Last Days of Winter Newsletter incoming this weekend! Head over to the website to sign up if you haven't already! Treats galore, as per usual.
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#booksky
Absolutely. I can't understand how it ever went out of style! And ever new edition had completely different artwork. Just wildly fantastic stuff.
Loads of sexy vintage sci-fi in stock at the moment. Here's a wee snippet.
Love all this artwork, wish this style would come back!
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#booksky #scifi #sciencefiction
New books in the shop this week! Science, philosophy and history.
Head over to the website to have a browse!
www.laureltreebooks.co.uk
#booksky #secondhandbooks #science #philosophy #history
Living Against Time – Virginia Woolf on the art of presence and the "moments of being" that make us who we are www.themarginalian.org/2025/02/12/v...
A blue book The Virago Book of Fairy Tales edited by Angela Carter, standing in a ray of sun with a white background.
Fairy Tales in the sun. Next up on my reading list.
Available in the shop whenever I finish reading it!
#fairytales #booksky #virago
The book Open Up by Thomas Morris next to a bottle of The Kernel Brewery Brown Ale next to a glass of beer.
Holiday From the Day Job time! Starting with a beer and book pairing. Heartwarming (and wrenching) short stories with The Kernel Brown Ale seems pretty apt.
Open Up by Thomas Morris is available in the shop as well!
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#booksky #beer #shortstories
It's our first birthday today! Thankful to still be kicking about. We have a wee sale on to celebrate, and just added some new books to the shop today!
#booksky #birthday
Thanks so much for the share! 😍👽
Five paperback books from Philip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Philip José Farmer, held up by a hand in front of a stack of sci fi books.
Sneak peek at what's coming to the shop soon! Lots of PKD, Vonnegut, King and a few lesser known gems.
#booksky #scifi #sff #horror
A picture of the book Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow, placed in front of a white wall and a bouquet of dried flowers.
Relevant reading from my favourite journalist.
Available in the shop now for a fiver!
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#booksky #history
A newly sewn book block of white pages, sitting on a cutting board with a ruler and paintbrush next to it.
Finishing off 2025 by learning a new skill!
Hope everyone is having a lovely holiday 💚
#booksky #books #bookbinding
The book Thought Forms by Annie Besant and C.W Leadbeater behind a bottle of Fernet Branca and a small snifter glass with Fernet.
My fav Christmas tradition! Thought Forms by Annie Besant paired with Fernet Branca.
Published in 1901, Besant attempts to map emotions & states of mind as visual shapes and colours. Approach with a healthy dose of skepticism (the theosophical framework isn’t my bag).
Also Fernet rules.
#booksky
Thank you for the kind words and the share! 😍
Twenty vintage science fiction paperback books, laid out in a grid.
Only two days left to order before our Christmas shipping cut-off! One of these could be yours (or a good gift for your favourite sci-fi nerd).
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#booksky #scifi #scotland #uk
A picture of a Tolkien anthology from 1975 featuring Tree and Leaf, Smith of Wootton Major and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, laying flat on a stack of books on top of a wooden surface.
Last round of new additions for 2025! Particularly excited about this Tolkien anthology from 1975 in very good condition.
See the full list on the front page of the website!
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#booksky #tolkien
Christmas Dates!
Last chance to order and get it before the big day is the 18th of December.
And the shop will be fully closed 23-25th December due to the meats and shrimps and wines and books and games.
Don't procrastinate, get your orders in now!
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#booksky
The book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo alongside a glass of red wine.
Currently reading (and also currently available in the shop!):
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#booksky #lesmiserables
Four books by Scottish author Ali Smith on a table in front of a stack of books and some dried flowers.
My favourite Scottish author, Ali Smith.
We have a couple of her books available in the shop now!
Head over to the Fiction Collection on the website.
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Who's your favourite Scottish author?
#booksky #scotland #alismith
This is priceless, whatever your gender: Ursula K. Le Guin on change, menopause as rebirth, and the civilizational value of elders www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/30/u...
Shop small, fuck Amazon.
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#booksky #bookshop #supportlocal
Free books dropped to some great small shops in Dunfermline!
🍺 Caledonian Craft Beer Merchant - best beers
🍷 Juniper Wine Cafe - best wines
☕️ Cafe Wynd - best coffee & baking
🎵 The Music Box - best secondhand records
🧀 Must Be Crackers - best cheese
Much 💚 to them all!
#booksky #shoplocal
A grid of sci-fi books, vintage and modern, lying face up on a wooden background.
A grid of contemporary fiction books lying face up on a wooden background.
New books added to the shop this week! Some vintage and modern sci-fi, contemporary and classic fiction and history.
Head over to the front page of the website to have a browse:
www.laureltreebooks.co.uk
#booksky #secondhandbooks
Yesterday we dropped off our 1st free book at Twelve Triangles on Dalry Rd in Edinburgh! Thanks to the lovely team for humouring me & for making me an incredible coffee! There will be a book at every 12T in Edinburgh soon. If you’re heading there for a pastry, look for a free book!
#booksky #bakery
Attention all Edinburgh & Dunfermline folks! Do you like free books?! Of course you do!
We will be leaving free book presents around small businesses over the next week or so. 'Tis the season to give back and shop local! Keep an 👀 out, only be one book per shop!
Happy hunting!
#booksky #freebooks
New books added to the shop recently! Head to the website to check out all the new titles. Includes a 1995 edition of The Hobbit, which has a gilded moon and border on the jacket, which is a point of difference from other editions.
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#booksky #thehobbit #fantasy
A beer called Pages #2, a collaboration between breweries Beak, Track, Verdant and Manchester Museum. Held in front of a copy of A Clockwork Orange by Manchester author Anthony Burgess, all in front of vibrant green vines and a brick wall.
Manchester beer with a Manchester author.
I really love Manchester in general. Have you been to Affleck's Palace? I haven't been since The Before Times. I hope it's still as fantastically weird as ever.
Hope everyone's had a nice weekend so far! What are you reading/drinking?
#booksky #beer
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A picture of the book Flow MY Tears The Policeman Said by Philip K Dick.
Currently reading Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K Dick.
It's excellent! Might do a wee write-up when I'm finished.
#booksky #scifi #philipkdick
Definitely The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K Le Guin. A beautiful and horrible allegory for colonialism and it's tragic (and avoidable) consequences, set on a planet full of valuable resources. The messaging is all very obvious, but I love the story of the planet's indigenous species!
