Welcome to
The Bookworm Beijing
A bookshop, library, bar, restaurant and events space, now with four locations in three cities – Beijing, Suzhou and Chengdu
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Our Upcoming Events
Friday, May 18 20:00 Putong Hua: Crime & Punishment
Join us as local storytellers spin a yarn for you! This month’s theme: Crime & Punishment.
Saturday, May 19 10:00 NGO & Charity Networking Day
Each year, The Bookworm hosts the NGO & Charity Networking Day in order to help organizations share awareness and connect with the Beijing NGO-charity community. Drop by to find out more about some of the great organizations working in the NGO and charity sectors and ways for you to get involved!
Sunday, May 20 11:00 Story Time with Hannah
Come along for our Sunday sessions of reading, games, music and activities for little readers.
News
We’ve been nominated!
The Bookworm is up for top honors in a few categories for The Beijinger Bar & Club Awards – including Best Cafe, Best Networking and, of course, Best Quiz. You can vote for us here and Voting is open until May 9th.
A Yi, Mo Yan and more in Granta
In celebration of China Week, (China is the market focus at the London Book Fair this week), Granta is publishing a short stories, excerpts and podcasts from Chinese writers, including BLF 2011 author A Yi‘s Petty Thief (trans. Alice Xin Liu) about a thief with a secret power and a poem from Wang Yin, Flying [...]
Orange Prize shortlist announced
The Orange Prize shortlist was announced today. This is the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. The finalists are: Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues Anne Enright The Forgotten Georgina Harding Painter of Silence Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles Cynthia Ozick Foreign Bodies Ann Patchett State of Wonder The winner will [...]
Hot New Books
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About The Bookworm
The Bookworm is a bookshop, library, bar, restaurant and events space, now with five locations in three cities - Beijing, Suzhou and Chengdu.
The Bookworm is forever expanding its book offering - at the last count, we were able to boast 16,112 titles on our library shelves. Our bookshop offers a wide range of sometimes surprising tomes, and our talks continue to beguile our audiences. Find more details about us, and how to contact us, here.
BLF 2012 Moleskine Notebooks
It\'s not too late to get your very own BLF 2012 Moleskine notebook. Available now at The Bookworm.
