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Tell me about your favourite bookshops.

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ThePineappleSeahorse · 21/04/2025 16:01

I think that I have a new favourite, and no this isn’t an advertisement. I was in St Andrews last week and went to Topping and Company. I love all bookstores though normally prefer used bookstores but I found so many books that I wanted to buy. They had lots of lovely special and signed editions, ladders on the walls, friendly staff, offered tea and coffee, have a customer loo and was large and just maze like enough to be interesting without being too confusing.

I could only buy one book as I’d already bought several others and I had no more room.

So please tell me about your other much loved book shops as I’m eager to visit as many as possible.

TIA

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Santasbigredbobblehat · 10/05/2025 07:47

I used to live on the road Toppings in St Andrews is on.
One of my favourite bookshops in the one in Aldeburgh, the children can sit in the window.

foreverbasil · 10/05/2025 07:48

TheeNotoriousPIG · 09/05/2025 19:11

@foreverbasil Is your Carlisle suggestion Bookcase? In previous years, I spent many happy hours there. When I took friends, we all wandered off to areas of our own interests and, several hours later, we realised that we'd lost each other because the shop is so large 😁

Unfortunately, it is now too far away, and my nearest town doesn't have a bookshop AT ALL 😫

Thanks, yes it is! Fantastic cafe as well

FloraBotticelli · 10/05/2025 08:02

Books on the Hill in St Albans is lovely, could browse for ages.

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