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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 13m

Not to blow our own trumpet, but our booksellers have excellent taste (toot toot!) Check out our new staff picks display chock-full of interesting, weird, funny, uplifting, and moving literature!

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DEADLINE EXTENSION - Submissions are STILL OPEN for the (slightly late, ahem) Autumn Edition of Wrong Directions! Email work of no more than 300 words to print@typewronger.com - no love poems - check the Wrong Directions page on our website for full submission details - NEW DEADLINE MIDNING 8/10/26!

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are excited to welcome @bridgetoofarband back to Typewronger this Wednesday. Jordan Goodwin and Sarah Conniff will be playing folk covers and original songs for you to enjoy as you read and browse. This is not a formal concert, so feel free to come for part of or all of this free event!

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Join us for a series of readings, live music from a cello and a flute and joyful improvisations from Muted Minds! Come and celebrate the work co-created by a wonderful group of contributors and enjoy some complimentary drinks and refreshments along the way.

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Next month's No Homework Book Club tickets are out! 🎟️ This month, come celebrate the most horrific month of the year by bringing your favourite monster story! All monsters & genres welcome. Tickets free but limited, get yours here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/typewronge... #BookSky📚💙 #BookClub

A picture of the new Typewronger bookshop, with bright red walls and bookshelves of different colours. The following words are overlaid on it: Typewronger's No Homework Book Club, October's Theme: Monster Books. 7-9 pm at Typewronger Books, Every second Sunday of the month

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

October Zine Making Workshops are LIVE typewronger.com/product-cate... ! Suitable to all levels, you get two hours making a duochrome cut and fold zine in the Typewronger Studio! Check out our website for more info!

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

LIGHTS! LIGHTS! LIGHTS! They're back, now beaming out into Bruntsfield & Tollcross. May they give comfort. May you be welcomed. May Tee NEVER go up Big Ladder again! . Typewronger is a third space - we deliberately stay open late (9pm) to provide somewhere you can hang out, drink tea, and read!

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please join us for the launch of A Wee Bit Zen, Alan Spence's latest poetry collection! This delightful new collection of short-form poetry from former Edinburgh Makar Alan Spence is a descendant of his bestselling cult classic Glasgow Zen.

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@edinburghcastle looms above us! The new shop is on the very picturskew Bruntsfield Place just up from Tollcross. Our bus stop is Whitehouse Loan served by the 10,11,15,16,23,36&45, more info on how to find us available on the "Contact Us" page under the "About" dropdown on typewronger.com

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sci-fi, Fantasy & Horror is growing! We posted a while ago about running out of space on these shelves, so we decided it was time to expand! Also, if you saw our stationery post and wondered what was on the other side of that shelf... now you know! #BookSky💙📚 #bookshop

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Join us for an evening of poetry with Alice Keeling and Mark Howitt! Alice Keeling and Mark Howitt are breathing new life into The Ramsay Head Press, the Edinburgh publishing house founded in 1970 by Norman Wilson. This event is currently SOLD OUT!

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Join Josh Holton in conversation with Rhiannon Grist in conversation for the Scottish launch of his debut novel 'Fledgling'! Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fledgling-...

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On the 23th of September, we invite you to hear the story of a collaboration between artist Jules Bradbury and writer Lynn Davidson that took flight on Orkney and led to an intriguing creative journey that shaped a book cover. Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/do-you-sti...

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Join us on September 17th for an evening celebrating the Scottish launch of Clara-Læïla Laudette's debut pamphlet, Appetite, with readings from Nasim Luczaj, Tom Bailey, Zainab Imran and Zain Rishi. Get tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

OUR STATIONERY SECTION IS GROWING! It's now housed in a fancy new rolling bookcase and features a tonne of different pens, notebooks and letter writing systems - come have a wee browse! . . #typewronger #stationery #notebooks #fountainpens

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

On Friday, September 18th, join novelist and poet Charlie Roy for an evening of poetry and conversation celebrating her new companion pamphlets, Grit and Flesh (Red Squirrel Press). Head over to typewronger.com/events for more info and to book your free ticket! #BookSky💙📚 #Edinburgh #Poetry

A landscape of golden clouds, sea and the countryside. Against it, the words: Typewronger Books presents: The Landscapes we carry: Poems of Place, Family and Belonging. An evening of Poetry & conversation. Friday, September 18 7PM-8PM Typewronger Books. Next to the text, a photo of the author, a white woman with brown hair with blond tips, wearing a leather jacket and standing in front of a stone wall.

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

On September 16th at 7pm, join host Iain Morrison for an evening with Scottish poets David Kinloch and Colin Herd. Hear them read from their latest books and talk about what queer poetics means to them today in Scotland. Info & Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-scot... #BookSky💙📚#Poetry

On a background of clouds, two painted men in bowler hats talk, back to the viewer (Magritte’s The Infinite Recognition). Over the painting, the text: Queer Scottish Voices: the suspended blue blue air. David Kinloch, Iain Morrison, Colin Herd. Typewronger Books, Edinburgh. 16th September, 7pm

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Next month's No Homework Book Club tickets are out! 🎟️ This month's theme is SAD BOOKS! Bring the titles that made you cry, sniffle and weep, and tell us all about them! Tickets free but limited: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/typewronge... Not your vibe? Check in next month for a new theme! #BookSky💙📚

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

SEPTEMBER WORKSHOPS ARE LIVE!!! We've only got a few risograph zine making workshops coming up on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings - check out the website to view times and book spaces! . . #typewronger #risoworkshop #risograph #zine #workshop

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You can bring your used books to Typewronger for store credit! If you've bought a book off our shelves and it's still in good nick you can use it to get money off your purchases, and we resell them as TW 2nd Hand!

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We're closing EARLY today - 7.30pm - for a private party to celebrate one of our booksellers hitting a significant milestone. We'll be back same as usual tomorrow!

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

WE HAVE A PROPPER SIGN! Many thanks to @journeymansigns for fitting us in yesterday evening and for painting a propper Typewrongerish sign on our facia and picking out our 22s - absolutely can't miss us now! Swipe across to see Tatch adding the drop shadow and the finished shop as of this morning!

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This week Rupert Wolfe Murray (@wolfemurray.bsky.social), author of 12 Jobs in 12 Months, will be busking outside the new Bruntsfield location of Typewronger books while working on his next book, so if you see him, feel free to say hi and peek through his book as you're coming in to browse!

A white man wearing a white shirt and dark trousers kneels next to a table on which a sign says "Author at work! Say hello - buy a book. Rupert Wolfe Murray wolfemurray@gmail.com". A church and blue sky take up the background.

The cover of the book 12 jobs in 12 months by Rupert Wolfe Murray, depicting a cartoon person with many hands holding mail, a bucket, a paintbrush, and a hammer, with other objects like a pizza and a writing desk in the background.

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We have gone a bit overboard and have almost completely run of out space in Sci-fi, Fantasy & Horror! We might need to add extensions soon, there are almost no face-outs! Help us out of this dire situation - come take some of these amazing titles off our hands! (Especially Alex's...)

A white man with short brown hair wearing a white t-shirt, holding a teetering stack of books, most of which scifi, fantasy, dystopian or horror. A bookshelf is in the background. The man is Alex, a bookseller at Typewronger books.

A bookshelf packed with sci-fi, fantasy and horror titles, in front of a bright red wall in the Typewronger shop.

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The cosiest event of the festival - Jordan Goodwin and Sarah Conniff play as Bridge Too Far ( @bridgetoofarband ) with guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and lots of vocal harmonies! We're going to make the shop super-comfortable and the idea is you can sit and read and enjoy the warm friendly vibes.

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Bella Abraham - The Holistic Poet - is offering Intuitive Poetry on a pay-what-you-feel basis at the shop today and tomorrow (and next Thursday!) 3pm-5pm. Bella sits one-on-one with strangers and creates personalised poems inspired by what is most alive and present for the person in that moment.

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Lovely to have @alyciap_ in the shop signing copies of her new book Shorelines!

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Are you feeling lucky? Wrapped in our traditional brown paper and string, our lucky dip books are back! In all honesty, you don't even need to be that lucky because all our lucky dips are taken from our excellent stock selection - some signed, some first editions, a lot of lovely hardbacks too.

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

NEW - 48 HOUR ORDERING! We've struck a new deal with our wholesaler so when you order books with us they arrive within 48 hours! (Courier depending!) So if there are particular titles you know you want, drop us a line and we'll get them in for you ASAP. Poor Jeff. Poor poor Jeffrey.

pic of the inside of Typewronger with the words NEW 48 hour ordering!

more inside of the shop with the words We now get a delivery every day Tues-Sun Customer ordering is free

pic of the inside of the shop with a photoshopped Jeff looking depressed and the words "sucks to be jeff"

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Thirsty? We've always given out free hot and cold drinks to visitors to the shop, and if you just want to kick back in one of our armchairs for an hour you're more than welcome! We love it when folk read on site, so if you want to bring a book in from home that's cool too.

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ok, but what is a Book Swap? You might have seen us advertise an event every so often called a book swap, so we wanted to take a minute to tell you a bit about them! #booksky💙📚

Photograph of people gathered around displayed books in the middle of Typewronger Books.

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

August's No Homework Book Club tickets are out! 🎟️ This month's theme is FUNNY BOOKS! In honour of Edinburgh filling itself with comedy shows for Fringe season, come talk about what books left your cheeks hurting! Tickets are free but limited: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/typewronge... #bookSky📚💙

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Our events are comming BACK! And HOW - thankyou thankyou thankyou to @stewedbooks who put on a fantastic show on Thursday night with incredible readings from Ian Macartney, Eloise Birtwhistle & Craig Aitchison and as aways superlative hosting from Stewed Rhubarb's own Charlie Roy - what a night!

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A sunny start to the day (tomato lowered for optimal sunshine exposure) we've got cold brew earl grey and a bunch of books! Tonight we're having our first proper shop event - a showcase with @stewedbooks - shop life's never been this good! Drop by and say hi! . . #edinburgh #poetry #sunshine

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We've been growing the stationery section in the new shop - leatherbound journals, wee notebooks, funky Japanese panoramas, and plenty of CIAK notebooks and Kaweco pens! What other stationery stuff do you reckon we should carry? . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #stationery #edinburgh

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

AUGUST WORKSHOPS ARE LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE! We're running a bunch of Risograph Zine Making workshops on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings all through the month - BOOK NOW TO AVOID DISSAPOINTMENT!!! . . #typewronger #typewrongerriso #risograph #zine #workshop

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

TWO events left in July- first up we're delighted to welcome @stewedbooks with a showcased featuring Eloise Birtwhistle, Ian Macartney & Craig Aitchison on the 23rd at 7pm, before we round the month off with our first Open Mic at our new home on Bruntsfield Place! As always our events are 100% FREE!

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Alex Howard (@housedoctoralex) dropped in to sign a few copies of his books, The Ghost Cat, The Ship's Cat, and The Library Cat - and they're already selling like hotcakes! Come grab your copy at our NEW location at 22 Bruntsfield Place!

Author Alex Howard, a white man with dark hair and wearing a black sweater over a red tshirt, sits at a desk in front of a typewriter, holding a signed copy of The Library Cat and a sharpie.

Author Alex Howard, a white man with dark hair and wearing a black sweater over a red tshirt, sits at a desk in front of a typewriter, while signing a copy of The Library Cat with a sharpie.

Photographed through a shop window, author Alex Howard, a white man with dark hair and wearing a black sweater over a red tshirt, sits at a desk in front of a typewriter, holding a signed copy of The Library Cat, The Ghost Cat, and The Ship's Cat.

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It's an eldritch start to the weekend as thick haar has descended on Edinburgh - but we're painted bright red and not to be mist! We've just about recovered from last night's shopwarming, and are open and ready to welcome you all in! . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #edinburgh

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We are OPEN!!! See, told you we could! Most sections are now shelved and ready to browse, we'll deffo have all of them up and running by Friday - but if you can't wait please come say hi! . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #open

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

OK gang we're approaching our LAST WEEKEND AT HADDINGTON PLACE! The shop is closing EARLY on Sunday (5pm) and we will be CLOSED on Monday. The new shop is OPEN at 11am on Tuesday. I know, this seems so slick it can't possibly work... wish us luck! . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #moving

left hand image of old shop with text over it saying last day @old shop Sunday 5th of July closing @ 5pm 4a Hadington place right hand image of new shop text says first day @ the new shop Tuesday 7th of July open 11am-9pm @ every day of the week thereafter 22 Bruntsfield Place

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

TypeReno is NEARLY THERE! Oh who are we kidding? We'll be working on the place for months - but it's about good enough for us to move in and we'll be open at 22 Bruntsfield Place from 11am on the 7th of July! In the mean time do buy books from the old shop on Haddington Place!

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

July's No Homework Book Club tickets are out! 🎟️ This month's theme is Book Adaptations! Come talk about whether the adaptations of your favourite books slayed or failed (or vice versa)! Tickets are free but limited: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/typewronge... #booksky #bookclub

A moody picture of the Typewronger bookshop with the following words set against it: Typewronger's No Homework Book Club, July's theme: Book Adaptations. 7-9 pm at Typewronger Books, Every 2nd Sunday of the month

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

CLOSING EARLY TODAY @7pm - Tee's rushing across town to help paint the outside of the new shop while the good weather lasts!

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

IT'S TOO DARN HOT! And as usual we have our electric fan and free chilled drinks, so do drop in if you're feeling the heat and want a wee break in our oasis! The shop at Haddington Place is still very much OPEN until the 5th, come have a browse! . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

STICKERS! We've just taken delivery of our new Corin Wong illustrated Typewronger A5 sticker sheets and they are AMAZING - they've perfectly captured the feel of the shop, our Royal 10 public typewriter, Sarah the Triceratops, and of course there's an origami dragon. typewronger.com/shop/corin-w...

an origami dragon, on one wing there is the poem There is no Frigate like a Book to take us Lands away, nor any Coursers like a Page of prancing Poetry. This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll - how frugal is the chariot that bears the Human Soul (Emily Dickinson)

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

What do booksellers do in their spare time? Right now we're renovating our new shop! We've just started sanding down the floors (Jamie loves the floor sander, Tee's more ambivalent!) Want to help us whilst we move? Please buy books from www.typewronger.com !

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It's SUMMER! How do you know? Because the SUMMER edition of Wrong Directions has just been released! Find out more here: typewronger.com/about/wrong-...

a box of Wrong Directions scrolls - this edition is printed on loop straw paper in purple and fluro pink!

Wrong Directions printed in fluro pink and purple on loop straw paper

close up of advert in Wrong Directions - advert reads got longer form fiction / nonfic / poetry? Check out theallredline.crd.co for Issue 2 and submissions!

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Table applications are OPEN for Edinburgh Zine Fair 2026! (7/8/26-8/8/26) So whether you're a pro-zinester or a total beginner, get your applications in via the form on edinburghzinefair.com Applications close at Midnight on the 22nd of August.

sunflower and purple posterised image of folk browsing last year's zine fair with t he words table applications are open for EZF 2026

sunflower and purple posterised image of folk browsing last year's zine fair with the words Saturday 7th noon-5.30pm Sunday 8th Noon - 4.30pm use the form on edinburghzinefair.com

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Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

WANNA MAKE A ZINE? On our risograph zine-making workshop you get to learn how to make a simple cut-and-fold zine printed in two colours on our risograph machine and you get 20 copies to take home with you!

A red risograph machine on an aqua background, yellow text with a red drop shadow in a typewriter font says risograph zine-making workshop, there's a yellow wavy banner with "July Workshops Out Now!" on it.

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