Curious Fox is an English language bookshop and cafe in Berlin, selling new and used books, stationery and postcards. German language books available to order.
We moved to Lausitzer Platz 17, Kreuzberg in January 2022. Curious Fox Books was founded by Orla and David both originally from Ireland who love books and a decent cup of tea. We offer NEW and SECOND HAND books for children and adults alike along with, stationery, gift items, postcards and book accessories. If we don't have a book you are looking for in stock, we can order it for you with next day
We moved to Lausitzer Platz 17, Kreuzberg in January 2022. Curious Fox Books was founded by Orla and David both originally from Ireland who love books and a decent cup of tea. We offer NEW and SECOND HAND books for children and adults alike along with, stationery, gift items, postcards and book accessories. If we don't have a book you are looking for in stock, we can order it for you with next day
We will be doing the following books from May to November for the book club.
* May: "Detransition, Baby" by Torrey Peters
* June: "Marzhahn, Mon Amour" by Katja Oskamp
* July: "After Midnight" by Irmgard Keun
* August: "Luster" by Raven Leilani
* September: "Harlem Shuffle" by Colson Whitehead
* October: "A Burning" by Megan Majumdar
* November: "Afterlives" by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Every day the Platz gets a little greener. We are back today from the long weekend and open until 19:00.
We had the pleasure of meeting author Fernanda Melchor when she dropped into the shop this afternoon to sign some copies of her books, 'Hurricane Season' & 'Paradais'. Both books were translated into English by Sophie Hughes and published by one of our favourite independent publishers, Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Paradais: Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to p**n, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbour – an attractive married woman and mother – while Polo dreams about quitting his gruelling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme. Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of our most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society – fractured by issues of race, class and violence – and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.
Hurricane Season: The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing co**se, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, Fernanda Melchor paints a moving portrait of lives governed by poverty and violence, machismo and misogyny, superstition and prejudice. Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane Season, Melchor’s first novel to appear in English, is a formidable portrait of Mexico and its demons.
We are closed tomorrow (Fri. 15.04 as it's a public holiday) and open on Saturday as normal and closed again on Monday (another public holiday).
The Irish Embassy, Berlin have a great line-up of films at the German Irish Film Summit being screened at Kino Moviemento later this month. Including my favourite Irish film of recent years, "Extra Ordinary". Also, it's free! View the full programme, including a programme of short films and sign up below.
bit.ly/3KytYGy
The German Irish Film Summit is a place for film professionals and aficionados to enjoy German Irish film connections.
If you're interested in participating in our book club, we have a poll now online to vote for the books from May to November.
Here are the options for the book club for the rest of 2022. The 7 books with the most votes will be discussed at the book club on the third Thursday of the month starting in May (the book for April has already been chosen and is Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds).
We are keeping the Maskenpflicht in place at Curious Fox for the time being. We hope everyone understands. So, an FFP2 mask, please.
We'll keep wearing ours and we hope we will all continue to get through this together.
Happy St. Patrick's Day! For the day that's in it, here's a very small selection of the incredible writing to come out of Ireland in recent years.
One more :)
A few pics of the new place for those who haven't had a chance to visit yet.
Our friend, the German-Irish writer Marcel Krueger has written this beautiful and informative guide to Ukrainian writers past and present.
By Marcel Krueger : Despair and sadness, this is what I first felt when waking up to the outbreak of war in Ukraine. The thing that I had made dark jokes about just the day before with a Polish acquaintance with relatives in Ukraine, a thing that felt like abstract posturing with words a
Children's book author and illustrator Shirley Hughes died today at the age of 94. Her stories were firm favourites of mine as a child and later of my own children. Her illustrations are absolutely beautiful and her stories so insightful, she really captures how a child thinks and feels.
We consider ourselves very lucky to have this mural by Irish artist, John Rooney adorning our entranceway in the new shop.
You can see more of John's work at http://johnrooneyillustration.com/
There are so many beautiful new children's books being published these days, here are just some of our favourites. These two brilliant novels are our favourites so far this year, debut novel 'Kingdomtide' by Rye Curtis and the new English translation of Katja Oskamp's 'Marzahn, Mon Amour' by Jo Heinrich. If you liked 'Leonard and Hungry Paul' by Ronan Hession, then 'Marzahn, Mon Amour', is one for you!
Curious Fox Books, Berlin updated their address.
We are delighted to finally report that from tomorrow, Monday 31 January you will find us in our new cosy souterrain at Lausitzer Platz 17, 10997.
We open tomorrow at 14:00.
New Kiez. New bookmarks.
The renovations are in their final stages, then it will be a few days of us installing shelves and putting books on them, etc. Needless to say, things are taking longer than we anticipated but we will announce our re-opening date very soon.
We're off to Ireland (50% of us are already there) for the first Christmas in a few years.
We wish all our customers, family, friends and colleagues a happy Christmas and a peaceful, happy, healthy and more equal New Year.
We'll see you in our new shop in Kreuzberg some time towards the middle of January.
Dave & Orla.
We've had to finally admit to ourselves that as much as wanted it, our new place won't be ready in time for us to re-open before Christmas. It's possibly just as well as it would have been a mad rush.
It's very close though, so we will be open in January.
Our last order for delivery before Christmas will be on Monday (by 4pm). Books that we have in stock can be delivered or collected up to the 23rd.
We have found a new home for Curious Fox, over the canal in Kreuzberg. It still needs some renovation and so we won’t be open for a few weeks yet but we hope to be up and running in early December.
Though we are sad to be leaving the Kiez & Neukölln, we look forward to a new chapter in Kreuzberg.
Once again, we wish to express our heartfelt thanks to everyone who has sent us tips for new locations, good wishes and kind words.
Further details to follow once we know exactly when we can open our doors.
The Embassy of Ireland in Germany present a live conversation and Q+A with internationally renowned Irish writers Roddy Doyle and Rob Doyle
The two Dubliners will discuss Roddy Doyle’s new book ‘Love’, Rob Doyle's new book 'Autobibliography', and will field questions from the online audience.
Register to join via Zoom or catch the livestream from our page or website.
This event is is co-hosted by the Consulate General of Ireland to Frankfurt am Main and presented in partnership with the following bookstores:
Curious Fox books (Flughafenstraße 22, 12053 Berlin)
https://www.curiousfoxbooks.com/index.php
The Munich Readery (Augustenstraße 104, 80798 München)
http://readery.de/
Varia Vardar (Schwerinstr. 6 , 40477 Düsseldorf)
https://varia-vardar.buchkatalog.de/
This event tomorrow evening promises to be lovely, hosted by Embassy of Ireland Berlin with Irish authors Roddy Doyle and Rob Doyle.
It will be livestreamed on our FB page (& the embassy's) and you can also register below to join the Zoom event.
It's been strange not being able to have everyone over for events & readings and we are really looking forward to a time in the not-too-distant future when we can do just that again in a new place.
In the meantime, we hope you will join us and tune in tomorrow at 19:00 CEST (18:00 GMT).
http://bit.ly/2XJvUsq
The Embassy of Ireland in Germany present a live conversation and Q+A with internationally renowned Irish writers Roddy Doyle and Rob Doyle
Curious Fox Books, Berlin updated their business hours.
This photo was taken yesterday by our friend Adrian Shephard.
Our last days open for business at Flughafenstrasse are Monday 23 August & Tuesday 24 August.
From Wednesday 25 August we will be closed until we find a new location for the business.
During this time, we will continue take orders via email and deliver them by arrangement within a reasonable distance from Kreuzberg / Neukölln.
When we have a new location confirmed, we will announce it here and on our website. Feel free to sign up to our newsletter also.
Órla & Dave.
We are suspending the Book Club until we are settled in our new location.
We'll pick up where we left off with Flann O'Brien's "At Swim-Two-Birds" soon.
We will be closing today at the earlier time of 17:50. Apologies for any inconvenience.
People seem to be wondering, so we'd just like to make clear that business will continue as normal at Flughafenstrasse until further notice.
Books may still be ordered for next-day delivery or from overseas and we will continue to stock the same titles you expect to find with us, in addition to all the newly published books too.
We have been overwhelmed by the messages of support, the offers of help packing up and all of the tips for new locations people have sent us and so we very grateful for all of that.
More news when we have it.
The shop will be closed on Monday 26 July. It's business as usual from Tuesday 27 July at 12:00.
We've been minding Malick for the last week, his favourite place is, in the way!
From today's delivery - some restocks and some brand new paperbacks.
On #indiebookshopweek here are nine of the wondrous bookshops we featured in our podcast so far. Their birth are tales of passion and resilience and their bloom is in the hands of their readers, so head to your local indie bookshop and buy yourself a summer read 🌻
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AUDIO BOOKS: When you sign up for a new @librofm membership on today (Tue 22 June) with the code CHOOSEINDIE, you'll get 2 audiobooks for the price of 1. http://libro.fm/redeem
BLOOMSDAY & VIRTUAL REALITY! Tomorrow (Wed 16 June) is Bloomsday. This is the second year that we haven't been able to hold an event in the shop, fingers firmly crossed for next year!
The Embassy of Ireland Berlin has organised two great events to mark the occasion.
1) The exhibition 'Ulysses Expanded' is a selection of work from German based artists, Ciarán Walsh, Barry Lanigan, Orla Connolly, and Liam Ryan, made to accompany readings from Ulysses.
The works can be viewed on their website (https://www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/germany/) from 13:00 CET on 16 June, or join the live reception at 19:00 CET later that day in the Virtual Reality reception area, where you can explore the exhibition, socialise, and experience the readings in a very special way, without requiring special Virtual Reality equipment.
The exhibition will also be available to view on their page.
2) Thursday 17 June at 19:00 CET. A reading of the absolutely brilliant new novel 'Nora' by Nuala O'Connor, a bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce's wife, muse, and the model for Molly Bloom in Ulysses. Register using this link.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/nora-a-love-story-of-nora-and-james-joyce-tickets-156078467899?fbclid=IwAR2LK6IBQPzBFKXrMOqWjThgBEhaXZdI1Gv9lim6Eh0wmFA_2WDx5uEx1Hw
The Embassy of Ireland in Germany present Bloomsday 2021 with the exhibition 'Ulysses Expanded'
Loads of great 2nd-hand books found their way in to us last week.
We will also send out a First Dibs Email at 18:00 this evening, so keep an eye on your SPAM folder.
Lausitzer Platz 17
Berlin
10997
| Montag | 14:00 - 19:00 |
| Dienstag | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Mittwoch | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Donnerstag | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Freitag | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Samstag | 11:00 - 18:00 |
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We're enjoying a last couple of days in Ireland and we will be open again on Wednesday 3 January at 10am. We thank you all so much for your wonderful support in 2017 and wish you all a very Happy New Year.
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