Awesome* AUGUST is here! (*Well, we can hope...) #Whatareyoureading? Here are some suggestions of new things at our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page: uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-au...

New week, New books! Lin Anderson is back with a new crime thriller, The High Island, feat. DI Erling Flett on the Island of Hoy... The Forest of a Thousand Eyes is a thrilling new YA fantasy adventure. And I am absolutely hopping about in anticipation to read the new Valeria Luiselli novel!

Details soon when the phone is sorted, of course. In the meantime, come and see us! #smallbookshoplife #nairnbooks

It's ​JULY! (Yes, really! even though the sun is in-again-out-again today) #Whatareyoureading? Here are some suggestions of new things at our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page: uk.bookshop.org/lists/summer...

booksnewbooksnewbooks FOWER PESSOAS by #ColinBramwell Winner of the #HighlandBookPrize AND the international Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. This *might* just be the best poetry book you read this year.

booksnewbooksnewbooks EVERYTHING WILL SWALLOW YOU by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social I aint telling tales out of school when I say this *might* just be the best novel you’ll read this year.

(*...pay close attention) Plenty of other mindbending options here too, of course!

Take your brain to another dimension with Luis Othoniel Rosa’s timespacephysicalreality warping Animal Spiral! @charcopress.com #indiepublishing #indiebookshops #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop​ #readingisfundamental #booksareforeveryone #booksellerrecommends #booksky #LuisOthonielRosa #AnimalSpiral

And to get your reading started, don't forget, as it's Independent Bookshop Week you could win a £250 gift card at @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social . Winners will be notified via email following the competition close. Good luck! uk.bookshop.org/shop/nairnbo...

Tickets are live for Nairn Book & Arts Festival! Books by just some(!) of the authors pictured www.ticketsource.com/nairn-book-a...

I believe it's a bank holiday, for some reason that escapes me - but we're open 10.30-4 today, so come say hello and find a book! @booksaremybag.bsky.social #IndieBookshopWeek

As the weather turns to favour the ducks you'll need something to read, so it's time to dash to your local independent bookshop to celebrate Independent Bookshop Week! @booksaremybag.bsky.social #IndieBookshopWeek Pics of some of the titles just in!

Fantastic to have E.J. Swift pay a visit to the shop - Get her Arthur C Clarke Award shortlisted and British Science Fiction Association best novel award winning book 'When There Are Wolves Again' from the shop now!

Nairn today is all about the sinkhole. (We're still open as normal - though a little more difficult to get to!) If you do manage to wend your way here, why not try this excellent short novel (with 11 different endings!) in which sentient sinkholes feature heavily...

It's June! Whatareyoureading? @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social uk.bookshop.org/lists/jumpin...

The shop has a book group! In June we're reading Brodie by Gillian Shirreffs, which deftly weaves the lives of 6 women together thru a copy of the Spark book. In July we're reading The Original by Nell Stevens, described as ‘Jane Eyre by way of Patricia Highsmith’! We've copies of both in the shop.

Don't let WORLD OTTER DAY* this Weds 27th May pass you by... come and get an otter(!) or an otter book or card, or if you can, a small donation (it all adds up) *Now in its 10th year, thanks to the International Otter Survival Fund based on SKYE ❤️ More info on their website, otter.org 🥰

J to the O to H to the N John of John is here my friends #douglasstuart #JohnOfJohn #picadorbooks #booksbooksbooks #readingisforeveryone #nairn #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #booksarefun #indiebookshop #readingisfundamental #booksellerrecommends #booksky

If you’re in the mood for a (Holly) Webb of intrigue or a return to Wonderland... If you want to dive into some Donaldsons or you’re just having a Dog Man Day Afternoon* Come say hello! (*Hoping Dav Pilkey names his next one this.)

This month of May it's #AgnesOwens 's 100th anniversary! Good reason to discover or rediscover her distinctive clear-sighted wit and insight into everyday life. With intros to these new editions from @birlinn.bsky.social by #KirstyLogan #HeatherParry #DaniGaravelli #KirstenInnes

The poet Friederike Mayrocker is my inspiration for home study organisation

Ahoy there! #TheShipsCat has moored at our shores! #AlexHoward See also #TheGhostCat & #TheLibraryCat #booksbooksbooks #readingisforeveryone #nairn #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #booksarefun #indiebookshop #readingisfundamental #booksellerrecommends #booksky

This weekend! 8-10 May get a book from us on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social & you could win a £250 gift card. Winners will be notified by email following the competition close. Good luck! uk.bookshop.org/shop/nairnbo... #booksbooksbooks #nairn #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop

Spredge the love!* New books with spredges (fancy sprayed edges) #booksbooksbooks #readingisforeveryone #nairn #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #booksarefun #readingisfundamental #booksellerrecommends #booksky #VoteWithLove

Blooming into Beltane with our May list! #WhatAreYouReading? @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-...

#AlvaroEnrigue #NowISurrender An extraordinary & heady epic telling of the last days of the Apaches as an independent people squeezed between the wars of Mexico & USA (+ the author's story as he researches). Check out Enrigue's previous books too #YouDreamedOfEmpires #SuddenDeath A major writer.

Great to have @linanderson.bsky.social pop by on her whirlwind tour of Scotland. We have signed copies of the new paperback of her latest Rhona MacLeod investigation, The Dead and the Dying

Ah-woo! The fascinating volume 1 of #WolfRevivalScotland is here! All kinds of info about the history of wolves living alongside humans & the potential benefits in reinvigorating the landscape of Scotland they could bring

Some recent reading that has excited our peepers: Part 2 of ......... #TheDrivingSeat by #AbigailAbbas Join Emma Propeller(!) in an energetic thriller with plenty of intrigue...

Some recent reading that has piqued our interest: Part 1 of ............ #RabbitBox by #WayneHollowaySmith A brilliant dream-like poem/novel of a young boy growing up in tough circumstances