Independent bookshop selling a curated selection of books along with local Bermondsey craft beers. Our new mag: @boundreview https://xitter.cf/t.co/Zk5SsINBWZ
1a Morocco Street, Bermondsey
Joined October 2019
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Our reviewer of two new French memoirs Consent (Springora) and La familia granda (Kouchner) questions the legacy of the May '68 social revolution and applauds the media's treatment of the recent French national debate.
Read now:
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This Thursday!
A Q&A with Dr Louis Monroy-Santander, an expert in post-conflict peace-building in Europe and South America from the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in #Bogotá.
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Are you interested in writing for an independent, thoughtful and collaborative journal? 🧐🙌🧐 Pitch us an idea or just express your interest via this link! 😁#journorequest #slowjournalism #printmagazine #startup #newmagazine #journalists #writers #mbr
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Did you know that American civil rights activists first imported the term "ghetto" to point out the injustices faced by residents of inner-city areas segregated by race?
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#ghetto #americanhistory #Uspolitics #america #thinkpiece #mbr #elvis #warondrugs
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You marry a writer.
Worse, a memoirist. All is well until you divorce, un-amicably.
An unprecedented French legal dispute made MBR founder @lucykenningham ponder the near-impossibility of non-fiction.
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Our first print edition is coming out in May!
Find out more about what we offer writers and the articles we're looking for: moroccoboundreview.co.uk/con…
#journorequest #bookreview #bookreviews #journalists #writerscommunity #writers #magazine #newmagazine #journal #mbr
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"A vulgar, sad little book" wrote the
@spectator in 1955.
'Bonjour Tristesse', published 1954, was an overnight sensation in France. But its English translation, not renewed until 2014, was grossly inaccurate.
The reason? Patriarchy.
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Style requires substance.
The problem with Carmen Maria Machado's trendy memoir 'In the Dream House', is that it lacks the latter.
Read @lucy_rmm's brilliant piece 'Dream House As Review' for how exactly 'In the Dream House' fails its readers.
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Follow our new magazine @BoundReview for literary reviews, thinkpieces, international affairs and sharepieces #MBR #magazinelaunch #independentbookshop #smallbusiness @BermondseyStLdn @TheBiscuitMag
Excited to announce Landy is the next musician playing on our Live Music Thursdays event, doing an unplugged set. Come along before 8pm to get your socially distanced seats, drinks & order food if you like.
Listen to his tunes here:
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#gig #unplugged
We had a great time as part of the Bermondsey Street Festival yesterday - thanks to everyone who enjoyed our DJ’s live music and drinks outside the shop. #supportlocal #shoplocal #supportsmallbusiness #bermondseystreetfestival #bermondseystreet #se1
Sex & Relationship Engineer Colin Richards’ talk The Psychology of Attraction is starting at 7pm, come along to learn more about why we behave the way we do in relationships! Just 7.50 on the door #psychologyofattraction #sextherapy #relationships #educationalevents #talks
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"The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man." T.S. Eliot.
Shelf Love: Several Fascinating Facts About Libraries
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Next film club is Tuesday: and it’s Down By Law (featuring Tom Waits!!) #filmclub #bermondsey #bermondseyevents #supportlocal #keepitlocal #smallbusiness #shoplocal
Tonight Adam Gilleard plays an acoustic set at our shop! Excited to hear some live music and have some #covidsafe gig atmosphere going on again. Free and open till 11pm so come along to hear some good music and enjoy our local craft beer #gig #livemusic #smallvenue #acoustic
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Support your local bookshop and join Morocco Bound next week (16th Sept) for a talk on The Psychology of Attraction with Colin Richards. Tickets £15, available now > eventbrite.com/e/the-psychol… @BookshopBound
“if hundreds of thousands of people reach out for a book whose very title promises to deal with the question of a meaning to life, it must be a question that burns under their fingernails” - Viktor E Frankl on why his book Man’s Search For Meaning had sold so successfully
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YES!! Huge congratulations to my amazing wife! Her extraordinary talent is no secret, but only a few people see the sheer hard work that goes into making her books as good as they are. I could not be happier to see her determination & brilliance recognised & rewarded in this way.
And without further ado, we’re delighted to reveal that the winner of the 25th #WomensPrize for Fiction is Maggie O’Farrell with Hamnet.
Huge congratulations, Maggie!
Today is our sewing event! Come along to learn how to sew with our expert resident sewer Poppy, and hang out at our shop
#sew #sewing #environmental #nowaste #reducewaste #wastenot #bookshop #independentbusiness