Bookstores in Britain

Poet and bookseller Peter Riley specialises in small-press contemporary poetry books, and is a lively presence on the Cambridge UK poetry scene. Ask his team of friendly gnomes to send you a catalogue by steam-driven postal van or special Stratocruiser pressurised cargo flight via Shannon and Gander, from: 27 Sturton Street, Cambridge CB1 2QG United Kingdom,
Tel/fax (011223) 576 422
You can read three poems by Peter Riley in Jacket # 2.

Bloomsbury Magazine in London is an online bookstore as well as a magazine, and sells books by all publishers, not just Bloomsbury. They have created a literary community where their visitors can keep up with the latest literary news in the regularly updated magazine and enjoy other facilities, including online reading courses, reading groups, a research centre and a calendar of literary dates. On the Internet at
http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/

Dillons have been swallowd by Waterstone’s, a chain with over 50 stores in the UK and Northern Ireland, and Waterstone’s have gone to hide under Amazon's Internet umbrella, so I've taken their link away. Boo hoo.

Heffers in Cambridge England has been swallowed by Blackwell’s. Highly regarded for their children's books, rare books, maps, travel and language books, and general titles. At : http://www.heffers.co.uk/

Hatchards of Piccadilly, by appointment et cetera, have 100,000 titles in stock and can access any British book in print. Drop in to their store at 187 Piccadilly London W1V 0LE. Tel (0171) 439 9921, Fax (0171) 494 1313
e-mail: books@hatchards.co.uk
and on the Internet at
http://www.hatchards.co.uk


Jake Fior has a rich cache of pre-loved British poetry first editions (mainly Faber) from the 1930s to the 1960s. If you can’t visit his little shop in East London, you can at least send an email to: jakefior@hotmail.com
Street address: Jake Fior Bookseller
47 Exmouth Market, London EC1, United Kingdom
Telephone: 44+20+ 7833 4662

The Internet Bookshop — they call themselves “the largest online bookshop in the world” with nearly a million titles, but there are Internet bookstore sites with more. Worth a look if you live in what Lawrence Durrell called “Pudding Island” ... that sceptred isle...
Useless fact number 247: Did you know that the word ‘island’ and the word ‘isle’ have nothing in common etymologically? That’s what Fowler says under the heading ‘True and false etymology’.
http://www.bookshop.co.uk and send your e-mail to suggestion.box@bookshop.co.uk

RedDot Books at http://www.reddotbooks.co.uk/
An online bookshop offering brand new, quality arts and humanities titles, at bargain prices. Save up to 80% on publishers list price for quality book bargains. tel 01646 601068, fax 0871 661 7496