Liverpool Echo
Shop where you find books you didn't even know you wanted
The Echo article captures the Smithdown Road setting, the browse-first shelves and the local affection for the store.
Read articleAbout the shop
This is a shop where you have to browse.
The books are in sections, but the shop struggles a bit with order. That is part of the pleasure: shelves, piles and corners full of secondhand, antiquarian and unexpected finds.
The shelves
A broad range of topics, with room for surprises.
There is a broad range of topics: local history, literature, classics, classic children's books, literary biography and literary criticism, fiction, poetry, sci-fi, crime fiction, women authors, Black authors, history, Irish literature and Irish history, left politics, philosophy, and the arts: cinema, music, fine arts, architecture, theatre and drama.
You will also find shipping, railways, military history and much, much more.
Customers describe the atmosphere as old-fashioned, welcoming and full of unexpected finds. If a book is not on the shelves, the shop can often find a copy for you.
Inside the shop
Room to browse slowly.
Shelves are packed with classics, local history, children's books, illustrated volumes, collectable editions and the sort of unexpected finds that reward a slow browse.
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A bookshop run seven days a week
The later profile tells the wider story of the bookshop, its stock and its plans for online sales.
Read articleLiverpool Book Market
Booksellers beyond the shop
Still Out-of-Print also organises the Liverpool Book Market, bringing local sellers together in the city centre for regular book events.
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