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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

We’re heartbroken by the death of dear Jon. Many have asked how to help. Please consider supporting our effort to honor his legacy at Bookseller Crow. Share and donate if you can. Thank you. www.gofundme.com/f/bookseller...

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Donate to Support Jon's Legacy - Raising Funds for Bookseller Crow, organized by Karen Mcleod

Dear all our loyal customers, authors and friends, It is wit… Karen Mcleod needs your support for Support Jon's Legacy - Raising Funds for Bookseller Crow

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

It’s been a rough few weeks with a gigantic Jon sized hole in it but we have been fuelled by your kindness and stayed open. Our bestseller so far by miles has been the choice we made with him in mind for next month’s bookgroup.

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Hi all! We are going to be CLOSED tomorrow (Monday 1st) to regroup. Thanks for a gratifying weekend and all the good vibes for Jon. Don’t forget us — back on Tuesday!

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The bookshop is opening at noon today while we sort ourselves out y’all

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Bit tired today, but I did one anyway. mailchi.mp/booksellercr...

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Sachin Tendulkar just sent me an email. Asking If I need new clients.

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

On Saturday someone complained to me that Len Deighton hadn't written anything new for ages. He's quite old now I think, I said. Even so, they said. Len Deighton is 96.

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

And a good time was had by all

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Done it again. Biting fish and Jeff’s cock and the rest. mailchi.mp/booksellercr...

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Reading the room.

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Always nice to see someone taking a photograph of a barcode, on a book that can only be bought new from us.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

There is no doubt in my mind that the character which comes the closest to DT is Alfred Jarry's Père Ubu.

US president Donald Trump speaking in a microphone, wagging a small finger at his audience.

A drawing representing the eponymous protagonist of Alfred Jarry's play "Père Ubu".

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Herman Melville got a train from London Bridge to Sydenham in April 1857 so as to visit the Crystal Palace. Discovered this today in Hershel Parker's bewildering biography

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

mailchi.mp/booksellercr... Authors! I have character names for a pound a pop.

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Wheeler Shankland sends his regards.

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

You’re all on holiday, but I’ve done another one anyway. mailchi.mp/booksellercr...

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Double Espresso or I’ll let the spiders out.

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Helen Tamblyn-Saville (she/her) @helentamblyn.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Four year olds are not too old for picture books. A beautiful book was turned down by someone in the shop yesterday due to the child being about to start school, and therefore "too old" for picture books. Please don't force children to give up picture books too quickly. #kidlituk

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Steve F @uppertiersteve.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

"This has been brutal. For a working-class man with a direct manner, modern broadcasting has become a dangerous place. I was the headline this time. But I won't be the last."

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

mailchi.mp/booksellercr... I know, it’s too hot to read emails, but I did one anyway.

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A Shady Place For Sunny People.

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

mailchi.mp/booksellercr... Newsletter time, mainly written by one of my cats.

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You Are Here

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Next level fly tipping by the shop loading bay today. Work of art.

Six matching bright yellow office chairs, carpet tiles and bike frames loaded against a graffitied brick wall

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Fine people of London! Do join me, @ladydolby.bsky.social and @clarewhitauthor.bsky.social for a brilliantly bookish conversation at the mighty @booksellercrow.bsky.social in Crystal Palace next week! Tickets below… booksellercrow.co.uk/event/histor...

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

IT’S COOLER IN OUR SHOP THAN IT IS OUTSIDE. And that includes Hoxton.

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Fairly lukewarm response to the idea of rewilding wolves from Guy Stagg in the FT.

Picture of the book Lone Wolf in an FT review.

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I keep getting emails from Angela Carter mailchi.mp/booksellercr...

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Days at the circus

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

On Saturday morning I was cross with myself because we only had three copies of Long Island and I had forgotten to order more for the weekend. We still only have three copies of Long Island.

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Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Bums. Did I just say that out loud?

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

As long as you can figure out to do it from Amaz*n and not a bookshop.

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Got a newsletter for you here about Sally Rooney, Chess and Ebereche Eze. mailchi.mp/booksellercr...

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Glad All Over

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

An hour and fifteen minutes in. One customer and a question about narrow boats.

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

"It takes an admirable level of single-mindedness to write a sequel nobody was clamouring for, to a novel that was almost universally panned." Me on Edward St Aubyn's Parallel Lines, which is actually... pretty good? It's certainly his best novel since At Last - which admittedly isn't saying much.

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A tale from the psychiatric ward — Edward St Aubyn’s new novel

The Patrick Melrose author returns with a sequel nobody was clamouring for to a novel nobody liked. Weirdly, it’s pretty good

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Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Fuck me that I’ve lived so long, I’m watching a football match in which Lou Macari’s grandson is playing.

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