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A Book Barge Returns To London’s Canals

The floating bookshop is on the Grand Union Canal.

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Biblio-Text: Wapping Bookshop

We pay a visit to perhaps London’s smallest bookshop.

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Preview: Listen *Read* See London @ Foyles

A festival of walks, talks and concerts to celebrate London at Foyles.

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Foyles Charing Cross Road Moving… Next Door

Foyles on Charing Cross Road is on the move… a few doors down to the current Central St Martin’s School of Art building.

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Biblio-Text: Gosh Comics

We pay a visit to Gosh Comics in Bloomsbury.

One of the most beautiful bookshops in London: this is Lutyens and Rubenstein, right in the heart of Notting Hill's literary belt. (Photo / RachelH).

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 Bookshop and Blenheim Books and now, just round the corner, is Lutyens & Rubinstein. Opened about …

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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. (They’re calling it a ‘Booktique’. Um.) Tucked away on the first floor, next …

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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 very small space, but in its basement is an unexpected treasure: …

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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 Waterstone’s, we’re not aware of any other bookshops in the Square Mile (though we’re …

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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 Konditor and Cook cake and admire the latest exhibition, but none of …

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Watkins Bookshop Closes Down

London’s oldest esoteric bookshop, Watkins on Cecil Court, is under threat of liquidation unless a buyer can be found by 25th March. The shop, which has been running since 1894 and had a presence on the famed bookselling street since 1905 (which we visited last …