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BookBar for Children At BookBar we believe there is a book out there for everyone - whatever your age. So we offer our services to children. We've put book selections together for days old babies, toddlers, school children and teenagers, from our First Library gift service, to subscriptions, where you can arrange for a child to receive a new book through their letterbox every month, and bespoke bundles. The First Library Service Got a tiny new reader in your life, celebrating the birthday of a young book-lover, or looking to start off your own child's bedside collection? Whatever the occasion or their age, we'll put together a selection of stories for now, and some to grow into, chosen by us, especially for you. Choose from a small bundle of three books or a large bundle or five or six books by following the 'Add to Basket' link below, or enquire at hello@bookbaruk.com for larger orders. Add to Basket Children's Subscription Tell us a little bit about the book-lover you're buying for and we'll send a new book selected especially for them through your letterbox every month. 12 months 1 book a month £120 (includes P&P) Add to Basket 6 months 1 book a month £70 (includes P&P) Add to Basket

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Christmas at BookBar It's the most wonderful time of the year and we've got recommendations for every sort of reader. Whether you're looking for inspiration or want to treat someone you love to one of our bookish gift ideas, scroll down to find the perfect gift for any avid or aspiring book-lover. You can also read our full Christmas Gift Guide at the link below or head to our Books page for even more book suggestions. Festive Fiction Quick View Booker Shortlist Flashlight by Susan Choi Price £10.99 Quick View Book of the Year 2025 Heart the Lover by Lily King Price £9.99 Quick View The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman Price £9.99 Quick View The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie Price £18.99 Quick View The Silver Book by Olivia Laing Price £20.00 Quick View Katabasis by R.F. Kuang Price £22.00 Quick View Among the Burning Flowers by Samantha Shannon Price £18.99 Quick View One of Us by Elizabeth Day Price £18.99 Quick View Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth Price £16.99 Quick View On The Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle Price £12.99 Quick View Amy's Pick Hot Wax by M.L. Rio Price £20.00 Quick View Signed We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad Price £16.99 Quick View Intl. Booker Longlist The Wax Child by Olga Ravn Price £14.99 Quick View Audition by Katie Kitamura Price £18.99 Quick View Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico Price £12.99 Quick View Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal Price £9.99 Quick View After Midnight : Thirteen Chilling Tales for the Dark Hours by Daphne du Maurier Price £25.00 Quick View Signed Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood Price £16.99 Quick View Signed No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes Price £20.00 Quick View We all love! Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte Price £9.99 Quick View Amy's Pick Dusk by Robbie Arnott Price £16.99 Quick View Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid Price £9.99 Quick View Polly's Pick Happiness Forever by Adelaide Faith Price £16.99 Quick View Virgin by Hollie McNish Price £14.99 Noel Non-Fiction Quick View Signed Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi Price £22.00 Quick View Signed Night People : How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City by Mark Ronson Price £25.00 Quick View A Short History of Japan by Christopher Harding Price £20.00 Quick View Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy Price £20.00 Quick View A Complicated Woman by Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA SELF ESTEEM Price £22.00 Quick View This Is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee Price £25.00 Quick View Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane Price £11.99 Quick View Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry Price £11.99 Quick View Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China by Jung Chang Price £25.00 Quick View The Finest Hotel in Kabul : A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet Price £25.00 Quick View Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change by Hannah Ritchie Price £20.00 Quick View How To Live An Artful Life by Katy Hessel Price £16.99 Quick View One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson Price £18.99 Quick View The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland Price £25.00 Quick View Book of Lives : A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood Price £30.00 Quick View The Slicks : On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift by Maggie Nelson Price £9.99 Quick View How To Art by Kate Bryan and David Shrigley Price £16.99 Quick View Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today by Naomi Alderman Price £16.99 Quick View I Shop, Therefore I Am by Mary Portas Price £20.00 Quick View The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound by Raymond Antrobus Price £16.99 Quick View Signed Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders by Rory Stewart Price £22.00 Quick View In Love with Love by Ella Risbridger Price £16.99 Quick View Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith Price £22.00 Quick View Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men by Mara Gold Price £22.00 A Culinary Christmas Quick View Signed Tart by Slutty Cheff Price £16.99 Quick View Good Things : Recipes to Share with People You Love by Samin Nosrat Price £30.00 Quick View Padella by Tim Siadatan Price £25.00 Quick View Boustany by Sami Tamimi Price £30.00 Quick View How I Cook: A Chef’s Guide to Really Good Home Cooking by Ben Lippett Price £26.00 Quick View The Picky Bits Sommelier by Neil Ridley Price £12.99 Quick View FUSÃO : Untraditional recipes inspired by Brasil by Ixta Belfrage Price £28.00 Quick View Sama Sama by Julie Lin Price £28.00 Quick View In For Dinner by Rosie Kellett Price £27.00 Quick View La Mesa Mexicana by Rosa Cienfuegos Price £39.95 Quick View The Japanese Pantry by Emiko Davies Price £30.00 Quick View The Anthony Bourdain Reader by Anthony Bourdain Price £25.00 Children's Crackers Quick View The House with the Little Red Door by Grace Easton Price £14.99 Quick View The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three by Philip Pullman Price £25.00 Quick View Signed Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell Price £14.99 Quick View The Lone Husky by Hannah Gold Price £14.99 Quick View Our Islands by Yuval Zommer Price £14.99 Quick View The Lion Cub's Secret by Lauren St John Price £8.99 Gifts Quick View Always Remember by Charlie Mackesy Price £22.00 Quick View My Brilliant Friend: The Four Volumes by Elena Ferrante Price £45.00 Quick View Shaking Hands With Death by Terry Pratchett Price £9.99 Best of 2025 Quick View Booker Shortlist The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits Price £9.99 Quick View Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico Price £12.99 Quick View Booker Shortlist Flashlight by Susan Choi Price £10.99 Quick View Signed Tart by Slutty Cheff Price £16.99 Quick View Chandler's Pick The Dance and the Fire by Daniel Saldaña París Price £11.99 Quick View Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy Price £20.00 Quick View Booker Shortlist The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai Price £25.00 Quick View Audition by Katie Kitamura Price £18.99 Quick View Booker Longlist Seascraper by Benjamin Wood Price £9.99 Quick View Padella by Tim Siadatan Price £25.00 Quick View Book of the Year 2025 Heart the Lover by Lily King Price £9.99 Quick View Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis Price £9.99 Quick View The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Price £9.99 Shelf Medicate with BookBar Our Shelf Medicate Service is just what the doctor ordered for any book-lover in your life. Shelf Medicate Subscriptions Give your loved one a monthly Shelf Medicate Subscription from BookBar and give them the gift of a literary matchmaker on speed dial. Meet with our literary expert to discuss your reading and lifestyle tastes and habits, and we'll send a book to you every month. Learn more about our Shelf Medicate Subscriptions Continue The BookBar BookClub Subscribe to our BookClub and give your book-lover a book and event every month. Continue Gift Vouchers from BookBar Can't settle on the perfect bookish gift? Give a BookBar Gift Voucher that your book-lover can enjoy spend on books, wine and coffee at BookBar and online. Continue Read the full festive gift guide Continue

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bookbar bookclub Enter the BookBar BookClub Members Area BookBar is all about bringing people together through books. We know that half the fun of reading a book is discussing it with fellow readers afterwards over a glass of wine or cup of coffee. BookBar's BookClub is created especially for that purpose. So we launched our virtual book club, which promises all the fun of the real thing, and some additional surprises. Receive a paperback book, watch a virtual interview with the author, and meet other members to discuss it each month. Scroll down for this season's line up. Got questions? Visit our FAQs here . Buying a membership as a gift? Just fill in your details for now and email hello@bookbaruk.com with the details of the recipient when you are ready to update them. This Month's bookclub April: Seascraper with Benjamin Wood Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy beach to scrape for shrimp; spending the rest of the day selling his wares, trying to wash away the salt and scum, pining for Joan Wyeth down the street and rehearsing songs on his guitar. At heart, he is a folk musician, but it remains a private dream. When a striking visitor turns up, bringing the promise of Hollywood glamour, Thomas is shaken from the drudgery of his days and begins to see a different future. But how much of what the American claims is true, and how far can his inspiration carry Thomas? Read a paperback copy of Seascraper, listen to a virtual author talk, and meet with other BookClub members to discuss the book. Your ticket price includes a paperback copy of the book, as well as access to the virtual event. Buy a ticket to a single event for £18 or subscribe to the book club for £15 a month. Sign up for our discussion group for an additional £5 (including a drink). Buy my one-off ticket Join the BookClub UPCOMING BOOKCLUBS May: The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson Long-listed for this year's Women's Prize for Fiction, The Mercy Step is a sharply-witted and tender portrait of a young girl's quiet rebellion and her refusal to be brokenSet in 1960s Bradford. The Mercy Step follows Mercy, a precocious young child facing a world far too big for her small body. She lives with her Windrush-generation parents in a crowded household where her mother's attention is stretched between church and family, and her father's temper is something to be endured or avoided. Feeling like an outsider within her own home, Mercy retreats into books and the companionship of her beloved doll, Dolly, while learning early how to navigate the flaws and failings of the adults around her. Yet Mercy is nothing if not resilient. Armed with humour, style and fierce imagination, she quietly begins to plot her escape from a traumatic childhood. A raw and deeply affecting novel of childhood, family and survival in 1960s Britain. Read a paperback copy of The Mercy Step, listen to a virtual author talk, and meet with other BookClub members to discuss the book. The author interview will go live on 25th May and dates for the in-person meet up will be announced soon. Your ticket price includes a paperback copy of the book, as well as access to the virtual event. Buy a ticket to a single event for £18 or subscribe to the book club for £15 a month. Sign up for our discussion group for an additional £5 (including a drink). Buy my one-off ticket Join the BookClub June: Dusk by Robbie Arnott Dusk has escaped her captors and reports of killing sprees soon follow. Twins Iris and Floyd are out of work, money and friends. When they hear that a bounty has been placed on Dusk, they reluctantly decide to join the hunt. As they journey up into this wild, haunted country, they discover there's far more to the land and people of the highlands than they imagined. And as they close in on their prey, they're forced to reckon with conflicts both ancient and deeply personal. Read a paperback copy of Dusk, listen to a virtual author talk, and meet with other BookClub members to discuss the book. The author interview will go live on 29th June and dates for the in-person meet up will be announced soon. Your ticket price includes a paperback copy of the book, as well as access to the virtual event. Buy a ticket to a single event for £18 or subscribe to the book club for £15 a month. Sign up for our discussion group for an additional £5 (including a drink). Buy my one-off ticket Join the BookClub July: The Corespondent by Virginia Evans Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, we adored this tender, moving novel that is all about what makes a life well-lived. Every morning, Sybil Van Antwerp sits down to write letters – to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to attend a class she desperately wants to take, to her favourite authors to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter. Because at seventy-three, Sybil has used her correspondence – witty and wise – to make sense of the world. But beyond the page, she has spent the last thirty years keeping the people who love her at arms’ length... Until letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life. Now, Sybil must send the letter she has been writing for all these years - and find forgiveness within herself in order to move on. Read a paperback copy of The Correspondent, listen to a virtual author talk, and meet with other BookClub members to discuss the book. The author interview will go live on 27th July and dates for the in-person meet up will be announced soon. Your ticket price includes a paperback copy of the book, as well as access to the virtual event. Buy a ticket to a single event for £18 or subscribe to the book club for £15 a month. Sign up for our discussion group for an additional £5 (including a drink). Buy my one-off ticket Join the BookClub want to join us for an in person event? Check out our in person events here

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What your favourite cocktail says about your perfect book prescription At BookBar, we believe that a good book should always be accompanied by a glass of the good stuff, and what better way to discover a whole new collection of favourite reads than with BookBar’s very own bespoke prescription service, Shelf Medicate . Choose from a whole host of book prescriptions, from escapist reads to the best of non-fiction. To help you, choose your favourite tipple below and see which Shelf Medicate Prescription fits. The Old Fashioned You’re a classy devil, aren’t you? You’re committed and you do things properly. So no prescription suits you better than the Literary Fibber's Prescription . You’d never want to be caught out in a lie, so now it’s time to put your money where your mouth is and get stuck into the classics - and those gorgeous cloth-bound hardbacks will look very nice alongside your whiskey cocktail. Martini Appearances do matter and it’s important to remain classy at all times. So what does a sophisticated person like you read? Trends come and go, but you’ve followed them all. What better way to Shelf Medicate than with BookBar’s Sophisticated Reader Prescription . You’ll discover modern classics and current trends that will keep your finger on the pulse - and show everyone what a sophisticated reader you are. Mojito Close your eyes, take a sip of your mojito and imagine yourself away to a tropical destination. You like your tipples transportative and your literature too. When you’re on holiday, you’re keen to sample local culture and you like to learn something about the places you’re visiting. 1930s Japan? Present day Nigeria? The Armchair Traveller Prescription is just what the doctor ordered to take you away to distant lands, all through the pages of a good book. Margarita Salty, sweet, tangy, and sharp, every sip of a margarita is full of plot twists, which makes the Commute Buster your perfect Shelf Medicate prescription. You’re constantly on the go and are always dashing from one social event to the next, so you need a book that is going to keep your heart rate up and your brain hooked as you move from place to place. This collection of the latest thrillers will keep you entertained, just like your margarita. Gin and Tonic Is there any alcoholic concoction more soothing than a gin and tonic? I can’t think of one. So if your tipple of choice is a G&T I suspect you’ll love nothing more than the comfort reads prescribed in BookBar’s G&T for the Soul Shelf Medicate Prescription , guaranteed to put the spring back in your step. Red Wine When it comes to booze, cocktails aren’t your thing. You’d much rather unwind with a warming glass of oaky red wine and a good book. You love knowledge and enjoy submerging yourself in the latest ground-breaking science or immersive history. That’s why BookBar’s Big Thinker Prescription would suit you perfectly.

The Baby It's Cold Outside Prescription Knitted jumpers, mulled wine, woollen gloves, hot chocolate. Christmas is synonymous with warmth and comfort. So we've created the perfect prescription to match. We'll send a selection of the cosiest reads, designed to warm your cockles. Choose from a small prescription of three books or a large prescription of six books. *Titles pictured are sample titles only. Small Bundle Three Books £40 Add to Basket Large Bundle Six Books £70 Add to Basket See All Shelf Medicate Prescriptions Head back to our Christmas shop How does it work? Choose your prescription Choose between a small or large bundle Add it to your basket and purchase Our literary expert will put together a selection of books based on the prescription you have chosen and the size.

bookbar bookclub: faqS How does it work? 1) Sign up and receive a paperback book each month 2) Tune in to an event with the author (or catch up for 30 days after) 3) Join us for an in-shop discussion with other members What books can we expect to be reading? We read contemporary fiction and non-fiction, swaying towards fiction or non-fiction with a good narrative and lots of themes to discuss. Authors that have joined us for the BookBar BookClub so far have included Ann Patchett, Douglas Stuart, Brit Bennett, Elif Shafak, Maggie O'Farrell, Claire Keegan, Natasha Brown, Meg Mason, Miranda Cowley Heller, Torrey Peters, Raven Leilani, Min Jin Lee, Ingrid Persaud, Sunjeev Sahota, Curtis Sittenfeld, Clare Chambers, Fiona Mozley, Sophie Heyward, Emily Ratajkowski and Bryan Washington. What does the BookBar BookClub monthly membership include? Membership is £15/a month and includes the following: A paperback book chosen by our passionate team A virtual event with the author to watch live or on record for 30 days after the event 10% off our Hardback of the Month in store and online Exclusive discounts and promotions throughout the year A monthly in-person discussion group, to discuss the monthly paperback book with other members over a glass of wine or soft drink. Please note that postage is not included. When will I get my book? We will post your book to you four or five weeks before the event. 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. You can opt to collect your book if you would prefer. We'll let you know when your book is ready to collect or on its way. If you subscribe to the BookClub after the books have gone out, we'll post yours as soon as we can. When will I receive the link to watch the BookClub event? You will receive a link via email a few days in advance of the event. Please ensure you are subscribed to BookBar's mailing list as you will not receive emails from us if you are not subscribed. You can also access all the information you need BookBar BookClub Members' Page at our website. On the Members' Page , you'll find the links to watch the live BookClubs and recordings and in-person discussion groups. Just head to the Members Page and type in the password printed on the card you receive with your book each month. Once have accessed the Members' Page, to access the link for the live virtual event and the recording, you'll need to type in a different password, unique to each month. How do I cancel my membership? You can cancel your membership at any time. Just email hello@bookbaruk.com and we'll make sure no further payments are made. If you have already received this month's book and payment has not been taken, we'll cancel your membership after we've received payment. What if I already have a copy of the book? We are unable to accept exchanges. If you have a copy of the book and don't want to pass it on to another reader, we can pause your membership for a month. How can I purchase a membership as a gift? Just fill in your details for now and email hello@bookbaruk.com with the details of the recipient when you are ready to update them. How do I update my card details? You'll need to call us to update your card details over the phone. Please note that if payment does not go through, your membership will be automatically cancelled. What happens if I move house? You can change your delivery address any time. Just email bookclub@bookbaruk.com with your new address and we'll update our system. Can I swap from collection to postage? Of course. You'll just need to get in touch so we can cancel your membership and re-subscribe you to include the postage fee. Just email bookclub@bookbaruk.com . Can I just join for one event? Absolutely! You can purchase a one-off event ticket for £18. This will include the paperback book and the virtual author event only. You will not have access to the in-person discussion group, MUBI membership, or any other discounts or perks. How does the the monthly discussion group work? The monthly discussion group is in person at our bookshop and social space on Blackstock Road, London. It is in addition to the virtual event that we host with the author. Space will be limited to just 10 people each month, and will be available to BookBar BookClub subscribers only on a first come, first served basis. We'll send out a date for the discussion and a link each month for members to sign up. You'll be charged £5 to secure your space, which will mean you can claim a free glass of house wine or soft drink on the evening. The in-person conversation will only be available to BookClub subscribers. Join the BookClub!

Shelf Isolation: The Travel Collection With real life travel off the menu and all of us staying at home for the foreseeable future, we’ll have to settle for armchair travel for the moment. Here are some reads to airlift you beyond your living room. Spain Hot Milk by Deborah Levy No one writes quite like Deborah Levy, and this novel is seething with tension and interiority. Our protagonist Sofia’s life has been paused indefinitely while she cares for her unwell mother on the sun-bleached Spanish coast. Sofia’s relationship with her mother is just as intense and inescapable as the scorching sun. It’s an extraordinarily vivid story about the complxity of the human mind and our flawed relationships with one another. Germany The Lost Europeans by Emmanuel Litvanof Based on the author’s experiences of moving to Berlin ten years after the Second World War, The Lost Europeans follows two Jews who return to Berlin after the Holocaust. It is a sharp, lively and poignant depiction of post-war Germany, and a completely unforgettable read. £8. 99 Add to Basket £10.00 Add to Basket Italy The Neapolitan Quartet by Eleanor Ferrante Beginning in the 1950s with My Brilliant Friend, this series of four novels follows two friends, Lena and Lila, as they navigate their childhood, adolescence and adulthood in an impoverished part of Naples. Depicting the social workings of a small, poor community, and the joys, jealousies and evolutions of friendship, you’ll find yourself transported to Naples through Ferrante’s warm characters and addictive prose. £8. 99 Add to Basket Israel Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar Goshen When a distinguished doctor runs over a man on the way home from a nineteen hour shift, he knows he has killed him. Weighing up the impact of reporting his crime, knowing the man cannot be saved, and leaving him in order to save himself, he makes a decision that will change his life forever. It’s full of moral complexity that cuts to the bone of the human condition, and the Israeli setting is fantastic. £9. 99 Add to Basket Nigeria Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimanda Ngoze Adichie There are many books that I could recommend that would transport you to the buzzing, scorching culture of Nigeria, from Ben Okri’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, to the darkly comic My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. Where The Famished Road is full of folklore and mysticism and Braithwaite’s novel pulsates with the modernity and heat of present day Lagos, Half of a Yellow Sun paints a portrait of Nigeria at its most turbulent time. Telling the story of three characters living through the Biafran War during the 1960s, it’s a transportive novel that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the evolution of Nigeria. Add to Basket £8. 99 Japan and Korea Pachinko by Min Jin Lee ‘History has failed us, but no matter.’ So opens this multi-generational epic, spanning eight decades and four generations of one Korean family living in Japan. It’s an incredibly heartfelt tale about family, immigration, and the impact of racial oppression on communities and individuals that also taught me a lot about the relationship between these two nations. £8. 99 Add to Basket Australia Red Dirt by E.M Reapy Nothing so accurately transports me to the dusty heat of rural Australia as E.M. Reapy’s Red Dirt. Set against the backdrop of the global financial crash in 2008, three young Irish backpackers relocate to Australia full of hope and a sense of adventure. It’s dark and thrilling, at times heartbreaking, and an amazing evocation of the loneliness, bravado and folly of youth. Anyone whose plans to backpack around Australia have been scuppered may be pleased they stayed at home after reading this. £8. 99 Add to Basket Columbia The Lucky Ones by Julianne Pachico One of my favourite short story collections, The Lucky Ones is a series of interconnected short stories that reveal the dark heart of Columbia. A young woman waits in an empty house whilst an insurgency rises outside, and an incarcerated teacher recites Shakespeare to a class of leaves and twigs as he descends into madness induced by his captivity. These stories are both bizarre and blisteringly real, a gasping, gritty collection that shocks and simmers. £8. 99 Add to Basket

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