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On Saturday, 29th November, come do your Christmas shopping at the bookshop and from12-4pm, benefit from our skilled team of gift-wrappers to turn your purchase into the perfect gift, ready to go under the tree! Donations are gladly accepted to our partner charity, Driftwood. Driftwood is an Anglo-Swiss charity, funding small, high-impact projects in Nepal. The collaboration with the bookshop will help fund school books for th...

Come to the bookshop on Saturday 13th December from 12-4pm to enjoy a fresh pastry, hand-baked by our skilled bookshop team! We are promising mince pies, but also some Swiss variations for those who find mince pies a bit much. All proceeds from the Bake Sale go directly to Driftwood, an Anglo-Swiss charity funding small, high-impact projects in Nepal. The collaboration with the bookshop will help fund school books for the girls at ...

We’ve been putting our heads together to make this a bookish Christmas for you and have come up with book subscriptions. We are offering book subscriptions for either 6 or twelve months, picked up from the shop or delivered to your door quarterly. Please visit this page for more information. We are increasingly getting contacted for Books from Abroad from people who don’t live in Lausanne but wish to buy books for your frien...

From noon until 4pm on Saturday, October 25th, prepare yourself for the longest night of the year (yes, the 25th is the change of time) by bringing in your well loved and read books and going home with other pre-loved books. Bring one (or more!) gently used books and exchange it with any book from our pre-loved selection, or one that a fellow customer has brought in! This October, our book swap is also a small celebration for our 17 yea...

We are excited to have Romana Iorga in the bookshop on Thursday, June 19th, reading from her new book of poetry, Temporary Skin. If you’ve read or heard any of her poems before, you’ll know that she is a wizard with words, and I can’t wait to hear her read from this new collection! In Romana Iorga’s Temporary Skin, the wound pulses, the grave beckons, the weather changes. The past is ever near, and the past is irretrievab...

Science journalist and writer Laura Spinney is coming to the bookshop on 5th June to talk about her latest book Proto : How One Ancient Language Went Global. The book explores how one language emerged from the last ice age before exploding around the world until today its descendants constitute the world’s largest language family, and are the thread that connects Dante’s Inferno to the Rig Veda, The Lord of the Rings to the love poe...

We are pleased to announce that the writer Paul Scraton is coming back to the bookshop on Friday, 23rd May to talk about his latest novel A Dream of White Horses. I have admired Paul’s work since he published In the Pines, and even travelled to Berlin for the launch of this book. In some ways, very appropriate as the story is about journeys, with Ben travelling from London to a small German island to see his friend Pascal, wh...

After being in a bit of a reading slump, I’ve managed to get myself out of it, thanks to some really good books! Coincidentally, two of the better books I’ve read lately (basically one after the other) both had footnotes. Who doesn’t love a good footnote? I find they’re generally used to interject humour, which we can all use more of these days! Saint Death’s Daughter by C.S.E. Cooney Genre: Fantasy This book has b...

We cordially invite you to the Grand Opening of Books Books Books this Saturday, 3rd May, at our new address at Rue du Valentin 1. We have a few thousand more books, including new sections for poetry-lovers, crime-enthusiasts, romance-readers and fans of fiction in translation. On Saturday, the talented singer-songwriter JayD will play an acoustic set on his guitar at 10.30. At 14.00 we will serve tea and yummy, home-made scones. Finall...

We are closed 24th and 25th April, reopening at our new place on Saturday, 25th at 9am!...