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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 8h

no surprise that a journalist looked at trafalgar square and thought to themselves, there's a column in this

LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 21/10/2026

what a pleasure to welcome Róisín Tapponi and Amelia Abraham, to talk about Róisín's new novel *Scene City*, just out from Verso. Signed copies available here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/scene-...

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 14/10/2026

this is bad news for those of us who prefer them without the scales

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 13/10/2026

with HCl, skater bull / NH₃'s titratable

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 13/10/2026

the plane's landing skater bull / you must stow your tray-table

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 13/10/2026

badger's with the sk8er boi / he loves mashed potato boi

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 13/10/2026

i'm with the skater bull / burrata's not grateable

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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Teach a bull to skate and he'll be a boi for life

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 13/10/2026

if instead of a skater boi avril lavigne had sung about a skater bull, it would have opened up a whole range of new rhyming possibilities. "he was a skater bull / i said that's debatable" etc

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 10/10/2026

congratulations to @matthewcr.bsky.social and @orthobob.bsky.social who each win a biscuit if they come into the shop to collect it. and join us next week, for another round of "guess the writer from the rhyming vegetable"

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 10/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who took part in "guess the writer from the rhyming vegetable". The correct answers were as follows: A big bowl of chard = Matthias Enard Summer squash = Amitav Ghosh Curly kale = Patrick Gale A leek = James Meek Celeriac = Elif Shafak

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Aran Ward Sell @aranws.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Clocks are always ticking tbf. It doesn't mean there's any sort of rush or even that the time being displayed is accurate, it just means the clock mechanism is functional.

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 10/10/2026

another correct answer! #1 and #3 have now both been solved - congratulations to orthobob. three more still to go....... and the clock is ticking

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 10/10/2026

WE HAVE A WINNER FOR THE FIRST ENTRY!!! "a big bowl of chard" = "matthias enard". still four more to go....

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 10/10/2026

and last of all for today, here's #5. Answers to follow at 6.15pm - good luck!

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 10/10/2026

it's time to play..... "guess the writer from the rhyming vegetable"! we will post a picture of a vegetable which rhymes with a writer. you must guess which writer. "good luck"! here's the first:

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 10/10/2026

i think harper collins should use AI to solve the mystery of how to put invoices in their delivery boxes

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 10/10/2026

if nobody has taken it yet, can we guess "A14", pls

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 10/10/2026

many happy returns of the day kirkdale!

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 10/10/2026

couldn't organise a row in a cannery

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 10/10/2026

this has absolutely blown my mind

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 09/10/2026

this analogy falls down because dividing zero by zero is actually really easy and the answer is definitely zero (say you are dividing a pizza, and the amount of pizza you have is zero, nobody is going to get any pizza simple as that. & luckily you don't have anyone to divide it among either)

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 08/10/2026

Just in! New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland. Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with her coming soon. Join us in congratulating our 2026 literature laureate - send your greetings in the comments.

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 07/10/2026

"can I get a hit, can I get a hooh / give me a fat pack of weed and a brew" (from 'roll it up light it up smoke it up') excitingly features a reprise of sen dog's owl impression

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Paul Treloar @paulietandoori.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My oven's on high when I roast the quail, Tell Bill Clinton to go and inhale

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Philip Bagley @pb102.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Like Louis Armstrong played that trumpet I hit that bong and break you off something. Soon I got to get my props, cops come and try to steal my crops." Highway Rat sequel that almost writes itself.

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 07/10/2026

just remembered that in the underrated cypress hill song "cock the hammer", there's a bit where sen dog sings "hear me growl, grr, howl / I've got night vision like a wise old owl". can anyone think of other cypress hill lyrics which could also appear in julia donaldson books?

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 07/10/2026

really it looks a lot like him! i just don't see what he would be doing in london

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 07/10/2026

bloke browsing new fiction r.n. is the spit and image of julian casablancas. feels like working at "the strand", the famous new york bookshop

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 07/10/2026

what is your feeling about "shocktober"

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 06/10/2026

very pleased to hear that ice cube has won the nobel prize in physics for inventing a neutrino detector. going from 'straight outta compton' to '21 jump street' is impressive enough;' a third career change, at an age when many of his ruthless records labelmates are calling it a day, is commendable

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 01/10/2026

starting to think i might have printed off too many of these certificates

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 01/10/2026

i wish somebody would take us the biscuit

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 01/10/2026

ok ok another ten minutes starting from now

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 01/10/2026

just seen on the tfl app that there are severe delays on both the victoria and the metropolitan line, so under the circs, we are extending the entry time for "ten-minute twix", by a further ten minutes

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 01/10/2026

the entry time for "ten minute twix" is being extended by a further ten minutes (actually 14 minutes because there was a sudden rush of customers, none of whom turned out to be bringing a twix). the new deadline is at *13.50*. that's 13.50, ten to two. good luck!!!

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 01/10/2026

just had word from the boss that we can extend the entry time for "ten-minute twix" by a further ten minutes. the new deadline is 13.36! best of luck to all entrants, and look forward to seeing you soon

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 01/10/2026

pleased to announce that the entry time for "ten-minute twix" is being extended by a further ten minutes. you have until 13.26....... "good luck"

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 01/10/2026

i hit post at exactly 13.06 so you have until exactly 13.16

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 01/10/2026

it's time to play............ "ten-minute twix", the fast-paced bookshop chocolate resupply game. to win, you simply have to convey a standard Twix bar to the till counter of the london review bookshop, within the next ten minutes. all entrants get a certificate. good luck! and we're starting... now

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 01/10/2026

oooh that samuel palmer book looks like the business

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