Favourite Book Shops ?

[goat major]

I was on a trip to London this weekend (to visit the Toy Soldier show not to run riot in Fortnum & Masons). While there i went for a browse in Foyles. This is a wonderful experience - i would say its the best bookshop for new books that i've ever been in. I nearly always find time in London to have a look round. The military history section is huge (the AWI/1812 section alone had 40+ books not counting Ospreys). I came out with a book about modelling wargames terrain and a potted history of the 30 years war (its a project that may happen.....). For second hand books, Caliver is worth a visit if you are passing Nottingham. It is a gold mine and you can easily lose an hour or two ferretting around in there.

What are other peoples favourite book shops ?

[Steve J]

Currently Leopard Books in Bristol covered market. A nice little place that has a very wide selection of second hand books. But my all time favourite was Heffers in Cambridge.

[Maenoferren]

Barter books in Alnwick

[Hertsblue]

My all-time favourite was Hersants in Highgate, North London - now sadly metamorphosed into an on-line shop - which specialised only in military and aviation books. Nowadays the shop I use most is the Waterstones in the Galleria at Hatfield

[lentulus]

Foyles in London, Certainly

Strand in New York is used and remainders, and some great bargains.  Good e-mail service as well.

[FierceKitty]

Kinokuniya, in the Sukhumvit area in Bangkok. A real bookshop is a rare treat in this country.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Waterstons in Manchester is supposed to be the largest in the country.

IanS

[NTM]

Visiting Foyles is always a pleasure. Not so much fun these days preferred it back in the 80's when you took your selected purchases to the sales assistant who would give you a chit to take to the Cashier Desk where you paid and got a receipt to then return and collect your books. The selection of books was much more diverse too.

[DaveH]

The Waterstones on Gower Street (near Euston Sq/Warren St) is good for history including military history though not really up with Foyles in range of stock.

I used to like the Blackwells on Broad St in Oxford back when I lived there.

[nikharwood]

Visiting Foyles is always a pleasure. Not so much fun these days preferred it back in the 80's when you took your selected purchases to the sales assistant who would give you a chit to take to the Cashier Desk where you paid and got a receipt to then return and collect your books. The selection of books was much more diverse too.

One of my favourite memories of Foyles - aged 9-ish, with my dad- right there...before we wandered off to the Model Engineering Exhibition at the Wembley Conference Centre & I would drag him to the wargames display games...and the very small group of traders there...that's where I got addicted y'know 

[Hertsblue]

Visiting Foyles is always a pleasure. Not so much fun these days preferred it back in the 80's when you took your selected purchases to the sales assistant who would give you a chit to take to the Cashier Desk where you paid and got a receipt to then return and collect your books. The selection of books was much more diverse too.

That's the reason I stopped going there. Too much faffing about. It was then owned by some mad old lady who treated the staff like s**t and lived in a Victorian time-warp.

One of my favourite memories of Foyles - aged 9-ish, with my dad- right there...before we wandered off to the Model Engineering Exhibition at the Wembley Conference Centre & I would drag him to the wargames display games...and the very small group of traders there...that's where I got addicted y'know 

Our club was one of those that put on the demos at the ME Exhibition. I have a photo somewhere of me at one of our games in the late seventies - shaggy, bearded and a lot slimmer 

[Jim Ando]

there`s some good ones in soho.

[Hertsblue]

there`s some good ones in soho.

Yeah, but I'd wear rubber gloves if you visit them. 

[CorvetteK225]

As a boy, I would always visit "The Little Professor". It was a mom and pop that first opened my eyes to history and biographies.

Just recently, here in the States, we are losing a rather good nationwide chain called "Borders". That will leave only "Barnes & Noble" as a nationwide brick and mortar. We have mom and pop stores still, but they only seem to survive in towns of 40,000 people or more.....Very sad.

Dave

[Jim Ando]

We used to have Borders but they went tits up about 18 months ago.

I used to take the kids in on a sunday morning and we`d be in hours but the only thing I used to buy was a paper.

Thats probably wy they went into administration because everyone looked  but didn`t buy owt

and it had a starbucks in it.