Kirkdale Bookshop
@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
BRIGHT PHOEBUS IN THE CHAT
That is a cracking, cracking record. It's weirdly close to kids TV folk soundtrack while also being howlingly sad. Red Wine and Promises, The Scarecrow... I adore it
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
BRIGHT PHOEBUS IN THE CHAT
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that great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite perspectives
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
that great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite perspectives
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Wild Sun
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Wild Sun
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Can't seem to get backing for my film project "Noah: The Early Years". They all say the narrative lacks an ark.
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Can't seem to get backing for my film project "Noah: The Early Years". They all say the narrative lacks an ark.
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Conversamos con Eugenia Ladra: el universo poético y salvaje de 'Carnada' - www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/cul...
Conversamos con Eugenia Ladra: el universo poético y salvaje de 'Carnada'
Con una prosa delicada, intensa y profundamente poética, Eugenia Ladra da vida a un pueblo donde lo insólito convive con lo cotidiano, evocando universos literarios como Macondo o Comala.
www.nuevatribuna.es
July 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Conversamos con Eugenia Ladra: el universo poético y salvaje de 'Carnada' - www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/cul...
4pm BBC Radio 3
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
4pm BBC Radio 3
Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision, Charlie Brown.
👇🌭Do I hear a strain from Scarlatti?
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
👇🌭Do I hear a strain from Scarlatti?
I note from the 2026 @dauntbookspub.bsky.social catalogue that there will be a new novel from Deb Olin Unferth in July.
Wait till Kolleague finds out! A mad fan of Barn 8
Wait till Kolleague finds out! A mad fan of Barn 8
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I note from the 2026 @dauntbookspub.bsky.social catalogue that there will be a new novel from Deb Olin Unferth in July.
Wait till Kolleague finds out! A mad fan of Barn 8
Wait till Kolleague finds out! A mad fan of Barn 8
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The fancy people call it a solidus.
November 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The fancy people call it a solidus.
As previously, I was moaning about my list of everything I read between 1994 and 2020.. for tedious and obvious reasons my list kind of died at that point, let's not go over it! ANYWAY I said "The problem with starting again is, my first book in '94 was To the Lighthouse*.
*pretentious? MOI?
*pretentious? MOI?
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
As previously, I was moaning about my list of everything I read between 1994 and 2020.. for tedious and obvious reasons my list kind of died at that point, let's not go over it! ANYWAY I said "The problem with starting again is, my first book in '94 was To the Lighthouse*.
*pretentious? MOI?
*pretentious? MOI?
My pink half of the drainpipe
keeps me safe from you
keeps me safe from you
One of my favourite kind of gate post finials - an arrowhead cap carefully half-painted for the house on one side only. Is this a very British approach? Slightly passive-aggressive vibes, but I always admire the crisp neatness of such a division.
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
My pink half of the drainpipe
keeps me safe from you
keeps me safe from you
Customer: "Botticelli really does good hair, doesn't he"
It's clearly going to be one of those days
It's clearly going to be one of those days
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Customer: "Botticelli really does good hair, doesn't he"
It's clearly going to be one of those days
It's clearly going to be one of those days
Still marvelling at the sheer power. Awe
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Still marvelling at the sheer power. Awe
He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amok in Kent
Lately, he's been overheard in Mayfair
You better stay away from him
He'll rip your lungs out, Jim
Huh, I'd like to meet his tailor
Lately, he's been overheard in Mayfair
You better stay away from him
He'll rip your lungs out, Jim
Huh, I'd like to meet his tailor
Don't know if you'd be interested in a bit of work on Saturday 1st July, they're booking people to roam around in wild animal costumes uptown.
November 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amok in Kent
Lately, he's been overheard in Mayfair
You better stay away from him
He'll rip your lungs out, Jim
Huh, I'd like to meet his tailor
Lately, he's been overheard in Mayfair
You better stay away from him
He'll rip your lungs out, Jim
Huh, I'd like to meet his tailor
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I have a rule that if I mention Leonard and Hungry Paul to someone that hasn’t read it, I buy it for them. Copy #18 now winging its way from @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social to Alice in Muswell Hill after a nice book chat on Saturday night 💛
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
You may wish to note the below.
@ronanhession.bsky.social A customer has just bought their eighteenth copy of Leonard.
You may wish to note the above.
You may wish to note the above.
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
@ronanhession.bsky.social A customer has just bought their eighteenth copy of Leonard.
You may wish to note the above.
You may wish to note the above.
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Don't know if you'd be interested in a bit of work on Saturday 1st July, they're booking people to roam around in wild animal costumes uptown.
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Don't know if you'd be interested in a bit of work on Saturday 1st July, they're booking people to roam around in wild animal costumes uptown.
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God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee
