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Rare Birds Book Shop

Name: Rare Birds Book Shop
Address: Edinburgh, GB
Telephone: +441316109295
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Beautifully wrapped, expertly curated and through your letterbox each month. Take your pick from two secret titles and we'll show you how to read for fun!
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21/07/2025

We’re so excited to welcome Lucy Vine & Laura Wood to Rare Birds Book Shop this week!

Lucy’s new novel Book Boyfriend is a hilarious and heartfelt book about two sisters who fall in love with strangers they’ve never met and Laura’s book, Let’s Make a Scene, is a laugh-out-loud second chance romance story set on a filmset.

We can’t wait to welcome them both for a lovely evening discussing some of the subjects both writers are most passionate about.

Tickets are £5 and can be redeemed against any purchase on the evening of the event, they are available through the link in our bio 🔗

19/07/2025

We’re still pinching ourselves that Rare Birds Books was chosen for with Dua Lipa’s indie bookstore of this month 🥹✨💃 What can’t Dua do!?

We wanted to spotlight some of our shop bestseller’s from Dua’s monthly picks as well as our own recommendations for her book club 📚 Have you read any of these?

🔗 Check out our latest blog post via the link in our bio to read more!

17/07/2025

Unsure what to read next and looking for some inspo!? Check out what our booksellers are reading and loving right now 😍📖

Kieran
⭐️ Katabasis by R.F Kuang (coming 26 August)
⭐️ Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Sara
⭐️ The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker
⭐️ Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez (coming 25 September)

Liska
⭐️ Cloistered: My Years as a Nun by Catherine Coldstream
⭐️ Mere by Danielle Giles

Rachel
⭐️ The Haunting of Hero’s Bay by Amanda Block (coming 9 October)

Amanda
⭐️ Selfish Girls by Abigail Bergstrom
⭐️ The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp by Krystal Evans

Olivia
⭐️Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
⭐️Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin

14/07/2025

We are very excited to be hosting the amazing Kit de Waal for a BBC Bookclub recording with James Naughtie.

Kit & James will be discussing her book “My Name is Leon”

This event is ticketed but free. Please email [email protected] to reserve your ticket

Attendees for all recordings must be 18 years and over.

09/07/2025

✨ So Good to See You by Francesca Hornak ✨

This is a funny and absorbing novel about friendship, love and the painful process of pretending to have it all and we absolutely loved it 🫶🏼

2004. Serge, Rosie and Daniel are enjoying their final weeks of university.

They are young, inseparable and full of optimism. Fifteen years later, they are guests at a lavish four-day wedding in Provence - and no longer friends.

Life has not turned out quite as planned since their heady days at Oxford. Film-maker Serge is winning awards, but hiding a huge debt and a fractured relationship. Behind Rosie’s social ease, she is heartbroken.

And with Daniel’s fame has come spiralling anxiety. Now, with four days of organised fun ahead, all three are armed with their best conversation and brightest smile. At least everyone is following the same script: do not bring up the past.

But as the Champagne flows, appearances slip and true feelings emerge. A funny, poignant and beautifully observed examination of relationships, class, money and pretending to have it all.

02/07/2025

A hot new bombshell has entered the villa 🌵☀️

We can not wait to welcome Aisling Rawle into Rare Birds this month to talk about her thrilling & addictive debut novel, The Compound.

Aisling will be in conversation with the brilliant and it’s a conversation that you don’t want to miss!

Tickets are available in store and online through the link in our bio 🔗

About the book:

You wake up in a compound in the middle of the desert, along with nine other women.

All of you are young, all beautiful, all keen to escape the grinding poverty, political unrest and environmental catastrophe of the outside world. You realise that cameras are tracking your every move, broadcasting to millions of reality TV fans. Soon, ten men will arrive on foot – if they all survive the journey.

What will you have to do to win? And what happens to the losers? The Compound is an addictive literary satire on modern excess: it holds a twisted mirror up to our obsession with winning, losing and, above all, watching.

23/06/2025

Our famous Make Friends Mixer is back 🥳⁠
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Are you a book-lover looking to find other like-minded friends? Or maybe you’re new in town and need a way to meet some new people?⁠
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Come on your own or with a mate - we’ll have drinks and are here to help you make some new friends and bond over our shared love of books!

Tickets are available in-store and online. They are £5 and are redeemable against purchases on the night.

We can’t wait to meet everyone 🫶🏼

19/06/2025

Happy publication day to .gravia_author & The Dicktionary Club 💅🏼

We can’t wait for our event with Sophie on Tuesday 24th June to chat all about this fun & sexy book!! Tickets are available through the link in our bio 🔗

About the book:

Grab your sunglasses, your beach bag and a copy of The Dicktionary Club - the ultimate suitcase essential!

Finding the one is just so hard... Ella, Katy, and Zola are done with Glasgow’s dating scene.

From ghosting to catfishing to cringe-worthy Tinder messages, navigating love in today’s society has become an absolute nightmare! But when one of them is dumped by a guy who saw her as nothing more than a quick swipe, the trio decide to fight back and take matters into their own hands. Creating The Dicktionary Club - an exclusive, women-only website dedicated to exposing Scotland’s worst serial swipers with brutally honest reviews. Their mission is to help women spot the red flags, dodge heartbreakers, and take back control of the dating scene.

But as the site goes viral, so does the drama in their own love lives. And when one of them starts falling for a guy she’s been warning others to avoid, things get messier-and more complicated-than ever...

Friendship, flirting and absolute chaos, The Dicktionary Club has got it all, from the bestselling author of A Glasgow Kiss and Hot Girl Summer.

14/06/2025

Happy Independent Bookshop Week!! 🧡 🤸🏻‍♀️📚 To celebrate, .giannasi.art & have teamed up to GIVEAWAY a bookshop lover's dream 🎨🌠🥰

what's up for grabs:
🖼 a .giannasi.art A5 print from her British Bookshop Collection
📖 a 3 month subscription

how to enter:
❤️ like this post
✍️ tag a bookworm in the comments
💌 follow us .giannasi.art &

⭐️ giveaway open in the UK only - ends a week today at the end of IBW (midnight 21.06.25) ⭐️

13/06/2025

We are so excited to be welcoming .gravia_author to Rare Birds on 24th June to discuss her hilarious & sexy new novel, The Dicktionary Club 🍆💅🏼

Tickets are available through the link in our bio or in store!

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Monday	10am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	10am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	10am - 5:30pm
Thursday	10am - 5:30pm
Friday	10am - 5:30pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	11am - 5pm

Telephone

+441316109295

Website

https://rarebirdsbooks.com/

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