Keats & Chapman

Keats & Chapman is magnificently deceptive. Tiny in appearance from outside but an absolutely massive treasure trove of a bookstore inside. I love second hand bookshops and this is one of the best. Visit and I promise you’ll spend ages exploring. An amazing Aladdin’s cave with a huge range on offer. I love the art book section, I love it all, I just love bookshops like Keats & Chapman. Black Books, eat your heart out!

Great bookshop with regards to selection and price; however, the attitude of the staff leaves a lot to be desired. To be fair, it is only one guy, relatively young (maybe early 30s). He is unhelpful and borderline hostile. This isn’t based merely on one experience, he has been working on three separate occasions that I have been in, and I won’t be back. He single handedly kills an otherwise great vibe. I was genuinely shocked to find such a cretin working in that quaint little store

Just don’t go in– you’ll never leave!
This quietly unassuming second-​hand bookshop halfway up North Street will steal your time, but in a great way. From the outside it doesn’t look that big, but step inside and you find yourself in a tardis, with books piled from floor to ceiling, winding backwards and sideways and crammed into every possible place.
While it can initially be a little intimidating by the sheer volume, everything is organised into genres and between fiction and non-​fiction so finding things is easier than you initially think. The fact that the books are second hand means you might find little gems that you wouldn’t see piled neatly in the chain stores because publishers tell them too, and you might stumble across a book or author you’d never even considered.
If you can’t find what you are looking for, don’t be afraid to ask, these guys are super friendly, and at the prices they charge who would bother with a kindle! I’ll be back, when I’ve a couple of hours to spare. :-)