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NEXT SATURDAY 10th!
Come to the shop & FIND THE GOLDEN TICKET!
We’ve partnered with @libro.fm to give one winner 12 free audiobooks on #BookshopDay! 🎫🤩🎧📖
#LibrofmGoldenTicket #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #supportlocalbusinesses #indiebookshop #booksbooksbooks📚 #audiobooksarebooks #booksky
Poster pic: "Saturday 10th October Find the Golden Ticket any you'll win 12 free audiobook credits!" [pic of the golden ticket wrapped in headphones] Libro.fm
October 2, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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—Mkgnao!*

#MerryBloomsDay #Bloomsday #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #independentbookshop #booksbooksbooks #BookSky
(*"Get your thumb out of the way!")
Cat reading from the Calypso chapter
June 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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It's Octobrrrr and there's a slight autumnal chill in the air, so a good time to wrap yourself up in a book... #Whatareyoureading?
Here are some suggestions of new things at our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page:
uk.bookshop.org/lists/och-it....
Starbuck, pictured considering the changing of the season or something... #booksbooksbooks #readingisforeveryone #nairn #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #booksarefun #readingisfundamental #booksellerrecommends #booksky
October 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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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
June 27, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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🪄Never mind the dreary skies, come and find a cosy or sunny or just all-round-wonderful book to curl up with🔥
(Can also be enjoyed in the sunshine!🌞)
#nairnbooks #nairn #supportlocal #supportlocalbusiness #nairnbookshop #booksbooksbooks #indiebookshop #readingisfundamental #readingisfun #BookSky
Our 'Mountains, hills and rivers' window! Our Pride window!
June 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Congrats to E.J. Swift on winning the Arthur C. Clarke award for the fantastic When There Are Wolves Again!

#arthurcclarkeaward #ejswift #booksbooksbooks #ReadingIsForEveryone #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #booksarefun #booksellerrecommends #booksky
Pic of the book, in the shop - get it now!
August 13, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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“The corpusants! the corpusants!”

#Starbuck #HermanMelville #HermanMelvilleDay #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #independentbookshop #bookrecs #booksbooksbooks #BookSky
Starbuck pictured in the shop warily examining a copy of Moby-Dick
August 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Come and see our absolutely huge, shelf-dwarfing bunting and find a good book to read!
@booksaremybag.bsky.social #IndieBookshopWeek #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #independentbookshop #bookrecs #booksbooksbooks #booksky #puttingperspectiveonthings
Bunting in the shop, with the legend, "Shop Local. Shop Independent."
June 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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It's #AntalSzerb 's birthday!
The mysterious, dark (sometimes daft!)
Journey by Moonlight is a fave
but all his books are a joy
uk.bookshop.org/shop/nairnbo...
#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #independentbookshop #bookrecs #booksbooksbooks #BookSky @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb on our shelves
May 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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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.
Pic of copies of the book in the shop guarded by our most effusive yet elusive member of staff, Starbuck #swiftpress #indiebookshops #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #readingisfun #readingisfundamental #booksareforeveryone #booksellerrecommends
June 30, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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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!
Pic of #EJSwift outside the shop #WhenThereAreWolvesAgain #Quercus #ArthurCClarkeAward #BSFA#nairn #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshops #readingisfun #readingisfundamental #booksareforeveryone #booksky #booksellerrecommends
June 8, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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By Juno! It's a new month: #Whatareyoureading?
‪Take a look at our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page for some suggestions...
uk.bookshop.org/lists/marvel...
#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #independentbookshop #bookrecs #booksbooksbooks #BookSky
A selection from the Highland kids' section: Asterix agus crun Cheusair, Stick Mannie, There's a Hole in My Bagpipe, Six Dinner Sid
June 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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#NairnBook&ArtsFestival is go!
Take a look at our bookshop.org page to explore some of the authors...
#nairnfest #nairnfestival #nairnfestival2025 #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #independentbookshop #bookrecs #booksbooksbooks #booksky
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Nairn Book & Arts Festival 2025!
Explore some of the fascinating and fantastic authors at this year's festival! www.nairnfestival.co.uk
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June 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Back from an outing to the big smoke* to the Booksellers Association Network summer do at harpercollinsuk with a bundle due out in the next 12 months...
(*aka London, aka the big airfryer)
#booksaremybag #nairnbookshop #nairnbooks #nairnbooksontour #booksellerlife #booksbooksbooks #bookrecs #booksky
A selection of book proofs: #philipagregory #jungchan #kieraazar #ammanbrar #nataliegregory impressive views from Harper Collins HQ
July 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Julian H Cope* - it's July!
#Whatareyoureading?
Here's our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social suggestions (*JHC not included) uk.bookshop.org/lists/july-r...
#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #nairnbeach #indiebookshop #independentbookshop #bookrecs #booksbooksbooks #BookSky
July Reading on Nairn Beach!
Check out this list on Bookshop.org
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July 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Ok. Yes, it's December!
And as we start to hurtle towards *that* day, it's high time to share our list of recommendations for Christmas (& late book of the year contenders) on our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page!
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#Whatareyoureading?
A selection of some of the more seasonal books in the shop #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #shoplocal #booksbooksbooks #indiebookshop #supportlocal #bookishgifts
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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August? Already?!
#Whatareyoureading?
‪Take a look at our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page for some reading suggestions...
uk.bookshop.org/lists/awesom...?

#nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #independentbookshop #bookrecs #booksbooksbooks #BookSky
pic from our bookshop.org page
August 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Blooming into Beltane with our May list! #WhatAreYouReading? @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-...
Pic of peachy/yellow flowers (hey, I'm not a botanist!) #booksbooksbooks #readingisforeveryone #nairn #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #booksarefun #readingisfundamental #booksellerrecommends #booksky #MayDay #Uptheworkers #ChandaPrescodWeinstein #AysegulSavas #DouglasStuart #GraemeMacraeBurnet #ClaudiaPineiro #FrancesRiddle #AlexHoward #WendyErskine #DanielaCatrileo #JacobEdelstein #MicheleMasneri #RichardVillage #CalFlyn #LenaPodesta #MalgorzataLebda #MiraRosenthal #CristinaRiveraGarza #ChristinaMacSweeney #StuartMacBride #AliceVincent #SamarYazbek #LeriPrice #BobMortimer #MattHaig #IsabelAllende #FrancesRiddle #DanielaSosa #BobShea 
May 1, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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As the autumn equinox draws near it's time to find a good book to leaf through. Here's helping with your decisions through the abscission...
#Whatareyoureading?
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uk.bookshop.org/lists/superb...
Pic of a selection of Dk encyclopaedias in the shop. #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #independentbookshop #bookrecs #booksbooksbooks #BookSky
September 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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And so it came to pass that it was Independent Bookshop Week! Pop in & find something to get your reading peepers gripped/fascinated/spinning in amazement @booksaremybag.bsky.social #IndieBookshopWeek #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #independentbookshop #bookrecs #booksbooksbooks #BookSky
Poster for Independent Bookshop Week in the shop in between 'Classics' and 'Historical (Scottish) Fiction'
June 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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(What we're reading, continued...)
#nairnbooks #booksbooksbooks #nairn #supportlocal #nairnbookshop #emmapress #Inpressbooks #BookSky
Stephen's reading: #SingLikeFish #AmorinaKingdon #WildBoar #HannahLutz #TheUnfinishedHarauldHughes #RichardAyoade Starbuck's reading: #TheCatWhoSavedTheLibrary #SosukeNatsukawa #CatLover #DanSpencer
May 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Congrats to #JenStout winner of the 2024 #HighlandBookPrize!
Her Night Train to Odesa is a must read account of life in Ukraine in time of war.
#MoniackMhor #bookrecs #ʙᴏᴏᴋsʙᴏᴏᴋsʙᴏᴏᴋs #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #indiebookshop #independentbookshop #booksky
pic of the book in the shop
July 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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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
Pic of Rabbitbox alongside Young Frankie trying out his magic act with hat & rabbit #scribnerbooks #booksbooksbooks #readingisforeveryone #nairn #nairnbooks #nairnbookshop #booksarefun #readingisfundamental #booksellerrecommends #booksky
April 18, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Saturday! (Today!)
Come and see amazing authors, including: #CJCooke #LouiseWelsh #NoreenMasud #NicholasJubber #JJAHarwood at #NairnFest !
www.nairnfestival.co.uk

#nairnbookshop #nairnbooks #booksbooksbooks📚 #bookreccs #festivaltime #booksky
September 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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It's @dougskelton.bsky.social‬ o'clock here at #NairnBooks as Rebecca Connolly joins us to tell of her latest escapade #TheOtherSideOfFear (see too, #JonasFlynt #AThiefsBlood)

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Pic of a selection of Douglas's books in the shop, featuring The Other Side of Fear
June 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM