#WhatDougsReading : today Hugless Douglas is delighted with the arrival of Life Drawing, a Love & Rockets collection by the legendary Jaime Hernandez, out now from the fabby Fantagraphics crew.

#WhatDougsReading : today Douglas is diving into the paperback of Sunbringer, the second in Hannah Kaner's rather excellent Fallen Gods trilogy from HarperVoyager .

Top #fantasy !

(Cover art by Tom Roberts)

#books #livres# FantasyBooks #Sunbringer #HannahKaner #NewReleases #fiction #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

#WhatDougsReading : today Douglas is browsing through Edinburgh - the Autobiography, edited by Alan Taylor, published by Scotland's own Birlinn Books

"Hope I Get Old Before I Die"

Acclaimed music writer David Hepworth returns with a new book on the incredible longevity of some superstars like McCartney or The Stones.

We know it's only rock-'n'-roll, but we like it...

#WhatDougsReading : in between hanging on the telephone, today Douglas is enjoying Under a Rock, a new memoir by the legendary Chris Stein (complete with some terrific photos, of course).

Signed copies in stock now!

#books #music #livres #musique #ChooseBookshops #Biography #memoirs #photography #photographie ##ChrisStein #Blondie #bookshops #bookstodon #librairies

Rock'n'roll'n'food-fights!!!!

#WhatDougsReading : Douglas loves Tiffany Murray's My Family and Other Rock Stars from Fleet, growing up in the 70s at the famous Rockfield Studios as the likes of Queen, Hawkwind, Iggy and David Bowie visit, while her mum whips up the food for the bands.

Music! Memoirs! Recipes!

Tiff will be joining us on Monday 20th to talk about her book https://edinburghbookshop.com/events

#WhatDougsReading : today Douglas is delighted to see the new Abir Mukherjee release, Hunted, hitting our shelves from
@harvillsecker

#WhatDougsReading : today Douglas is losing himself in Young Hag by the fabbity-fab Isabel Greenberg, a graphic novel reimagining the women of Arthurian legend, out now from Jonathan Cape

#WhatDougsReading : today Hugless Douglas is waxing poetical, as Padraig O Tuama 's excellent, Poetry Unbound - 50 Poems to Open Your World comes out from
@canongatebooks in paperback.

Perfect for both seasoned verse-hounds & those newer to #poetry

#WhatDougsReading : Doug is loving the latest Cesare Aldo novel from one of our local (and CWA Dagger-winning!) writers , David Bishop, out now in paperback from Macmillan.

Gripping historical crime fiction in Renaissance Florence! We've been loving this series (book four will be out this summer)

#WhatDougsReading :

"Since the world is round,
There is no way to walk away
From each other, for even
We are coming back together "

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman arrives in paperback from Vintage Books

#WhatDougsReading : today Douglas is delving into some cracking #spy thriller action with Arctic Sun, by the excellent
@JonCG , out from Michael Joseph

#WhatDougsReading : today Lt Commander Douglas of Bearfleet Command is enjoying Making It So, a memoir by the wonderful Sir Patrick Stewart

Copies have just been beamed to us by Simon & Schuster

#WhatDougsReading : today Doug is enjoying a #Japanese fiction splurge, as the Forth of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold series comes out, and we also have lovely, signed hardback editions of the first book, out now from Picador.

#WhatDougsReading : today Doug is enjoying #Edinburgh based crime with Doug Johnstone's (Dougs support other Dougs!) new Skelf novel from @OrendaBooks , The Opposite of Lonely, and hoping Doug didn't forget about tides & get stuck on Crammond Island...

#WhatDougsReading : one of our favourite 2022 reads is out this week in paperback from
@canongatebooks , The Edge of the Plain by James Crawford, ideal for those who enjoyed Prisoners of Geography.

#WhatDougsReading : Wain, #LGBT reimaginings of Scottish folklore in #poetry , by Rachel Plummer, illustrated by Helene Boppert, out now from The Emma Press

#WhatDougsReading : Different Times by David Stubbs, a history of British comedy, from Chaplin & Stan Laurel thru Ealing comedies, Spike Milligan, the Pythons to Stewart Lee.

Well, you've got to laugh, haven't you? Out now from
@FaberBooks

Good month for Denise Mina readers! Following hot on her new Philip Marlowe novel, The Second Murder (Pub Harvil Secker, and much recommended by our own Joe), now Three Fires arrives from Polygon Books. Doug is very excited!

In a coincidence, Three Fires features the same Italian historical character as D.V. Bishop's recent Florence based historical Whoddunit, Ritual of Fire (which we also highly recommend)

#WhatDougsReading : today Hugless Douglas is delving into the Crook Manifesto, as Pulitzer winning scribe Colson Whitehead returns to 1970s Harlem.

We have a limited supply of signed copies from Fleet Books, grab them while you can!