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Welcome to Bookstoker!

We’re here to help you find that book that you can’t put down, the book you’ll push on all your friends, the book that’ll change your life.

We read literary fiction, non-fiction, classics and children’s books, all genres and styles embraced in our aim to share the love. You’ll also find fabulous Bookstagrams and literary news.

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Daphne du Maurier famously hated the 1963 film ver Daphne du Maurier famously hated the 1963 film version of her short story, The Birds. What are the best book-to-screen adaptations? To Kill a Mockingbird? The Color Purple? What about our own beautifully restrained favourite, The Remains of the Day? 📷 Striking photo of Tippi Hedren on the set of The Birds, Philippe Halsman @magnumphotos | #Bookstoker #alfredhitchcock #booktoscreen #daphnedumaurier #magnumphotos #thebirds #tippihedren
This year’s Booker Prize is shaping up to be one o This year’s Booker Prize is shaping up to be one of the best contested in years and singing to us from the 2026 longlist is The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis. This atmospheric tale of perception and awakening is told by Flora, a Mexican woman with a rich interior life, leading a somewhat sedate life in London. Whilst visiting her mother in Mexico City, Flora is badly bitten by the family dog and hospitalised. Here she meets Wilhelmina, elderly toy collector and magic lantern performer. Their strange affinity will come to challenge Flora’s notions of life, longing and loss. See link in bio for our review. | 🎥 @thebookerprizes @chattobooks | #Bookstoker #bookerlonglist #bookerprize2026 #bookrecs #bookswelove #chloearidjis #theshadowoftheobject #whattoreadnext
‘France has the only two things towards which we d ‘France has the only two things towards which we drift as we grow older- intelligence and manners’ - F. Scott Fitzgerald. 🇫🇷 Le Bouquineur, Cordes-sur-Ciel | Beautiful photo @zharys | #Bookstoker #beautifulbookshops #bookshopsofinstagram #frenchbookshop #frenchvibes #fscottfitzgeraldquotes #lebouquineur
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