Est. 2014 · Stokes Croft

A small shop with strong opinions about books.

Nine hundred titles, one very old cat and a back room that becomes a reading venue four nights a month. Order online, or come in and let us talk you out of something.

900+Titles in shop
4Events a month
FreeUK post over £25
CORVID & CO.

This month

Three we keep pressing into people's hands

The SaltMARGUERITE ELYStaff pick

The Salt Year

Marguerite Ely · Fiction

A slow, salty novel about a lighthouse keeper who refuses to leave.

£9.99
Everything GrowsNIA OKONJOSigned

Everything Grows Back

Nia Okonjo · Nature

A year of rewilding one Bristol allotment, told month by month.

£14.00
Pillar ofANNEKE VOSSStaff pick

Pillar of Small Hours

Anneke Voss · Poetry

Forty short poems about insomnia, buses and other people's kitchens.

£7.99

How we work

No algorithms, just staff with favourites

Hand-picked stock

Everything on the shelf is here because someone who works here read it and wanted to argue about it.

Order by 2pm

Wrapped in paper and posted the same afternoon, anywhere in the UK.

Reserve & collect

Add to basket, choose collection at checkout and we'll keep it behind the till for a week.

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