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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 22/07/2026

Respect to our neighbour Eyrolles for including this little beauty in their Odyssey display…

Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 10/07/2026

⚠️CHANGE TO ANNOUNCED TIME⚠️ Due to circumstances beyond our control the signing with Patti Smith will now take place this Sunday from 1:30PM - 2:30PM.

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 09/07/2026

🎙️ NEW EPISODE: The End of Everything, with M. John Harrison Harrison joins us discuss his new novel, a disaster story set in a "wrong UK" where societal collapse meets an alien presence and its strange shape-shifting "artefacts." 🎧 pod.fo/e/44531b @serpents-tail.bsky.social

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 15/06/2026

Just in time for 16 June, BLOOMCAST is back with a movie watch-along special! Discover the 1967 Ulysses film with Lex and Adam, their commentary in your ears, Milo O'Shea on your screen... 🎧: pod.fo/e/431330

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 04/06/2026

"My book came out, and they were talking about this false naive style of drawing. There was nothing false about the naivety of my style. I couldn't draw better. This is it." What a star Marjane was...

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 04/06/2026

She was so delighted we hosted our 2008 festival in a marquee because it meant she could smoke all the way through her event. (And she did!)

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 04/06/2026

We're devastated to hear the news about Marjane Satrapi. She came to our festival in 2008 and was a pure force of nature. Wise, funny, engaging. This is a big loss. (Photo taken by Justin Westover during the festival)

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 03/06/2026

One hundred years ago today, a baby was born with a HOWL! Happy birthday, Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997). Poet, prophet, and one of the great friends of our bookshop. (Photo by Jack Hazzard from the Shakespeare and Company archives) @citylightsbooks.bsky.social

Allen Ginsberg reading at Shakespeare and Company, Paris

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 28/05/2026

🎙️ It's here! Editions, a new podcast from us and @faberbooks.bsky.social, celebrating radical literary voices. It launches today with Henry Van Dyke's Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes (1965), featuring Taíno Mendez in conversation with Adam Biles & Ella Griffiths. 🎧https://pod.fo/e/4209d2

🎙️ It's here! Editions, a new podcast from us and @faberbooks.bsky.social, celebrating radical literary voices, launches today with episode1: Henry Van Dyke's Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes (1965), featuring Taíno Mendez in conversation with Adam Biles & Ella Griffiths.

🎧https://pod.fo/e/4209d2

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 16/04/2026

Wait till you hear what he does in his down time…

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 02/04/2026

Tonight, 7pm: Lea Ypi on Indignity: A Life Reimagined Free & open to all. Places limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment. www.shakespeareandcompany.com/events/lea-y... #booksky

Lea Ypi on Indignity: A Life Reimagined

We're thrilled to welcome Lea Ypi (author of the bestselling memoir Free) to discuss Indignity: A Life Reimagined, her imaginative investigation into historical injustice, dignity and truth.

Free & open to all. Places limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 10/02/2026

Look what's happening at the bookshop tomorrow... 🤩 #booksky

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 12/01/2026

👁️See It, Say It, Sorted: Jonathan Coe’s Genre-Bending Novel🔍 On the podcast this week, Adam welcomes @jonathancoe.bsky.social to Paris for a rich, funny, and wide-ranging conversation about his novel The Proof of My Innocence. pod.fo/e/3743b7

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 06/01/2026

It’s a snowy Twelfth Night here in Paris ❄️ What better way to spend it than reading—or rereading—one of the greatest stories ever written: “The Dead” by James Joyce. And if you’d like to dive deeper into the story, have a listen to our special Bloomcast episode on “The Dead": pod.fo/e/210cf6

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 05/01/2026

Snow just in time for our annual epiphany, as we reread The Dead…

Snow at Notre Dame through the window of Shakespeare and Company

A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 02/01/2026

Just finished editing a podcast interview with George Saunders about his new novel VIGIL. He is on *sparkling* form. In your ears February 5. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 14/12/2025

Exactly what these guys are thinking…

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 14/12/2025

Really fascinating list, Sam! Thank you. Did you happen to hear our conversation with Carrère in the bookshop last November? He was on superb form. podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/t...

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 12/12/2025

We had a wonderful time with @ianleslie.bsky.social a few weeks ago, when he came to discuss his superb #Beatles book John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs. And now you can have just as wonderful a time listening to him on our podcast. pod.fo/e/364167 @faberbooks.bsky.social

Ian Leslie and Adam Biles discussing John & Paul in Shakespeare and Company, Paris

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 11/12/2025

Good start to 2026... www.shakespeareandcompany.com/events/david...

Join us for an evening with the brilliant David Szalay, discussing his 2025 Booker Prizewinning novel Flesh. In association with Editions Albin Michel.

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 26/11/2025

Tomorrow, at 7 pm, we will be giving thanks for one of the most beautiful, productive, inspiring friendships… And all the music it produced. Free and open to all! @ianleslie.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social www.shakespeareandcompany.com/events/ian-l...

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 23/11/2025

A lovely essay. Saw Paul in Paris about a year ago and all of this rings true. Also highly recommend @ianleslie.bsky.social’s John & Paul, which he’ll be discussing at the bookshop this week…

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 26/09/2025

To celebrate this development, tell us the Fullest Book you’ve ever read? Ulysses, Middlemarch, Moby Dick…

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 19/09/2025

I know the use of third-person-singular for groups etc passionately divides Brits and Americans… But shouldn’t the subheading therefore begin “Its songs…”, for consistency?

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 04/09/2025

📚Twenty Writers, One Bookshop📚 A special podcast marking the paperback of The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews 🎉 Hear George Saunders, Rachel Cusk, Marlon James & more in conversation. Listen now: pod.fo/e/32461e Signed copy: www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/the-sh... @canongate.co.uk

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 26/08/2025

I refer you to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and, well, yourself in the recent @originstorypodcast.bsky.social… A truly shameful response.

He made a timeless observation. One of the most constant rules in the history of immigration control is that those demanding controls are encouraged, not silenced by concessions.
Fuck me, we'll never learn.

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 18/07/2025

💕Renton Returns, Sick Boy in Love: Irvine Welsh Reimagines His Antiheroes💕 Here we goooooo! Now on our podcast, @irvinewelsh.bsky.social talks with Adam Biles about MEN IN LOVE, his blistering Trainspotting sequel, live in store. 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/2fd5c6

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 29/06/2025

We know it’s a joke, @theobserveruk.bsky.social, but we respectfully ask you to get that word far away from Bezos…

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 17/06/2025

Ever read this? It’s a quite brilliant on the relationship between author and fact checker. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lif...

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 12/06/2025

"I’m not convinced podcasts on books really work," @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social says. We respectfully beg to differ... 😘 podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/t...

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 06/06/2025

A question as old as time. Or, at least, last October…

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 06/06/2025

Sometimes we all need a gentle reminder that the world looks better unmediated by a screen. That’s why we’ve started encouraging our readers to enjoy the bookshop phone-free and minds open! As Ferlinghetti once said: “Stash your sell-phone and be here now.” #booksky

A sign outside Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris saying “pocket your phone and let the books work their magic. This bookshop is a no photo/phone zone. Thank you for understanding”.

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 05/06/2025

🎤NEW PODCAST EPISODE🎤 Neige Sinno on Abuse, Memory, and Language (Trigger Warning in Alt Text) In this deeply affecting conversation, Neige Sinno speaks about her landmark book Sad Tiger, recently published in English in a translation by Natasha Lehrer. @sevenstories.bsky.social 🎧 pod.fo/e/2dffcb

Neige Sinno discusses Dad Tiger at Shakespeare and Company. Trigger Warning: This episode contains detailed discussions of child sexual abuse, rape, trauma, and the failures of the justice system.

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 27/05/2025

Tomorrow night! Rebecca Solnit live in the bookshop. Free & Open to All. www.shakespeareandcompany.com/events/rebec...

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 21/05/2025

Such fun having you, Irvine! Everyone else, keep your ears peeled for the podcast, dropping in July around the release of the scorching 🔥 MEN IN LOVE 🔥

Irvine Welsh and Adam Biles in Shakespeare and Company, Paris.

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 20/05/2025

Tonight! An exclusive preview event with @irvinewelsh.bsky.social discussing MEN IN LOVE his TRAINSPOTTING sequel. Free & Open to All! www.shakespeareandcompany.com/events/exclu...

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 15/05/2025

Tonight. 7pm. Neige Sinno on Sad Tiger "Reading Sad Tiger is like descending into an abyss with your eyes open. It forces you to see, to really see, what it means to be a child abused by an adult, for years. Everyone should read it." — Annie Ernaux www.shakespeareandcompany.com/events/neige...

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 06/05/2025

Congratulations to Mosab Abu Toha for his Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. We had the pleasure of welcoming Mosab to the bookshop a few months ago, and while he was here he read a couple of poems for us from his brilliant collection Forest of Noise. #booksky

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 03/05/2025

Don’t say you can’t see the appeal…

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