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 and military. They have books you simply won’t find anywhere else, never mind just not …
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 antiquarian sheet music for all kinds of instruments, scores and books covering all aspects of music. They also …
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 ephemera (programmes, playbills, postcards) about the performing arts, and is so loved …
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 Dalek (a bloody Dalek!), Marchpane is clearly a seller of children’s books. But, much like …
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 do, people to see). But we thought it was time to …
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 bookshop for anyone who’s interested in London! (We guess that since you’re …
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 Bookshop, which is the UK’s largest Middle Eastern Specialist bookseller. It first caught our eye after having …
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 large selection of Jewish titles, covering history, faith, politics, popular culture, art and texts in …
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 Mitford, it is not only a fun place to pop in for shelf …
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 Bookshop, and would you believe we were just putting our shoes on to swing by and visit? …
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, and given extra resonance by the crows that hang around the ponds where she and …
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