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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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The Grief of the Sea by Jennifer Edgecombe Bryan Wynter's 'Landscape, Zennor' by Jennifer Edgecombe (from 'The Grief of the Sea') The dark is the sea that has soaked through, dripping into buckets already full - night-time in the day; the granite blackened, the fields dimmed, the moon in each headlight. With each stroke of the paddle, you tried to keep time with the sea - the blue pulling you deeper into the undertow. In the gallery, my small body of water rests in front of your canoe your final form, unmoored. Buy Hardback Buy Paperback

Stuck in a reading rut? Want to get into the habit of reading but don't know where to start? Or simply want to expand your reading tastes? Our Shelf Medicate Prescription and Consultation Service is designed to help cure any literary ailment. Just what the doctor ordered. Shelf Medicate Subscriptions Stuck in a reading rut? Want to get into the habit of reading but don't know where to start? Or simply want to expand your reading tastes? Our Shelf Medicate Subscriptions are designed to cure any literary ailment. Just what the doctor ordered. Purchase a Shelf Medicate Subscription and receive a book delivered to your door every month, personally selected for you by BookBar's literary experts. Choose between the hardback or paperback subscription. You'll then meet with our expert for a consultation before embarking on your reading adventure. Paperback Subscription 12 months 1 book a month £230 (includes P&P) Add to Basket Hardback Subscription 12 months 1 book a month £350 (includes P&P) Add to Basket 6 months 1 book a month £125 (includes P&P) Add to Basket 6 months 1 book a month £190 (includes P&P) Add to Basket Give a BookBar Gift Voucher If you can't decide which ShelfMedicate Prescription to give someone you love, buy a BookBar voucher, and let them choose their prescription, book a consultation, or order their own books. Continue

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.

Host An Event BookBar was created to celebrate the social side of reading, and nothing is more social than bringing people together for an event. Whilst we put together our own programme of public events curated for you by our booksellers, you can book BookBar for your own private event. Our capacity in both shops is as follows: BookBar Islington: standing capacity of 40 people and a theatre-style seated capacity of 25. BookBar Chelsea: standing capacity of 70 people and theatre-style seated capacity of 65. If you are thinking of hosting an event and love the idea of having it amongst our shelves, please read the below information before you get in touch, as hopefully it will cover some of your questions more quickly. Book Launches We love partnering with you to launch your book into the world, and our bookshop/wine bar combo makes the perfect space to celebrate your new book. We're sure you have lots of questions about how we can help to host your perfect book launch, so here's how we usually work: Our capacity is 40 standing at BookBar Islington and 70 at BookBar Chelsea. We look after both the book and the drink sales so you can relax and enjoy! We ask you to manage the guest list/door. We ask for a minimum bar spend across alcoholic and soft drinks. At BookBar Islington we ask for a £250 minimum spend and at BookBar Chelsea we ask for a £500 minimum spend. We won't ask for a deposit. The space is yours from 6:30pm-9pm, with the bar closing half an hour before close. We have direct relationships with publishers, and although we love working with authors directly, we ask that launch enquiries are directed through publishers only. At the moment we are only able to offer launches for hardback books, except in exceptional circumstances, where we would charge a hire fee as well as the minimum bar spend. We will get back to you as quickly as we can. However, as we are a busy bookshop and are so lucky to get a lot of enquiries, if you don't hear from us within 5 working days, it's likely that we aren't able to help on this occasion. If you don't hear from us regarding a specific event please do not hesitate to reach out for your next one! We love hearing from you and meeting new collaborators. Corporate Venue Hire We regularly partner with publishers and other arts organisations to organise private corporate events, like pre-publication evenings for bloggers, journalists and influencers, as well as booking the space for filming. The hire cost depends on the type of event and time. Please email events@bookbaruk.com and we will be able to help. Private Eve nts We would love to celebrate special moments with you but are sadly unable to book out the space for personal events like birthday parties or celebrations. We don't currently take table bookings! Thank you so much for thinking of hosting an event with BookBar! If you would like to get in touch about your event, please email events@bookbaruk.com . We look forward to celebrating the social side of reading with you.

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 £18.99 Quick View The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman Price £22.00 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 £16.99 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 £16.99 Quick View Amy's Pick Dusk by Robbie Arnott Price £16.99 Quick View Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid Price £20.00 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 £25.00 Quick View Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry Price £18.99 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 Twilight Special Collectors' Edition by Stephanie Meyer Out of stock 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 £14.99 Quick View Padella by Tim Siadatan Price £25.00 Quick View Book of the Year 2025 Heart the Lover by Lily King Price £18.99 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

bookbar summer series IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: WE HAVE DECIDED TO POSTPONE THE FIRST TWO EVENTS OF OUR SUMMER SERIES DUE TO THE RISE IN COVID CASES IN LONDON. We will announce new dates in due course. Launching our live events series! Join BookBar for our very first series of in person events: the BookBar Summer Series. We can't wait to welcome a brilliant collection of talented authors to BookBar for the first time since we opened. Buy your book and ticket to attend the events in person, choose to watch via a live stream, or buy a pass to enjoy the full series in person or virtually. Scroll down for the full line up. SUMMER OF LOVE WITH NATASHA LUNN Join us for a conversation with Natasha Lunn to celebrate all forms of love and discuss Natasha's new book Conversations On Love. After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She turned to authors and experts to learn about their experiences, as well as drawing on her own, asking: How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it? In Conversations on Love she began to find the answers: Philippa Perry on falling in love slowly, Dolly Alderton on vulnerability, Stephen Grosz on accepting change, Candice Carty-Williams on friendship, Lisa Taddeo on the loneliness of loss, Diana Evans on parenthood, Emily Nagoski on the science of sex, Alain de Botton on the psychology of being alone, Esther Perel on unrealistic expectations, Roxane Gay on redefining romance and many more... Natasha Lunn is a journalist Features Director at Red magazine and the founder of Conversations On Love, an email newsletter investigating love one interview at a time. She lives in London. In person tickets include a copy of the book (RRP: £14.99), a glass of wine and a ticket to attend the event in person with Natasha and get your book signed and dedicated by the author. Virtual tickets include a copy of the book and a ticket to watch a live stream of the event. Tuesday 24th August, 7pm Buy my ticket Buy my Series Ticket SUMMER OF obsession WITH Megan nolan Tuesday 21st September, 7pm Join us for a conversation with Megan Nolan to discuss her debut novel Acts of Desperation. Bitingly honest and darkly funny Acts of Desperation is a stunning debut novel about a toxic relationship and secret female desire, from an emerging star of Irish literature. It's been selected as a Stylist Book of the Year, and is certainly one of BookBar's too. Megan Nolan lives in London and was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland. Her essays, fiction and reviews have been published in The New York Times, The White Review, The Sunday Times, The Village Voice, The Guardian and in the literary anthology, Winter Papers. She writes a fortnightly column for the New Statesman. Acts of Desperation is her first novel. Choose between an in person ticket without the book, an in person ticket includes a copy of the book (RRP: £14.99), a glass of wine and a ticket to attend the event in person with Megan and the opportunity to get your book signed and dedicated by the author. Virtual tickets include a copy of the book and a ticket to watch a live stream of the event. Buy my ticket Buy my Series Ticket SUMMER OF lust WITH francesca reece and sarvAt hasin Chaired by Sarah shaffi Wednesday 1st September, 7pm Join us for a discussion with two novelists: Sarvat Hasin and Francesca Reece, chaired by Sarah Shaffi. The Giant Dark Aida is the defining rock star of her age; her every move observed, examined and owned by a devoted, cultish fanbase.When she disappears without a trace into a complicated love affair they are determined to find her, uncover her truths and own her once more. Aida and Ehsan reconnect after a decade apart, hoping to recapture the innocent, lost love of their youth. Before long, their connection is strained by secrets and jealousies and the past begins to blur with their present as they follow in the footsteps of mythic lovers before them.The Giant Dark is an award-winning debut novel about love and fame. Inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, it explores the consuming and devastating effects of using a lover as a muse. Voyeur Leah, a young woman who has found herself 'ambitioned' out of London, is now aimlessly adrift in Paris. Tired of odd jobs in cafes and teaching English to unresponsive social media influencers, her heart skips a beat when she spots an advert for a writer seeking an assistant.Michael was once the bright young star of the London literary scene, now a washed-up author with writer's block. He doesn't place much hope in the advert, but after meeting Leah is filled with an inspiration he hasn't felt in years. When Michael offers Leah the opportunity to join him and his family in their rambling but glorious property in the south of France for the summer, she finally feels her luck is turning.But as she begins to transcribe the diaries from his debauched life in 1960s Soho, something begins to nag at Leah's sense of fulfilment; that there might be more to Michael than meets the eye. Sarvat Hasin is a writer. She grew up in Pakistan and now lives in London and works at the Almeida Theatre. She studied politics and international relations at Royal Holloway and has a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. Her first novel, This Wide Night, was published by Penguin India and longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her second book, You Can’t Go Home Again, was published in 2018 and featured in Vogue India‘s and the Hindu‘s end of year lists. She won the Moth Writer’s Retreat Bursary in 2018 and the Mo Siewcharran Prize in 2019. Her essays and poetry have appeared in publications such as Outsiders, the Mays Anthology, English PEN and Harper’s Bazaar. Francesca Reece grew up in Wales and having spent most of her twenties in Paris, now lives in London. She was the 2019 recipient of the Desperate Literature Prize for her short story ‘So Long Sarajevo/They Miss You So Badly’. Sarah Shaffi is a journalist, editor and interviewer, writing for Stylist, Phoenix, Penguin.co.uk, The Bookseller, and The New Arab. She has notably interviewed Booker Prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo, poet Nikita Gill, and authors Jojo Moyes, Candice Carty-Williams and Liane Moriarty, among others, regularly interviewing authors at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Southbank Centre and Asia House Literature Festival. Among various radio appearances, she has judged the Jhalak Prize for Best Book by a Writer of Colour and The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Choose between an in person ticket without the book, an in person ticket including one or both of the books (RRP: £16.99), a glass of wine and a ticket to attend the event in person and the opportunity to get your book signed and dedicated by the author. Virtual tickets include a copy of one or both of the books and a ticket to watch a live stream of the event. Buy my ticket Buy my Series Ticket

I've heard it said that there is nothing better than curling up with a good book. I disagree. There is nothing better than sharing a good book. This is BookBar's philosophy. At BookBar, books are social. Welcome to BookBar! BookBar is a bookshop, wine bar, events and social space centred around celebrating the social side of reading. At BookBar, we believe there is nothing better than sharing a good book. The joy of unravelling the characters and plot points with a friend over a glass of wine or coffee, hearing inspiring ideas at a book club, sharing in the community a love of reading inspires. This is BookBar's philosophy. BookBar is a fun, warm, welcoming space for people to discover and socialise around books. Dedicated to celebrating the social side of reading, it's a place to come and hang out, like your favourite wine bar or your kitchen table. It's never about how many books you've read that year or whether you've read the latest prize-winners. At BookBar, books are social. We bring people together through our events and create community around books, with music, readings, wine tastings and, yes, even 'Books and Bangers', our DJ night in the bookshop. Our prescription programme Shelf Medicate is designed for anyone at all who has the desire to pick up a book and our BookClub welcomes readers from all around the UK to read a book and attend a virtual author event each month. You can discover all our latest reviews and recommendations from our passionate team of book-loving baristas on the BookList, follow us on our Instagram and Twitter feeds, and subscribe to BookBar's mailing list for all the latest news and tips. Whether you're an avid or aspiring reader, we hope you have as much joy discovering books through BookBar as we do in sharing them with you. As featured in

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