Tis the season... for sales.
Our November sale features more than 60 independent booksellers.
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Some colors for Friday courtesy of Andrew Lang's famous fairy books.
Grey, red, violet, green, orange, blue, brown, olive, pink, yellow, crimson.
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Rockstar, poet, photographer, and bibliophile Patti Smith has a new book out inspired by her popular Instagram account. It contains more than 365 photographs from her daily routine.
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Who really killed the princes in the tower? In this clever mystery from crime writer, Josephine Tey a bed-bound detective sets out to solve a 500-year-old murder involving Richard III.
This is a gorgeous first edition from 1951.
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Nobody thought a novel about rabbits would work.
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At least seven publishers turned down Richard Adams' manuscript, about a small group of rabbits, before Rex Collings Ltd. finally agreed to print 2,500 copies of the novel, which—renamed WATERSHIP DOWN—hit U.K. bookshop shelves fifty years ago today.
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Len Hill was an ornithologist who owned a bird sanctuary. He became a 'Penguin Millionaire' after acquiring 2 remote islands inhabited by 3 million penguins. He issued banknotes for the islands featuring images of penguins.
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It’s been a stellar year for literature. We’ve enjoyed novels from Jennifer Egan, Emily St. John Mandel, Celeste Ng, Monica Ali & many others. Browse our list of the best books from 2022 to find your next read, or the perfect gift for an avid reader.
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Bob Dylan has written a book about the songs that influenced him. It features 66 short essays and is illustrated with images of old American record stores, casinos, fairgrounds, movie theaters and record-pressing plants. True nostalgia.
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These beautiful RAF anthologies celebrate 100 years of service. Produced by Extraordinary Editions in association with the RAF Museum, they include more than 650 pages of documents, orders, reports, maps, diaries, letters & ephemera from RAF life.
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"The dementors send their love, Potter!"
Signed copies of Tom Felton's memoir - how fantastic is that?
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Our perfectly timely new cover
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A proper office.
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This pic of the @nybooks offices is making me feel a lot better about my desk situation.
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Congratulations to Suzette Mayr who won the 2022 Scotiabank last night for her novel, The Sleeping Car Porter. Suzette takes home $100,000.
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"A whole world contained in a passenger train moving across the Canadian vastness...."
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Our November bookseller sale is up and running. There are thousands of discounted books on offer from independent booksellers.
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One of our customers posted about this book on Instagram. The Plague and I is a memoir from 1948 about being a patient for a year in a tuberculosis sanatorium. TB was called the white plague. The University of Washington Press reprinted the book in 2016.
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Here in Canada, the is awarded this evening for exceptional fiction. Good luck to Kim Fu, Rawi Hage, Tsering Yangzom Lama, Suzette Mayr & Noor Naga. Wonderful to see 2 short story collections on the shortlist from Kim Fu & Rawi Hage.
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13 year-end lists were added to list of "best books of 2022" lists today (bringing the total to 161), including ' best sci-fi, fantasy, horror & graphic novels; 's best books; & 's creepiest themed anthologies largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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Get ready for an avalanche of new releases from famous names.... starting with Bono whose autobiography is called Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.
Michelle Obama, you're up next.
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Adele has decided that reading novels all day is preferable to earning millions as a world famous singer.
We always knew she'd come to this decision eventually.
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Judge this book by its amazing cover but also the fact that it won this year’s Yoto Carnegie Medal for outstanding children’s literature. It’s the story of a father and daughter who live in the woods.
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Copies of Shantaram are selling once again thanks to the Apple TV adaptation. Published in 2003, it's an autobiographical novel about a convicted bank robber who escapes from jail and flees to India. The book is remarkable for its depiction of India.
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Our #Halloween2022 #podcast episode is live. We speak to Greg Melville, author of this new book. Greg writes about historic cemeteries from Burial Hill in Plymouth, MA, to Boothill in Tombstone, AZ. Our interview ranges from colonial graves to Walt Disney.
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A first edition copy of The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs sold a couple of days ago for almost $3,000. Here's the dust jacket with its memorable cover design. The novel is set in 2025.
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Colleen Hoover is breaking records. She released a new book last week called It Starts with Us. A sequel to It Ends with Us from 2016, it sold 800,000 copies on the first day.
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This long out-of-print book helps you understand mystery novels. Look at the list of contributors explaining the genre – PD James, Colin Dexter, Peter Dickinson, Robert B Parker, Donald E Westlake, Otto Penzler etc etc.
This butler definitely didn’t do it.
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All our books on are currently 20% off till the end of the month. That's just a week left!
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Tell everyone!
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