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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. Celebrate 5 years of BookBar! From a Birthday Party with cake, fizz and 20% off books all night, to a four day festival across both our shops in June, we are celebrating with a bang and we invite our whole community to get involved. Tickets are now sold out! Four events in four nights in the first week of June, covering BookBar favourites, Book of the Year authors and some of the freshest debuts across both our shops. The line up: Lily King Eleanor Catton Sufiyaan Salam and Gurnaik Johal Claire Daverley Get your tickets now Upcoming Events BookBar Presents... An Evening with Maria Semple and Nina Stibbe Mon 25 May BookBar Chelsea More info Buy Tickets BookBar Presents... An Evening with The Guardian Long Read Wed 15 Apr BookBar Chelsea More info Buy Tickets BookBar X BODA Presents... Read Dating Tue 14 Apr BookBar Chelsea More info Buy Tickets What's New? Lazar by Nelio Biedermann Price £16.99 Jess's Pick Helen Of Nowhere Price £12.99 The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell Price £10.99 Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasi Price £20.00 Chandler's Pick My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum Price £14.99 Signed What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton (Author Edition) Price £16.99 Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest Price £18.99 Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker Price £10.99 The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro Price £9.99 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Price £9.99 Chandler's Pick My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy Price £18.99 Mare by Emily Haworth-Booth Price £16.99 Enough Said by Alan Bennett Price £25.00 The Wreck by Lizzy Stewart Price £25.00 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Price £16.99 The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit Price £14.99 Chandler's Pick Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel Price £18.99 The Daffodil Days by Helen Bain Price £18.99 Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami Price £16.99 On the Calculation of Volume IV by Solvej Balle Pre-Order Now Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs Price £30.00 Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor Price £18.99 Trespasses by Louise Kennedy Price £9.99 Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson Price £9.99 Browse our full list of recommendations Books we can't wait to recommend in 2026 Chandler's Pick My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy Price £18.99 Chandler's Pick Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel Price £18.99 Partita by Barbara Kingsolver Price £20.00 Polly's Pick Wimmy Road Boyz by Sufiyaan Salam Price £16.99 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 Chrissy's Pick Frida Slattery as Herself by Ana Kinsella Price £16.99 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 London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe Price £22.00 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 Signed You Are Here by David Nicholls Price £9.99 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 my BookBar BookBag 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

The Booklist The Booklist is BookBar's way of telling you all about the books we love. With hand-picked recommendations tailored around interesting themes, current topics and the latest trends, you're guaranteed to find something for you. Each book listed here is personally recommended by BookBar's team of bookish experts with you in mind. When your order a book for delivery, we'll wrap it in our iconic wrapping, so every book you order is a gift to treasure. Please bear in mind that this is not our full stock listing; if you'd like to order something you can't see here, we may have it in stock at our bookshop and wine bar or we can order most books to arrive the next day. To order get in touch with us and we'd love to help. Hot Off the Press A selection of the best and most recent fiction releases Lazar by Nelio Biedermann Price £16.99 What Am I, A Deer? by Polly Barton Price £14.99 Chandler's Pick My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum Price £14.99 Python's Kiss: Stories by Louise Erdrich Price £20.00 Polly's Pick The Renovation by Kenan Orhan Price £16.99 Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasi Price £20.00 Kin by Tayari Jones Price £18.99 Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami Price £16.99 Hooked by Asako Yuzuki Price £14.99 Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor Price £18.99 Amy's Pick Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave Price £16.99 Brawler by Lauren Groff Price £18.99 Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester Price £20.00 Celestial Lights by Cecile Pin Price £16.99 California Gold by Jodie Chapman Price £16.99 The News from Dublin by Colm Toibin Price £14.99 Amy's Pick A Far-Flung Life by M.L. Stedman Price £20.00 A Private Man by Stephanie Sy-Quia Price £16.99 Good People by Patmeena Sabit Price £16.99 Amy's Pick Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray Price £20.00 Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 Browse this year's longlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine Price £18.99 Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly Price £10.99 The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson Price £16.99 The Others by Sheena Kalayil Price £12.99 Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi Price £16.99 Gloria Don't Speak by Lucy Apps Price £12.99 Dominion by Addie E. Citchens Price £12.99 The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal Price £10.99 Booker Shortlist Flashlight by Susan Choi Price £10.99 A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang Price £11.99 Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Price £9.99 Moderation by Elaine Castillo Price £17.99 The Correspondent by Virginia Evan Price £16.99 Audition by Katie Kitamura Price £18.99 Book of the Year 2025 Heart the Lover by Lily King Price £18.99 New in Non-Fiction The very latest insightful and thought-provoking non-fiction reads Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs Price £30.00 A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides by Gisele Pelicot Price £22.00 How to End a Story by Helen Garner Price £20.00 Love Machines by James Muldoon Price £12.99 The Fire by Cecilia Sala Price £14.99 Dear England : Lessons in Leadership by Gareth Southgate Price £25.00 Book of Lives : A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood Price £30.00 How To Live An Artful Life by Katy Hessel Price £16.99 A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke Price £22.00 The Anthony Bourdain Reader by Anthony Bourdain Price £25.00 Bread of Angels by Patti Smith Price £25.00 Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith Price £22.00 I Shop, Therefore I Am by Mary Portas Price £20.00 Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China by Jung Chang Price £25.00 Great Art Explained by James Payne Price £30.00 The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland Price £25.00 Love’s Labour by Stephen Grosz Price £18.99 Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change by Hannah Ritchie Price £20.00 The Finest Hotel in Kabul : A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet Price £25.00 A Short History of Japan by Christopher Harding Price £20.00 New in Paperback The best books, recently released in their portable paperback format Booker Winner Flesh by David Szalay Price £9.99 Polly's Pick Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata Price £9.99 The Names by Florence Knapp Price £9.99 Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros Price £10.99 We Do Not Part by Han Kang Price £9.99 Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley Price £9.99 Booker Shortlist Flashlight by Susan Choi Price £10.99 Hannan's Pick Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen Price £9.99 Show Don't Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld Price £9.99 Booker Longlist The South by Tash Aw Price £9.99 Chrissy's Pick This Immaculate Body by Emma van Straaten Price £9.99 A Family Matter by Claire Lynch Price £9.99 Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis Price £9.99 My Friends by Fredrik Backman Price £9.99 Three Days in June by Anne Tyler INDIE EXCLUSIVE EDITION Price £9.99 Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth Price £9.99 Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya Price £9.99 How to End a Story by Helen Garner Price £20.00 The Book of George by Kate Greathead Price £9.99 Mere by Danielle Giles Price £9.99 Can't find the book you'd like to buy listed here? Tell us what you'd like and we'll get it for you. Order here Coming Soon Pre-order the books everyone will be talking about The Traveller's Library by Chandler Bray Price £16.99 On the Calculation of Volume IV by Solvej Balle Out of stock Signed London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe Price £22.00 Wifehouse by Sonya Walger Price £16.99 Transcription by Ben Lerner Price £14.99 Go Gentle by Maria Semple Price £20.00 Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest Price £18.99 The Wreck by Lizzy Stewart Price £25.00 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Price £16.99 Partita by Barbara Kingsolver Price £20.00 Polly's Pick Wimmy Road Boyz by Sufiyaan Salam Price £16.99 Chrissy's Pick American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee Price £22.00 Land by Maggie O'Farrell Price £25.00 Chrissy's Pick Stations by Louise Kennedy Price £20.00 Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead Price £22.00 Chrissy's Pick John of John by Douglas Stuart Price £20.00 Chrissy's Pick Frida Slattery as Herself by Ana Kinsella Price £16.99 Chrissy's Pick I Want You To Be Happy by Jem Calder Price £14.99 Ghost Stories by Siri Hustvedt Price £22.00 Royal Court Reading List A birthday reading list inspired by the Royal Court's 70th season The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell Price £10.99 Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker Price £10.99 The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro Price £9.99 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Price £9.99 Chandler's Pick My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy Price £18.99 Lazar by Nelio Biedermann Price £16.99 Jess's Pick Helen Of Nowhere Price £12.99 Chandler's Pick My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum Price £14.99 Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasi Price £20.00 Signed What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton (Author Edition) Price £16.99 Mare by Emily Haworth-Booth Price £16.99 Enough Said by Alan Bennett Price £25.00 Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest Price £18.99 The Wreck by Lizzy Stewart Price £25.00 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Price £16.99 The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit Price £14.99 Chandler's Pick Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel Price £18.99 The Daffodil Days by Helen Bain Price £18.99 Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami Price £16.99 On the Calculation of Volume IV by Solvej Balle Out of stock International Booker Prize 2026 Read and support the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories translated into English Intl. Booker Longlist On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia Price £11.99 Intl. Booker Longlist She Who Remains by Rene Karabash Price £12.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje Price £20.00 Intl. Booker Longlist We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Price £18.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Duke by Matteo Melchiorre Price £14.99 Intl. Booker Shortlist The Director by Daniel Kehlmann Price £22.00 Intl. Booker Longlist The Wax Child by Olga Ravn Price £14.99 Intl. Booker Longlist Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi Price £14.99 Intl. Booker Longlist Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur Price £12.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Witch by Marie NDiaye Price £12.99 Intl. Booker Longlist Small Comfort by Ia Genberg Price £12.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Deserters by Mathias Énard Price £14.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar Price £10.99 Read with Pride Our favourite fiction celebrating queer writers and stories Amy's Pick A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle Price £10.99 Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya Price £9.99 Bellies by Nicola Dinan Price £9.99 Experienced by Kate Young Price £9.99 Rosewater by Liv Little Price £9.99 Chrissy's Pick Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield Price £9.99 Mrs S by K Patrick Price £9.99 Green Dot by Madeleine Gray Price £9.99 Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters Price £8.99 Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly Price £9.99 Radical Love by Neil Blackmore Price £9.99 Wild Things by Laura Kay Price £9.99 The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan Price £9.99 The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Price £9.99 Memorial by Bryan Washington Price £8.99 The Pairing by Casey McQuiston Price £18.99 In Memoriam by Alice Winn Price £9.99 Rainbow Milk by Mendez Price £9.99 Sexual Politics and Relationships A selection of books from our Sexual Politics and Relationships Shelves Disobedient Bodies by Emma Dabiri Price £7.99 Three Women by Lisa Tadeo Price £10.99 Tomorrow S Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel Price £8.99 Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel Price £10.99 The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah Price £9.99 The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan Price £9.99 Arrangements in Blue by Amy Key Price £10.99 Porn : An Oral History by Polly Barton Price £13.99 Conversations On Love by Natasha Lunn Price £10.99 All About Love by Bel Hooks Price £11.99 Black Box by Shiori Ito Price £9.99 Notes on Heartbreak by Annie Lord Price £9.99 Staff Picks Check out what our team are currently recommending Jess's Pick Helen Of Nowhere Price £12.99 Chandler's Pick My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum Price £14.99 We all love! Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash Price £16.99 Flo's Pick Calypso by David Sedaris Price £12.99 Amy's Pick Woo Woo by Ella Baxter Price £10.99 Chandler's Pick The Dance and the Fire by Daniel Saldaña París Price £11.99 Chandler's Pick Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones Price £12.99 Amy's Pick The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow Price £22.00 Elisa's Pick Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin Price £9.99 Jess's Pick Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan Price £9.99 Hannan's Pick The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi Price £9.99 Flo's Pick The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji Price £9.99 Esme's Pick The Compound by Aisling Rawle Price £16.99 Jess's Pick Vaim by Jon Fosse Price £12.99 Elisa's Pick Just Kids by Patti Smith Price £12.99 Hannan's Pick Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix Price £12.99 Polly's Pick Old Soul by Susan Barker Price £9.99 BookBar Favourite! Ungone by Hannah Patterson Price £10.99 Amy's Pick Hot Wax by M.L. Rio Price £20.00 Polly's Pick The Debutante and Other Stories by Leonora Carrington Price £12.99 The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2026 The longlist spans politics, memoir, science, history, biography, and art, in an extraordinary celebration of women’s writing Signed Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi Price £22.00 Nation of Strangers : Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century by Ece Temelkuran Price £18.99 To Exist As I Am by Grace Spence Green Price £16.99 Finding Albion by Zakia Sewell Price £25.00 Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy Price £20.00 Hotel Exile : Paris in the Shadow of War by Jane Rogoyska Price £25.00 The Genius of Trees by Harriet Rix Price £25.00 Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry Price £18.99 Ask Me How It Works: Love in an Open Marriage by Deepa Paul Price £18.99 To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason Price £16.99 With the Law on Our Side by Lady Hale Price £25.00 Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health by Daisy Fancourt Price £22.00 Don't Let it Break You by Jenny Evans Price £22.00 The Finest Hotel in Kabul : A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet Price £25.00 Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick Price £10.99 Food and Drink The most delectable reads of the moment La Mesa Mexicana by Rosa Cienfuegos Price £39.95 FUSÃO : Untraditional recipes inspired by Brasil by Ixta Belfrage Price £28.00 Good Things : Recipes to Share with People You Love by Samin Nosrat Price £30.00 Padella by Tim Siadatan Price £25.00 Long Day? Cook This. : Easy East Asian Recipes with a Twist by Justin Tsang Price £26.00 OPA! : Recipes inspired by Greek tavernas Price £30.00 How I Cook: A Chef’s Guide to Really Good Home Cooking by Ben Lippett Price £26.00 Boustany by Sami Tamimi Price £30.00 Sama Sama by Julie Lin Price £28.00 In For Dinner by Rosie Kellett Price £27.00 Sweet : the secret to the best desserts by Alexina Anatole Price £27.00 Crunch : An Ode to Crisps by Natalie Whittle Price £10.99 Dinner by Meera Sodha Price £27.00 Amy's Pick The Condiment Book by Claire Dinhut Price £14.99 Nights Out At Home by Jay Rayner Price £22.00 Ottolenghi COMFORT by Yotam Ottolenghi Price £30.00 A Thousand Feasts : Small Moments of Joy … a Memoir of Sorts by Nigel Slater Price £12.99 SIFT : The Elements of Great Baking by Nicola Lamb Price £30.00 London Feeds Itself ed. Jonathan Nunn Price £25.00 Easy Wins by Anna Jones Price £28.00 The Best of BookBar A selection of standout Book of the Month and Book Club picks that never fail to hit the mark Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Price £9.99 Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson Price £9.99 The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Price £9.99 Signed You Are Here by David Nicholls Price £9.99 Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe Price £9.99 Chrissy's Pick Clear by Carys Davies Price £9.99 Polly's Pick Butter by Asako Yuzuki Price £9.99 All The Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker Price £9.99 Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart Price £9.99 I Will Greet The Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani Price £9.99 Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan Price £9.99 Come and Get It by Kiley Reid Price £9.99 Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis Price £9.99 Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly Price £9.99 Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang Price £9.99 Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Price £9.99 The Crane Wife by C.J. Hauser Price £10.99 Good Material by Dolly Alderton Price £9.99 The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi Price £9.99 I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel Price £9.99 Can't find the book you'd like to buy listed here? Tell us what you'd like and we'll get it for you. Order here Or search for a title at Bookshop.org Search here When you buy from bookshop.org we receive profit on any book you buy, so long as you enter through our shop front, via the link above (BookBar will show up in the top left corner). This profit is less than the profit we receive when you order from us directly, but you will still be supporting what we do by ordering via bookshop.org above any online retailer. As the books you order will not be sent directly from us, they will not be wrapped in BookBar branding.

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's 5th Birthday Party Sat 11 Apr BookBar Islington More info Buy tickets now BookBar X BODA Presents... Read Dating Tue 14 Apr BookBar Chelsea More info Buy tickets now BookBar Presents... An Evening with The Guardian Long Read Wed 15 Apr BookBar Chelsea More info Buy tickets now 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 Buy tickets now An Evening with Lily King | BookBar is Five Festival Tue 02 Jun BookBar Chelsea More info Buy tickets now 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 Buy tickets now Past Events 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 BookBar X BODA X "Wuthering Heights" Presents... Read Dating: "Wuthering Heights" Meet Cute Thu 12 Feb BookBar Chelsea More info Details BookBar Sessions with Madeline Cash Thu 05 Feb BookBar Islington More info Details BookBar Presents... Madeleine Gray in conversation with Kate Young Fri 30 Jan BookBar Chelsea More info Details BookBar Presents... Roxy Dunn in conversation with Natasha Poliszczuk Tue 27 Jan BookBar Chelsea 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

Visit bookbar Address and Contact 166 Blackstock Road, London, N5 1HA 020 3457 5186 | hello@bookbaruk.com Opening Hours Monday - Closed Tuesday - 10am-6pm Wednesday - 10am-9pm Thursday - 10am-9pm Friday - 10am-9pm Saturday - 10am-9pm Sunday -11am-6pm Easter Opening Hours Thursday 2nd April - 10am-9pm Friday 3rd April - 10am-9pm Saturday 4th April - 10am-6pm Sunday 5th April -11am-6pm Monday 6th April - Closed Accessibility Information There is a step to enter the shop and steps throughout the space. The bathroom is down a flight of stairs in the basement level. Outdoor seating is accessed at street level. Laptop Policy We love being a space that inspires creativity. However, we are also a busy retail and social space. We therefore limit laptop use to our downstairs Book Cellar and ask that laptop users only use laptops on weekdays before 6pm. We do not allow laptop use anywhere over the weekend. We ask that customers refrain from taking video and phone calls at all times. Feel free to bring your own book, notebooks and pens any time. Address and Contact 11 Chelsea Manor Street, SW3 3TW 020 3668 3422 | chelsea@bookbaruk.com Opening Hours Monday - 10am-6pm Tuesday - 10am-6pm Wednesday - 10am-9pm Thursday - 10am-9pm Friday - 10am-9pm Saturday - 10am-9pm Sunday -11am-6pm Easter Opening Hours Thursday 2nd April - 10am-9pm Friday 3rd April - 10am-9pm Saturday 4th April - 10am-6pm Sunday 5th April -11am-6pm Monday 6th April - 10am-6pm Accessibility Information Our bookshop and outdoor seating can be accessed at street level. We also have an accessible restroom available. Laptop Policy We love being a space that inspires creativity. However, we are also a busy retail and social space. We therefore limit laptop use to our bar stools and ask that laptop users only use laptops on weekdays before 6pm. We do not allow laptop use anywhere over the weekend. We ask that customers refrain from taking video and phone calls at all times. Feel free to bring your own book, notebooks and pens any time. stay in touch Follow us on Instagram @BookBarUK Book orders Order online or email the shop for collection or to arrange delivery Join our mailing list Sign up here Events enquiries events@bookbaruk.com Press enquiries hello@bookbaruk.com

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 Our May, June and July picks will be announced very soon! Sign up to our mailing list to be the first to hear. want to join us for an in person event? Check out our in person events here

The Books of the Year Prescription For most of us, 2020 hasn't brought much in the way of joy. But it has brought some exceptional books. Our Shelf Medicate Prescriptions bring you the best books out there, and these are some of our favourites from this year. Choose between a small bundle of three or four books or a large bundle of six or eight book to have delivered to your door and then sit back, relax and enjoy your books. *Titles pictured are sample titles only. Small Bundle 3-4 Books £45 Add to Basket Large Bundle 6-8 Books £90 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 Pay via the PayPal link on our website Our literary expert will put together a unique selection of books based on the prescription you have chosen and the size. If you'd like to make any specific requests, please email orders@bookbaruk.com

Shelf Isolation 13 Books to Keep You Happy and Healthy During Lockdown We read books for many reasons: to learn something about the world around us, to feel inspired or moved. In uncertain times, we turn to books for comfort and escape. So here are some of BookBar's picks to keep you happy and healthy these uncertain times. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Isolated and friendless - except for her imposing mother, Eleanor Oliphant’s life is a lonely one, until an act of kindness makes her see that life can be more than just fine. This story of an outsider who finds her place in the world urges you to see the bright side of life. £8.99 Add to Basket A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Sentenced to a lifetime of house arrest in the attic of Moscow’s Hotel Metropol, accused of being an unrepentant aristocrat at a Bolshevik trial, Count Alexander Rostov must adapt to his new life sans luxury. A Gentleman in Moscow is a charming novel about one moment in Russian history from the eyes of a man in a unique observational position - and in lockdown. £8.99 Add to Basket Calypso by David Sedaris Known for his laugh-out loud wit, I’d recommend any of David Sedaris’ essay collections, but his most recent book, Calypso, feels well placed for our lockdown scenario. Set around the beach house he shares with his partner, it explores the ways that families come together and fall apart with a rare transparency that accompanies the humour. £8.99 Add to Basket The Salt Path by Raynor Winn A remarkable memoir about hope in the direst of situations, which turns a tragedy into an adventure. After losing their home and livelihood, Moth and Raynor discover that Moth is terminally ill. Bankrupt, homeless and in physical and emotional agony, the couple decide to walk England’s 630 mile south-west coastal footpath from Somerset to Dorset via Devon and Cornwall. The journey definitely isn’t an easy one, but what comes with it is cathartic and regenerative. Incredibly brave, moving and full of love, resilience and joy, this memoir will inspire you, post-lockdown, to slide on your walking boots in search of adventure - and also hope. £9.99 Add to Basket Factfulness by Hans Rosling Rich in data, but also joy, Factfulness argues that when we remove our biases and look at facts, we can see the world in a more positive light. Written pre-Pandemic, the world has changed hugely since the book was published in 2018, but its lessons remain the same. A book that will offer comfort to even the most cynical and inspire the most ignorant. £9.99 Add to Basket The Offing by Benjamin Myers ‘Poetry is mankind’s way of saying we are not entirely alone in the world’ says the wonderfully vivacious Dulcie in Benjamin Myers’ uplifting novel The Offing, which is set along the beautifully realised crags and cliffs of the North Yorkshire coast. When Robert sets off on a rambling adventure by foot, he stumbles upon the home of eccentric Dulcie and finds himself drawn to her unconventional lifestyle and her love of poetry. It’s a warm, wise and lyrically told novel about the sea, love, friendship, nature and poetry. £8.99 Add to Basket I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith The ultimate comfort read, from its first line (‘I write this sitting in the kitchen sink’) the joys of domesticity and family abound in this classic novel about an eccentric family who live in a dilapidated house in the English countryside. With wonderful characters, romance and a beautiful coming-of-age story, I Capture the Castle has everything you could want in an escapist read. Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton This memoir of journalist and co-host of the podcast ‘The High Low’ is frank and funny. Charting the parties, dates, and follies of Dolly’s twenties - from her university days to her first job and the anticipation of turning thirty - this book is cringingly relatable, hilarious and beautifully wise. It’s a reminder of the value of friendship - and perhaps a warning to those who are already planning their post-isolation night out. £8.99 Add to Basket £8.99 Add to Basket Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig Billed as ‘a book about making the most of your time on earth’, Reasons to Stay Alive is one of the most joyful and accessible books about mental health I’ve read. Following novelist Matt Haig’s experience with depression, it’s a genuinely funny and incredibly truthful insight into the dark spectre of depression, and how it is possible to not only get your life back from this illness but live it to its fullest. £9.99 Add to Basket Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Reminiscent of the story of Fleetwood Mac and told through revelatory interviews with fictional band members, friends, and producers, Daisy Jones and the Six charts the rise and mysterious fall of the world’s most popular band. It’s full of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but it also interrogates the unhappiness behind the glamour and the people behind the icons. £8.99 Add to Basket The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz Written by a leading psychotherapist, The Examined Life shares Stephen Grosz’s personal encounters between a psychoanalyst and his patients, revealing how the art of insight can shed light on the most difficult and overwhelming experiences. A moving book about the nature of humanity and our extraordinary power for healing. £9.99 Add to Basket Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson There is much to be said for living room travel, and anything written by Bill Bryson is the perfect candidate for transporting you to new shores without even leaving your living room. In Notes From a Small Island, Bryson travels around the UK, uncovering the eccentricities of this island nation and the people who inhabit it. His witty observations about the cultures he visits will have you audibly chortling to yourself. Wherever you are in the world, Bryson is a superb travelling partner. £9.99 Add to Basket The Poetry Pharmacy by William Sieghart I have found poetry to be immensely helpful during these strange times and this book the most consolatory collection of them all. It’s a book I love full of lots of different poems and beautifully insightful commentary that are prescribed for emotional ailments from heartbreak and bereavement to regret, lethargy and anxiety. There are some real gems here, including a poem by Seigfreid Sassoon, ‘Everyone Sang’, that feels like it was written for this very moment. £12.99 Add to Basket

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The Christmas Classics Prescription Home Alone, It's A Wonderful Life, Love Actually, Elf... Just as there are iconic Christmas films there are iconic Christmas books. From Christie to A Christmas Carol, there are books that never fail to conjure up the magic of the season and make us feel more festive. With our Christmas Classics Prescription, you'll receive a selection of the very best Christmas tales to curl up with or share with the ones you love. 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 £30 Add to Basket Large Bundle Six Books £55 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 to your basket and purchase Our literary expert will put together a unique selection of books based on the prescription you have chosen and the size. If you'd like to make any specific requests, please email orders@bookbaruk.com

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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