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Eyes on 2025
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Water moon
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Loot - PRE ORDER
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Love in Exile -PRE-ORDER
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Dream Count - Independent Bookshop Edition pre order
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Disappoint Me - Pre Order
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Pre Order
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We Do Not Part - PRE-ORDER
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Hunchback - PRE-ORDER
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The Emperor of Gladness - Pre Order
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Lies and sorcery
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Resistance - Pre Order
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To Have or To Hold: Nature's Hidden Relationships - Pre Order
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Best of 2024
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There are rivers in the sky
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The house of broken bricks
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Monstrilio
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The empusium
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Women and Children First
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FROM SAVAGERY
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Best of Nonfiction 2024
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The Serviceberry : An Economy of Gifts and Abundance
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The ultimate hidden truth of the world
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There's always this year
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A thousand threads
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The wickedest
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A people's history of football
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Poor artists
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Philosophy of the home
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A very short history of the Israel-Palestine conflict
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London feeds itself
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The pleasure of thinking
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Around nature, this winter
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By the river
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The Serviceberry : An Economy of Gifts and Abundance
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Dispersals
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The Haunted Trail
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Going to ground
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The place of tides
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A flat place
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Hunt for the shadow wolf
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Late light
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The tidal year
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Children's Fiction Books we liked in 2024
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Fia and the last snow deer
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Ajay and the Treasure of Thar
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The wrong shoes
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Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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Onyeka and the heroes of the dawn
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A Hero Like Me
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Movies showing nowhere
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Man-man and the tree of memories
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Relic Hamilton, genie hunter
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Brilliant Black British history
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The land of lost things
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YA Books we liked in 2024
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Lord of the flies (Graphic Novel)
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So Let Them Burn
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Twenty-four seconds from now
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Sister Spirit
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Glasgow boys
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If my words had wings
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Northern soul
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Small but mighty
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On Connection
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I can't stop thinking about VAR
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Pretentiousness
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Things I Don't Want to Know
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So late in the day
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Losing the plot
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Sisterhood heals
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Hair/Power
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Dept. of Speculation
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Good Choices
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History n tings
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How to say Babylon
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Our island stories
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A city on Mars
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The shoulders we stand on
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Seeing further
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Springfield Road
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Beauty is in the street
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A history of the Roman Empire in 21 women
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A bit Poetic
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36 ways of writing a Vietnamese poem
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Sitting on the Ocean watching you fight off seagulls to save our chips
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Killing time
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Open Mouths
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Fuck It...Pass the Salt, Please
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Haruko/love poems
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The Warring Twenties
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Maps of Desire
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To the Kitchen
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What I ate in one year
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London feeds itself
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Turkuaz kitchen
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Sylvia Plath's tomato soup cake
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Back to the local
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Crazy water, pickled lemons
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Invitation to a banquet
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Time & Tide : Recipes and Stories from My Coastal Kitchen
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National dish
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Upcoming Events at Bookbag
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Sat 25 Jan / Bookbag By Night presents Burns Night
Bookbag's first Open Mic of the year is a nod to Burns Night.
Sat 25 Jan / Bookbag By Night presents Burns Night
Bookbag's first Open Mic of the year is a nod to Burns Night.
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Friday 29 November / Book Launch with Ellen Wiles
About the Book Kessie and Robin have been best friends since they were small. Now they’ve reached their mid-thirties, and biological clocks are ticking loudly.But Kessie is single, Robin’s partner...
Friday 29 November / Book Launch with Ellen Wiles
About the Book Kessie and Robin have been best friends since they were small. Now they’ve reached their mid-thirties, and biological clocks are ticking loudly.But Kessie is single, Robin’s partner...
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About Bookbag
At Bookbag we celebrates local/global stories. Our selection includes writers of colour, women's, and LGBTQ voices. Visit our friendly, welcoming bookshop in McCoys Arcade, off Fore Street, Exeter.
A social space, we program a range of events including an open mic night, author talks and we co-produce literary festival Africa Writes - Exeter. We collaborate with arts organisations, schools, and community groups across the UK to provide book lists, arrange author visits, run pop-up bookshops and more. Get in touch!
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