What books will we be reading?

Each Saturday morning session features carefully chosen books, read aloud in an engaging and interactive way. Expect a warm and welcoming atmosphere where little listeners can explore stories, discover new characters, and spark their love for reading. Please note, the event will be held in English.

This event is free to attend, but we ask that you&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/kids-storytime-good-company-bookstore-tickets-1896226958879">register free tickets in advance</a>&nbsp;so we know how many little bookworms to expect. Please select how many adults and children will be attending. If you can't make it, please ensure you cancel your ticket so others can join.

We'll pick two of our favorite children's books that are available in our bookstore. If you have any suggestions, let us know on the day!

Nothing at all - just bring your curiosity and love for stories! If your child has a favorite stuffed animal or cozy blanket, they’re welcome to bring it along for extra comfort.

Whether they’re early readers, book lovers, or just beginning their literary journey. We welcome parents, caregivers and children of all ages to join us and enjoy the experience together. Please note, the event will be held in English.

We can't wait to share our stories with you!

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Kids Storytime

This event is free to attend, but we ask that you&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/kids-storytime-good-company-bookstore-tickets-1896252916519">register free tickets in advance</a>&nbsp;so we know how many little bookworms to expect. Please select how many adults and children will be attending. If you can't make it, please ensure you cancel your ticket so others can join.

Join us at Good Company Books for an intimate evening of live music, where storytelling and melody come together in a cosy bookshop setting. With a glass of wine in hand, settle in and let two incredible artists transport you with their heartfelt performances. Whether you're here to discover new music, unwind after a long day, or simply enjoy good company, this promises to be a special night.

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/polinika.official/">POLI NIKA</a> creates indie-pop with jazz and soul influences that invites listeners to reconnect and come home to themselves.

Every song offers an intimate and enchanting exploration of how we love, grieve, and eventually stumble towards a greater sense of self-discovery.

Through her music, POLI NIKA both shares her innermost experiences and inspires listeners to embark on their own journeys – to pursue a cherished dream.

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/kilkellymusic">Kilkelly</a> is an Irish songwriter with a taste for the strange, prone to musing and laments. Cutting his teeth in Berlin’s thriving folk scene, first album, <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/HZNYfvT030o">The Prick &amp; The Petal</a> – a concept album about star-crossed lovers in a desolate Ireland – was released independently in 2020, showcased at Liverpool Irish Fest, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.plattentests.de/rezi.php?show=16594">lauded by Plattentests. </a>His sophomore release “Solip” is set for release November 2025.

7.00pm - Doors open. Grab a drink and snack and say hello before the music starts.

7.15pm - The music will begin shortly. Chairs are first come, first serve but we also have plenty of standing and floor seating space available. Two artists will perform with a short interval in between.

Entrance for the concert is €5. Tickets are limited, and often our shows sell out in advance, so we strongly suggest purchasing tickets beforehand. However, if we are not sold out, tickets will also be available at the door. Chairs are first come, first serve but we also have plenty of standing and floor seating space available.

Good Company Books is an independent English Bookstore in Lisbon. Born from our love of global literature and our Portuguese heritage, we are crafting a space for people of all backgrounds to gather and enjoy the best books, events, coffee, and wine. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/goodcompanybookstore/" target="_blank">Find out more on our Instagram.</a>

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Live Music Night with POLI NIKA & Kilkelly

Join us at Good Company Bookstore for a special evening as we open our next art exhibition, featuring the work of Crockett Bodelson, curated by Luiza Melo. We look forward to welcoming you for an evening of art, conversation, and good company!

At the opening, take your time exploring the exhibition, connect with fellow art lovers, and meet Crockett himself. Our wine bar and bookstore will be open throughout the evening.

Crockett Bodelson is an artist from the high desert of New Mexico whose work explores the meeting point between landscape, perception, and constructed experience. Rooted in the unique light and vastness of the Southwestern horizon, his practice reflects an ongoing dialogue between the natural environment and contemporary modes of representation. Bodelson’s work often reimagines the terrain of the desert as both subject and metaphor—a space where time, technology, and memory intersect.

For Horizon Mount, Bodelson continues his investigation into spatial tension and sensory ambiguity, creating works that blur the boundaries between observation and invention. His imagery evokes the stillness and intensity of desert light while probing the psychological depth of open space.

Bodelson lives and works in Lisboã, Portugal.

7:00 PM – Exhibit opens. Order a drink, mingle, and take in the artwork.

This event is free but space is limited. We would appreciate it if you registered a free ticket so we know how many people to expect.

Good Company Books is an independent English bookstore in Lisbon, dedicated to bringing together a community of book lovers, artists, and creatives. Our space is a home for literature, conversation, and curated cultural events. Follow us on Instagram for updates.

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Art Exhibition Opening - Crockett Bodelson

Join us for an evening of books, conversation, and community as we dive into a timeless literary classic!

This month, we'll be reading&nbsp;Wuthering Heights by&nbsp;Emily Bronte.

About the Book:&nbsp;Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him.As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.

Get Your Copy:&nbsp;You can&nbsp;<a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/wuthering-heights/41695690195030" target="_blank">purchase your book</a>&nbsp;on our website and choose in-store pickup or home delivery.

Love books and great discussions? Our book club is the perfect place to connect with fellow readers, share thoughts, and explore new perspectives. Whether you’re a lifelong bookworm or just getting back into reading, you’re welcome to join! 

Expect a cozy, welcoming atmosphere, good company, and engaging conversations over drinks. Grab your copy of the book and come along to listen and be part of the discussion!

The book club is free to attend, but we ask that you register a free ticket&nbsp;so we know how many people to expect.

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Classics Book Club

Join us for an evening of books, conversation, and community as we dive into recent works of contemporary fiction!

Book of the Month:&nbsp;The Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle

About the Book:&nbsp;Tara Selter, the heroine of&nbsp;On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18 she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird will burst into song and when the rain will begin? Will she ever be able to share her new life with her beloved and now chronically befuddled husband? And on top of her profound isolation and confusion, Tara takes in with pain how slight a difference she makes in the world. (As she puts “That’s how little the activities of one person matter on the eighteenth of November.”)

Get Your Copy:&nbsp;You can&nbsp;<a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/on-the-calculation-of-volume-book-i/55527621362045" target="_blank">purchase your book</a>&nbsp;on our website and choose in-store pickup or home delivery.

The book club is free to attend, but we ask that you register a free ticket so we know how many people to expect.

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Contemporary Book Club

Join us for an evening of books, conversation, and community at our Lusophone Book Club.

Here at Good Company, we are passionate about translations, especially of Lusophone authors. That's why we wanted to start this book club, to further our community by exploring the multicultural literary traditions, and the beauty of the Portuguese language.

This month, we'll be reading&nbsp;The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis.

About the Book:&nbsp;Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel&nbsp;The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas&nbsp;(also translated as&nbsp;Epitaph of a Small Winner), the ghost of a decadent and disagreeable aristocrat decides to write his memoir. He dedicates it to the worms gnawing at his corpse and tells of his failed romances and half-hearted political ambitions, serves up hare-brained philosophies and complains with gusto from the depths of his graveWildly imaginative, wickedly witty and ahead of its time, the novel has been compared to works by Cervantes, Sterne, Joyce, Nabokov, Borges and Calvino, and has influenced generations of writers around the world.

Get Your Copy:&nbsp;Readers are&nbsp;welcome to read in both the Portuguese original&nbsp;and the English translation, allowing for a dynamic discussion that encompasses not only the book's themes but also translation as a topic in itself. Copies of the English translation are available for purchase both in-store and&nbsp;<a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/the-posthumous-memoirs-of-bras-cubas/41554298437718" target="_blank">on our website.</a>&nbsp;If you would like to read it in Portuguese, we encourage you to visit one of the many wonderful independent bookstores around Lisbon.

Love books and great discussions? Our book club is the perfect place to connect with fellow readers, share thoughts, and explore new perspectives. Whether you’re a lifelong bookworm or just getting back into reading, you’re welcome to join!

Expect a cozy, welcoming atmosphere, great company, and engaging conversations over drinks. Grab your copy of the book and come along to listen and be part of the discussion!

Lusophone Book Club

Join us for an evening of books, conversation, and community as we celebrate books about, for and written by queer people.

This month, we'll be reading&nbsp;<a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/notes-of-a-crocodile/54981302649213" target="_blank">Notes Of A Crocodile by&nbsp;Qiu MiaoJin</a>

About the Book:&nbsp;Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei,&nbsp;Notes of a Crocodile&nbsp;depicts the coming-of-age of a group of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, Qiu Miaojin's cult classic novel is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and countercultural icon.Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend.Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry,&nbsp;Notes of a Crocodile&nbsp;is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.

Get Your Copy:&nbsp;You can&nbsp;<a href="https://goodcompanybooks.com/shop/product/notes-of-a-crocodile/54981302649213" target="_blank">purchase the book on our website&nbsp;</a>and choose in-store pickup or home delivery.

What To Expect From Our Book Clubs

The book club is free to attend, but <a href="https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/queer-book-club-good-company-bookstore-tickets-1536864927369">please register a free ticket</a> so we know how many to expect.

Queer Book Club

Sip, browse, and start the weekend right. Back by popular demand, we had so much fun at our last cocktail night, we're doing it again!

We'll have a new menu including original creations and classics, from boozy to refreshing, with an autumnal twist.

Whether you’re here to pick up a new book or unwind with a drink, come experience Good Company with a twist.

This event is free, and everyone is welcome, but we’d love for you to register a free ticket so we know how many people to expect. Why not invite a few friends to join you too? The more, the merrier.

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Cocktail Night

Wine lovers, mark your calendars! On Friday, November 21st, Mário Marques from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/whoswine/">Who's Wine</a> is taking over Good Company’s bar for an epic wine experience.

Drop by between 4-9 PM and dive into the world of low-intervention wines. Mário, a sommelier, co-founder of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/whoswine/">Who's Wine</a>, and Good Company regular, is passionate about small producers who truly love their land, respect nature, and produce stunning wines you won’t find anywhere else. And he’s bringing some of his favorite bottles to share with you!

You can expect a casual evening of fantastic low-intervention and natural wines, fun stories around the bar, and maybe a touch of Kerouac-style spontaneity (note: Kerouac not provided). Mário will be behind the bar from 16:00, so come by anytime to taste, chat, and have a good wine-fueled time.

Just don’t expect a formal lecture; this is more like hanging out with a wine-obsessed friend who can’t wait to share their latest discoveries.

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Bar Takeover with Mário Marques from Who's Wine

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The Portuguese language has travelled far and wide across the globe. Its rich literary community includes authors from Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Discover Lusophone authors old and new in translation.

Lusophone Authors

Small ou independent presses are publishing houses that do not make part of the big five companies that publish most of the books in the world. These independent publishers are some os the great taste makers of our time, taking chances on books beyond their commercial appeal.

Small Presses

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Vintage Minis

Our booklists are curated from the diverse personal tastes and interests of our team. We organize these lists around themes to highlight exciting reads that you might not otherwise encounter.&nbsp;

Booklists

Our general fiction section encompasses everything from the historical narratives, to modern day ones. Here you will find a broad selection of novels, from the genre bending to the realistic.

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From riding spaceships to dragons, everything here is out of this world!

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Graphic Novels

From the great classics to the experimental, our fiction collection encompasses the best of every genre to transport you to other worlds and other lives through many different narratives.&nbsp;

Fiction

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Memoir

Dive into personal and critical reflections on a wide range of topics.

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Engage with ideas that challenge and inspire, from ancient to modern times.

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In this category you will find nonfiction titles on current events, politics, sociology, and culture. Everything that you need to understand the world we live in and the ideas that shape it.

Politics, Society & Current Events

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In this list you'll find new culture, criticism, biography, and scientific writing alongside classics of each genre.&nbsp;

Nonfiction

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