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2024. november 19., 10:29

Bond over good reads at this girls-only book club

Budapest Book Club is about sharing the love of reading with like-minded people in a safe space for women and chatting about more than just novels.

2022. augusztus 30., 17:17

Music, circus, dance… and books – Újbuda Children’s Book Festival offers a weekend of family fun

There's a whole weekend of family fun at the Újbuda Children’s Book Festival staged in and around the B32 Gallery & Cultural Centre, with a clown show, live music, dance and workshops.

2022. június 20., 09:37

Best gifts to buy if you’re flying home from Budapest

A new service opened at Kálvin tér in town allows air passengers to tag and go – print off your luggage check-in tag and leave your bag there near the airport bus stop while you shop.

2022. február 28., 14:29

UK and US music writers research new book on mystical Hungarian jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó

Hungarian jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó was a star in 1960s' LA before his career and health declined. Now, 40 years after his death in Budapest, two music writers are writing a book about him.

2021. december 22., 13:08

10 best secondhand bookshops in Budapest

Here are our ten favourite secondhand bookshops in Budapest, from cult cafés to bookwormy boutiques lined with rarely opened volumes. All are English-friendly, to a greater or lesser extent.

2021. október 6., 09:06

Buda street now partly renamed after famed modern novelist Magda Szabó

Best known in the English-speaking world for her novel The Door, award-winning novelist Magda Szabó has been honoured in Budapest with a section of street named after her.

2021. szeptember 28., 16:02

Budapest music legend Bruce Lewis pens debut novel about the city’s crazy decade

Budapest post-'89 is the setting for a jazzy first novel by Bruce Lewis, a Kentucky guitarist once of this parish. Joshua Fragmented depicts a city in transition – and those drawn to its allure.

2021. szeptember 13., 14:38

New Blue Danube book series launched with two works by Hungarian author Miklós Bánffy

Two works by Hungarian author Miklós Bánffy are now available to the English-speaking public, introducing the new Blue Danube series of writings about the region.

2021. május 10., 11:42

Enchanting new book captures the eternal magic of Hungarian village football

With the Euros approaching, look out for a unique photo album, with texts in English. Capturing the lost world of Hungarian village football, Hátsó füves (‘Backyard Goals’) can also be seen online.

2021. május 7., 15:55

Babérliget Kávézó & Könyvesbolt

Babérliget is a bookstore in Kertész utca honouring 20th-century essayist Béla Hamvas and hosts events organised by the foundation that carries his name

2021. május 5., 11:22

Massolit Books & Café

Massolit Books & Café is a fusion of a café and bookstore on Nagy Diófa utca

2021. április 14., 13:59

Hungarian writer Péter Esterházy celebrated with special displays around Óbuda

Happy birthday, Péter Esterházy! The renowned Hungarian writer is being celebrated with special displays around the area where he's always lived, Óbuda.

2021. április 14., 10:05

Magda Szabó’s Budapest

Discover the world of Magda Szabó, one of Hungary’s greatest modern writers, who included many Budapest locations in her novels – and some we can only guess at.

2021. április 13., 10:42

Fence at Budapest children’s hospital turned into an art installation of best-loved books

From ruin bars to kids' books – Bertalan Babos, aka Zsili, designs a unique fence in front of the Bethesda Children’s Hospital by City Park, underlining the healing power of stories when most needed.

2020. október 21., 12:38

All square – Ernő Rubik talks to We Love Budapest about his Cube, creativity and childhood

Inventor Ernő Rubik of Cube fame speaks to We Love Budapest about the dice that changed his life – as documented in his new book, ‘Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All’.

2020. június 29., 10:07

New book captures Budapest’s beat era

A new edition in the Fortepan series of archive photo albums, ‘BEAT, POP, ROCK – WALLS AND SPEAKERS’, captures the dancing days of Budapest's youth behind the Iron Curtain.

2020. április 2., 10:53

Bomo Art - Pest

Bomo Art Budapest is a small and stylish stationery store with an atmosphere that is reminiscent of the belle-époque

2019. február 15., 16:58

Atlantisz Könyvsziget

Any bookworm or art enthusiast could spend hours at this bookshop in the Jewish Quarter

2019. február 14., 18:04

Bestsellers has been Budapest’s main source for foreign-language books since 1992. Their selection is broad and modern, with scientific publications, magazines and translations of Hungarian literature besides bestselling fiction.