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Shakespeare&Company

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2 years

Thinking you have to read all the unread books on your shelves before buying new ones is like thinking a wine connoisseur should drink everything in their cellar before buying any new bottles. Some books just need a bit of shelf-time before they (/you) are ready.

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We have some sad news...

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If this is goodbye, Twitter, we’ll be where we’ve been for the last 71 years. And we’ve got plenty of really long threads* all printed out, ready for you to read. *books

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Thanks for everything, Raymond Briggs.

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If you're ordering books for self-isolation, remember that many independent bookshops—including us!—not only take orders online, but also deliver quickly, pay their taxes, treat their employees well and, well, actually care about books. Our online store:

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4 years

We have some news... #TousEnLibrairie #Paris

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5 years

Thank you all for your concern and messages of support. The bookshop and our team are safe. We share in the heartbreak felt by everyone in Paris, France and around the world. #NotreDame

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9 years

Our bookshop and café reopened this morning.

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4 years

Hard Times... We've just sent our latest newsletter in which we ask for your support if you have the means and interest. Read it here:

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3 years

Imagine if they just never came back online.

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8 years

Proud to stock #TheGoodImmigrant .

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4 months

Ah, Paris. You've still got it.

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Lockdown has done really weird things to Paris...

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3 years

Les Deux Magots is open .... but only to giant teddy bears discussing philosophy

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4 years

2 weeks ago we told you sales were 80% down & you lovely folk responded so hugely you crashed our site! Today we launch a new way to support us, giving access to exclusive content & the chance to get one-off artwork from @neilhimself and Dave Eggers. More:

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@IanDunt Who’d have thought the best person to put up against a criminal would be a prosecutor? 🤷‍♂️

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6 months

Such sad news. Our condolences to all who knew and loved Benjamin Zephaniah.

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1 year

Happy #Bloomsday everyone! There’s no more perfect day to begin reading #Ulysses with us. James Joyce’s masterpiece read by more than 100 writers, actors and musicians… 🎧:

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@IanDunt We’re no grammar sticklers, and love the fact that language is a flexible, organic thing… But crikey this letter is a grammatical bin fire.

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2 years

@IanDunt Best line, on Brexit: “Some of the portents of doom didn’t happen.” How many portents of doom happening is an acceptable number?

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1 year

Please excuse this self-indulgent retweet. 🤗

Neil Gaiman

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1 year

@PTFilm The best English language bookstore in Paris is Shakespeare and co @Shakespeare_Co which is one of the most wonderful bookshops in the world.

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7 years

37°C (99°F) in Paris today.

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2 years

👀 Georges Bataille's private library currently on sale in Paris. Some real treats in here... His collection of Sade... His copy of the Kinsey Report...

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4 years

A huge thank you to all of you for your support over the last few days. There have been lots of orders, and several website crashes (please keep trying!), and a few tears. We’re not out of the woods yet, but our hopes are higher than they have been for a while. More very soon...

Shakespeare&Company

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4 years

Hard Times... We've just sent our latest newsletter in which we ask for your support if you have the means and interest. Read it here:

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3 years

We are making great headway with all the wonderful orders you placed last month! We hope to reopen our Online Store soon, and will let you know as soon as we do.⠀

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And if you're in Paris today, hopalong to the bookshop between 2pm and 6pm. #Bloomsday revels will include readings, music and a picnic of burgundy and gorgonzola sandwiches. Ceremonies led by Prof. @lexpaulson .

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1 year

Happy #Bloomsday everyone! There’s no more perfect day to begin reading #Ulysses with us. James Joyce’s masterpiece read by more than 100 writers, actors and musicians… 🎧:

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101 years ago Sylvia Beach published James Joyce’s ULYSSES when nobody else would dare. 1 year ago we began a 5-month journey to bring this masterpiece to even more readers. Listen to 100 episodes, 10 Bloomcasts & specials now: @hayfestival

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5 years

In honour of Our Lady’s resilience—and all the great literature she has inspired over the centuries—we have decided that tonight’s reading with the brilliant @Damian_Barr will take place tonight. Do come along if you're in the neighbourhood. #NotreDame

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2 years

We may be closed for a couple of days…but it seems you just can’t stop poetry!

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6 months

@IanDunt It will also stop huge numbers of us in the EU from being able to move back, should we ever want to. We can take our families to live in 26 neighbouring countries without issue...just not the one we were born in. Inhuman. Inhumane.

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1 year

📚 IMPORTANT REMINDER 📚 The bookstore will be closed for our annual inventory on Monday 30 and Tuesday 31. See you on Wednesday!

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🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏿‍♂️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏾‍♂️🙋🏽🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏼‍♂️

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3 years

From @HarvardBooks

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7 years

Writers nailing it since Friday: @mehdirhasan @SashaHemon @jk_rowling @OwenJones84 @harikunzru @MichaelRosenYes @AoDespair @simon_schama ✊🏽

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2 years

As Gerty MacDowell said to Leopold Bloom, “Wow! That escalated quickly!”

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2 years

Thinking you have to read all the unread books on your shelves before buying new ones is like thinking a wine connoisseur should drink everything in their cellar before buying any new bottles. Some books just need a bit of shelf-time before they (/you) are ready.

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7 years

Rainbow over Notre Dame this evening and the bookshop has just reopened.

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1 year

Remember when you used to see tweets from people you follow? That was nice.

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8 years

65 years ago this week, a bookshop opened at 37 rue de la Bûcherie. This photo of George Whitman was taken that day.

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2 years

Merci pour tout, Sempé.

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3 years

Happy #Bloomsday ! Join us on our terrace from 4pm - 6pm for readings from James Joyce’s #Ulysses . And yes we said yes you will…YES!

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4 years

It’s official! Place an order of 500€ or more before 15 Nov and get an exclusive original doodle from @neilhimself or a portrait sketch from Dave Eggers as a thank you. Just specify “Neil” or “Dave” at checkout. Not all heroes wear capes.*

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10 months

You know when your pub gets bought out by some chain, & you still go there for a bit, because of the memories, & because it’s where you go, & because you know you’d never see some of these folks elsewhere, but then slowly you all drift away because it’s so awful? Well: Twitter

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3 years

Today, Shakespeare and Company, Paris, has officially lifted its ban on serving US Presidents!

President Biden

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3 years

Today, America is officially back in the Paris Climate Agreement. Let’s get to work.

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1 year

This looks like a great little bookshop, and goodness knows we need as many indies as possible to stay open in this world. Help them out, buy a book.

Sapphire Bates

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1 year

#BookTwitter we need your help! I run Book Bodega, an Indy bookshop in Ramsgate. Winter is killing us, it’s soo quiet & we need to make £800 by Tuesday to pay our bills. This is my current view = no customers 🥹. Please shop with us and help us stay open!

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2 years

Bloody writers, never deliver their manuscripts on time… Still 2/2/22 has a nice ring to it.

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4 years

In accordance with measures announced by the French government to limit the spread of COVID-19, the bookshop and café will be closed until further notice. We’ll keep you updated as the situation develops. Until then stay at home, stay safe, and read books.

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3 years

We’re truly saddened to learn of the death of John Le Carre. A whole section of every bookshop openly acknowledges its debt to him, while many other sections owe that debt without acknowledging it. Our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, colleagues and readers.

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6 years

Notre Dame in the snow.

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2 years

2022 marks 100 years since the publication of ULYSSES by James Joyce. Hands up whose resolution is to read—or reread—it this year? 🙋‍♂️

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1 year

Martin Amis was one of the guests at our festival in 2010. He was witty, caustic, insightful, generous and dazzling, much like his writing. Our condolences to his family and friends.

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1 year

Few writers pass into legend during their lifetimes. Cormac McCarthy did. A true great. RIP.

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3 years

How does anyone with a cat ever get any writing done?

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2 years

📘HEIGHO! HEIGHO!📘 933 Pages 110 readers 70 characters 18 Sections 5 months 1 book 100 years Friends of @Shakespeare_Co read ULYSSES by James Joyce. 2 February - 16 June 2022 Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts. #SandCoUlysses #Ulysses100 @classicpenguins @hayfestival

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7 years

It's cherry blossom time!

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2 years

If you’d like more from the bookshop you might like to know that we have… 🎧 An Author Interview Podcast: 🌏 An Online Store (books, totes, merch - global shipping): 📰 A Newsletter:

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6 years

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” Bon voyage, Ursula. You’ll be missed.

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6 years

Excuse the shameless like-hunting but . . . here are a few photos from closing time yesterday. #ParisSousLaNeige

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4 years

Until the happy day when the bookshop reopens its doors to readers and writers, don’t forget that hundreds of our past events, recorded in store, are available as #podcasts including this one with the great John Berger. Search for “Shakespeare and Company” wherever you listen.

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4 years

Bon courage, dear friends. We’re rooting for you.

City Lights Books

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4 years

Stay strong and take care of each other today, Tuesday, and beyond. Build strong communities! Democracy is not a spectator sport.

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1 year

Dear Readers, This evening we will close at 6pm for the festivities and reopen at 10am on Tuesday 27th December. Happy holidays to you all, and a very merry Christmas to all who celebrate it. Lots of love, Shakespeare and Company

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3 years

We sell books online and ship to the U.K. and would love you to shop with us from time to time. But honestly, today, U.K. readers, go to your local independent bookshop and clear their shelves. They have missed you as much as you have missed them...

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4 years

A message of thanks from Sylvia Whitman to everyone who has supported us these past weeks.⠀ ⠀ For those of you hoping to order we hope that our online store will reopen again on December 1.⠀ ⠀ To become a Friend of Shakespeare and Company, visit our website (link in bio)

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7 months

There’s something satisfyingly old-school about @BenMyers1 ’s rise. An author working away on the fringes for years (decades!), ploughing his own furrow, developing his craft novel after novel, building readers, reputation, prowess, until… 💥 Congratulations Ben!

The Goldsmiths Prize

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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2023 is 'Cuddy' by Benjamin Myers! Congratulations @BenMyers1 ! 🏆🎉🍾

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3 years

New in our store today, the first ever S&Co sweatshirt:

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4 years

✌️✌🏿✌🏾✌🏽✌🏼✌🏻

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2 years

It’s 2/2/22. Heigho! Heigho! Here we go… 📘🥛EPISODE 1🥛📘 Friends of S&Co read #ULYSSES by #JamesJoyce Pages 1-28 - Telemachus - Read by Will Self Listen here: #SandCoUlysses #Ulysses100 @hayfestival @classicpenguins

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3 years

So...what books did you all get? 📚 📖

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✊🙏

The Associated Press

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1 year

Salman Rushdie made an unexpected return to public life Thursday at the annual gala of PEN America, just nine months after being stabbed and hospitalized. The author accepted a special prize, the PEN Centenary Courage Award.

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✌🏿✌🏾✌🏽✌🏼✌🏻✌️

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8 years

It's a grey, cloudy day, autumn really settling in. Great weather for reading, really... #booksacrossthechannel

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2 years

There’s only one Dr Johnson… 💔

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3 years

🚨 🧳 URGENT 🧳 🚨 Suitcases needed for refugees—including artists, playwrights and journalists—recently arrived in France from Afghanistan. Collection in association with @GoodChanceCal . Drop off at our Antiquarian shop today & tomorrow between 12:00pm and 7:30pm.

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4 years

We’re rather fond of the bookshop in the photo! 😉

Paris je t'aime

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4 years

Finding a good book isn’t always an easy task… Do you have a favorite bookshop in #Paris ? 📚 Anyone reading about the city this #Summer ? Tell us everything! 🙌 #Parisjetaime 📸 @tanyasmiling 👉

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6 years

All *hail* the end of the Parisian heatwave... Seriously, anyone want to deny #climatechange now?

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4 years

Today, like readers the world over, we're turning to James Baldwin—a presence on our shelves, in our history, and in our window—for his clarity of thought, and focused, righteous fire.⠀ ⠀ #BlackLivesMatter

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Mark by The Sea

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This is possibly the most beautiful duet ever. She sang like an angel and had the beauty of one, nobody will ever sing like Sinéad. Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O'Connor - Haunted

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3 years

Get thee to a vaccinery! (If thee can and are eligible 🙂)

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2 years

Just in case any of our followers in the U.K. need to hear this, you’re absolutely *not* an idiot for following the rules these last two years.

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#InternationalWomensDay

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Happy #internationalwomensday to readers around the world. To celebrate, we’ve been discovering new releases by some of our favourite writers, as well as revisiting some modern classics. How about you?

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8 years

Happy #independentbookstoreday everyone!

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3 years

In case you were wondering…

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7 years

French keyboards actually have a shortcut to express existential angst.

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4 years

And for those of you not in Paris, we ship books and gifts worldwide:

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4 years

We have some news... #TousEnLibrairie #Paris

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A talented, serious writer who has touched millions, published by an amazing independent house, causing QUEUES outside bookshops… Honestly, what’s not to love? #sallyrooney #BWWAY @FaberBooks

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8 years

Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart. Out now:

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3 years

We were heartbroken to hear about the death of Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Not only was Lawrence a unique poet, painter, publisher and activist, he was George’s oldest friend and accomplice since they first met in Paris after World War II.

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4 years

A huuuuuuuuge welcome back to all our British independent bookselling comrades! x

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5 years

We have closed to join the global climate strike: today 1pm from metro Nation. #FridaysForFuture

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4 years

We’re now unable to dispatch online orders immediately. Like businesses everywhere, we’re taking a kicking. If you’d like to support S&Co, please consider placing an order for later delivery, subscribing to a Year of Reading, or purchasing a gift voucher.

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7 years

#KazuoIshiguro is the first #Nobel winner to have studied for a Creative Writing MA.

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6 years

#Pride #Paris #ParisPride #Pride2018 #ParisEstFiere

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2 years

Just a reminder we will be closed on the 24th and 25th of December. Merry Christmas everyone! See you on the other side… (NB: Image of snow not contractually binding…although we’re crossing our fingers! 🤞🤞)

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7 years

In time for the holidays, we're very excited to launch the "S&Co Year of Reading" with subscriptions limited to just 100 booklovers. 12 books, dispatched throughout 2018, mixing cutting-edge fiction, the best new nonfiction, and groundbreaking poetry.

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3 years

The shame of it is, we have a really cosy reading library on the first floor.

Kimberly Baker

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3 years

@nick_sawhney This is the best. Love to Bernie. @Shakespeare_Co #BernieSits

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4 years

Our site is once again experiencing a high traffic load (thank you, thank you, thank you!) so you may find it down at times. Please keep trying!

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4 years

Oh! Wow! Our minds are blown... The kind, brilliant, generous, genius that is Dave Eggers will send you a drawing of you, if you place an order of 500€ on our site between now and 15th November. So you get ALL the books...and a bona fide work of art! Dave, you’re our hero!

Timothy McSweeney

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4 years

The great bookstore @Shakespeare_Co needs your help! If you come through for them in a big way, Dave Eggers will send you a drawing of you. Click for more details!

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We've been open again since Monday and feel like celebrating Paris more than ever.

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1 year

If you want to get a sense of what a loss ⁦ @thespecials ⁩ Terry Hall’s passing is to us all, you could do much worse than listen to this conversation with ⁦ @Herring1967 ⁩. What a guy.

‎RHLSTP with Richard Herring: RHLSTP 199 - Terry Hall on Apple Podcasts

‎Show RHLSTP with Richard Herring, Ep RHLSTP 199 - Terry Hall - 30 Jan 2019

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6 years

We love you @Paris ! #WorldCupFinal2018 #CoupeDuMonde #AllezLesBlues 🇫🇷 🇪🇺

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4 years

Can our minds be blown twice in 24hrs? Apparently so. The wonderful @neilhimself is now also offering doodles to any readers who order 500€ or more from us before November 15. We are floored with gratitude and love. xx

Neil Gaiman

@neilhimself

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This is so generous of Dave. If there are people out there who don’t want a Dave Eggers drawing but would like a Neil Gaiman Doodle, on the same terms, I’d love to see if I can Sign Up to help. @Shakespeare_Co is one of the best places in the world and needs supporting.

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It's time for a climate revolution ✊️ We need to be radical. We need to rise up. The #extinctionrebellion manual is here... #nowornever #climatechangeisreal #thisisnotadrill

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