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Whatever you have ever want to read, you’ll find it in London. The city has specialist bookshops, second-hand book shops, book markets and fairs as well as all the top-end chains of bookstores. London is even home to Europe’s largest bookshop. Chief among London’s less carnal delights are its specialist bookshops, where bibliophiles of every bent can be found, fondling the dust jackets of their favourite tomes. Super sleuths attracted to Crime on Store are more of the cerebral clue-trackers. The more popular titles have to have a murder and some form of detection. But there are still people who can get confused`85there was someone who asked for "Tess of the Baskervilles". If you’ve always suspected that recipe book dishes never turn out how they look in pictures, lunch at Books for Cooks, which features meals from its huge stock of cookbooks. A Georgian terrace houses Books for Cooks on Blenheim Crescent, just off Notting Hill’s celebrated Portobello Road.
Few capitals of the world could have inspired so many artists, poets and most of all writers, as London. Putting guide books aside, it seems that hardly a day goes by without production of a new work of fiction or autobiography, which features London as a central character in its pages. A prime example is Dear London by agony aunt Irma Kurtz. Finally comes the Net Age, with writers voicing their concern on this threat; and there’s talk about the talking novel and there will be more invaders. Yet books continue and will continue to be the most profound sense of connection between two individuals, the one reading in solitude what the other in solitude has created, while between them many worlds are reborn. Bookshop Guide Books for Cooks: There is cookery in the air as well as on the shelves of this bookshop. AT: 4 Blenheim Crescent. (Near Notting Hill) London The Travel Bookshop:`A0Notting Hill’s famous bookshop stocks literature and guidebooks on every country on the planet. AT: W11 Blenheim Crescent. (Near Notting Hill)`A0London`A0 Crimes on Store: If you can’t get enough of murder mystery books, then check out this crime specialist bookshop, which stocks every crime title imaginable. AT: Suite 14, Bloomsbury House, 4 Bloomsbury Square, London
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Across the street, the
Travel Bookshop (remember Julia Roberts in Notting Hill) has
travel guides, literature and maps that can cover every square inch of
the world. If you’re in London for a while, invest in a book of
maps, commonly referred to as The A to Z.`A0 `A0`A0`A0`A0