What we're reading this week - take a look 📚 👀

George: Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
Katie: Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
Molly: My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld
Harry: The New Life by Tom Crewe
Coco: Clear by Carys Davies

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Remember, remember, the... 9th of November? Hmm. Needs work. This #WWRW , on the other hand, is ready! Karin: Bournville, Conal: A Cultural History of the British Empire, Katie: Dear Dolly, Nicole: Diaghilev's Empire, Eleanor: Skyward Inn, Jana: The Therapist. #currentlyreading

A short and sweet #WWRW this #DiaDeLosMuertos ! Eleanor: The Galaxy and the Ground Within (recent The Kitschies winner!) by Becky Chambers; Ieva: My 4th Time We Drowned (recent The Orwell Prize winner!) by Sally Hayden. What are you #currentlyreading ?

Celebrating the deathday of Alfred the Great (promoter of literacy) with books! Zoe: The Bullet That Missed, Katie: Demon Copperhead, Jana: My Darling Daughter, James: My 4th Time We Drowned, Conal: Pirate Enlightenment, Eleanor: The Possessed, Karin: Shrines of Gaiety. #wwrw

Happy 241st anniversary of the American Revolution's end! Our resident Yank is smug today. This week's reads: Andrew:Verse Chorus Monster, Nicky D:Macbeth, Nicky W:This Is Gonna End In Tears, Karin:Nights of Plague, Louisa:The Shining, Katie/Isabel:The Romantic, Eleanor: 👻 Story

We have a selection box of literary truffles for you today! Conal: Caliban and the Witch, James: Checkout 19, Katie: My Body, Eleanor: Mother's Boy, Jana: Mouth to Mouth, Louisa: If In Doubt Wash Your Hair, Nicole: Objects of Desire, Karin/Isabel: The Romantic. #wwrw #bookreviews

Happy World Teacher's Day, and happy #WWRW ! 👩🏾‍🏫✏️🖍📙 Conal: Harold Wilson: The Winner, Nicole: Kick the Latch, Karin: Lessons, Katie: Letters to a Young Writer, James: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Eleanor: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. And you? #currentlyreading

What We're Reading Wednesday today comes to you from a London heading into spooky season! 🎃 ☠ 🍂 Eleanor: Armadale, Isabel: Lucy By the Sea, Conal: The Story of Tutankhamun, Karin: The Unfolding, Nicole: Utopia. And you? Share what you're #currentlyreading with us! #wwrw

Welcome back to What We're Reading Wednesday! Amazingly, many of us are in-person today, for almost the first time since 2020. Louisa: The Utopians, Katie: The Marriage Portrait, Eleanor: 1000 Coils of Fear, Conal: Elderflora, Isabel: Kill the Prince. And you? #currentlyreading

From A to W, we have (almost) a whole alphabet's worth of books for you today! Karin: Act of Oblivion, Isabel: The Binding, James: Outline, Conal: A Sultry Month, Eleanor: The Weekend. What corner of the alphabet are you exploring? #wwrw #currentlyreading

Welcome back to #WWRW ! Today is the 1,943rd anniversary of the destruction of Pompeii and we have some explosive (heh) books to share (too soon...?) 🌋 Isabel: Intimacies; Karin: The Marriage Portrait; Conal: The Passengers; Eleanor: The Trees. How about you? #currentlyreading

New Job: Bookseller (Front of House) - Heywood Hill Bookshop
London, UK

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The beautiful and very friendly bookshop Heywood Hill now has signed AND stamped copies of #CultClassic by Sloane Crosley. Get them while they last!

Some rain this week at lasr! Let's hope for more soon. Here's the latest #WWRW : Eleanor: The Furrows, Conal: Life Is Simple, Karin: The Last White Man, James: Ninth Street Women, Isabel: On Java Road. And you? #currentlyreading #BookRecommendations

The summer and the drought churn on... Time for more summer reading! ☀️📚 James: The Book of Trespass, Karin: Ceremony of Innocence, Katie: Cult Classic, Eleanor: The Great Passion, Nicole: Kitchen Confidential, Conal: The Welsh Way. How about you? #wwrw #currentlyreading

National Book Day. Check out the late Susie Steiner's 'Remain Silent.' Hatchards, West End Lane Books,@westendlanebooks,Shakespeare & Co. Lex,Barnes & Noble, Heywood Hill.

Baffled by the humidity? Forget about it with a book! #WWRW : Eleanor: Petals of Blood, Isabel: Fault Lines, Nicole: Giovanni's Room, Karin: The Trio, James: The Book of Barely Imagined Beings. And you? #currentlyreading #BookRecommendations

A small but perfectly formed #WWRW . Eleanor: The Night Ship (Jess Kidd), Karin: The House of Fortune (Jessie Burton), Nicole: A Horse At Night (Amina Cain). And you? #currentlyreading #BookRecommendations

We hope you're surfing the heat wave with some books in the shade! ☀️ ⛱ 📖 #WWRW : Karin: Amy and Lan, James: Still Born, Conal: The Force of Non-Violence, Fia: The Queen of Dirt Island, Georgie: Through A Glass Darkly. And you? #currentlyreading #BookRecommendations

It's WWRW! Conal, What I saw by Joseph Roth; Marina, The Travelling Hornplayer by Barbara Trapido; Isabel, The Trio by Johanna Hedman; Eleanor, Prometheus Unbound by Percy Shelley