Fiction faves of 2021? Short thread >>>>

There's currently an extremely loud and persistent (4 hrs so far) earpiercing alarm going off at the Venue in New Cross SE14 @LewishamCouncil and @LewishamPolice totally powerless to stop it. Meanwhile everyone's ears are bleeding...

Come to the launch of Gabriel Troiano's The Ascending Spiral @ The Word 8th Feb. @6:30pm Email info@wordbookshop.co.uk to book your space

@ForteanLondon

Come to Amersham Arms SE14 Tues 6th for an evening of women & walking Kerri Andrews on women who found walking essential to their sense of themselves, Sonia Overall on the lone woman walker seeking ‘thin places’ where new ways of living might begin https://t.co/ibvxBoxVy6

We've got SIGNED exclusive independent bookshop editions of @blurofficial's @grahamcoxon's Verse, Chorus, Monster! So, have a cup of tea, think about leaving the house, & head down to The Word bookshop in New Cross, to pick up a copy.

Launching Avtar Brah's @GoldsmithsPress book, Decolonial Imaginings at Birkbeck College, University of London

Today is Bookshop Day! Pop down to The Word bookshop, New Cross this weekend & wish us a "Happy Bookshop Day!" & we'll give you a voucher* for a £5 National Book Token, free, gratis & for nothing *while stocks last The Word Bookshop 314 New Cross Rd London SE14 6AF 020 8355 9378

We've got some great new SIGNED books at The Word Bookshop in New Cross SE14. Including... @CraigDavid What's Your Vibe? This is Craig's story of how he learned to tune into his best life. @MarinaHyde What Just Happened? @raynor_winn​ Landlines #signedbooks

If you're trying to call us - Virgin have screwed up and (temporarily) changed our number to 020 8378 6101

The hugely popular @Reweirding_ nature and folklore talks are returning to @TheAmershamArms in New Cross next week - Tuesday 13th at 7pm.  Tickets are still available, and you can get them here... https://t.co/ZG7TPmiQOz

Please support one of our favourite independent publishers - @GutsPublishing do ballsy books about life & need your £££s for their next batch of titles You can donate here:  https://t.co/6iEK2wrPwr  or preorder here: https://t.co/lA0sF7oSja

Just alighted at The Word... @JamesMoir10's "Birds: Paintings of 100 British Birds" Featuring the Ringed Eranu, Spotted Uvavu, a Dove from above, and a Bearded Tit

We've got a few SIGNED copies of @coseyfannitutti's new book, @re_sisters_ in stock. How can you resist? @FaberBooks

Great to see Rivers Solomon @cyborgyndroid in the shop, collared for a quick snap with the 'fantastical and frightening, magical and real' "Sorrowland" @PenguinUKBooks @MerkyBooks

Come down to the free book launch of Jack Bratich's new book, On Microfascism at The Royal George (85 Tanner's Hill SE8 4QD) from 6pm Mon 27 June Bratich insists the new fascism is not as powerful as its adherents wish us to believe @CommonNotions  @GoldsmithsPolit @goldsmithsUoL

Come find our stall for the Progressive Economics 2022 Festival!!

11 June: Progressive Economics 2022 1 day conference of transformative economic thinking at @UniofGreenwich. Leading thinkers from across progressive economics movement discuss how to build a radically better economy https://t.co/j3LFnZ6jLp @NSEGoldsmiths @goldperc @rethinkecon

TOMORROW: Join us @ConwayHall for 'Thinking on Sundays'! We'll be selling Rizwaan Sabir's 'The Suspect', on the effects of 20 years of policing Muslims in Britain. Tickets here:

We've just got some SIGNED copies of International Booker shortlister, @mieko_kawakami's new one, All The Lovers In The Night Numbers are limited, so please get in touch if you want to reserve one (020 8355 9378 or info@wordbookshop.co.uk) #2022InternationalBooker @panmacmillan

Friends, it's been a minute since we posted on here... But we *had* to make sure you knew 'Many Different Kinds of Love' by @MichaelRosenYes is out in paperback!! If you read anything at all this summer, make sure it's his moving ode to the NHS.