The Margate Bookshop

The Margate Bookshop Independent bookshop in Margate's Old Town
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Momo Yamaguchi's fizzy debut novel Hello, Limerence traces the evolution of an infatuation, as the book's twenty-four na...
10/08/2026

Momo Yamaguchi's fizzy debut novel Hello, Limerence traces the evolution of an infatuation, as the book's twenty-four narrator Mika lets loose a wild tide-of-consciousness-style chronicle of a life-changing crush. Summer fun can't come soon enough for Tokyo-based Mika, who is bored of the sleazy salarymen at her dead-end job, and yearns to lose her virginity to an unattainable pretty boy. Her obsession begins when her BFF invites her to a beach party, and she feels she may have finally clapped eyes on the person of her dreams. But is it love, or delusion?

A reissued classic from 1992, Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land is an intimate travelogue wrapped in a sprawling colonia...
10/08/2026

A reissued classic from 1992, Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land is an intimate travelogue wrapped in a sprawling colonial history, as the author follows the strands of a 'lost' slave narrative from India to Egypt. Having discovered the story of an unknown Indian slave as a footnote in an ancient text, Ghosh began what would become a decade-long quest across 800 years of colonial misrule. On the way he spent time in Egypt, chronicling its magic and its culture, building a character study of the country from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm.

A South Korean literary hit from novelist Kim Eui-kyung and translator Sora Kim-Russell, Hello Baby boldly probes the pe...
09/08/2026

A South Korean literary hit from novelist Kim Eui-kyung and translator Sora Kim-Russell, Hello Baby boldly probes the peculiarities of motherhood and fertility, as a set of very different women come together to share their parallel experiences of IVF. After meeting at a clinic in Seoul, these six expectant mothers confide their hopes and fears via a group chat, finding solidarity though they know the odds are stacked against them. When 46-year-old Jeong-hyo drops the news that she has stopped treatment, and radio silence follows. A year later, she messages to reveal the birth of her daughter, a miracle that shakes the women, and leads them to wonder how exactly it happened…

The Margate Bookshop invites you to...SKY CITY WITH JACQUELINE CROOKSTHURSDAY, 27 AUGUSTLocal author Jacqueline Crooks d...
08/08/2026

The Margate Bookshop invites you to...

SKY CITY WITH JACQUELINE CROOKS
THURSDAY, 27 AUGUST

Local author Jacqueline Crooks discusses her dynamic new novel Sky City, a fateful story of friendship and redemption set in 1990s London.

7-9PM FORT ROAD BAR

Three lives collide by chance in Jacqueline Crooks’ lyrical new novel Sky City, a thrilling nineties throwback that plays out on both sides of the Atlantic. It opens in London, as Jaycee finally gets a room of her own - a sanctuary up in the Sky City housing estate - after many precarious years in a homeless hostel. In one sense she’s thriving, but the darkness of her childhood follows her like a shadow. When her first love, Sol, reappears offering her a lifeline, she wonders if she can rely on him. Following a revelatory trip to Atlantic City with her best friend Ella-G, another daughter in search of a father, Jaycee comes home to face the traumas of her past as her, Sol and Ella-G’s worlds threaten to crash together... and splinter apart.

A Jamaica-born British author now based in Margate, Jacqueline Crooks published her acclaimed debut novel, Fire Rush, in 2023. Alongside her writing, Crooks works with communities to explore the power of storytelling to affect change. She’ll be discussing all-things Sky City in conversation with Iman Amrani, an award-winning journalist, writer, producer and moderator.

Booking essential. Free tickets available via Eventbrite – link in bio.

The history of leprosy - one of isolation, exile and resistance - is also the history of humanity. In his first book Out...
05/08/2026

The history of leprosy - one of isolation, exile and resistance - is also the history of humanity. In his first book Outcast, journalist and critic Oliver Basciano travels the world to demystify a condition that has been demonised for thousands of years, discovering the reality behind the medieval myth. He amplifies the voices of those living with leprosy today, people whose lives are linked by perseverance and a refusal to be cast aside, asking: does a society's sense of itself always rely on ostracisation?

Now out in paperback, it's David Whitehouse's Saltwater Mansions, which covers the curious case of a missing Margate wom...
05/08/2026

Now out in paperback, it's David Whitehouse's Saltwater Mansions, which covers the curious case of a missing Margate woman and other untold tales. An exploration of the stories we tell, the secrets we keep, the impact of grief and the dangerous allure of amateur sleuthing, the book combines true crime, memoir and reportage to unravel the mystery of 'ordinary' Margate-dweller Caroline Lane, who one day completely disappeared leaving no trace. Thirteen years later, Whitehouse began his own investigation, speaking to the other residents of her seaside block of flats and becoming as fascinated by their stories as with Lane's own.

This topically-titled novel from Maltese writer/artist Ryan Falzon, translated by Joe Gatt, breezes along with its narra...
04/08/2026

This topically-titled novel from Maltese writer/artist Ryan Falzon, translated by Joe Gatt, breezes along with its narrator as he tries to get a hold on his love life, and his 'life' life, amidst the hazy hedonism of summer in Malta. An unnamed high school teacher in his thirties, he develops a fevered obsession with free-spirited artist Sarah, and the two bob together and drift apart on a swirling sea of BBQs, boat trips and the infamous August festi - intimate one moment, distant the next.

New from cultural chronicler Emma Warren, Up the Youth Club takes a pointed, thought-provoking look at the golden past, ...
25/07/2026

New from cultural chronicler Emma Warren, Up the Youth Club takes a pointed, thought-provoking look at the golden past, endangered present and uncertain but vital future of community youth clubs in the UK and Northern Ireland. From the children of Victorian factory workers to the free-range rebel kids of the 1970s, and on to the music and art-centric set-ups of today, these sources of safety, solidarity and stimulation have been a precious resource for 'the youth' for centuries. Youth clubs have impacted music, sport, culture and society in big ways (Stormzy, The Specials and Ezra Collective) and small (but no less significant), but are now facing funding cuts and waning numbers, and this book is an impassioned invitation to protect and preserve these life-saving spaces at all costs.

A memoir, a heartfelt hymn to music and music-makers and a call for change, star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason's first book...
24/07/2026

A memoir, a heartfelt hymn to music and music-makers and a call for change, star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason's first book celebrates the polyphonic potential of music to transform, inspire and connect people from all backgrounds. As a person of colour who went to a state school, Kanneh-Mason's road towards a career as a classical musician was not a smooth one, and in The Power of Music he advocates for the vital importance of accessibility and diversity in what has traditionally been a predominately privileged space, emphasising the importance of high quality education and equal opportunities for everyone.

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