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We’re back to book-swapping on Saturday, October 10th, from noon until 4pm. Bring your best used books to trade for some new-to-you titles!
We are celebrating 18 years of the bookshop in all its eccentric glory on Saturday, 3rd October from 10am – 4pm. As well as scones, a treasure hunt and general book-related tomfoolery, we have invited a couple of special guests as well. Julien is a self-taught bookbinder, and the craftsman behind Relics-of-Reveries. He makes journals and grimoires by hand, through unique techniques which combine wood, leather and etched metals. He also works with mass-printed second-hand books, and turns them into beautiful shrines for those few stories you keep closest to your heart. We love his work and are happy to support a local book artisan. We have also listened to you/given into your pleading and will be selling coffee. Paolo is a local coffee expert and roaster. Based in Ecublens, he launched a line of premium Ethiopian and Colombian coffee under the brand Café Mont Noir. He’ll be at the bookshop selling his hand-roasted coffee at BBB subsidized pricing, as well as his coffee beans. For Paolo, it’s about passion, respect and love for the craft, from his ethically sourced beans right up to the cup. We look forward to seeing you here!
UPDATE: All of the free tickets have now been claimed! Further tickets can be purchased directly from the Fondation Michalski. The Jan Michalski Foundation has kindly provided free tickets for their upcoming event: Nature Writing: conversation with Stanisław Łubieński and Iida Turpeinen: Revisiting Natural History. The event takes place at the Foundation on Wednesday 30th September, starting at 19.00 The conversation, which is in English, asks what roles do stories play in shaping our perception of living beings? Iida Turpeinen turns an encounter with the skeleton of an eighteenth-century sea cow at a museum in Helsinki into the touching heroine of her novel Beasts of the Sea. This odyssey of Steller’s sea cow traces, across three centuries, the path of explorers, naturalists, zoologists, artists, and other collectors. Their adventures captivate even as they raise questions about the effects of scientific bias and the human impact on ecosystems. In a variation on the emotional and intellectual power of stories from the natural world, Stanisław Łubieński invites us to look up at the sky, to observe what dwells there and to remember what once did. As a humanist ornithologist, he traces the striking bonds between birds and humans, from cinema to first-hand expeditions, from the…