I love love LOVE the layout of this quaint little bookshop in Omni Park. So cute and old-fashioned. It’s all on different levels and has wooden staircases leading to shelves upon shelves of great titles. They always have great little deals on the books at the front. I’ve recently heard a rumour that this place is closing down(in the Omni location) due to the growing popularity of the new bookshop with attached café on the new extension to the building. I really hope that’s not true, this place is one of my favourite local bookshops.
Autumn
Rating des Ortes: 4 London, United Kingdom
This branch of Books Upstairs is as gorgeous and popular as the College Green one. It’s the kind of bookshop I could spend my life in, with the cosy, relaxed atmosphere conducive to browsing through the history books. There are other sections such as philosophy and psychology but apart from history, the things I enjoyed the most were looking through the journals that were available to read and looking at all the classic Irish Literature titles that were in stock.
Meltth
Rating des Ortes: 3 Dublin, Republic of Ireland
A small-scale enterprise — doesn’t have the resources or advertising engine of other high profile bookstores. Still, it has something and has been an ever present feature of Omnipark, more or less, since its opening. ‘Though having a small stock of books, it does have good bargains and cheap editions — at the moment, buy one get one free — some of which I’ve availed of over the years. This branch deserves credit for remaining here and is a testament to the little fish still prevailing.