The Portobello Bookshop
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An indie bookshop at the beach in Portobello, Edinburgh. Open 7 days a week, 10am - 6pm. Please use our contact form (not DMs) to get in touch! Thank you 😊
46 Portobello High Street
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We said this exactly a year ago today and we’re happy to be saying it once again... We. Are. Open. 👋😍
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We’ve only got one coat of paint on, a rickety shutter, and a while to go before our shop front and interior is ready, but here’s what will be an independent bookshop at 46 Portobello High Street, Edinburgh. Looking forward to saying hello to Porty later this year 👋📚
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WE. ARE. OPEN. Thank you to everyone who queued up outside the shop this morning we never expected to have it full so fast! What a lovely response!
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It was lovely to receive an unexpected visit by one of Scotland’s most well known readers this sunny Sunday -
@NicolaSturgeon
! 📚
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It’s official, there’s no turning back now, we open our doors JULY 24th!!🎉📚🍾🍾📚🎉
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As part of
#BookshopDay
we’re giving away a hamper filled with books! Follow, retweet and include your favourite book-related literary quotation in the comments. This is UK only and the competition ends midnight tonight (3rd October)! 📚👍
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September is the month publishers (who we love don’t get us wrong) release masses of books on a single day (this Thursday). This is a small delivery from just two publishers. 😣📚
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WE. ARE. OPEN!
We can’t believe this day has finally arrived, and we’re so looking forward to welcoming you all to the bookshop once again! Good luck to all our bookshop friends across Scotland📚🎉
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It’s giveaway time!🎉🥳 In celebration of
#BookshopDay
we’re giving away this fantastic selection of new releases that we’ve been very excited about! To enter: simply like, retweet and reply with your favourite read of 2021 so far 📚
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In the not too distant future, we’ll be launching a click and collect service. The team who built our shop have created this brilliant Safe Server station to make sure our team can work easily and safely! 📚✌️
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We’re so excited to reveal a spread from
#HeartstopperVolume5
as part of the official countdown with
@TeamBKMRK
! ✨
#Heartstopper
Volume 5 by
@aliceoseman
publishes on 7th December so pre-order your copy now: 🍂
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Please note our tills will be closed from 1pm to 2pm today for the International Climate Strike. We’ll be giving out free copies of Greta Thunberg’s book and here to chat climate if you want to visit.
#ClimateStrike
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Last Tuesday eve we closed to protect our staff & community. This week only our owner and managers will be in to do admin. We’ll launch an online shop and work from home. Our team have been asked to stay home, take a break and look after themselves. They’ll be on full pay
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Our shop front isn’t quite finished and we’re not open for another couple of weeks, but we couldn’t resist putting up our first window display, featuring a selection of writers and publishers who call Scotland home. 📚🏠👌
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🌟GIVEAWAY TIME🌟In celebration of
#IndieBookshopWeek
we are giving you the chance to win a 3 month Porty by Post fiction subscription! To enter, just like and retweet this post and make sure you are following us! Ends 20/06/22📚
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To celebrate reopening in a week we’re having a giveaway! To win ALL these fab books just follow, retweet and post your fave book of all time in the comments below this tweet! The winner will be picked at random. UK Only! Ends Tues 20th April at noon. Winner announced Weds! 📚🎉
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It’s our second birthday!! It’s been a roller-coaster first couple of years, but we’re so happy to be here sharing our love of books with Porty High Street and beyond. Thanks for your support from all of us! 🎉📚🌊
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We're six months old today! Thanks to everyone who's been so supportive of us in these opening months, we couldn't have asked for a better start or a more lovely place to be than Portobello 🎉🍾📚
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Before we post more new titles published today, we’d like to say thanks to Bernie Sanders for his impromptu visit this morning 👍
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We’ve been feeling a little powerless the last few days watching the tragic events unfold in Ukraine. Tomorrow all of our profits will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee and their partner charities to help people in Ukraine 🇺🇦📚
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Time for our
#IndieBookshopWeek
giveaway! To win these fabulous books (including a Signed Indie Exclusive Edition of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara & the Sun) follow, retweet, like this tweet & post your favourite author in the comments! (ends 21/06 5pm, winner announced 23/06) 📚
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It’s our 4th Birthday! We can’t believe our doors have been open on the wonderful Portobello High Street for four years already, time really has flown by. 🎉
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One year ago we posted the second photo announcing our opening on 24th July 2019. Today we’re happy to announce (2m apart) that we’ll be reopening on 24th July 2020. And if you are unable to visit we can always deliver to you. 📚
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We’re missing our bookshop a lot, but our manager, Alice, has made this fantastic clay model of it which we thought we’d share! Hope everyone is staying safe. 📚
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Not only do we reopen on Friday, it’s also our first birthday! Thank you so much to
@AnnaDohertyIllu
for painting us this fab window celebrating all the animals who’ve become regular visitors at our shop this past year! 🐶🐱📚🎉
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Today we realised that opening the back door of the shop makes the place instantly cool, so if you fancy visiting a cool bookshop someday soon, come say hi 👍👋
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You know it’s probably going to be a nice day at work when you arrive and there’s such a good rainbow over the shop 🌈📚👌
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We hope everyone is getting through lockdown as well as possible. We paid a visit to our shop yesterday to water the plants. The smell of wood and books was as lovely as ever, as was the walk back along Porty beach. We can’t wait to welcome people back here again. 📚
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We finally posted a before / after shot on our Instagram showing our interior transformation recently. Here’s our shop front, originally a co-op, then a fishing tackle shop, and now The Portobello Bookshop 📚
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First ever delivery of books arrived today! 📚🎉📦📦🎉📚
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Thank you SO MUCH to the incredible number of people who’ve been emailing and calling us to order books today. We’re a little exhausted but very appreciative, thanks for supporting independent bookshops 👍📚❤️
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We are beyond thrilled to have won Indie Bookshop of the Year from the first-ever TikTok Book Awards UK & Ireland! ✨A huge congrats to fellow nominees and winners, we're sorry to have missed what looked like an incredible night but rest assured we're celebrating from afar 🥳
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the first-ever TikTok Book Awards UK and Ireland! Congrats to Author and Creator Of The Year, Holly Jackson and Eden Victoria (@ hojax92 and @ edenvictorria on TikTok)! Read on to see our full list of winners 🤩📚
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Thanks to everyone who sent us such lovely cards, flowers, champagne, prosecco, etc... really much appreciated, and thanks to all the customers and browsers who made our first day today such a great one!
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As well as some fab events this week we were lucky enough to be paid a visit by the wonderful
@valmcdermid
, who visited us to sign copies of her brilliant book 1979, which is now out in paperback! 📚✍️❤️You can pick up signed copies here:
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If you don’t follow us on Instagram yet (
@portybooks
too), we just posted the story of our first ever marriage proposal in the shop, which took place today, and she said YES! We were so happy to be a part of Cat and Amanda’s special moment 💕
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We’re absolutely thrilled to have won the inaugural
@book_tokens
Newcomer of the Year award! Thank you to all our lovely customers who’ve helped us win this 📚🎉👍
Congrats
@PortyBooks
! The Edinburgh-based bookshop has triumphed as the inaugural winner of the
@book_tokens
Newcomer of the Year award. More here:
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In less than 24 hours our doors open. From tomorrow morning we’re open 7 days a week, 10am to 6pm! Hope to see you soon 👍📚🍾✌️🎉
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We’re back on Tuesday, and back to 7 days a week later in September. We’ve been reopen just over a month and it’s been lovely seeing our customers again! The shop also wouldn’t be what it is without our amazing team. Here’s the Saturday crew, who’ve been working flat out today 🙌
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We’re so happy to have won Indie Bookshop of the Year at the TikTok Book Awards & wanted to take a moment to celebrate Kira, the lovely face behind our social media! She works so hard to show you all what we’re up to at the bookshop and we couldn’t have done it without her! 🌟🙌
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It’s a beautififul day in Porty and we’re super happy to announce that our online shop is back! You can now browse reading lists, buy digital gift cards and of course purchase books from us! We hope everyone is staying safe✌️📚
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We'd like to take a mo to wish a very happy 30th anniversary to our pals Magi & Derek, who live above our shop and have been a huge support since we opened. Magi is holding 1979 by her all time fave
@valmcdermid
& Derek has Billy Connolly's new autobiography which he's loving 🎉
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What the shop looks like before it wakes up... 🌅📚
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When you reopen Click & Collect and one of your early customers (Otter) has grown a wee bit 🐶📚
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We’re still busy taking orders over the phone and via our website. Thanks to everyone continuing to support indie bookshops, publishers and writers at the moment. Off out on the bikes delivering books and looking almost too happy about it.
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Thanks so much to
@Beathhigh
for calling in and signing his brilliant new book A Song for the Dark Times 🙌📚 We’ve got plenty of signed copies now in stock and signed copies of Westwind to boot! 🖋
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What a beautiful snowy morning it is in Porty!
Portobello is a lovely looking place most of the time but it’s really something in the snow. ❤️❄️
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What an amazing night last night was at a packed
@PortyTownHall
, with 600 people turning up to hear
@valmcdermid
talk about her fantastic new book, Queen Macbeth, in conversation with
@NicolaSturgeon
. 📚 Thank you to everyone who came along! ❤️
📸 by
@GregMacvean
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Started the day with a beautiful Porty sunrise, may as well end it with a beautiful Porty sunset 🌞
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The party may have been earlier in the week but today is our 3rd Birthday! We couldn’t get shots of us all this week but a huge thanks from all 14 of us for all your support and friendship during these rollercoaster first 3 years! And thank you to our wonderful team. ❤️📚🎉
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We’re so happy to have made the list for this year’s British Book Awards! Huge congrats to all the other wonderful indie finalists in Scotland and across the UK! 🎉📚❤️
#BritishBookAwards
Our finalists from Scotland are
@Furtherfrom
, Minerva's Emporium,
@BookNook_Sarah
,
@EdinBookshop
,
@mainstreethare
,
@PortyBooks
, Timberbooks and
@UllapoolB
!
#BritishBookAwards
#Nibbies
#ChooseBookshops
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It’s a nice calm day down at Porty Beach and we’ve had a steady stream of lovely customers coming along to collect their books after we officially opened for collection this lunchtime! Hope everyone is having a good Independent Bookshop Week!
#IndieBookshopWeek
📚👍
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Some lovely signed
@neilhimself
arrived in stock today. This edition of The Ocean at the End of the Lane is beautifully illustrated by
@elise_hurst_art
and a great read on these cold winter nights
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Happy LGBTQ+ History Month! 🏳️🌈 Here's a selection of some of our favourite queer books, from the history of Stonewall to contemporary novels, poetry and essays. 🌈 In honour of
#LGBTHM21
, we'll be sharing fantastic queer books throughout the month 📚
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It’s Bookshop Day! It’s pretty dreich today, but we’re here as ever and now open 7 days a week! Thanks from us for all your kindness and support these past few months. Shout out to some of our bookshop pals across the UK!
@storytellersinc
@Bookbugsdragon1
@ForumBooks
@BooksRound
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We’re visited by a lot of brilliant dogs each day and haven’t yet posted one. To make up for it here’s 10 week old Izzy, who’s just stopped the whole shop from working and can do so again whenever she likes! 🐶📚⭐️
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We love the cover of Olivia Laing’s Funny Weather so much we went down to Portobello Beach and recreated it. Because booksellers are intensely serious people.
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There’s a truly beautiful pink sky over Porty this evening, as reflected in our window. Bookshop day is tomorrow and we’ll have a few giveaways on the go! 👍📚🌅
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It’s our bookseller Imogen’s last day before she moves to London. This week she painted this fabulous window at our shop, featuring buildings from Porty and Edinburgh. Best wishes and love from all the team Imogen! ❤️
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It’s going to be 27 degrees today in Portobello. We’ve got books, we’ve got a beach, dogs and a closed but cool looking bingo hall. We open at 11 📚🐶☀️👋
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What a very special evening that was. ✨ A million thanks to
@Doug_D_Stuart
for his beautiful words,
@kirstininnes
for chairing this brilliant, warm conversation, and to our audience in person and online! 📚❤️
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We’ve really missed talking, sharing & of course selling books these past few weeks, & furlough rules have meant we’ve not been posting much. But this week we’ve been working hard behind the scenes and next week our online shop will reopen! 📚
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Portobello has some extremely lovely rainbows going on this evening
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We had a visit from the beautiful Annie earlier on, would you just look at her amazing jumper! 🐾🥰
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We’ve rounded up our recent bestsellers from the shop floor and it’s quite the stack; a mix of crime and thriller, gender studies, literary fiction, children’s fiction, and memoirs. Have you read any of these titles?✨📖
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Portobello you are looking magic under this sky tonight
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We love stocking a good variety of books from indie presses, so this
#IndieBookshopWeek
we have curated a display of some of our top picks! With every book, we’ve added a description of the work each press does, as well as the titles and genres they focus on. 📚
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Huge thanks to Olive Gray, one of our most regular customers since she was 9 years old and began visiting us when we opened, for this incredible photo of the Northern Lights, as they paid a visit to Porty Beach yesterday night. 🎆📸📚
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If you’ve not been down since we reopened yet, for the next few weeks we have a 40% off sale trolley filled with fantastic titles that we’re reducing to make space for more new books! We’ll be refreshing it all the time 📚🎉
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It’s Myths and Legends day! We’re here with a stack of recommendations that are both weird and magical✨ Do you see any you’ve loved, or perhaps you have some recommendations of your own that we missed?
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We had a surprise visit this morning from
@valmcdermid
and
@ProfJoSharp
, in to sign copies of Imagine A Country, a collection of diverse ideas for the future of Scotland 🏴
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And so the bookshop goes to sleep at the end of another week. If you’ve not made it in since we reopened yet, we hope to see you soon! Here’s the front of the shop in the evening sun. 🌅📚
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What an absolutely beautiful Porty morning to be closing on for a few days. We’re here till 3pm today then our team’s having a wee break until we reopen for Click & Collect and Delivery on the 28th. Merry Christmas and hope to see you soon! 🎄📚👋
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Our top-up order of Shuggie Bain has finally arrived and everyone's orders are in the post! Four of us did the trip to the post office today - thank you so much for your orders! We now have a Healey-size pile of Shuggie Bain. 📚😊🙌
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It's publication day for The Dark Remains! As ever, we were so delighted to welcome
@Beathhigh
to the bookshop to sign copies of this very special book. 💚 You can now find them in the bookshop and on our website 👉
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Our window is finished, thanks so much to
@AnnaDohertyIllu
for doing such a fabulous job on our first ever Christmas window! 🎄📚👏
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Our online shop is now live! There’s a selection of books in each category, and ‘Shop Search’ lets you look through a wider range of stock. If you can’t find anything just get in touch via our contact page! 👍📚
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THREE shops on our bit of the high street are getting a fresh lick of paint today to prepare for reopening. 1. Ourselves 2. Our pals
@portobellotap
3. & finally the shop right next to us, which is going to be something pretty special opening soon! 🎨
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We're a week old today! Here are some of the books that have been flying off our shelves in the past seven days... 📚🎉
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Following the announcement of a stricter lockdown earlier we posted this sign in our window. Our website will be back online very soon, and you can order for delivery, but our Click & Collect service will cease for now so our staff can stay home! Best wishes all 👍📚
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Bookshops across England will sadly be closing their doors again tomorrow. Sending our thoughts to them all, you can still buy from many including our friends
@Bookbugsdragon1
@storytellersinc
@BooksRound
@Ofmooseandmen
@SReadBooks
@ForumBooks
📚❤️
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What an absolutely beautiful morning it is on the beach in Porty today 🌊
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The beach was looking extremely lovely this morning down from the shop...
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How nice to discover these beautifully painted stones left outside the door when we opened the bookshop this morning 😊
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It’s an absolutely beautiful evening in Porty. Those clouds. 🌅
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Sunset in Porty’s Figgate Park is particularly lovely this evening...
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Thanks to everyone who’s made our December so wonderful! We close at 3:30 today for a few days off and wish everyone a lovely festive break! Here’s a photo of us and one of the team who worked at our shop 100 years ago, when it was a cooperative.
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We’re thrilled to announce that Smith & Gertrude have enlisted our book expertise to bring the people of Porty a Wine & Cheese Book Club, hosted at their Wine Bar in Portobello. 📚🧀🍷 Sign up to our newsletter (via website) to be the first to know more & get a chance to join in!
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Thanks so much to
@valmcdermid
for calling in today and signing her lovely new book Christmas Is Murder! Not only do we have signed copies of that but also Imagine a Country which was signed by both Val and Jo Sharp today! 🙌 Copies here:
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A beautiful calm Porty beach this morning. It’s our last two days of shop lockdown, before we’re back open for browsing 7 days a week, 10am to 6pm from Monday! 📚🎉
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We’re closed Sundays and Mondays at the moment, but today is a beautiful Tuesday in Porty and our doors open at 11 📚👍
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Tomorrow is the start of
#IndieBookshopWeek
and we hope you can come celebrate with us. If you’re not in Edinburgh with all its fab bookshops here’s just a few of our friends we’ve posted about at our tills who are all very worth visiting! 🎉📚❤️
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We had a brilliant last couple of days in the company of
@Lenniesaurus
, who was in the bookshop signing many, many copies of Poyums! We’ll be busy packing all your preorders in the coming week 🐝.
Thank you so much wonderful Len &
@canongatebooks
. We can’t wait for pub date! 💛
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It was so great to meet the inimitable and very kind Jackie Kay (
@JackieKayPoet
) this afternoon! 😊Our team is quite starstruck ✨
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The last Porty sunset before Christmas seems as good a time as any to say thank you to our wonderful local community for the welcome this year, our brilliant team who work so tirelessly, and to everyone who’s supported us. Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas 🌲
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When you give one of your regular customers and shop friends a proof of their favourite author and they come back with the world’s biggest chocolate cake for the team! 🙌📚
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It’s just TEN DAYS until we reopen! The beautiful weather has been a lovely accompaniment to our cleaning, painting, shelving and organising this past week, and we can’t wait to welcome you all back soon! ☀️🕶📚
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Happy publication day to
@FernBrady
for Strong Female Character! 🎉 This incredible memoir has come to mean so much to us all over the past couple of months in the lead up to last week’s launch
@ARedinburgh
. Order a signed copy here while stocks last:
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