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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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