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More than just a book shop
BÀRD BOOKS is more than just a bookshop. Alongside the carefully curated bookshelves, it’s a place you can pop in for a coffee or pastry; somewhere to meet friends, make friends, do some work, read a book, write a book, listen to authors, hear some music – just escape. Bookshops are third spaces; “much-loved local haunts that are neither home nor the workplace, but which we rely on for a sense of community and everyday socialising… the lifeblood of our high streets and fundamental to our mental health.” [ROMAN ROAD LDN]. In the evening, the lights dim, and books provide the backdrop for a glass of something deliciously chilled.
LOOKING FOR A BOOK? Browse the shelves or grab one of our team for some recommendations.
UPCOMING EVENTS
![There have been wars in the shop over this table. Fisticuffs. And food fights.
@k__griffin insists pancakes are thick, fluffy delights slathered in maple syrup. I’m a crepe with lemon and sugar kinda gal, although I do have a soft spot for a drop scone.
But we do agree on the book selections. Old and new, from ‘The Verficationists’ by Donald Antrim set entirely in a pancake house - a “Freudian free-for-all” [NYT], described by George Saunders as “one of the most pleasure-giving, perverse, complicated, and addictive novels in the past 20 years.” Well that was 25 years ago, and we think it’s still more than worth a read.
We’ve got grief and connection in ‘Above Us The Sea’ by @ania.card and ‘When the Cranes Fly South’ by @lisaridzen ; a celebration of life and language in @mathiasenard ‘s ‘The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild’; we meet food writers and chefs in both @amateurgourmet ‘s debut novel ‘Food Person’ and @cpamzhang ‘s ‘Land of Milk and Honey’; and then current shop fave - ‘Trilobites’ by Breece D’J Pancake.
However you have your pancakes, however you want your books, there’s something for you.
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