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BookBar brings people together through books. We are a bookshop, events and social space, serving wine, coffee and the best book recommendations. Our Shelf Medicate Prescription and Consultation Service prescibes bespoke book recommendations for aspiring and avid readers. Welcome to BookBar an independent bookshop and social space in London BookBar brings people together through books. Come and visit our bookshop, wine bar and events space in Islington or Chelsea, join us for one of our in person events, browse and order books online or join our BookClub. Upcoming Events BookBar Presents... An Evening with Maria Semple and Nina Stibbe Mon 25 May BookBar Chelsea More info Details Sufiyaan Salam in conversation with Gurnaik Johal | BookBar is Five Festival Wed 03 Jun BookBar Islington More info Buy Tickets Claire Daverley in conversation | BookBar is Five Festival Thu 04 Jun BookBar Chelsea More info Buy Tickets Buy our Book of the Month* and get a paired glass of Invader Orange for £5 *for collection only Order your copy of Transcription Order your copy of Frida Slattery What's New? Talking Classics by Mary Beard Price £16.99 The Village on the Edge of the World by Herta Müller Price £16.99 Weimar : Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer Price £30.00 Rough Edges by Natasha Carthew Price £20.00 Up All Night: A History of Going Out by Imogen Willetts Price £25.00 Hungry : A Biography of My Body by Katriona O'Sullivan Price £18.99 Said the Dead by Doireann Ni Ghriofa Price £18.99 Selfish Girls by Abigail Bergstrom Price £9.99 Elisa's Pick Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts Price £10.99 Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler Price £9.99 The Kitchen Book by Ella Risbridger Price £26.00 Jess's Pick Tree by Aya Koda Price £11.99 Esme's Pick The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri Price £10.99 Polly's Pick Cathedrals by Claudia Pineiro Price £11.99 Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer Price £16.99 Bimbo by Ashley James Price £22.00 The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout Price £18.99 Upcoming Event! American Fantasy by Emma Straub Price £18.99 Smallie by Eden McKenzie-Goddard Price £16.99 Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller Price £18.99 Amy's Pick Solace House by Will Maclean Price £20.00 Fruit Fly by Josh Silver Price £16.99 A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz Price £22.00 Porcupines by Fran Fabriczki Price £16.99 Browse our full list of recommendations Books we can't wait to recommend in 2026 Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez Price £16.99 It Comes in Waves by Rukky Brume Price £16.99 Retro by Jessica M. Goldstein Price £16.99 Hard Place by Gab Torr Price £16.99 Mrs Dickens by Emily Howes Price £20.00 Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh Price £16.99 Uprising by Tahmima Anam Price £16.99 Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer Price £16.99 All In by Claire Powell Price £16.99 Skin Contact by Elisa Faison Price £18.99 The Devoted by Catherine Cho Price £16.99 Whistler by Ann Patchett Price £20.00 Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens Price £16.99 Amy's Pick The Children by Melissa Albert Price £18.99 Chandler's Pick Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel Price £18.99 Partita by Barbara Kingsolver Price £20.00 Land by Maggie O'Farrell Price £25.00 Chrissy's Pick Stations by Louise Kennedy Price £20.00 Chrissy's Pick John of John by Douglas Stuart Price £20.00 Chrissy's Pick I Want You To Be Happy by Jem Calder Price £14.99 Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead Price £22.00 Chrissy's Pick American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee Price £22.00 The Traveller's Library by Chandler Bray Price £16.99 Browse our full list of recommendations Signed Copies Signed MEDesque : Everyday Recipes with Mediterranean Roots by Georgina Hayden Price £26.00 Signed Go Gentle by Maria Semple Price £20.00 Chandler's Pick My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy Price £18.99 We all love! Transcription by Ben Lerner Price £14.99 Signed What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton (Author Edition) Price £16.99 Signed Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy Price £16.99 Signed Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers Price £18.99 Signed Night People : How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City by Mark Ronson Price £25.00 Signed Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors Price £9.99 You Are Here by David Nicholls Out of stock Amy's Pick A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle Price £10.99 Signed A Long Winter by Colm Toibin Price £12.99 Signed New Cemetery Price £14.99 Signed No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes Price £20.00 Signed Ferment : The Life-Changing Power of Microbes by Tim Spector Price £25.00 Signed We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad Price £16.99 Signed Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood Price £16.99 BookBar Favourite! Ungone by Hannah Patterson Price £10.99 Signed Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi Price £22.00 Amy's Pick Dusk by Robbie Arnott Price £16.99 Signed Tart by Slutty Cheff Price £16.99 Signed Picture Imperfect by Jacqueline Wilson Price £22.00 Browse our full list of recommendations bookbar bookbags Our iconic canvas BookBags are the perfect size for your daily essentials. Buy a BookBar Tote now! The BookBar loyalty card In partnership with Ambler Primary School. Buy a book and get a stamp. When you get ten stamps we'll donate a book to a child from Ambler. Visit our bookshop, wine bar, events and social space at 166 Blackstock Road to get started. Follow us on Instagram for our latest recommendations and news @bookbaruk Load More Check out our famous BookBar playlists, courtesy of BookBar's resident DJ

Events at BookBar BookBar is far more than a bookshop. Our events are at the heart of what we do, bringing people together through books. We've recently hosted events with David Nicholls, Hanya Yanagihara, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Monica Heisey, Dolly Alderton, Naoise Dolan, Curtis Sittenfeld, Nikki May, Emma Gannon, Shon Faye, Monica Ali, Julia Armfield, Laura Bates, Emily Ratajkowski, Natasha Lunn and Gabrielle Zevin amongst others. Watch this space for our regular and special events, and sign up to our mailing list to keep up to date with all the latest news. Upcoming In-Person Events BookBar Presents... An Evening with Maria Semple and Nina Stibbe Mon 25 May BookBar Chelsea More info Buy tickets now An Evening with Eleanor Catton | BookBar is Five Festival Mon 01 Jun BookBar Islington More info Details An Evening with Lily King | BookBar is Five Festival Tue 02 Jun BookBar Chelsea More info Details Sufiyaan Salam in conversation with Gurnaik Johal | BookBar is Five Festival Wed 03 Jun BookBar Islington More info Buy tickets now Claire Daverley in conversation | BookBar is Five Festival Thu 04 Jun BookBar Chelsea More info Details BookBar Presents... An Evening with Emma-Louise Boynton Tue 09 Jun BookBar Chelsea More info Buy tickets now BookBar Presents... An Evening with Emma Straub Wed 10 Jun BookBar Chelsea More info Buy tickets now BookBar Presents... An Evening with Jem Calder and Ana Kinsella Tue 16 Jun BookBar Chelsea More info Buy tickets now BookBar Sessions with Makenna Goodman Thu 18 Jun BookBar Islington More info Buy tickets now Past Events BookBar Presents... An Evening with Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King, in conversation with Fuchsia Dunlop Fri 22 May BookBar Chelsea More info Details BookBar Presents... An Evening with The Guardian Long Read Wed 15 Apr BookBar Chelsea More info Details BookBar X BODA Presents... Read Dating Tue 14 Apr BookBar Chelsea More info Details BookBar's 5th Birthday Party Sat 11 Apr BookBar Islington More info Details BookBar Presents... An Evening with Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Jesse Armstrong Tue 24 Mar BookBar Chelsea More info Details BookBar Presents... David Szalay in conversation with Monica Heisey Mon 23 Mar BookBar Chelsea More info Details BookBar Sessions with Erin Somers Mon 16 Mar BookBar Islington More info Details BookBar Presents... Kiran Millwood Hargrave and June Dawson Tue 10 Mar BookBar Chelsea More info Details BookBar Presents... An Evening with Virginia Evans Mon 09 Mar BookBar Chelsea More info Details BookBar Presents... Philippa Found and Bernardine Evaristo Tue 03 Mar BookBar Chelsea More info Details BookBar X Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize Tue 24 Feb BookBar Islington More info Details BookBar Presents... An Evening with Tareq Baconi Tue 17 Feb BookBar Islington More info Details Load More The BookBar BookClub BookBar is all about bringing people together through books. We know that half the fun of reading the book is discussing it with fellow readers afterwards, preferably with a glass of wine or cup of coffee. BookBar's book club is created especially for that purpose. Our virtual book club promises all the fun of the in-person thing, and some additional surprises. How does it work? Sign up, receive your book in advance of the book club with plenty of time to read it, send in the questions and discussion points you'd like us to talk about, and come along to a virtual interview with the author, in which we'll discuss the book. You'll receive a link to the online event a few days before. Your ticket price includes a copy of the book, as well as attendance at the virtual event. Buy a ticket to a single event for £18 or subscribe to the book club for £15 a month. As we pick the freshest paperbacks, the books get sent out at the same time each month to all subscribers, regardless of when the ticket was purchased, so the 3-5 day shipping window does not apply for BookClub purchases as in most cases the books have not yet been published when the programme is launched. ***NB: If you have previously subscribed to the BookClub and are still making monthly payments, you do not need to sign up again as your subscription is still active*** Find out more Join the BookClub