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@electricalWSOP

1 year

Trans people are targets of cruelty right now. Official targets, official cruelty. By law. Life is already hard for them, and there is a significant bloc of assholes working night and day to make it harder. If you aren't in direct, vocal opposition to that, you are a bad person.

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16 days

"Have you got Machiavelli's The Little Prince?"

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4 years

I JUST SOLD A 2020 WEEKLY PLANNER

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5 years

Full marks to a man in the cafe this morning. When his kids asked for a story, he immediately began: "Once upon a time there was a spaceship called the Nostromo. Everybody inside it was asleep..." I didn't want to leave

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Kirkdale Bookshop

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5 months

Please bear with us this morning. The shop was broken into in the early hours and we will be late opening as we’ve had forensics round. We are all okay, though a little shaken! The burglars left with quite a lot of money but thankfully left most of the shop untouched.

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Kirkdale Bookshop

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1 year

on the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me

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5 years

A customer today: I do have a K*ndle, but I lost it down the back of a bookcase.

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7 months

Somehow our conversation has led to this, one of the two best photos of John Ashbery

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10 months

Be at peace, be at peace.

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6 months

Please do take the time to watch this, and read our statement:

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3 years

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3 years

Our bugler is out of practice. Nevertheless, WELCOME BACK! We are open 9:30am-5pm MON-SAT 🙌🏼

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3 years

The shop in full deciduous regalia

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4 years

It was temporarily dismantled so the wood could be freshly painted, so here once again is the window of @KirkdaleBooks Black Lives Matter

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5 years

Tonight! At 7:30pm - wine/milk provided! Miaow..vellous 🐱 @CuriousZelda

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Kirkdale Bookshop

@KirkdaleBooks

5 months

We have been overwhelmed by the support from everyone after our burglary. After receiving a number of requests to set up a system for donating money, we have started a Gofundme page to help with the costs of repairs and to recoup the money lost.

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6 years

Happy International Day for Monuments and Sites!

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3 years

We wish you a Merry Christmas. We've all earned it this time

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5 years

@arrroberts The word "well-upholstered" can actually be heard pouring itself a gin and tonic.

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Kirkdale Bookshop

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4 years

The real brains behind this whole operation...Sooty! Sydenham's resident cat surveys our new takeaway service and they want you to place your orders here🐱9:30-4pm Mon-Sat🙌🏾

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Kirkdale Bookshop

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4 years

Note to self. I have had a lovely time on here today, talking about books. My dad died (I know: yawn). He couldn't talk about feelings etc so we met that by talking about: books. He read them, so did I. We did talk about our feelings, but at a remove. He's gone but the idea lives

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Kirkdale Bookshop

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3 years

Our customers are chill SE26 ftw

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4 years

Thank you everybody. See you on the other side. You have all been marvellous and it has been a privilege to meet you here.

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3 years

Seriously, I just can't imagine a person who *doesn't* need this in their little life

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5 years

As John Ashbery pointed out, some people seem to mistake poetry for the Salvation Army.

Tara Skurtu

@TaraSkurtu

5 years

Which poems have helped you through your roughest days?

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Kirkdale Bookshop

@KirkdaleBooks

3 years

Imagine something as ridiculous as a bookshop giving advice. Hey. Fancy some advice? For 2021? Read more science fiction. It's the only writing that will genuinely help you right now Apart from poetry and philosophy (real philosophy, not Alan) Be kind to people who work in shops

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5 years

Getting a glimpse into the mind of @CuriousZelda through a reading from her Human!

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8 years

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Kirkdale Bookshop

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1 year

Yesterday a customer came in with the sole purpose of recommending "A Month in the Country" by J L Carr. I've been hearing about this book for YEARS. Anyway I said "OK, I give in. I'll order it." And I did. And it's here. And I'll read it after work today. Finally.

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Kirkdale Bookshop

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4 years

TAKING A DEEP BREATH. GETTING IT INTO SHAPE. GETTING IT SAFE FOR YA. WATCH THIS SPACE YALL

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4 years

Normally I might not post something so personal, but the clue there is in the word "normally". To you they may just look like a couple of bruisers, but these are my grandsons who, as of today, seem to be canny fettle.

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Kirkdale Bookshop

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3 years

The last book which we sold today

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3 years

Sydenham High Street 9/2/21

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3 years

Somebody aged seven just knocked on the door and said "I need an exciting story."

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Kirkdale Bookshop

@KirkdaleBooks

3 years

It is always awkward to say such things, particularly when one is a massively privileged individual like what I am. But there comes a time. This tweeter is an elderly straight white man (i.e. who cares? Quite right) but I speak for the shop when I say that we are Trans Allies.

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Kirkdale Bookshop

@KirkdaleBooks

4 years

And so begins another day at the office, with our pre-emptive military anti-mingling device.

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5 years

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!!! @CuriousZelda

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3 years

A note for writers: I have noticed a *major* uptick (that's not a proper word) in sales of short stories.

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Kirkdale Bookshop

@KirkdaleBooks

3 years

We're turning 55 in October! To mark the occasion, we are launching a competition for a design celebrating the shop. The winning design will be printed onto a mug and Kirkdale tote bag and the winner will also receive a £100 voucher to spend at the shop! 🎉

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Kirkdale Bookshop

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7 years

Customer: "I remember you from when I was three years old." The customer, it turns out, is now four years old.

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3 years

@samthielman Johnny Marr on meeting the Dalai Lama: "Always nice to meet somebody who doesn't ask you whether the Smiths will ever get back together"

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8 months

A customer has just started explaining the plot of The Iliad to their friend

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Kirkdale Bookshop

@KirkdaleBooks

4 years

From tomorrow, we are open and shut. The shop as a physical thing is shut for the foreseeable. We are working away nevertheless. Happy to take your requests/orders whether emailed, tweeted, phoned, or simply shouted across our windows. Do please bear with us.

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Kirkdale Bookshop

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7 months

this shop is 57 today

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4 years

Hmm, wonder if we can squeeze 600 more books into this? 🧐

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2 years

William Hurt has died. What a superb actor, my generation's antecedent of Philip Seymour H perhaps. Intensely watchable, even though (or maybe because) he always seemed to be acting brilliantly IN THE WRONG FILM FOR THAT MOMENT. Distinctive and unforgettable. We are shut.

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Kirkdale Bookshop

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2 years

just had an urgent memo from the top. change the window, they said. pig it up. whatever that means. #peppapig

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2 years

We call this… “Great Expectations”

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3 years

Just served somebody so ridiculously famous that we can't tell you who it was #PointlessButNecessaryTweet

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4 years

2020 2.0

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10 months

Hastily rereading A Room with a View, which we are discussing here tomorrow. It's absolutely terrific. Funny, sharp, and surprisingly naughty. The film is good BUT the prose is magical. You can read it in a day; he spent six years tinkering with it. That's why it's so good!

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2 years

now playing

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3 years

Just had an exchange about George Eliot and once again I must say this: I go on about other great things from the 19th century e.g. Emily D, Poe, Great Expectations, Melville who I rave about endlessly... all good. But if you want to be rewired and become modern: read MIDDLEMARCH

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5 years

@HowardManns @katemond Sharp kid. Sharp as a pancake

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2 years

The man…the myth…the mug! @robinince @AtlanticBooks

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@KirkdaleBooks

3 years

!!!!

Ellie Reeves

@elliereeves

3 years

Our independent shops like @KirkdaleBooks & @BillingsLondon on Sydenham High Street are the lifeblood of our community. We need to reform business rates to support them and the thousands like them. #shoplocal

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Kirkdale Bookshop

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6 years

@paraicodonnell @KirstyDunseath "Effortlessly confirms that the novel, briefly thought alive, is happily deader than ever."

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4 years

Decade... I got an MA my parents died I became a grandfather I somehow ended up here, 20 minutes walk from where I live Anthony Braxton spoke kindly to me and I made a sensible reply I read Middlemarch, Moby-Dick, Under the Volcano, and Ducks

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3 years

Can't believe it's 2069 years since Julius Caesar defeated Pompey at the battle of Pharsalus. Still does my nut in to this day

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4 years

Ah! A customer at last. What did they buy? The Decameron

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6 years

Looking for a photo of Dorothy Parker and I find this which is brilliant imho

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Kirkdale Bookshop

@KirkdaleBooks

4 years

We're the same...but different! Come in to have a look between 11am-4pm Monday through to Saturday!

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10 months

I remember when this was all tweets

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3 years

A gentle note to help keep everyone safe and the shop open by continuing to wear a mask when coming to browse😷thanks to @Rosie_Johnson for this beautiful poster!

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@KirkdaleBooks

3 years

Can't believe it's 602 years since the first defenestration of Prague. Still does my nut in to this day

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10 months

Babe what's wrong? You haven't touched your Tears of Ovid

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3 years

Do come and visit us tomorrow. It's traditional that people buy the unreturnable things we ordered by mistake, bad decisions & so on. Why not buy something which makes us secretly sigh with relief while displaying the customery poker face? You'd be doing us a terrific favour.

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Kirkdale Bookshop

@KirkdaleBooks

6 years

We won! Thank you to all who voted us the Most Loved Local Shop in the Time Out Love London Awards. 😍😍

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4 years

Happy birthday to this relaxed and completely normal man

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4 years

I know this will trigger an exodus and I will deserve it but anyway good evening to this establishment's ten thousand followers. Very kind of you to take an interest.

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1 year

now playing. can I get an amen

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5 years

A colleague and I called the police a few months ago when we heard things getting very out of hand in the flats above the shop. The police arrived swiftly. It's important not to wait in a situation like that. I wouldn't want it on my conscience.

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2 years

Born on this day in 1930 one seriously strange dude

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6 years

I scream You scream We all scream That's it

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3 years

Good morning. It's 23 March 2021. Happy birthday to Barry Cryer and Chaka Khan.

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3 years

Today's first phone call concerned these two incredible dudes

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4 years

40 minutes to go! The angels of Sydenham supporting indies👼🏾we love to see it! Note: in the bottom left corner - we're all keeping a close eye on that bit of land across the pond...👀

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Kirkdale Bookshop

@KirkdaleBooks

1 year

This business is unequivocally and unambiguously a trans ally. We are here for you. We are horrified to see this. You are welcome here. It has been hard to form these words, perhaps they are wrong. So I hope you can forgive us. Words fail us.

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6 years

GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE 🎅🏿🎅🏼

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5 years

@bbcquestiontime I missed the programme. My punctuality matches your punctuation

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3 years

Discussing Stig of the Dump at the counter. Customer: When was it published Me (checks): 1963 total at till you guessed it £19.63 coincidence? yes

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2 years

I met a traveller from an antique land

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3 years

@brokenbottleboy ...and yet he is published, in the middle of a tabloid newspaper.

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3 years

Good morning. Happy 90th birthday to Bridget Riley. The marbling effect inside her birthday cake has to be seen to be believed

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2 years

14.2.22 we love you madly

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5 years

A customer phones to order a book. Me: Can I take your last name? Customer: Urbaniak (offers to spell that) Me: Like the violinist? Customer: YES!!! Kudos to my 18-year old self for reading the sleeve notes to Tutu so carefully

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4 years

SHOP WINDOW

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11 months

Sorry there is an apparent slur in our new Twitter bio

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5 months

@RevRichardColes Please do! (Our email is mail @kirkdalebookshop .com)

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3 years

Excellent. Just sold a copy of Moby-Dick to somebody who said "I just think now's the time." I vividly remember that feeling, just a few years ago. The week that followed was DELIRIUM

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5 years

Our favourite customer with his favourite book!

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7 months

Impossible to articulate her importance to more than one generation of musicians. Carla Bley: thank you for the music. Wow, what a battler. Composer. Arranger. Bandleader. Visionary. STAR. Rest in Power. And all good vibes to Mr Swallow who was the right guy at the right time.