Each week during the UK's corona lockdown The Bookshop Band have been presenting a LIVE music-book show from their home, every Friday at 8.30pm (BST), recommending 5 books for isolation reading and performing songs inspired by them. The shows originally went out on Facebook, and at time of uploading here, they are still happening, so do check out the LIVE show here:   / live  

THE SEVENTH SHOW - aired on the 22nd May 2020.

Books (and stories) featured in the first show are:
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
Our Homesick Songs, by Emma Hooper
The Dust That Falls From Dreams, by Louis de Bernieres
The Stonecutter (trad. Japanese folk story)

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