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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 2d

Julia Blackburn will be in the Bookshop on Wednesday 22 October to talk to Sarah Clegg about REMEDIES, her new pamphlet about the images, amulets and incantations that have been used to cure illnesses from ancient times to the present day.

Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/julia-blac...

Julia Blackburn & Sarah Clegg: Remedies

Julia Blackburn discusses her pamphlet Remedies, the latest from Hazel Press, with Sarah Clegg

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 1d

god we can't can we? anyway what if it isn't him??

LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 1d

oh god pretty sure that steve turner the guitarist from mudhoney is in the shop. browsing fiction rn. not absolutely certain it is him, we have had some false alarms in the past, but am pretty sure

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 1d

We helped launch CHAOTIC GOOD with an event at the shop back in April – you can hear Isabelle Baafi read from and discuss her work with Lavinia Greenlaw on our podcast: lrb.me/0307bb

LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 1d

First up, an extract from Isabelle Baafi’s CHAOTIC GOOD – head to the blog to read: lrb.me/e5722a

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 1d

To celebrate the shortlists for this year’s Forward Poetry Prizes, we’re presenting a series of excerpts, interviews and insights into the writing process from some of the shortlisted poets, focusing this week on the nominees for Best First Collection lrb.me/3eb2ed

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 2d

Julia Blackburn & Sarah Clegg: Remedies

Julia Blackburn discusses her pamphlet Remedies, the latest from Hazel Press, with Sarah Clegg

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 5d

this is a wonderful book

LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 5d

Our Book of the Week is Sarah Perry's "Death of an Ordinary Man" - pick up your signed copies here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/death-...

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 5d

Our Book of the Week is Sarah Perry's "Death of an Ordinary Man" - pick up your signed copies here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/death-...

LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 6d

speaking personally i would go for "high on the hog"

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 6d

been asked by the boss to update our kerfuffle policy to include a section on "effing and jeffing"

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 6d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 6d

It's a great pleasure this evening to welcome back Sarah Howe to read from her long-awaited new collection FORETOKENS and discuss it with Sandeep Parmar

You can order a signed copy here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/foreto...

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 7d

They are but it's a 'thing' to pretend they're not

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 7d

really astonished to learn that gen z is not aware of the difference between coddled and shirred eggs

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 7d

TOMORROW NIGHT: Sarah Perry, author of THE ESSEX SERPENT, will be at the shop to discuss her new memoir, DEATH OF AN ORDINARY MAN, with Amy Key.

Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sarah-perr...

Sarah Perry & Amy Key: Death of an Ordinary Man

Sarah Perry discusses her extraordinary new memoir with Amy Key

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 7d

Plenty more signed copies of L.A. Baby! now available. Order yours here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/l.a.-b...

LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 7d

🎧 PODCAST🎧

Jacqueline Rose discusses revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg, German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, film icon Marilyn Monroe, and her book WOMEN IN DARK TIMES with Yasmin El-Rifae

Listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts): lrb.me/1g3

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 7d

i did! thank you

LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 7d

‘I am a person who lives with defeat. It is not about me, it is about the things I have written about – those have been smashed over many times. Should we shut up because nothing is happening? No. We have to keep doing what we do.’

Our Author of the Month for October is Arundhati Roy lrb.me/pg3

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 8d

tacitus was not impressed. "they make a dessert and they call it peas", he said gloomily

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 8d

the nephews grudingly replaced the honey. but after they had drained the peas, following a suggestion from nigel slater, they gave them the very lightest dusting of castor sugar. disaster struck! far more castor sugar than they'd intended poured from the packet. nothing to be done. they served it

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 8d

the carrots and the parsnips were both honey roasted; the potato dauphinoise also had honey added. "would you stop adding honey to all the veg" said tacitus, crossly

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 8d

AN ANECDOTE OF TACITUS

tacitus, the roman historian, was sorting out sunday dinner with his two nephews. he was in charge of the meat and the yorkshires and they were doing the veg.

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 8d

maybe i could hide the excess mugs

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 8d

the problem is we've loads of mugs, far more than we need, and people will just choose the mugs without the courgettes

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