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Looking for something a little different to give to someone?
Why not try...
An Audiobook in a Card?!
There's quite a range of titles including seasonal faves!
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#audiobooksarebooks #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #booksbooksbooks #indiebookshop #supportlocal #bookishgifts
A selection of cards from Audiobook in a Card, from 'Twas the Night Before Christmas to Wuthering Heights, to John & Paul to Ulysses
December 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Declare independents!
Books by some of the incredible independent publishers out there (there are many more, of course!)
A range of books from #andotherbooks #intocreative #bluemoosebooks #theemmapress #solarisbooks #flyonthewallpress #scotlandstreetpress #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #booksellerrecommends #booksellerlife #booksbooksbooks #indiebookshop #supportlocal #readingisforeveryone #bookishgifts #readingisfundamental #booksky
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Shop small till 1st Dec
PLUS
LIMITED-TIME SIGN-UP OFFER!
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Get 2 free audiobooks!
Promo code: SWITCH
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Pick of libro.fm landing page with Starbuck cat listening on her walkman #audiobooksarebooks #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #independentbookshop #bookrecs #ʙᴏᴏᴋsʙᴏᴏᴋsʙᴏᴏᴋs
November 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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You can support us with a purchase on @bookshop_org_uk. And there's free shipping on everything 28 Nov - 1 Dec uk.bookshop.org/shop/nairnbo...
(Also, 5% off if you sign up to our newsletter! [email protected])
#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #booksbooksbooks📚 #indiebookshop #supportlocal #booksky
"Free shipping on Cat Forts (and the books that come in them) Bookshop.org 28 Nov - 1 Dec" Pic of cat sat in box Some book suggestions: Cranky Crabby Crow Saves the World, Lone Husky, The Shapeshifter's Daughter, The Wax Child
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Feeling crafty? Thimbles at the ready?
Some of the finely fashioned activity-based books we have in stock!
#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #supportlocalbusinesses #booksbooksbooks #booksarethebest #BookSky
Ingrained by Callum Robinson, The Green-Wood Carver by Samuel Alexander, Whittling Handbook by Peter Benson, Just What You Need Sewing by Marie-Noelle Bayard, Cafe Cuil Cook Book by Claire Coghill, The Scottish Vegan Cookbook by Jackie Jones, Seasonal Suppers by Fi Buchanan, Wild Fishing by Kevin & Jill Adams, Mary 90, Get Stitched with Tom Daley
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Huge congratulations to Sean Lusk for winning the fiction prize at the Saltire Awards last night for his excellent A Woman of Opinion! #SaltireBookAwards #SeanLusk #AWomanOfOpinion #booksellerreccs #bookrecommendations #booksbooksbooks #booksky
Pic of Sean's book in the shop
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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November 18 is when Proust ate his last madeleine*, it's Margaret Atwood & Alan Moore's birthdays & Tara Selter lives the day (again!) in part III of #SolvejBalle #OnTheCalculationOfVolume. Catch up with the previous volumes & plunge into the next! #TaraSelterDay #SolvejBalle #ItIsHappeningAgain
Pic of the 1st 2 volumes in the shop with books by M Atwood & A Moore in the background. Translators: #SophiaHersiSmith #JenniferRussell #BarbaraJHaveland @faberbooks.bsky.social #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #bookreccs #booksellerrecommends #booksbooksbooks (*As it were. And Niels Bohr dropped to a lower-energy orbit too - might that be significant...?)
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Fry & Laurie, Balls sketch
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Did you know that you can trade your old books for credit towards purchases with @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social and support indie bookshops while you do so?
this weekend there's an extra 15% to be had!
use code BOOKSHOP25
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#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #ʙᴏᴏᴋsky
"Bookshop.org BOOKLOOP Read>Recycle>Redeem Readers! Trade your pre-loved books for Bookshop.org store credit supporting indie bookshopsUse code BOOKSHOP25 to earn an extra 15% 14-17 November only"
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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LIMITED-TIME OFFER!
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Get 2 free audiobooks!
Promo code: SWITCH
@libro.fm
#audiobooksarebooks #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #independentbookshop #bookrecs #ʙᴏᴏᴋsʙᴏᴏᴋsʙᴏᴏᴋs
Picture of Nairn Books' Libro.fm page, with offer info (and Starbuck the cat listening to an audiobook on her walkman - possibly The Interpretation of Cats by Claude Beata). TEXT: "You're supporting Nairn Bookshop. Limited-time offer. Get two free audiobooks! Now's a great time to shop indie. When you start a new one-credit per month membership supporting Nairn Bookshop with promo code SWITCH, we'll give you two bonus audiobook credits at sign-up."
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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#Whatareyoureading?
#Comingsoon
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!!Don't forget to sign up to our newsletter (nairnbooks.com) to get your 5% off at Bookshop.org UK!!

uk.bookshop.org/lists/rememb...

#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #independentbookshop #bookrecs #ʙᴏᴏᴋsʙᴏᴏᴋsʙᴏᴏᴋs
Pic of our November page on bookshop.org.uk with our suggestions
November 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Poor Young Frankie he just can't decide what to read this Halloween. Should he go with a classic or try something new like #PoorCreatures by #MairiKidd or #Mary by #AnneEekhout?
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#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #supportlocalbusinesses #booksbooksbooks #booksarethebest #BookSky
Pic of Young Frankenstein sat among books he'd like to read
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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As the spooky season draws near...
#Whatareyoureading to fend off (or summon!) the creatures of the night?https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/spooky-nairn-bookshop

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#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #supportlocalbusinesses #booksbooksbooks #booksellerreccs
#booksarethebest #BookSky
Young Frankenstein on a bookshelf telling some of his favourite scary stories
October 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Congrats to Sandra who found the Golden Ticket!
@libro.fm
#GoldenTicket
#bookshopday
#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #supportlocalbusinesses #booksbooksbooks📚 #audiobooksarebooks
Pic of Sandra in the shop with the Golden Ticket!
October 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Still waiting for someone to find it at T minus 4 hrs...
Will it be YOU...?
@libro.fm
#GoldenTicket
#anothershakyvidayoh
October 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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It's #bookshopday !
Check out the Reader Award shortlists and vote for your fave! www.nationalbooktokens.com/readers-awards
@booksaremybag
#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #supportlocalbusinesses #booksbooksbooks📚 #booksareforeveryone #booksaremagic #BookSky
October 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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TODAY!
Find the Golden ticket in our bookshop
and you'll win 12 free audiobook credits!
In partnership with Libro.fm
#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #supportlocalbusinesses #booksbooksbooks📚 #audiobooksarebooks
October 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Will you find it...?
Pic of poster on bookshelf with new hardbacks: "Saturday 11 October: Find the Golden Ticket" #ChrisBarkley #SarahHall #BobMortimer etc.
October 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Crikey, that's next weekend.
Better practice our hiding skills...
The shop. With someone hiding...
October 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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On Saturday 11 October!
Find the Golden ticket in our bookshop
and you'll win 12 free audiobook credits!

In partnership with @libro.fm
#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #supportlocalbusinesses #booksbooksbooks📚 #audiobooksarebooks #BookSky
"Saturday 11 October; Find the Golden ticket in our bookshop and you'll win 12 free audiobook credits" Image: pair of headphones with a golden ticket
October 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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I'm still growing out my eyebrows to match
DDL
October 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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What are we reading?
What are *you* reading?

#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #supportlocalbusinesses #booksbooksbooks📚 #booksellerrecommends
#booksareforeveryone #bookrecs #booksaremagic #BookSky
'What we're reading at Nairn Books' (pic of some of the team) Samantha's reading: #Benbecula #GraemeMacraeBurnet #Drystone #KristieDeGaris #TheQueerThingAboutSin #HarryTanner Stephen's reading #HousOfDayHouseOfNight #OlgaTokarczuk #ForestOfNoise #MosabAbuToha #TheWatermark #SamMills #TheLibraryCat #AlexHoward #DaybreakInGaza
October 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Guli guli guli guli guli ram sam sam
Hi kye yay, yippie yi kye yay
Awoo awoo ayee kie chi'
#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #poemspoemspoyums #booksbooksbooks #BookSky
Photo: #Wordsworth #KennethSteven #UrsulaKLeGuin #JackieKay #LenPennie #ColinBramwell #FernandoPessoa #JohnBurnside #KateAshton #MosabAbuToha #GutterMagazine #PàdraigMacAoidh #IainMacPherson #DonPatterson
September 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Window display, "Protest is not terrorism"
September 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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As the autumn equinox draws near it's time to find a good book to leaf through. Here's helping with your decisions through the abscission...
#Whatareyoureading?
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uk.bookshop.org/lists/superb...
Pic of a selection of Dk encyclopaedias in the shop. #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #independentbookshop #bookrecs #booksbooksbooks #BookSky
September 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM