
Book of the day is this beautiful 16 page 2 colour risograph A4 zine, A Radical Garden 💚🌱❤️
We only have 10 copies in stock and not sure if we can get more. Big love to the always brilliant @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social for the tip off on this one✨
We only have 10 copies in stock and not sure if we can get more. Big love to the always brilliant @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social for the tip off on this one✨
February 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Book of the day is this beautiful 16 page 2 colour risograph A4 zine, A Radical Garden 💚🌱❤️
We only have 10 copies in stock and not sure if we can get more. Big love to the always brilliant @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social for the tip off on this one✨
We only have 10 copies in stock and not sure if we can get more. Big love to the always brilliant @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social for the tip off on this one✨
Book of the day! Goodlord: An Email by Ella Frears 🩷🔑
Ella is our very special guest here tomorrow (Friday) night at the shop, reading for us and in conversation with Will Burns.
‘A dazzling treat of a book, genuinely inventive, spiky and funny’ Observer
wegottickets.com/event/647993/
Ella is our very special guest here tomorrow (Friday) night at the shop, reading for us and in conversation with Will Burns.
‘A dazzling treat of a book, genuinely inventive, spiky and funny’ Observer
wegottickets.com/event/647993/
February 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Book of the day! Goodlord: An Email by Ella Frears 🩷🔑
Ella is our very special guest here tomorrow (Friday) night at the shop, reading for us and in conversation with Will Burns.
‘A dazzling treat of a book, genuinely inventive, spiky and funny’ Observer
wegottickets.com/event/647993/
Ella is our very special guest here tomorrow (Friday) night at the shop, reading for us and in conversation with Will Burns.
‘A dazzling treat of a book, genuinely inventive, spiky and funny’ Observer
wegottickets.com/event/647993/
Book of the day! Goodlord: An Email by Ella Frears 🩷🔑
Ella is our very special guest here tomorrow (Friday) night at the shop, reading for us and in conversation with Will Burns.
‘A dazzling treat of a book, genuinely inventive, spiky and funny’ Observer
wegottickets.com/event/647993/
Ella is our very special guest here tomorrow (Friday) night at the shop, reading for us and in conversation with Will Burns.
‘A dazzling treat of a book, genuinely inventive, spiky and funny’ Observer
wegottickets.com/event/647993/
February 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Book of the day! Goodlord: An Email by Ella Frears 🩷🔑
Ella is our very special guest here tomorrow (Friday) night at the shop, reading for us and in conversation with Will Burns.
‘A dazzling treat of a book, genuinely inventive, spiky and funny’ Observer
wegottickets.com/event/647993/
Ella is our very special guest here tomorrow (Friday) night at the shop, reading for us and in conversation with Will Burns.
‘A dazzling treat of a book, genuinely inventive, spiky and funny’ Observer
wegottickets.com/event/647993/