Librairie La Page Bookshop, South Kensington

An excellent French bookshop in South Kensington. A good range of books on all subjects and displayed in an appealing way. Also, a very good range of stationery including notebooks and pens. The staff were very helpful and the shop was well organised. I would definitely recommend visiting even if you don't speak or read...

Criminally Good Books, York

I visited York in June to meet up with family and they suggested that we visit a new book shop that had just opened "Criminally Good Books". The bookshop has very recently opened and specialises in true crime and crime fiction. I'm not a true crime fan but I am definitely a crime fiction enthusiast....

Armagh Robinson Library

The Armagh Robinson Library is an 18th Century Library near the Church of Ireland Cathedral in Armagh. I hadn't heard of it before I started looking up about Armagh as a city to visit while we were staying in Northern Ireland. Once I had discovered it online, it became a must visit destination. The excellent...

Moira Library

I finally made it into Moira Library on the third attempt having first tried in 2019. I'm still not sure which county Moira is in - maybe between County Down and County Armagh. Moira is a very nice little town with some great shops. The Library is great, a modern building in the centre of...

Lurgan Library

One of the places that I definitely wanted to visit while in Northern Ireland was Lurgan. This was because I had found out that there was a Carnegie Library in Lurgan. I have been trying to visit as many Carnegie Libraries as possible and working through the list. Not only is it a Carnegie Library...

National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre

The National Poetry Library is located in the Southbank Centre, London. It's quite a while since I visited the South Bank and the various locations and buildings. I was pleasantly surprised especially with Royal Festival Hall and the BFI café restaurant. The National Poetry Library is situated at the top of the Royal Festival Hall...

Artizan Library

We just stumbled across this library while we were in the area around the Barbican etc. It is located in a housing area and is a community hub and space. There was a good library stock with a variety of fiction and non fiction books and also other resources and printing facilities. They were advertising...

Bethnal Green Library

Bethnal Green Library is a famous, historic building which is beautiful and has an interesting history. It had been on my list to visit for quite a time so Ben and I set off to explore it. It is a large red brick building first opened in 1922. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethnal_Green_Libraryhttps://bethnalgreenlondon.co.uk/public-library-history/ It is a beautiful building outside...

Brick Lane Bookshop

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Collinge & Clark, London

Another bookshop that I visited last week while we were in London. It wasn't actually on my list to go to but I was walking in between Russell Square and the British Library via Judd Books and went past it. I stopped to look in the boxes that were outside (bargain buckets?) and found two...