The best bookstore in London. They have such a great collection - I can find books I can't find…read moreother places (and I've looked hard!!) Also great cafe, restrooms, and staff!

Best bookstore in London for language books (Celtic, German, English, Italian, Spanish, French,…read moreHebrew, Arabic, Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Greek, Dutch, etc.!!) and it has a cafe upstairs as well as a huge kids books area.

West End Lane Books is everything a book store should be. The only trouble is they were playing Bob…read moreDylan when I arrived. I can not stand Bob Dylan. This store had a nice artsy sort of selection of the type of books people read who live in the NW postcodes, meaning NW3,NW5, NW6. I think this is not a bad thing at all. W.E Lane Books also had an impressive sale selection. I found the Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt reduced from 15.99 to 5.99. You look around and see Penguin Titles mugs and 5 pounds of the Mighty Boosh Book (not sure if this is a desirable book to acquire or not, you decide). The staff also shows your their favourites, in a section. A good shop but can the Dylan. Yikes!

Really top-notch bookstore. I used to stop in all the time when I lived around the corner, and was…read morejust back in yesterday. It's not big, but not too tiny, and is independently owned and operated. They carry all the latest fiction and non-fiction, and not just the best-sellers, either. They do special topical displays. Yesterday was a rack of about 10 books about finance and the global economic crisis. They have a large section of Jewish books, catering to the local demographic. Their sale/discount section is one of the best I've seen. It's a couple of shelves near the back, and one right under the cash counter, but they're not the typical cheapo books you see in those sorts of bins. I picked up books like The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Search-Six-Million/dp/0007251939/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223300537&sr=8-1) (marked from £25 down to £9), The Rolling Thunder Logbook (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rolling-Thunder-Logbook-T-Bone-Burnett/dp/1860746403/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223300586&sr=1-1) (£14 down to £7), A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hedonist-Cellar-Adventures-Wine/dp/0747588465/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223300656&sr=1-2) (£14 down to £7, I think), and more.

**Newly opened and currently open til 6pm but they are looking to expand their hours shortly. If…read moreyou're unsure about opening hours and you want to visit, I recommend firing off a tweet to @SECONDHOMELDN ** Popped in to Libreria last night for a quick reconnaissance mission. New independent bookshops aren't exactly ten a penny. It also happened to be World Book Day, I have just realised. It was meant to be. I love how it looks from the outside. Like a portal to another world. You go down Hanbury Street, think you must've missed it and then...suddenly it's there. Stylish black shopfront with a nice inviting glow. This was only a very quick visit but I like how they do things in Libreria. First, I have to note that there was a Riga RP-1 record player with Velvet Underground & Nico on the turntable so...good start. No espresso bar here. No mobiles allowed. Comfy seating and little nooks to sit down and check out a book. Tick tick tick. Sally, Libreria's director, introduced herself to me and explained how things were laid out. Very friendly and helpful. Books are largely organised alphabetically, fiction on the left and nonfic on the right. However, within that, books are clustered into themes or ideas, in order to promote interesting combinations of books nestling next to each other. Great idea. Pure A-Z is so 2015. Also, they have asked celebs to do a mini-curation of their favourite books. Shami Chakrabarti's faves are currently on display. I think the idea is to change everything round every quarter. Events are also gonna happen here. I dutifully added my email to the mailing list on the front desk. Waterstones can do one.

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Visited The Notting Hill Bookshop during our trip to London and we loved the selection of books…read morethey offer. If you love the idea of "blind date with a book", this bookshop offers it and they have a lot to choose from and we were very pleased with the books we ended up getting. The staff is very knowledgeable and friendly. Highly recommend visiting this bookshop.

You won't be the only one trying to snap a photo in front of the store! What I love about this…read moreplace is that the shop is actually cute on the inside and although a popular tourist spot thanks to Julia and Hugh, it's a great bookshop on its own. What I was surprised about was that a number of other book shops have popped up in Notting Hill trying to catch the tourists, but this is the OG.

Despite occupying an extremely tiny room above a sex shop on Charring Cross Road, you'll have to…read moretake my word for it that I had initially found Claire De Rouen Books (specialising in photography and fashion) through by-chancing upon the window display and noticing the Robert Frank book "The Americans" in the window. As you walk up the narrow stairwell, you are greeted by a little gallery display some contemporary art prints. It's worth having a look through; even though I though most of it seemed a little overly-stylised, there were still some prints that caught my attention. After rummaging around in here for a while, you should go and check out the bookstore. Although quite expensive (as most art bookstores are), they have a broad selection of books that are often quite hard to find. The shop assistant was able to help me out with my query in a friendly and adequate manner, and I was pleased in general with this quaint little find.

I have been to bookshops all over the world and nothing makes me smile as much as seeing the grand…read moredame Claire De Rouen in her tiny little attic shop surrounded by artistic wonders. Claire is so knowledgeable and worldy. She has great style and that aristo kind of face where you know that in her day men used to whisk her around the globe and fall at her feet. She was born in Alexandria, Eygpt - with that great library its no wonder she turned to books and she used to work at Walter Koenig down the road before setting up her own shop. I know all of this because everytime I go in there we have a great old natter, even though she never remembers me! I love her fashion/art edit and her brilliant window displays, which are on the street level at the Soho Bookshop. Although it is expensive (arent books worth it!?) I've bought some great cheap fanzines here (including a Valerie Phillps one!) and they keep a varied stock of international fashion and art magazines (including Kids Wear which is full of Bruce Weber pics...), useful as the world renowed fashion school Central St Martins is a few doors down...There are also a lot of back issues of magazines, in case you missed your favourite rag. Another London hidden gem... great for that special gift.

I love this waterstones! It is one of my favorite bookstores I have been to. The building is…read moreinteresting and has nice areas for sitting. The cafe is usually busy, and seating can be hard to find, but there is often some available.

I'm generally not a fan of chain stores, especially chain stores which sell books. The clinical…read moreaspect a coorporation brings detracts a great deal from the buying experience; I like the idea of rooting through a mountain of crap in order to find that one elusive beauty. Book stores especially seem to almost need this atmosphere of chaos to be credible. However, Waterstones on Gower Street, the flagship store of the Waterstones empire, and , therefore, supposedly the belly of the beast, is just annoyingly good. I want to hate it but try as I might I've been won over the the excellent choice, service and air-conditioning. Gower Street boasts 160,000 volumes along with a willingness to acquire new texts at your behest. Due to its close collaboration with the University of London, this Waterstones has a distinctly academic feel to it and is a great place to come and stock up for the new semester. They periodically offer gatherings and signings involving various authors and last year famously hosted a talk by Professor Stephen Hawking.

I'm surprised this very good used bookstore doesn't get better reviews and a higher placement among…read moreLondon used bookshops on Yelp. I found the prices excellent, display tables attractive, and staff to be very helpful. Heard of it myself, though, by word of mouth. Much of the stock seems to be remainder titles, but titles that are interesting and unusual. Very definitely worth a visit.

Used and new books galore! Boxes and towers of books greet you.. The different types of books are…read morecreatively shelved, piled and arranged as well as they can be. Nice for everything from travel to literary criticism. Lots of nice new coffee table books if you gifts.. Worth a stop and lovely to see places like Judd's full of people on a Saturday afternoon.

This bookstore is pretty big with four floors of books and restrooms at every level by the stairs…read more They do also have an elevator of course. You can spend hours here, but eventually they will have to ask eve time to leave when they close.

Beautiful bookstore, selection of "Everyman's library" Classic Hardcover books. Stationery, gifts,…read moreart supplies and more.