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Est 2023 📖 Come for the books, stay for the coffee and conversation 🍫☕️
📕 Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
Book Club by @redlionbooks🦁

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Happy Bookclub Day!

We host our own book clubs for adults, children and teens. Fiction, non-fiction and a Silent Book Club

We are proud to house the Feminist Book Club with @solange.gulizzi and supply books to the wonderful @colchester.pride book club as well as the brilliant @boozybookclub.colchester HAPPY BOOKCLUB DAY to you all

• #ColchesterBookClubs
• #BookClubDay
• #CocoaBookClub
• #AppetiteBookClub

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This is how Summer ends! ☀️✨🧋

The last Sunday of any month is Cocoa day, and this month’s meeting was incredibly fun as we got to chat and discuss Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Alas, no midnight margaritas but plenty of iced coffee and biscuits. We couldn’t think of a better way to close out our summer sessions. We look forward to entering our Autumnal season with Victorian Psycho.

If you’d like to attend a cocoa bookclub meeting, visit @redlionbooks, DM The Cocoa Bookclub @cocoabookclub or email us@redlionbooks.co.uk for more information

#practicalmagic
#victorianpsycho
#BookLover
#Bookish
#colchesterbookclub

@ahoffmanwriter

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It's the last week of Essex Book Festival! There's still plenty of brilliant events on before we finish for another year... but be quick!

#EssexBookFestival #Essex #bookevent #authorevent #bookfestival

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Always something going on! Maybe see some of you on Saturday morning for a cuppa.
@cocoabookclub #colchesterbookclubforchildren

#whatsonincolchester @incolchester #colchester #colchesterbookevents @charlotteparadise @angieblondon @colchesterdeathclub

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Thank you so much @redlionbooks @cocoabookclub - I had so much fun talking about the rise of romance, and all things SPICE! I loved meeting @authorriaaliceandjessicamay and @ Unembarassable. And I’m so so thrilled that my novel Limelight was the @cocoabookclub choice for April - I feel so lucky to have such sensitive, thoughtful readers. 💖📚

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FEB EVENTS*

A short month but lots of regular events: Silent Book Club, Appetite Book Club, Cocoa Book Club, Children’s Book Clubs. Death Club, Writing Club & Poetry Club are free to attend with donations to @foodbankcolchester

Poetry Reading by @heartmindandsoldieryoga on 14th February

2 tickets left for the BOOKSHOP SOIREE on 11th Feb with
@elizabethlovatt @nicki_thornton and @rebeccahanniganauthor

THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE

LITTLE BOOKSHOP OF MURDERS

DARKROOMS

Always proud to host craft workshops throughout the month with @loumarmit Crochet and @allhollyseve Linocutting

Full details www.redlionbooks.co.uk

#colchester #indiebookshop #colchesterbookshop @appetite.book.club @cocoabookclub

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In December, @cocoabookclub met to talk all about New Adult Book Prize winner, Disappoint Me 🎈🏆

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#bookclub #bookclubs #bookclubcolchester #colchesterbookclub #colchester

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as the big day draws nearer, and people turn to the ever stretching reaches of Amazon, it’s so important to remember to shop local if, and when you can. so, what a delight it was to stumble upon a beautiful independent bookshop during a recent Christmas shopping trip to Colchester in Essex🎄🏰📚

@redlionbooks is a gorgeous and cozy bookshop nestled right in the heart of Colchester’s historic high street. i can’t say how happy i was to find an indie bookshop - of which there are not many in Essex. established almost 50 years ago, it may look small from the outside, but it is an Aladdin’s cave of treasure within - spread over two floors and absolutely cramp-packed with everything you could hope to find.

the staff were so friendly and helpful, and let me know of all the various events that the shop holds, including the numerous book clubs, author signings and even a crochet club! the dedicated sections to LGBTQ+ books and new, independent exclusives are worth going for alone! 🏳️‍🌈

the shop has such a calm and homely feel, with lovely, decent folk doing what they love at work - i could have stayed there for hours and hours, browsing and chatting. it’s independent bookshops like this, that really are worth making the journey for - and now I know it’s there, i cannot wait to make a return visit!

and of course, i know Christmas is almost here, but how could i not make a purchase. the @cocoabookclub, which is held there monthly, have been fortunate enough to collaborate with @newadultprize, being granted early release paperbacks of their inaugural winner, ‘Disappoint Me’ by @nicoladinan, for their next book club. so yep, of course it was coming home with me. what a fabulous surprise!🥰📕💚

please make sure to give @redlionbooks and @cocoabookclub a follow, they are such a valuable cornerstone of the local community, it’s immediately clear how loved they are by their customers, which in today’s world, is truly a joy to see. i can’t wait to return when I next find myself their way 🚗📗🥹

#book #booksbooksbooks #shoplocal #independentbookstore #colchester #booklover #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #bookworm #books #lgbt #litfic #fiction #booktok #bookshelf #booklife

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#bookclub #bookclubsincolchester #colchesterbookclub #colchester #appetitebookclub #cocoabookclub

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🩸☠️ BOOK VS FILM: BONES AND ALL ☠️🩸

This Halloween, we’re teaming up with @cocoabookclub for a special crossover event - a book vs film discussion of Bones and All.

Whether you’ve read Camille DeAngelis’ haunting novel, watched Luca Guadagnino’s visceral adaptation starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell, or are simply curious - come along to connect, compare and celebrate horror storytelling in all its forms.

📖🎬 Sunday 26th October
📍 @diceandaslice Colchester
 Everyone welcome (just come for the conversation)!

#BonesAndAll #TimotheeChalamet #TaylorRussell #FilmLovers #BookLovers

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Pick a quote and get your spooky read 👻#bookclub #cocoabookclub #thecocoabookclub
#bookinstagram #bookshopsofengland #indiebookshop #redlionbooks #colchester #event #colchesterevent #eventsincolchester #bonesandall #horror #spookyreads #Bones&all #thehotel #daisyjohnson #recommendations #bookrecs

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