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 it was, which is a good thing because the original Marylebone …
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 art, design and architecture but its main attraction is the leafy garden outside, where …
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 until his retirement in 1989 when staff and customers took over, …
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 Bloomsbury Street, with its bright red windows and usually bedecked in posters for a left-wing cause, …
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 bookshop a stone’s throw from Richmond Green, and a slightly longer hop and …
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 certain amount of crossover and competition between shops that are next door to one …
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 racks outside. Look properly at the windows. It will become clear that this …
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Just across the road from Books for Cooks on W11′s Blenheim Crescent is The Travel Bookshop, a place to buy guidebooks, maps, fiction, history, biography about travel and… what’s that now? The elephant over there, in the corner …
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Track off to one side of Portobello Road Market and you’ll find Blenheim Crescent, home to a trio of bookshops. The first is Books for Cooks where you’ll find a book on any type of cookery you can …
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops The first thing that strikes you when you walk into West Hampstead’s West End Lane Books is how much they really want to share their love of books with you. One entire bookcase is given over to staff …
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Something a little bit different this week as we pay a visit to Persephone Books – publisher and bookshop. Persephone was founded by Nicola Beauman in 1999 and publishes ‘neglected’ fiction and non-fiction by and about women, including …
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