Contact: 11-13 Market Place Barnard Castle County Durham Dl12 8NF Telephone: 07547931296 Website: www.mcnabsbooks.com Twitter: @McNabsBooks Instagram: @mcnabsbooks Facebook: @McNabsBooks Barnard Castle is one of our favourite stretches out from Darlington, some great shops and places to eat, and the incredible Bowes Museum. So it was great to see the old Curlews bookshop get an …
Forum Books, Corbridge
Contact: The Chapel Market Place Corbridge Northumberland NE45 5AW Telephone: 01434 632 931 Website: https://www.forumbooksshop.com/ Twitter: @forumbooks Instagram: @forumbookscorbridge Facebook: @forumbookscorbridge For me this was the bookshop that started all this *waves hands vaguely* off, not sure if I want to thank them or not 😉 We pop in every time we go up the …
The Whitby Bookshop, Whitby
Contact: 88 Church Street Whitby YO22 4BH Telephone: 01947 606202 Website: https://www.whitbybookshop.co.uk/ Twitter: @thewhitbybooks1 Instagram: @whitbybookshop Facebook: @thewhitbybooks1 It’s been a while since I’ve been to Whitby, a town I used to visit so regularly and not just during Goth weeks 🙂 Always when I visit though I have to go to The Whitby Bookshop, …
Questions for Bookshops
As part of the development of the individual posts for each bookshop on the list I will be sending out the questions that I asked on the ‘Browse A Bookshop’ feature to all bookshops on the list. I’m going to rehash the pages of the bookshops who’ve already responded to fit into the new format …
How To Get Listed
I’ve been asked a couple of times how Indie Bookshops and Indie Publishers can be added to the list and map. Other than contacting me through Twitter (where I seem to live) you can fill in this contact form with as much information as possible to help me fill your listing in. You can also …
Tiny Tree Children’s Books
I’ve recently (April 2021) been seeing a lot of noise for one of this indie publishers latest book ‘Setsuko, Song of the Sea’ by Fiona Barker & Howard Gray. All of which looks so well deserved, beautifully illustrated and sounds perfect. Another northern publisher which is always positive, and a children’s book specialist, sounds like …
Golden Hare Books, Edinburgh
Contact: 68 St Stephen St Stockbridge Edinburgh EH3 5AQ Telephone: 0131 225 7755 Website: https://goldenharebooks.com/ Twitter: @GoldenHareBooks Instagram: @goldenharebooks Facebook: @GoldenHareBooks I’ve family that live on St Stephen Street, so it was brilliant when an independent bookshop opened there, and it’s been wonderful watching it develop over the years. Just down from the centre of …
Adventure into Books, Blairgowrie
I’ve always thought it was incredibly brave to open up a bookshop considering all the difficulties inherent in the business, but Kate and Ralph have decided to open one in hard mode in the middle of the first lockdown of 2020. It’s been a while since I visited Blairgowrie (198… ok let’s just leave that) …