Typewronger Books
@typewronger
A bookshop, events space, and risograph print studio in the heart of Edinburgh, run as a not-for-profit company 📚 Find us here 👉 www.typewronger.com
August's No Homework Book Club tickets are out! 🎟️ This month's theme is FUNNY BOOKS! In honour of Edinburgh filling itself with comedy shows for Fringe season, come talk about what books left your cheeks hurting! Tickets are free but limited: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/typewronge... #bookSky📚💙
Our events are comming BACK! And HOW - thankyou thankyou thankyou to @stewedbooks who put on a fantastic show on Thursday night with incredible readings from Ian Macartney, Eloise Birtwhistle & Craig Aitchison and as aways superlative hosting from Stewed Rhubarb's own Charlie Roy - what a night!
A sunny start to the day (tomato lowered for optimal sunshine exposure) we've got cold brew earl grey and a bunch of books! Tonight we're having our first proper shop event - a showcase with @stewedbooks - shop life's never been this good! Drop by and say hi! . . #edinburgh #poetry #sunshine
We've been growing the stationery section in the new shop - leatherbound journals, wee notebooks, funky Japanese panoramas, and plenty of CIAK notebooks and Kaweco pens! What other stationery stuff do you reckon we should carry? . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #stationery #edinburgh
AUGUST WORKSHOPS ARE LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE! We're running a bunch of Risograph Zine Making workshops on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings all through the month - BOOK NOW TO AVOID DISSAPOINTMENT!!! . . #typewronger #typewrongerriso #risograph #zine #workshop
TWO events left in July- first up we're delighted to welcome @stewedbooks with a showcased featuring Eloise Birtwhistle, Ian Macartney & Craig Aitchison on the 23rd at 7pm, before we round the month off with our first Open Mic at our new home on Bruntsfield Place! As always our events are 100% FREE!
Alex Howard (@housedoctoralex) dropped in to sign a few copies of his books, The Ghost Cat, The Ship's Cat, and The Library Cat - and they're already selling like hotcakes! Come grab your copy at our NEW location at 22 Bruntsfield Place!
It's an eldritch start to the weekend as thick haar has descended on Edinburgh - but we're painted bright red and not to be mist! We've just about recovered from last night's shopwarming, and are open and ready to welcome you all in! . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #edinburgh
We are OPEN!!! See, told you we could! Most sections are now shelved and ready to browse, we'll deffo have all of them up and running by Friday - but if you can't wait please come say hi! . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #open
OK gang we're approaching our LAST WEEKEND AT HADDINGTON PLACE! The shop is closing EARLY on Sunday (5pm) and we will be CLOSED on Monday. The new shop is OPEN at 11am on Tuesday. I know, this seems so slick it can't possibly work... wish us luck! . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #moving
TypeReno is NEARLY THERE! Oh who are we kidding? We'll be working on the place for months - but it's about good enough for us to move in and we'll be open at 22 Bruntsfield Place from 11am on the 7th of July! In the mean time do buy books from the old shop on Haddington Place!
CLOSING EARLY TODAY @7pm - Tee's rushing across town to help paint the outside of the new shop while the good weather lasts!
IT'S TOO DARN HOT! And as usual we have our electric fan and free chilled drinks, so do drop in if you're feeling the heat and want a wee break in our oasis! The shop at Haddington Place is still very much OPEN until the 5th, come have a browse! . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop
STICKERS! We've just taken delivery of our new Corin Wong illustrated Typewronger A5 sticker sheets and they are AMAZING - they've perfectly captured the feel of the shop, our Royal 10 public typewriter, Sarah the Triceratops, and of course there's an origami dragon. typewronger.com/shop/corin-w...
What do booksellers do in their spare time? Right now we're renovating our new shop! We've just started sanding down the floors (Jamie loves the floor sander, Tee's more ambivalent!) Want to help us whilst we move? Please buy books from www.typewronger.com !
It's SUMMER! How do you know? Because the SUMMER edition of Wrong Directions has just been released! Find out more here: typewronger.com/about/wrong-...
Table applications are OPEN for Edinburgh Zine Fair 2026! (7/8/26-8/8/26) So whether you're a pro-zinester or a total beginner, get your applications in via the form on edinburghzinefair.com Applications close at Midnight on the 22nd of August.
WANNA MAKE A ZINE? On our risograph zine-making workshop you get to learn how to make a simple cut-and-fold zine printed in two colours on our risograph machine and you get 20 copies to take home with you!
Introducing TypeRENO! That's right, gang, we're painting the new shop ourselves - and I reckon we're absolutely crushing it! So far we've managed to get a base coat on the whole place, a second coat of white in the backroom and a first coat of red in the front - the place is coming alive!
WE'RE MOVING SHOP! That's right gang, the time has come for Typewronger to emerge, blinking, into the daylight - and as some of you might have noticed we've just signed a lease on our first full premises! Come July we'll be moving in to number 22 Bruntstfield Place - come find us there!
After the amazing success of our first All Night Bookshop we're glad to bring this back in better weather as a mutual fundraiser where we donate 50% of the night's profits (9pm-11am) to @lavender_menace_returns
You need to BOOK NOW if you want to grab a risograph zine-making workshop in June! We've got very limited space as there's a lot going on behind the scenes at Typewronger (hint hint) - typewronger.com/shop/risogra...
UPCOMING EVENT - BOOK LAUNCH - The Box by @mandysuzannew - 27/5/26 - Join us as Mandy-Suzanne Wong reads from her new book, The Box, novel about objects, people, and the forces and seams between them. Tickets are free and available here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Book Swap Opportunity Alert! 📚 We've been partnering with The Bookshop Crawl (@bookshopcrawluk) to become their new book swap and bookish group location! On Sunday May 31st @ 4pm, come along to chat about whatever you've been reading lately, and bring along books to swap!
THERE'S STILL TIME TO SUBMIT! Our deadline for submissions for the Summer edition of Wrong Directions is MIDNIGHT 15/5/26! Send us your entry of no more than 300 words to print@typewronger.com and remember NO LOVE POETRY! Full details can be found on the Wrong Directions page of our website...
We have finally set up our very own Pay It Forward Board where you can leave vouchers for other customers to use, or grab a voucher if you need one - no questions asked! It's tucked discretely round the back of the shop between poetry and murder.
The All Night Bookshop is BACK and this time 50% of the night's profits (9pm-11am) will be going to Save Lavender Menace! Once again we'll be switching the shop stamp to our All Night purple branding, and you can also get the timestamp to prove you were buying books at 3am! More deets TBA...
That's right gang, we're back at that one day in the calendar year when you have the option of getting an origami X-Wing when you buy a book at the shop, or when you place a web order! May the Fourth be with you! . . #typewronger #typewrongerbooks #bookshop #edinburgh #xwing #starwars