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Biblio-Text: Treadwell’s
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops You’ve probably walked past Treadwell’s at some point but not looked at it very closely. It’s time to rectify that. Inspect the cards in the...
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Biblio-Text: Blenheim Books
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops… Completing a trilogy of bookshops not just in Notting Hill, but on Blenheim Crescent, is the locally named Blenheim Books. You might expect a...
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Biblio-Text: The Lion & Unicorn Bookshop
Continuing our amble through London’s independent bookshops By rights, the Lion & Unicorn should be a gateway to a fantasy world of questing knights and castles and damsels. That it’s a children’s...
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Biblio-Text: Bookmarks
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Bookmarks will be familiar to anyone who’s experienced the north-south bus routes towards Tottenham Court Road – perched at the bottom of...
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Biblio-Text: John Sandoe (Books)
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops The John Sandoe bookshop in Chelsea has been going for over 50 years and is a bit of an institution. The eponymous John Sandoe ran the shop...
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Biblio-Text: Review Bookshop
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops The Review Bookshop is a small, but perfectly formed, corner of increasingly gentrified Peckham Rye. It opened four years ago with a focus on...
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Biblio-Text: Daunt Books
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Daunt Books. We had a big debate about whether, since it seems to be spawning more heads than a Hydra, it was still an independent. We decided...
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Biblio-Text: Bookseller Crow On The Hill
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops There are two immediate things to address with the Bookseller Crow on the Hill. First: crow? Well, that would be co-owner Justine’s surname,...
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Biblio-Text: London Review Bookshop
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Coincidences are funny, aren’t they? Last Wednesday, Londonist reader Jill Butcher emailed to tip us the wink about the London Review...
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Biblio-Text: Heywood Hill
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops This week we stopped by Heywood Hill, a wonderful shop located a few steps away from Green Park. Opened in 1936 and supported by Nancy...
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Biblio-Text: Joseph’s Bookstore
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Amid the kosher delis and unbelievably good bakeries of Temple Fortune sits Joseph’s Bookstore. As you’d expect from the location they carry a...
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Biblio-Text: Al Saqi Bookshop
Continuing or amble round London’s independent bookshops After last week’s venture to Joseph’s Bookstore unleashed our thirst for knowledge, we decided to check out Westbourne Grove’s Al Saqi...
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Biblio-Text: Brick Lane Bookshop
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops (Edit: when we first visited Brick Lane Books it was called Eastside Books.) Finally, finally, we get to a bookshop in East London. And what a...
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Biblio-Text Special: Cecil Court
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops When we wandered in to investigate Cecil Court a couple of years ago we didn’t really stop to look in the shops (we’re busy people, things to...
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Biblio-Text: Marchpane / Goldsboro Books
Continuing our amble round Cecil Court‘s independent bookshops Our first ports of call during our rummage round Cecil Court are Marchpane and Goldsboro Books. With its fantastic window display and...
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Biblio-Text: Pleasures of Past Times / Tim Bryars
Continuing our amble around Cecil Court‘s independent bookshops David Drummond has been running Pleasures of Past Times for over 40 years, and become a bit of a legend. He specialises in books and...
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Biblio-Text: Travis & Emery / Watkins
Continuing our amble round Cecil Court‘s independent bookshops Travis & Emery, the street’s music specialists, celebrate their 50th birthday next year. That’s 50 years of selling secondhand...
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Biblio-Text: Motor Books
Continuing our amble round Cecil Court‘s independent bookshops Motor Books has been specialising in motoring for 50 years (the last two in Cecil Court), branching out into railway, aviation, maritime...
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Biblio-Text: Big Green Bookshop
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Simon Key and Tim West used to work for Waterstones; they’d barely settled in as managers of the Wood Green branch when they were informed the...
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Biblio-Text: Atlantis Bookshop
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops “What’s the difference between an ‘esoteric‘ and an ‘occult’ bookshop?” we asked Atlantis co-owner Geraldine Beskin. “Nothing,” came the...
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Biblio-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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Biblio-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....
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Biblio-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,...
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Biblio-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,...
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Biblio-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...
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Biblio-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...
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Biblio-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...
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Biblio-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,...
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Biblio-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...
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Biblio-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...
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Biblio-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,...
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Biblio-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: 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...
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Biblio-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...
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Biblio-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...
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Biblio-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...
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Biblio-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....
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Biblio-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...
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Biblio-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...
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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....
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