Biblio-Text: Wapping Bookshop
Is Wapping Bookshop London’s smallest? The greenhouse holds fewer than 300 books and magazines, ranging from the bookseller’s own literary review to limited edition collectable photography books....
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Gosh Comics
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops It’s time to lay to rest the idea that comics are for nerds, and the best place to stage this final showdown is Gosh Comics. It’s an...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Lutyens & Rubinstein
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops There’s a little corner of W11 that’s bibliophile heaven. Blenheim Crescent, off Portobello Road, is home to Books for Cooks, The Travel...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Foyles @ One New Change
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Foyles may be known for its massive Charing Cross Road branch, but they’ve sneaked the brand into One New Change with a little baby store....
View ArticleBiblio-Text: The Bookbox
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops This may be our first bookshop visit where we’re more interested in what lies beneath. The Bookbox is a great bookshop, doing a lot with a...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Daunt Books Cheapside
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops We’ve been to Daunt before, but this newest arm of their burgeoning empire marks a new episode for bookselling in the City. Other than...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Woolfson & Tay
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops A new bookshop has appeared in the corner of Bermondsey Square. It’s a beautiful, calm environment where you can sip a drink and nibble on a...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: The Story So Far
View Biblio-Text in a larger map Our amble around London’s independent bookshops Over the last nearly-a-year we’ve visited 35 of the capital’s best independent bookshops – and we’ve barely scratched...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Black Gull Books
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Black Gull Books is a bit of an institution in Camden Market; owner Chris has been there as a stallholder from the market’s birth. His second...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Ripping Yarns
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Opposite Highgate tube station is a tiny little treasure trove. Although it’s got a bit of a reputation for being a children’s bookshop,...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Stoke Newington Bookshop
Continuing our amble around London’s independent bookshops Stoke Newington Bookshop is another of London’s independent stalwarts, having been going strong for 20-something years. Its TARDIS-like...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Barrow Books
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops When is a bookshop not a bookshop? When it’s a moving market stall, that’s when. Barrow Books started shuffling between Spitalfields and the...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Any Amount of Books
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Charing Cross Road used to be the heart of the second-hand book trade in London. One of the all too few remnants of the those glorious days,...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Biblion
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Biblion is a sort of showcase opportunity for antiquarian and rare book dealers in the heart of Mayfair. In the middle of Grays Antique...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Artwords
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops It’s a two-for-one deal this week as we visit Artwords Bookshop(s). The Rivington Street shop has been open since 2001, and feels a bit like...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Clapham Books
Continuing our amble around London’s independent bookshops The tale of Clapham Books is one of triumph over adversity. In 2006, a team of plucky bibliophiles bought a failing bookshop on the site of...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Hatchards
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Strictly speaking, Hatchards isn’t an independent bookshop (it’s owned by HMV, which makes it a sister to Waterstones; albeit a much older,...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Dulwich Books
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops We’re back after our summer break, and in leafy West Dulwich. Opened 27 years ago, Dulwich Books has very strong sections on fiction, art,...
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Clerkenwell Tales
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops We’ve visited some quite old and venerable bookshops over the last few months, so perhaps it’s fitting that this week we bring you a newborn....
View ArticleBiblio-Text: Grant and Cutler
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Set up in 1936 as a book club and lending library (and based in Buckingham Street until 1986), Grant and Cutler is now the largest foreign...
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