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20,000 titles on two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL bsky.app/profile/london…
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    London Review Bookshop
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    Mar 16, 2019
    if you were or are the friendly gent (blue coat) who was in the shop half an hour ago and left a big jar of bees on the table in the poetry section, please come back and reclaim your jar of bees. if you aren't, please rt until we find him #FindTheBeeGent
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    London Review Bookshop
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    Feb 11, 2020
    so rage against the machine just announced their european tour dates and we were shocked to discover that apparently they are playing at the bookshop on august 14th. first we've heard of it. having an emergency staff meeting now about how we can make this work
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    London Review Bookshop
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    Nov 2, 2018
    just had the director of london zoo in the shop. we gave him a free tote and he doffed his cap politely, revealing - imagine our surprise! - a tiny marmot squatting on his head. "marmot's day out" he winked
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    London Review Bookshop
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    Mar 16, 2019
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    charlie says they're too large to be bees but i've started the hashtag now so it's too late to change it
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    London Review Bookshop
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    Feb 11, 2020
    in seine in the membrane
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    London Review Bookshop
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    Jun 17, 2024
    it is absolutely ridiculous that every bookshop in central london is still obliged to carry out "bear drills", in case the bears escape from london zoo. firstly there is no evidence they would particularly target bookshops. secondly the zoo hasn't had any bears since 2008.
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    London Review Bookshop
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    Sep 3, 2020
    had an astonishing conversation with a food photographer who's worked on a load of big recipe books - don't want to say which but you'd have heard of them - who told me something fascinating about prawns
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    London Review Bookshop
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    Jul 12, 2019
    oh god oh god pierce brosnan is in the shop. I repeat pierce brosnan is in the shop
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    London Review Bookshop
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    Oct 28, 2019
    page 94 of the new le carré. surely this isn't a coincidence (read down the initial letters of each line)
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    London Review Bookshop
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    Oct 15, 2018
    customer of the week: the nice lady who asked if she could use the plug socket behind the till, we assumed for her phone charger and said sure sure of course, & she plugged in a hair dryer and proceeded to dry her tiny dog
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    London Review Bookshop
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    Feb 11, 2020
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    presumably they won't need chairs which makes the set-up a bit easier. plan at the moment is to strip the new fiction tables and put the books in the lift. as long as the 'mosh pit' is kept relatively confined to the centre of the shop i think we should be ok
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    London Review Bookshop
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    Feb 11, 2020
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    david i'm sorry to say that they do jump around a lot
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    London Review Bookshop
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    Oct 31, 2020
    happy birthday john keats. if he had been born as a greenland shark instead of a human poet, he would still be alive today (and in fact barely half of the way through his natural lifespan; a greenland shark born on keats' birthday is the shark equivalent of a 12½ yr old keats)
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    London Review Bookshop
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    Apr 15, 2024
    apologies. we are not actually smoking a zoot at the picador garden party. this was a scheduled tweet from 2017(!) - we thought when hootsuite died any tweets we had scheduled on hootsuite would die with it. it seems we were misinformed
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    London Review Bookshop
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    Apr 15, 2024
    smoking a zoot at the picador garden party
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