The Bookseller Crow On The Hill

THIS THURSDAY 4th Oct, 7.30pm. Tired of being talked over? Of social media making you feel crap? Of the pressure to ‘have it all’ and a hot bod too? Boudicca stuck up for herself and now she can help you do the same. It is time to start channelling the spiky superwomen of history to conquer today. It is time to turn to women like Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker, Hypatia and Cleopatra, Coco Chanel and Empress Cixi. In this irreverent guide authors E. Foley & B. Coates will help you figure out how to dispatch a loverat, back yourself, kill it at work and trounce FoMo. Tickets £3 https://booksellercrow.co.uk/shop/what-wo uld-boudicca-do/

The ever popular Tom Cox returns on 26th October to read from his new book of supernatural ghost stories. Tickets £6 (includes a bevvy) https://booksellercrow.co.uk/shop/tom-cox -help-witch-ticket/

Robin Ince is back! Join us for a reading & signing of 'I'm a Joke and So Are You' Tuesday 30th October, 7.30pm. Tickets £3 https://booksellercrow.co.uk/shop/rob-inc e-2018-ticket/

We're absolutely thrilled to welcome Shena Mackay on 18th October when she will be in conversation with friend and novelist, Michèle Roberts. Tickets £3 https://booksellercrow.co.uk/…/shena-ma ckay-michele-robert…/

What can Boudicca teach you about standing up for yourself? How might Mrs Beeton help you with your imposter syndrome? What did pirate queen Grainne O’Malley do about managing her work-life balance? Find out next Thurs 4th Oct, 7.30pm with authors E. Foley and B.Coates. Tickets £3 (include a drinky) https://booksellercrow.co.uk/…/what-wou ld-boudicca-do-tick…/

Join us for an evening with the inspirational novelist, short-story writer, playwright and feminist activist Stella Duffy. After a show-stopping appearance on our crime writer’s panel in the spoken word tent stage at Crystal Palace Festival this summer we decided we had to have a whole night attributed to this passionate, funny, candid and energetic Kiwi-cum-South-Londoner. On top of her own writing projects she is the co-director of the Fun Palaces campaign for cultural democracy calling for a radical rethink of cultural policy in the UK and in 2016 was honoured with an OBE for her services to the arts.

As a connoisseur of comedy, Robin Ince has spent decades mining our eccentricities to create gags and watching other strange individuals do the same. And for years on The Infinite Monkey Cage (Radio 4) he has sought - sometimes in vain - to understand the world around us. In ‘I’m a joke and so are you’, he unites these pursuits to examine the human condition through the prism of humour - why do we make the choices we do in life? Where does anxiety come from? Where does imagin...ation come from? Why are we like we are? Do our parents f*&k us up? Informed by personal insights from his own life as well as interviews with a bevy of A-list comedians, neuroscientists, psychologists and doctors - this is a hilarious and often moving primer to the mind. “Clever, funny, kind and interesting - just like Robin.” Sara Pascoe, comedian and author of Animal
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INTO BATTLE WE GO! What can Boudicca teach you about standing up for yourself? How might Mrs Beeton help you with your imposter syndrome? What did pirate queen Grainne O’Malley do about managing her work-life balance? On Thursday 4th October E.Foley and B.Coates will discuss how the examples of great females from the past can make your present a bolder place as they unveil the secrets of famous women like Josephine Baker, Cleopatra and Emily Dickinson as well as lesser known achievers like champion swimmer Mina Wylie, exceptional engineer Caroline Haslett and bandit queen Phoolan Devi. Tickets £3 https://booksellercrow.co.uk/…/what-wou ld-boudicca-do-tick…/

Beautifully illustrated by top artist Bijou Karman, this new feminist history title channels the experiences of super-spiky superwomen of history from the worlds of the arts and science, politics and beyond - to help navigate and conquer our modern world. What can Boudicca teach you about standing up for yourself? How might Mrs Beeton help you with your imposter syndrome? What did pirate queen Grainne O’Malley do about managing her work-life balance? E.Foley and B.Coates will show you how the examples of great females from the past can make your present a bolder place as they unveil the secrets of famous women like Josephine Baker, Cleopatra and Emily Dickinson as well as lesser known achievers like champion swimmer Mina Wylie, exceptional engineer Caroline Haslett and bandit queen Phoolan Devi. INTO BATTLE WE GO!

FINAL CALL! Tonight's wild(life) book event with Alys Fowler and Kate Bradbury is looking busy though there are still a few tickets left £3 (includes a drink) https://booksellercrow.co.uk/…/kate-bra dbury-alys-fowler-t…/

This Sunday 23rd from 11am Frances Ives will be in the house, or rather the shop window, as she creates artwork to celebrate her first children's book 'Maybe the Moon'. Come say hello!

Frances Ives will be in the house, or rather decorating the shop window, as she creates artwork to celebrate her first children's book ''Maybe the Moon'. Come say hello!

We're really thrilled to be talking bee hotels, grief, discovery and kayaking around Birmingham's canals with two Polari favourites, Kate Bradbury & Alys Fowler this Thursday 20th Sept, 7.30pm. Their books are astounding and their wealth of wildlife and gardening so impressively written. Inspiring stuff. Tickets £3 (includes tipples) https://bit.ly/2MICKCX

Thursday 20th September we welcome BBC Gardeners' World presenter Alys Fowler along with Kate Bradbury. Both have both written strikingly rich memoirs which explore noticing the wild everywhere, including our own human internal wilderness. Alys Fowler's HIDDEN NATURE was recently short-listed for the Wainwright Golden Beer prize and is a compelling memoir about transformation when Alys sets out in an inflatable kayak to explore Birmingham's canal network. Kate Bradbury is an award-winning author and journalist specialising in wildlife gardening. THE BUMBLE BEE FLIES AWAY is an affecting ode to growing hope against the odds in a backdoor garden. Tickets £3 (includes a drinky): https://booksellercrow.co.uk/…/kate-bra dbury-alys-fowler-t…/

This month we are reading The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. All welcome. Free event.

All welcome! Our new season of events begin this Thursday 13th with an evening of top US Noir v UK Noir. Rod Reynolds and Amer Anwar discuss their new novels with Jake Kerridge from 7.30pm. Tickets £3 over the counter (includes a drink!) or here https://booksellercrow.co.uk/…/rod-reyn olds-amer-anwar-tic…/

One space has come up for the Creative Writing course starting next Monday 3rd September. Email: scribblingcrow@hotmail.com for details or an enrolment form.

Many titles that you rarely see in the large bookshop chains. A great range of greetings cards and t-shirts too. I love it and visit every time I'm recording at nearby Antenna Studios.

Lovely shop, lovely staff, lovely books.

Lovely bookshop, all sorts of gems, great folk who run it who really love books. And the bags, the bags rock :)

Always good!

So helpful and knowledgable with advice about unusual books. Music played in there while you browse is good too!