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Independent Bookstores – a free list

If you’re an independently or self-published author, you will probably want to knock on the doors of a few indie bookshops. This list should help…

Promoting my novel, the Gardners-listed In Leicester Fields, I approached as many suitable independent bookshops as I could find. Many of these came from the following following list, which I collated along the way. It's mainly independents – my apologies if one or two non-indies have crept in. If only a placename is shown, it's usually safe to add 'bookshop.' I've not added addresses or email details as I think it's both important and respectful to visit the shop's website and see what the business is all about before making the approach. There are many LGBTQ and radical bookshops to be found but these are not listed here as despite my female protagonist Michel Angelo being in a single sex relationship, this is only incidental in what is really a historical tale of guilt and redemption and the power of art.

A New Leaf

Aberfeldy Water Mill

Accidental

Adventure Into Books

Aldeburgh

Aldous Books

All Good

Archway

Argonaut books

Artwords

Atkinson-Pryce

Aye Aye

Backstory

Bailey Hill

Baltic

Bardic Vintage Books

Barnes

Barrow Books

Beerwolf

Belgravia Books

Bell

Berrydin

Between the Lines

Beverly Bookshop

Bigglestones

Birsay Books

Black Gull Bookseller

Blue Bear Bookshop

Blue House

Book

Book Brewery

Book Centre Waterford,

Book Centre, Kilkenny

Book Centre, Naas.

Book Centre, Wexford

Book Corner

Book Gem

Book Hive

Book Loft

Book Nook

Book Vault

Book-

Book-ends

Book-Ends Shop

Booka Bookshop

Bookbag

Bookbar

Bookbuster

Bookcase

Bookends

Bookhouse

Bookingham Palace

Bookkeeper

Bookpoint

Books on the Hill

Books on the Lane

Books on the Rise

Books on the Walls

Books Plus

Books-on-Sea

Bookseller Crow

Bookshop at Helston

Bookshop by the Blackdowns

Bookshop By The Sea

Bookshop on the Heath

Bookshop on the Square

Bookstop

Bookstore

Bookwise

Borzoi Bookshop

Bow Books

Brendon Books

Brick Lane Bookshop

Bridge

Broadway Bookshop

Brown Books

Browser Books

Browsers Bookshop

Burley Fisher

Burning House

But n' Ben Books

Caffeinated Escapism

Carnforth Books

Castle Bookshop

Castle Hill

Castlegate

Category is Books

Caxton Books

Chapter One

Chapter34

Chapters Bookstore

Chener Books

Chepstow Books & Gifts

Chorleywood

Chorlton

Clapham Books

Cleeve

Cobham

Cogito Books

Collected

Corner

Corsham

Cotswold Book Room

Courtauld Gallery

Cover to Cover

Cowbridge

Crofton Books

Darling Reads

Darlington Books

Daunt Books, Marylebone

David's

Devizes Books

Dial Lane Books

Digberry & Finch S

Diss Publishing

Dormouse Books

Dornoch

Drake the Bookshop

Drop City

Dulwich Books

East Gate

East Grinstead

Eclipse

Edge of the World

Edinburgh

EJ Morten

Electric Beacon

Escape Reality

Falmouth Bookseller

Far From the Madding Crowd

Fireside

First Draft

Five Leaves

Folde

Folkestone

Forum Books 6

Fosters Little Bookshop

Foundling Museum

Fourbears

Fred's

Gallovidia Books

Gerrards Cross

Golden Hare Books Edinburgh

Goldsboro Books

Good Press

Great Oak

Griffin Books

Grove

Guisborough

Gulp

Gwisgo

Halesworth

Halewood&Son

Harbour Books

Harbour Bookseller

Harris & Harris

Harts Books

Heath

Heffers

Henry Roberts

Herne Hill Books

Heron and Willow

Hessle

Hestia

Heygates

Heywood Hill

High Peak

Highgate

Highland

Hillsborough

Hold Fast Leeds

Holt Bookshop

House of Books

Housmans Bookshop

Hungerford

Hunts Bookshop

Hyndland BS

ICA

Ilfracombe

Imaginarium

Ink@84

Ironbridge

Ivybridge

J.E. Books

Jaffe and Neal

Jo's Bookshop

John Sandoe Books

Kelham Island Books

Kemps General Store & Books

Kemptown

Kenilworth

Ketts

Kew

Kibworth Books

Kirkdale

Lark Books

Last Bookshop

Liberia

Librera

Lindum Books

Lionsheart, Woking

Literary Cat Books

Little Bookshop

Little Green

Little Ollies

Little Ripon B

London Met Uni

London Review

Love Stories

Lutyens & Rubinstein

Lyme Regis

Madhattter

Mainstreet Trading Company

Maldon Booksellers

Marcus Campbell Art Books

Margate

Marlow

Max Minerva's

Medina

Mold

Morocco Bound

Mostly Books

Mount Florida Books

Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights

Much Ado Books

Nairn

National Gallery

New

Newark

Newham Books

Next Chapter

Night Owl

Nomad Books

North Books

Notting Hill

Novel

Old Bank

Old Hall Bookseller

Old School

Oldfield Park

Orcadian

Oundle

Our Bookshop

Owl Bookshop

P&G Wells

Padstow Bookseller

Pages of Hackney

PaperMoon

Parade's End

Paragon

Pickering Book Tree

Pitshanger Bookseller

Plackittt & Booth

Plunder

Portrait Gallery

Presse Books

Primrose Hill Books

Pritchards

Quayside

Queen’s Park Books

Quinns

RA bookshop

Read on Sea

Reading Room

Regency

Rhyme & Reason

Richard Booth Books

Rossiters, Cheltenham,

Rossiters, Hereford,

Rossiters, Ledbury,

Rossiters, Ross on Wye

Rumblebees

Rye

Salts Mill

Sam Read Bookseller

Saturday Books

Scarthin Books

Script Haven

Seaways

Second Chapter

Secret Bookstore

Serenity

Serpentine Gallery Bookshop

Sevenoaks Bookshop

Sheen Bookshop

Shetland BS

Simply Books Manchester

Snug

Somerville Books

South Kensington Books

Spicy Librarian

St David's

Stephen's

Steyning

Stillwater

Stoke Newington

Store104

Storysmith Bristol

Storyville

Stromness Book & Prints

Suddenly on Sheaf Street

Sussex

Teals

Tenby

The Church St Book Shop

The Open Road Bookshop

Topping & Co Edinburgh

Topping & Company Booksellers

Truman Books

Ullapool BS

Under The Leaves

Uni of Glasgow

Unicorn Tree

Velichor

Verrey Books

Verzon

Village Books

Volta Books

Wallace Collection

Wallingford

Walter Henry's

Warwick Books

Wedale

Wellfield

West End Lane Books

Westbourne

Whitby Bookshop

White Horse

Whitechapel Gallery

Wimbledon Books

Winstone's, Frome

Winstone's, Sidmouth

Winstones, Sherborne

Wivenhoe

Woodbridge Booksellers

Word

Word on the Street

Word on the Water

Write Blend

Writers Block

Wyre Forrest Books

Yeadons, Banchory

Yeadons, Elgin