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november 19 at 10:29 AM CET

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.

August 30, 2022 at 5:17 PM CEST

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.

June 20, 2022 at 9:37 AM CEST

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.

February 28, 2022 at 2:29 PM CET

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.

December 22, 2021 at 1:08 PM CET

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.

October 6, 2021 at 9:06 AM CEST

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.

September 28, 2021 at 4:02 PM CEST

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.

September 13, 2021 at 2:38 PM CEST

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.

May 10, 2021 at 11:42 AM CEST

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.

May 7, 2021 at 3:55 PM CEST

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

May 5, 2021 at 11:22 AM CEST

Massolit Books & Café

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

April 14, 2021 at 1:59 PM CEST

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.

April 14, 2021 at 10:05 AM CEST

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.

April 13, 2021 at 10:42 AM CEST

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.

October 21, 2020 at 12:38 PM CEST

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’.

June 29, 2020 at 10:07 AM CEST

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.

April 2, 2020 at 10:53 AM CEST

Bomo Art - Pest

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

February 15, 2019 at 4:58 PM CET

Atlantisz Könyvsziget

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

February 14, 2019 at 6:04 PM CET

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.