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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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I Am the Subway by Kim Hyo-eun

I Am the Subway by Kim Hyo-eun

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A day in the life of a Seoul subway train

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First published in 1967 and now available in a fre First published in 1967 and now available in a freshly translated Penguin Classics edition, The Cat by Georges Simenon is a bleakly funny tale of marital warfare, old age and obsession. Celebrated for his wonderful Inspector Maigret novels, Simenon also wrote a series of psychological novels he named ‘romans dur’ (hard novels). In this one, we meet seventy-somethings, Emile and Marguerite Bouin, married in haste and repenting at leisure. Since Emile accused his wife of fatally poisoning his beloved cat and launched a barbarous retaliatory attack on her pet parrot, they have been enmeshed in a silent battle of wills. Will it be a duel to the death? See link in bio for our review | @penguinclassics | #Bookstoker 

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Love this photo of Whitman’s quote, adorning the b Love this photo of Whitman’s quote, adorning the beautiful shopfront of Shakespeare and Company, Paris ✨ | 📷 @__momentsofmine | #Bookstoker 

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It’s Shakespeare Week 2026 (23rd- 29th March), a j It’s Shakespeare Week 2026 (23rd- 29th March), a joyous annual celebration introducing young children to the works of The Bard 💐

We’re loving this beautiful vintage book, Flowers From Shakespeare’s Garden, 1906. Here, Walter Crane pictures the array of flowers mentioned throughout William Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. Glorious ♥️ | 🎥 @the.vintage.library | #Bookstoker 

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