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Best bookshops

June 2024

  • Diane Park outside Wave of Nostalgia

    Meet the people behind three of the UK’s brilliant independent bookshops

    Rebuilding from a fire, competing with Amazon and launching during lockdown – how these indies continue to thrive

April 2021

  • Scarthin Books, Derbyshire

    Readers' travel tips
    12 of the UK’s best independent bookshops, chosen by readers

    From old tales to new thinking, gardening to science fiction, our tipsters find literary nourishment – and cake, too – at these indie booksellers

June 2019

  • Golden Hare in Edinburgh – winner of this year’s Independent Bookshop of the Year at the British Book Awards.

    How indie bookshops are fighting back

    Damian Barr
    Independent bookshops are thriving because they understand readers’ tastes better than an Amazon algorithm

June 2015

  • Shakespeare co

    Books blog
    The 10 best independent bookshops in the world – readers recommend

    From a bohemian Parisian temple of reading to a bookshop with hidden animals: to mark Independent Bookshop Week, here are 10 of the best around the world – compiled with the help of our readers

October 2014

  • Bookshop Leakey's, in Inverness

    Books blog
    Weird and wonderful bookshops worldwide – in pictures

    From a Canadian bookshop opened by Alice Munro in the 1960s to one in the island of Santorini started by drunk Oxford students, some of the world’s most exotic booksellers feature in The Bookshop Book, published as part of a UK-wide Books are My Bag campaign to support the bookselling industry in the run-up to Christmas. Its author Jen Campbell introduces some of the finest

May 2013

  • Terry Pratchett and a pig at Hay Festival 2012

    Books blog
    Which books make you laugh? - Open thread

  • The Albion Beatnik

    Books blog
    The Albion Beatnik bookshop: a viral success worth catching

April 2013

  • Row of dusty books on a shelf

    Books blog
    The curse of the forgotten authors

    Open thread: Which neglected authors do you think are ripe for rediscovery

March 2013

  • Haystack

    Books blog
    What's the best undiscovered book you've read?

  • JFK and Stuart Neville

    Writers' gifts
    Writers' gifts: Stuart Neville gives American Tabloid to JFK

February 2013

  • Laurence Oliver as Heathcliff and Merle Oberon as Cathy in Wuthering Heights (1939). Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar

    Books blog
    What are the best books for Valentine's Day?

  • Writers' gifts
    Writers' gifts: Sadakat Kadri gives The Trial to Franz Kafka

January 2013

  • Writers' gifts
    Writers' gifts: Jonathan Steele gives The Glorious Art of Peace to world leaders

  • Jenny Valentine

    Literary London: Jenny Valentine's guide to children's stories - video

December 2012

  • Merry shopping: A crowd watches the Oxford Street Christmas lights being switched on in central London.

    Books blog
    Open thread: recommend your favourite short stories and poetry collections

    Tell us which mini masterpieces you'd choose to calm Christmas nerves

November 2012

  • bookshop

    National Book Tokens 80th anniversary: book tokens through the decades

  • Dr Zhivago

    Books blog
    Open thread: recommend your favourite cold-weather classics

October 2012

  • Halloween pumpkin

    Books blog
    Open thread: The best Halloween books

    Let us know which books light your candle for the scariest night of the year

September 2012

  • Wigtown from Windyhill, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK.

    Best walks and days out from Wigtown

  • The literary riches of the Scottish Borders - video

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