Independent since 2009 · Open seven days
A bookshop that reads what it sells.
Twelve thousand titles, a cat called Marlowe, and a staff who will argue with you about endings. Come in for one book and leave with three.
See this month's picks
Independent since 2009 · Open seven days
Twelve thousand titles, a cat called Marlowe, and a staff who will argue with you about endings. Come in for one book and leave with three.
See this month's picksEvery title on the floor was chosen by a bookseller who read it. No bestseller wall, no paid placement.
If it is in print, we can have it for you in two to three days. No shipping fee, no minimum.
Armchairs, a kettle, and no one asking you to leave. Browse as long as the light holds.
Six books we could not stop handing to people.
Mara Ellison · Fiction
Quiet, salt-stained, devastating by page 90.
Tomas Reyes · Poetry
Read one aloud in the shop and three people bought it.
Hannah Okafor · Essays
For anyone who thinks they are bad at resting.
Elif Sørensen · Historical
Maps, mutiny, a slow-burn romance. Perfect.
Joel Marsh · Crime
Finished it at 3 a.m. and was not sorry.
Ines Baptista · Cookery
Recipes that read like short stories. Flour everywhere.
Free unless noted. Chairs are limited; books are not.
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