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The UK-based vintage paperback book subscription box and online bookshop. Find our subscriptions and books for sale at https://prudenceandthecrow.com - and shop our art prints and stationery at https://mymble.com !

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · Jan 14

We are Prudence and the Crow, a UK-based vintage paperback subscription box and online bookshop.

We choose a book just for you, in the genre of your choice 💙📚

Founded in 2013, available as a monthly subscription or 1, 3, 6 or 12-month bundle, for yourself, or as a gift:

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The Vintage Book Subscription Box | Prudence and the Crow

Every month we send out exciting book boxes to our wonderful subscribers containing a hand-selected vintage paperback book, a handmade book bag, a library card to catalogue their growing collection an...

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 1d

This sounds quite flippant but I'm very serious, I also read all the time at home (only child) and it was just quite lonely. I really liked reading in a busy classroom.

Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 1d

My favourite time to read was in class, during the teacher going on about whatever they were possibly teaching. Silent reading time was useless to me but I'm always grateful for the teachers that left me alone to plough through whatever was in the classroom instead of doing a geography or whatever.

Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 1d

It's sunday so I am finally reading the links I opened during the week. Or possibly last week. Anyway, this one is worth your time (should be a free link, it was for me at least). Katherine Rundell on reading for pleasure. #UKKidLit #KidLitUK www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...

There is a silver bullet for childhood happiness: a love of reading

Bestselling children’s author Katherine Rundell says to reverse the reading crisis we must let young people rediscover the enjoyment of books — whatever they may be

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 4d

If you've 11-odd hours spare, a full reading of 1984 from Senate House in London might be just the ticket (courtesy of @ucl.ac.uk and the Orwell Foundation, back in 2017) 💙📚

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1984 LIVE

YouTube video by UCL

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 4d

1984 LIVE

YouTube video by UCL

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 4d

Quite possibly the perfect train read, a solid Ruth Rendell - I do hope so!

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 6d

NEW in the #patcshop - Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch.

Young Puffin 1979 paperback edition with rare alternative cover artwork. Fully illustrated.

£10 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚

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Jill Murphy - The Worst Witch

Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch. Puffin 1979. Paperback. Rare edition with alternative cover art. Condition: Some scuffing and creasing to edges. Pages tanned but still holding together well. Overall ve...

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 10d

The @wtpress.bsky.social Kickstarter campaign has a lot of fun stories from Welsh history and mythology. They are best read in order, so I am going to make a mega-thread of them, starting with @julietemckenna.bsky.social on why she used Welsh folklore: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

Update 2: Juliet McKenna on Welsh folklore · They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)

As promised, here is the first of our updates about Welsh history and legend. This one is from Juliet McKenna.I was drawn to the Welsh myths underpinning The Green Man’s Gift for several reasons. Firs...

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 13d

NEW in the #patcshop - T S Eliot's Collected Poems 1909-1962.

Faber and Faber 1974 edition. Paperback.

Complete with previous owners' annotations.

£8 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚

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T S Eliot - Collected Poems 1909-1962

T S Eliot's Collected Poems 1909-1962 Faber and Faber 1974 edition. Paperback. Condition: Minor tanning and marks to edges of pages. Minor scuffing to corners. Inscribed by previous owner inside fron...

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 13d

Paper arguing this in the comments; I want to start every Tuesday morning with a take this good

Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 14d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 14d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 14d

On the 1st January this year I started reading Crow The Fellowship of the Ring at bedtime, mostly 1-2 bits a night. It is indeed perfectly chunked for bedtime reading. I did not sing the songs. There is a lot of walking. I relearnt many obscure nature words. My Elves are all Welsh. We continue. 💙📚

Frontispiece of The Two Towers, by JRR Tolkien, 1978 hardback edition. Decorated with runes and elvish script.

Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 14d

Just write a memoir if you really want to talk about yourself, you do not need to make it a pretend fictional book

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 14d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 14d

If it wouldn’t be a good story if you told it in chronological order with a single narrator, it cannot be made a good story by jumping around in time and switching narrators every chapter

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 14d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, ta) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 14d

Did you enjoy #scifi #horror The Waking Dream in my translated horror anthology Sinophagia? Here's a chance to hear the author Fan Zhou and myself chat to Babel Scifi this Saturday at 1pm. The page is in Chinese but it's a bilingual event, English speakers welcome! mp.weixin.qq.com/s/E81bLWyt1t...

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 15d

spoilers but

Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 15d

God love Kew, this is incredible

Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 16d

Look at him creep! As long as the ghosts and the creeps are safely moved in, everything else will be just fine :)

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 18d

Met someone in the pub last night who'd received a very favourite long-wanted, fairly unusual paperback when he was given a PatC subscription box as a gift a couple of years' ago and he was so delighted, still, it is just such a magical thing that happens when you unite someone with a favourite.

Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 19d

Such a treasure, this book, it really is ❤️

The Insatiable Ones- Suede Fan Community @theinsatiableones.bsky.social · 19d

More books - don't forget tomorrow night Rachel Apps will be talking about her wonderful 'An Illustrated A to Z of Suede Lyrics' at Chesham Library buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

An Illustrated A to Z of Suede Lyrics, with Rachel Apps at Chesham | Buckinghamshire Libraries

Illustrator and graphic artist, Rachel Apps, in conversation with journalist Sean Hannam, about her new book, An Illustrated A to Z of Suede Lyrics. A lifelong Suede fan, Rachel will share her pa...

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 19d

Travelling today and I have forgotten my book! I do have Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder on my phone, which is excellent, but I also really don't enjoy reading on my phone...

Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 21d

That's just the nicest thing, reading out loud is my very favourite - efficient or otherwise❤️

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 21d

My favourite Jilly Cooper story is recounted in Graham Hoyland's 2013 book Last Hours on Everest. What a trooper.

"We lay in a tent for three days in a blizzard. After the first morning we had each told our life stories, and we lay there gazing at the roof of the tent, wondering what to do next.

Luckily Mark had brought a copy of Jilly Cooper's Rivals, a breathily written romance, and Brice had a penknife. We carefully cut it up into three parts. Mark, as owner, was allowed to read it in sequence: A, B, then C. Brice got B, C, then A, but I - as the youngest - was lumbered with C, A, then B, and struggled to comprehend both the plot and the characters.

On our return Mark contacted Jilly Cooper and told her the story. She was delighted to have been able to satisfy three large men at once with only one book."

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 21d

Absolutely so for me, but the other half is very much an audiobook person and I wish I could just download it straight into her brain at this point because it will take *forever* for her to have the space to read it in hard copy!

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 21d

I understand that it's the longest book but it is wild to me that there's still no audiobook for Mariana Enriquez' Our Share of Night...

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 22d

@mmeguillotine.bsky.social you have done it again: this is marvellously immersive, savouring the details.

Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 22d

Hi hi! Very excited to settle in with Melanie Burrows' latest on the life of Marie Antoinette, just right for right now...

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 22d

Hi hi! Very excited to settle in with Melanie Burrows' latest on the life of Marie Antoinette, just right for right now...

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 23d

Very much enjoyed this collection of readers recounting how they read, and how they make time for it: indeed, I find it the MOST pleasing thing to hear about.

www.thecut.com/article/how-...

18 Well-Read People on How, Exactly, They Find the Time

We ask book critics, authors, Substackers, New York staffers, and more.

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