What a year it’s been! We have journeyed the length and breadth of Britain to show you some of our favourite bookshops, travelling 600 miles from our most northerly point – Edinburgh’s Cornerstone Bookshop – to our most southerly – Barton Books in Penzance. We have visited sculpture parks, crypts and many a gallery, interviewing the finest booksellers our humble isle has to offer. Here are our best bits from the past year…
JANUARY: Barbican, London
Emma on the Barbican’s iconic architecture
Photo credit: Max Colson
FEBRUARY: Atkinson-Pryce Books, Biggar
Millie on their eclectic range
MARCH: Church House Bookshop, London
Aude on their exciting Westminster setting
APRIL: Barton Books, Penzance
Barry on the inspiration behind his shop
MAY: News from Nowhere, Liverpool
Mandy on the importance of books
JUNE: South London Gallery, London
Phoebe and Jack on their varied customer base
JULY: Ampleforth Abbey Bookshop, North Yorkshire
Georgie on her dream customer
AUGUST: Sarum College Bookshop, Salisbury
Jenny on their bookselling ethos
Photo Credit: Ash Mills
SEPTEMBER: West End Lane Books, West Hampstead
Kim and Danny on community engagement
OCTOBER: Cornerstone Bookshop, Edinburgh
Anna and her team on independent bookshops
NOVEMBER: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
Amanda on their spectacular location
Photo Credit: Jonty Wilde
DECEMBER: Pages of Hackney, London
Jo on the importance of accessibility in bookselling
Photo credit: Toby Peters
