Parkinsons of Southport

This is a great used book shop in Southport – one of those places where you never know what you’re going to find, and where you almost always find a bargain. There are several floors, and a great selection of genres, paperbacks and hardcovers, old and new. Prices range from high to bargain.
You could easily spend a couple of hours in here and still not browse through everything. Definitely an afternoon well spent for book lovers of all kinds.

It’s impossible to wander around Parkinsons without remembering the old Yellow Pages advert where J.R. Hartley tries to track down a copy of his Fly Fishing book.
A characterful, old building that occupies three floors, it’s packed floor to ceiling with all kinds of secondhand books from new and old to Victorian and antiquarian. What makes browsing here more fun is the fact Parkinsons also stocks antique coins, shells, badges and memorabilia — which are housed in wooden cabinets or stacked haphazardly between shelves and piles of books. As for the books themselves, there’s a real mish-​mash of material from old issues of National Geographic to weighty tomes on archaeology, astronomy, physics, nature, travel, religion, theology and philosophy. I’m sure there’s also at least one copy of Fly Fishing too…