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On the box

Collecting the range of filmed online literary events from our ‘Bookseller Crow on The Box’ YouTube channel

'Crow on the Box' with Jenny Landreth
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Jenny Landreth

Michele Roberts and Helen Cullen, Talks from an Empty Bookshop, Talks from an Empty Bookshop
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E. Foley and B. Coates

Michele Roberts & Helen Cullen, Talks from an Empty Bookshop
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Michèle Roberts and Helen Cullen

Eley Williams, Talks from an Empty Bookshop
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Eley Williams

'Crow on the Box' with DBC Pierre
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DBC Pierre

'Crow on the Box' with Christobel Kent
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Christobel Kent

'Crow on the Box' with Lev Parikian
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'Crow on the Box' with Nick Pettigrew
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'Crow on the Box' with Stuart Evers
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'Crow on the Box' with Evie Wyld
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'Crow on the Box' with Gavanndra Hodge
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Christmas At The Crow: Five Top Author Signing Day @ The Bookseller Crow | England | United Kingdom
Join us on Saturday 6th December for a fabulous fundraising festive signing day. Mulled wine and mince pies will be served, along with the opportunity to buy signed books from some of the most popular ... Read More >
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Event: Deserter Duo 'Deserter Stories' & Justin Lewis 'Into The Groove'
Come back to your local for a night of two halves, when on Thursday 11th December, we welcome the return of the Deserter duo with their new book Deserter Stories, plus the author Justin Lewis ... Read More >
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  • Event: Deserter Duo ‘Deserter Stories’ & Justin Lewis ‘Into The Groove’

    Event: Deserter Duo ‘Deserter Stories’ & Justin Lewis ‘Into The Groove’

    When: 11th December 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Come back to your local for a night of two halves, when on Thursday 11th December, we welcome the return of the Deserter duo with their new book Deserter Stories, plus the author Justin Lewis ... Read More >Read More >
  • Christmas At The Crow: Five Top Author Signing Day

    Christmas At The Crow: Five Top Author Signing Day

    When: 6th December 2025 @ 10:30 am – 5:00 pm Where: The Bookseller Crow, 50 Westow St, London SE19 3AF, UK Join us on Saturday 6th December for a fabulous fundraising festive signing day. Mulled wine and mince pies will be served, along with the opportunity to buy signed books from some of the most popular ... Read More >Read More >
  • John L. Williams HEATWAVE: the summer of 1976 Britain at boiling point

    John L. Williams HEATWAVE: the summer of 1976 Britain at boiling point

    When: 5th June 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm Where: The Bookseller Crow, 50 Westow St, London SE19 3AF, UK With scorching temperatures soaring to 35 degrees, severe water shortages and a sunburned population queuing at the street standpipes, the summer of 1976 will always be remembered as Britain’s hottest on record. But the wave ... Read More >Read More >
  • Debut author panel: Marni Appleton, Rupert Dastur and Celia Silvani

    Debut author panel: Marni Appleton, Rupert Dastur and Celia Silvani

    When: 29th May 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Where: The Bookseller Crow, 50 Westow St, London SE19 3AF, UK Join us for an evening of readings and discussion around short stories and novel writing from three exceptional debut authors, Marni Appleton, Rupert Dastur and Celia Silvani. They’ll be sharing their unique perspectives on how ... Read More >Read More >
  • Author event: Rachel Seiffert and Joe Dunthorne

    Author event: Rachel Seiffert and Joe Dunthorne

    When: 15th May 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm Where: The Bookseller Crow, 50 Westow St, London SE19 3AF, UK Join us for an evening with authors Rachel Seiffert and Joe Dunthorne, as we celebrate their new books, Once The Deed is Done and Children of Radium. Children of Radium – Joe Dunthorne’s great-grandfather was ... Read More >Read More >
  • MARK STEEL – THE LEOPARD IN MY HOUSE

    MARK STEEL – THE LEOPARD IN MY HOUSE

    When: 17th March 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Where: The Bookseller Crow, 50 Westow St, London SE19 3AF, UK This event has now sold out. “The consultant had told me he was confident I had throat cancer that had spread into the lymph glands. Joyfully, I held his hand, and looked up to the ... Read More >Read More >
  • Memoir, truth & the ethics of personal narrative with Susanna Crossman and Sam Mills

    Memoir, truth & the ethics of personal narrative with Susanna Crossman and Sam Mills

    When: 28th March 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm Where: The Bookseller Crow, 50 Westow St, London SE19 3AF, UK Please join us for a night of non-fiction on Friday 28th March when Sam Mills will be discussing Uneven, a cultural history of bisexuality, and Susanna Crossman will be discussing her brilliant memoir, Home Is ... Read More >Read More >
  • I Want To Talk To You – Diana Evans in conversation with Karen McLeod

    I Want To Talk To You – Diana Evans in conversation with Karen McLeod

    When: 7th February 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm Where: The Bookseller Crow, 50 Westow St, London SE19 3AF, UK Join us on Friday 7th February to celebrate Diana’s latest book I WANT TO TALK TO YOU: And Other Conversations when she’ll be in conversation with our writer-in-residence, author Karen McLeod. Crafted over twenty-five years, I ... Read More >Read More >
  • New show reading with Ben Moor: A THREE THING DAY

    New show reading with Ben Moor: A THREE THING DAY

    When: 30th January 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm Where: The Bookseller Crow, 50 Westow St, London SE19 3AF, UK A THREE THING DAY – the new show from Ben Moor Join us on Thursday 30th January 2025  for a wonderful evening of Ben Moor’s new comedy concerning affinity, vertigo and bad phone reception. “I ... Read More >Read More >
  • CBeditions evening: Will Eaves and Charles Boyle in conversation

    CBeditions evening: Will Eaves and Charles Boyle in conversation

    When: 28th November 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm Where: The Bookseller Crow, 50 Westow St, London SE19 3AF, UK Join us for an author event with Will Eaves and Charles Boyle when they discuss their new books, Invasion of the Polyhedrons, a book of stories-cum-essays, and the travelogue, Invisible Dogs. WILL EAVES (Invasion of ... Read More >Read More >
  • CHRIS SHEPHERD and his debut Graphic Novel, ANFIELD ROAD

    CHRIS SHEPHERD and his debut Graphic Novel, ANFIELD ROAD

    When: 14th November 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm Where: The Bookseller Crow, 50 Westow St, London SE19 3AF, UK Writer, artist, and filmmaker, Chris Shepherd’s debut graphic novel depicts a beautiful coming of age story centered around growing up in the working-class dynamics of Merseyside in the late eighties. For fans of emotional stories ... Read More >Read More >
  • Author Event: Evie Wyld THE ECHOES in conversation with Karen McLeod

    Author Event: Evie Wyld THE ECHOES in conversation with Karen McLeod

    When: 3rd October 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm Where: The Bookseller Crow, 50 Westow St, London SE19 3AF, UK ‘Stranger, darker, and more brilliant than anything she’s written before’ is how the Guardian described The Echoes, Evie Wyld’s fifth novel in a critically acclaimed career to date. Narrated in part by a ghost, the novel spans generations, ... Read More >Read More >

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  • January Book Group Choice: The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas

    January Book Group Choice: The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas

    Our next book group meeting is 7th Janaury 2026, starting at 7.30pm. Simply buy a copy of the book (from us!) read it, then come along. Bring a bottle/can, if that’s …
  • The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

    The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

    BOOK GROUP CHOICE This month we are reading The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş and will meet ot discuss it on Wednesday 5th November 2025, 7.30pm at the bookshop. All welcome. Asya …
  • The Spoiled Heart – Sunjeev Sahota

    The Spoiled Heart – Sunjeev Sahota

    Join Us for our next monthly book group, Wednesday 6th August 7.30pm in the shop. All welcome.
  • Forbidden Notebook – Alba De Céspedes

    Forbidden Notebook – Alba De Céspedes

    Next monthly book group 2nd July 7.30pm in the shop. All welcome.
  • The Lowlife – Alexander Baron

    The Lowlife – Alexander Baron

    Join us on Wednesday 4th June 7.30pm in the shop, when we will be discussing The Lowlife by Alexander Baron. All welcolme.
  • Colony –  Annika Norlin

    Colony – Annika Norlin

    Join us for our monthly Book group May 7th 7.30pm in the shop. All welcome.
  • The Buddha Of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi

    The Buddha Of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi

    Join us Wednesday 2nd April at 7.30pm in the shop.
  • Kairos – Jenny Erpenbeck

    Kairos – Jenny Erpenbeck

    Join us for our next monthly book group, Wednesday March 5th, 7.30pm in the shop.
  • The Slowworm’s Song – Andrew Miller

    The Slowworm’s Song – Andrew Miller

    Next meeting of our monthly book group Wednesday 5th February, 7.30pm in the shop. All welcome.
  • Happy All The Time – Laurie Colwin

    Happy All The Time – Laurie Colwin

    Join us for our first book group of 2025 on January 8th 7.30pm, in the shop.  
  • North Woods – Daniel Mason

    North Woods – Daniel Mason

    Join us for our next monthly book grroup, Wednesday December 4th 7.30pm in the shop. All welcome.
  • Orbital – Samantha Harvey

    Orbital – Samantha Harvey

    Join us for our monthly book group Wednesday November 6th, 7.30pm in the shop. All welcolme.

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        Now past its tenth year the Crow Book Group has grown into a regular social event. With rare exceptions such as bank holidays, the book group meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm. The title to be read and discussed is sign-posted and on sale for the whole of the previous month (with a discount for those who make it known they intend to come) and everybody is welcome, whether first-timer, part-timer or regular-timer. You don’t even have to have had read the book. Each month the discussion is lively and unpretentious, with naughty snacks and plenty to drink. Feel free to bring a bottle. Sometimes we get quite a crowd.. Too good to be true? The catch is that the bookshop gets to choose what the book group reads. This is non-negotiable. But to keep ourselves on our toes, we have a rule that author gender is alternated, girl-boy-girl-boy, and the continents always rotated (with occasional glitches). Sometimes the novels chosen are new, often they are from the backlist and occasionally re-issued from way back. We always try to make them relevant and refreshing – the kind of stuff you won’t get at a run-of-the-mill book…
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