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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 14h

📚 @wasafirimag.bsky.social x Tagore’s Salon

Join us for Writing Through Pain: On Labour and Literature
with writers Dur e Aziz Amna & Farah Ali

Oct 15 | 7PM | Brick Lane Bookshop

A conversation on illness, survival, and the work of writing.
🎟️ bricklanebookshop.org/product/tago...

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 2d

🚀 Book Launch: The Imagined Life
Oct 9 | Brick Lane Bookshop | £6

Celebrate the release of The Imagined Life with award-winning author @andrewporter01.bsky.social, joined by Curtis Garner, author of Isaac. Expect a powerful evening of readings, conversation, Q&A, and signing.

buff.ly/WZOMbpF

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 3d

Want a chance to win 12 FREE audiobooks with @libro.fm? Find the Golden Ticket in our store on #BookshopDay, 11 October! 🎉

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 3d

🚀 Book Launch: The Imagined Life
Oct 9 | Brick Lane Bookshop | £6

Celebrate the release of The Imagined Life with award-winning author @andrewporter01.bsky.social, joined by Curtis Garner, author of Isaac. Expect a powerful evening of readings, conversation, Q&A, and signing.

buff.ly/WZOMbpF

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 4d

🚀 Book Launch: The Imagined Life
Oct 9 | Brick Lane Bookshop | £6

Celebrate the release of The Imagined Life with award-winning author @andrewporter01.bsky.social, joined by Curtis Garner, author of Isaac. Expect a powerful evening of readings, conversation, Q&A, and signing.

buff.ly/WZOMbpF

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 5d

🚀 Book Launch: The Imagined Life
Oct 9 | Brick Lane Bookshop | £6

Celebrate the release of The Imagined Life with award-winning author @andrewporter01.bsky.social, joined by Curtis Garner, author of Isaac. Expect a powerful evening of readings, conversation, Q&A, and signing.

buff.ly/WZOMbpF

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 6d

🚀 Book Launch: The Imagined Life
Oct 9 | Brick Lane Bookshop | £6

Celebrate the release of The Imagined Life with award-winning author @andrewporter01.bsky.social, joined by Curtis Garner, author of Isaac. Expect a powerful evening of readings, conversation, Q&A, and signing.

buff.ly/WZOMbpF

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 6d

🚨TONIGHT🚨

Thea Lenarduzzi is coming to Brick Lane Bookshop 📚
Launching The Tower (@FitzcarraldoEditions) - a haunting, brilliant blend of memoir + myth.

🗓 Oct 2 | 7pm
🎟 Standing room only – grab a ticket while you can.
buff.ly/LjsnhB1

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 7d

Thea Lenarduzzi is coming to Brick Lane Bookshop 📚
Launching The Tower (@FitzcarraldoEditions) - a haunting, brilliant blend of memoir + myth.

🗓 Oct 2 | 7pm
🎟 Standing room only – grab a ticket while you can.
buff.ly/LjsnhB1

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 8d

Thea Lenarduzzi is coming to Brick Lane Bookshop 📚
Launching The Tower (@FitzcarraldoEditions) - a haunting, brilliant blend of memoir + myth.

🗓 Oct 2 | 7pm
🎟 Standing room only – grab a ticket while you can.
buff.ly/LjsnhB1

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 9d

Thea Lenarduzzi is coming to Brick Lane Bookshop 📚
Launching The Tower (@FitzcarraldoEditions) - a haunting, brilliant blend of memoir + myth.

🗓 Oct 2 | 7pm
🎟 Standing room only – grab a ticket while you can.
buff.ly/LjsnhB1

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 10d

Thea Lenarduzzi is coming to Brick Lane Bookshop 📚
Launching The Tower (@FitzcarraldoEditions) - a haunting, brilliant blend of memoir + myth.

🗓 Oct 2 | 7pm
🎟 Standing room only – grab a ticket while you can.
buff.ly/LjsnhB1

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 11d

Thea Lenarduzzi is coming to Brick Lane Bookshop 📚
Launching The Tower (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) - a haunting, brilliant blend of memoir + myth.

🗓 Oct 2 | 7pm
🎟 Standing room only – grab a ticket while you can.
buff.ly/LjsnhB1

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 12d

@andrewporter01.bsky.social

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 20d

London! 🇬🇧 So excited to be coming to the UK in October for the UK Book Launch for the British edition of The Imagined Life (Europa Editions)! On October 9, I’ll be reading & talking with author Curtis Garner at Brick Lane Bookshop in London. 7 PM. Details here: bricklanebookshop.org/product/book...

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 12d

📚 Don’t miss the launch of The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter — a powerful novel of love, memory & secrets in 1980s California.

📍Brick Lane Bookshop
🗓️ Oct 9 | 🎟️ Tickets: bricklanebookshop.org/product/book...

Reading, Q&A, signing with special guest Curtis Garner.
@europaeditions.bsky.social

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 12d

Thea Lenarduzzi is coming to Brick Lane Bookshop 📚
Launching The Tower (Fitzcarraldo Editions!) — a haunting, brilliant blend of memoir + myth.
🗓 Oct 2 | 7pm
🎟 Standing room only – grab a ticket while you can.
buff.ly/LjsnhB1

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 13d

Thea Lenarduzzi is coming to Brick Lane Bookshop 📚
Launching The Tower (Fitzcarraldo Editions!) — a haunting, brilliant blend of memoir + myth.
🗓 Oct 2 | 7pm
🎟 Standing room only – grab a ticket while you can.
bricklanebookshop.org/product/book...

@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 23d

📚 Book Launch: The Expansion Project
w/ Ben Pester + Sheena Patel
🪑 Chaired by Tom Conaghan

✨ A night of razor-sharp wit, surreal satire & brilliant storytelling
📖 Featuring Ben’s astonishing debut The Expansion Project + Sheena’s cult-hit I’m a Fan

🗓️ 16 Sept, 7pm
🎟️ £6 – tix via link in bio

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 23d

📚 Book Launch: The Expansion Project
w/ Ben Pester + Sheena Patel
🪑 Chaired by Tom Conaghan

✨ A night of razor-sharp wit, surreal satire & brilliant storytelling
📖 Featuring Ben’s astonishing debut The Expansion Project + Sheena’s cult-hit I’m a Fan

🗓️ 16 Sept, 7pm
🎟️ £6 – tix via link in bio

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · Sep 1

☀️ August Bestsellers at Brick Lane: summer reads and self love

❤️ Brick Lane patrons have been looking after themselves, either by taking care of their wellbeing, desires, and looking at love in a new light, or with incredible stories, including three from the International Booker Shortlist.

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · Aug 25

📆 On September 9th (7pm), both Mark and Huw will be at Brick Lane Bookshop, alongside @alan.dein as part of our Reading East London Series, discussing the project they started 34 years ago, and its importance today.

🎟️ Tickets (£6) are available online via the events tab from the link in our bio.

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · Aug 25

🗣️ Behind these photographs are the stories from the community of East London's working class that gave the area its distinct character which many feel is fleeting, or has left already.

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · Aug 25

📸 Few who live and work here now would be able to recognise the scenes captured in the incredible work of @markjackson_writes and Huw Davies, 'Spitalfields 91', which documented the final months of this iconic London institution in its original form.

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · Aug 25

⌛Over the last three decades, East London has experienced an extraordinary transformation. Nowhere better can it be seen than Spitalfields Market, where crates of fruit and veg being carted at 4am have since given way to boutique shops and bohemian haunts.

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