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STOCKHOLM | Saturday 21st May at 17:00. Free.

Meet Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström, award-winning author, speaker, and photographer. Nigerian-American, based in Stockholm.

In a conversation about being a Black woman in Sweden with Palmira Koukkari Mbenga, journalist and ­producer for Dagens Nyheter’s podcast Studio DN.

An arresting debut novel for anyone looking for insight into what it means to be a Black woman in the world.

Book signing at the event – bring your books or buy at the bookshop.

Saturday 21st May at 17:00. Free event!
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The event is part of Stockholms bokhelg.

STOCKHOLM | Saturday 7th May at 17.00. Free event!

Join the book release celebrations in the Stockholm bookshop together with author Matthew Fox!

The Sky Over Rebecca is a new fantasy novel for readers age 10 and up, set in Stockholm in the deep midwinter. Winner of the Bath Children’s Novel Award!

Reading! Book signing! Celebration & refreshments!
Saturday 7th May at 17.00 in the Stockholm bookshop
Free event – bring a friend.

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UPPSALA | Thursday 12th May at 19.00. Ticketed.

** Event fully booked! Contact the bookshop for the waiting list. **

Emma Clery, professor of English Literature at Uppsala University, talks about Jane Austen, her life, and the regency period.

What were the social and economic realities for Austen’s heroines, and what makes her books so popular today – more than 200 years after they were written?

Thursday 12th May at 19:00
Tickets 60:- Tea & yummy cake included.

Event is now fully booked – drop by the shop or email uppsala@bookshop.se to sign up for the waiting list.

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UPPSALA | Thursday 21st April at 19:00

Join author Neil Price and hear him talk about the history of the Norse people, their journeys and their spirit world and his wonderful book The Children of Ash & Elm – A History of the Vikings.

Welcome to a truly historic evening at the bookshop!

Thursday 21st April at 19:00.
Tickets 60:-.
Book your ticket today – drop by the bookshop or email uppsala@bookshop.se
(any remaining tickets at the door)

Our shops are open all of Easter weekend – welcome in to stock up on ”påskekrim” (Easter Crime) and other eggciting reads!

The UPPSALA bookshop
Good Friday 15th April: 12–16
Saturday Easter Eve 16th: 10–16
Sunday Easter Day 17th: 12–16
Easter Monday 18th: 12–16

The STOCKHOLM bookshop
Good Friday 15th April: 12–16
Saturday Easter Eve 16th: 11–16
Sunday Easter Day 17th: 12–16
Easter Monday 18th: 12–16

STOCKHOLM | Friday 25 March from 18.00

Wind down and unplug after a busy week with a musical After-Work in the Stockholm bookshop.

Live acoustic music by the band Us!

Tickets 60:- at the door. Refreshments included.

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UPPSALA | Monday 21 March 2022 at 19.00

Celebrate World Poetry Day in the Uppsala bookshop together with poets Daniel Kane, Sally Anderson Boström, Elizabeth Clark Wessel and fellow poetry lovers.

Poetry readings! Refreshments!

Monday 21 March at 19:00.
Tickets 60:- at the door. 

STOCKHOLM | Monday 21 March at 18.00

Celebrate World Poetry Day in the Stockholm bookshop together with poets and fellow poetry lovers.

Welcome to bring your own poems for an open mic reading opportunity! 

Monday 21 March at 18.00
Free event with poetry readings and refreshments!

UNESCO World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural & linguistic expression and identity. Practised throughout history – in every culture and on every continent – poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, transforming the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for dialogue and peace.

UPPSALA | Thursday 17 March at 19:00

Welcome to a Year with Jane Austen! We have been longing to give some focus to one of our favourite authors for a while, and now it’s time. Welcome to a Jane Austen year at The English Bookshop!

We start off with a reading group and discussion about two of her lesser known works: Sanditon and Lady Susan. This reading group meets up already in a week on Thursday 17th March at 19.00 in the bookshop to discuss these two short novels (so there’s still time to be able to read them before the meeting). They are both collected in the same book, which also brings you a third novel as a bonus – The Watsons.

Book your seat today! This will take place in the Uppsala shop, so please remember to book a seat in advance and prepare for tea and cakes and conversation!

Welcome on Thursday 17th March at 19.00, and hopefully we’ll get to know a favourite author a little bit better!

Stay tuned for more Austen events during this year with Jane Austen.

UPPSALA & STOCKHOLM | Fri 25–Sun 27 February 2022

3for2 on everything in our shops! All Thank You Weekend, Friday 25–Sunday 27 February 2022. A small way of saying Thank You for sticking with us and supporting us during the pandemic (and fingers crossed it will be over soon, for realz. The pandemic, that is...).

3for2 on everything in our shops (well, except staff and bookshelves), all weekend. (Unfortunately only on in-shop purchases this time.)

Every third book (or item) for free. Buy 3 – pay for 2. Buy 6 – pay for 4. Buy 9 – pay for 6. (you get the idea…)

Don’t forget to bring your shopping bags (or big wheelie trunks, if we know you right...) ;-)

We’ve been through a lot together… Through thick and thin, pandemic and restrictions, supply chain delays and lorry shortages – you have supported the bookshop in so many different ways.

THANK YOU! We knew our customers were the best, yet you managed to surprise us once again by the extent of your support and love for the bookshop.

This Thank You Weekend and 3for2 offer is just a small way of trying to say THANK YOU for your continued love and support. And we can’t wait to see you in the shops so we can thank you in person!