Bookshop Tours of Britain

Category: Non-Fiction

Bookshop Tours of Britain

To travel by bookshop is to see the best of Britain.

Bookshop Tours of Britain is a slow-travel guide to Britain, navigating bookshop to bookshop based on author Louise Boland’s own three-year-long tour. This long-awaited fourth edition includes an additional sixty new bookshops for readers to explore!

Across twenty bookshop tours, the reader journeys from the south-west coast of England across the mountains of Wales, through England’s industrial heartland and Lakes, the Scottish Highlands and Norfolk Broads, to the rolling downs of Sussex and Hardy’s Wessex.

On their way, the bookshop tours take in beaches and castles, head down coal mines, go birdwatching, hiking and canoeing, visit whisky distilleries, stately homes and the houses of some of Britain’s best-loved historic writers – and last but not least, a host of fantastic bookshops.

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Paperback

Published: 31/10/2024

ISBN: 9781912054473

Length: 320pp

Price: £19.99

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A Local Bookshop Bookshop.org Blackwell's Waterstones

‘A wonderful idea for all perambulating bibliophiles, Boland’s handsomely presented volume outlines a host of walks across the most beautiful and culturally resonant areas of Britain connected by a series of similarly wonderful bookshops’    —Waterstones

‘A book all book lovers need. I personally love travelling to bookish places, for example to see the places an author writes about or where the characters live, but what I love most is doing a tour of ALL THE BOOKSHOPS! Louise Boland has put together a wonderful book full of hope and wonder in these troubled times and there are pictures and pictures galore of bookshops inside and out. Perfect for exploring the many cute and whimsical bookshops of Britain even when you’re sitting on your own couch. Bookshop Tours of Britain is a delightful book with beautiful illustrations and photographs that are immediately going to make you want to visit the bookshops you haven’t been to yet as well as revisit the ones you have been to… This book will accompany me on all my travels of the British Isles from now on’ —The Constant Reader

‘If you love supporting your local independent bookstore, this book is for you. I can’t recommend this book enough’           —Bookworms Anonymous

‘This would be the holiday of a lifetime, guaranteed to break the bank as you can’t really visit a new bookshop without buying a book… And the tour covers hundreds of bookshops – and, along the way, country houses, museums and other places of tourist interest’ —Ross Bradshaw, Five Leaves Bookshop

‘A bookshop lover’s bible’ —Reader review

‘A fabulous guidebook that is broader than purely the bookshops of its title and easily dipped in and out of piecemeal by wherever you happen to be going. Beautifully illustrated and full of photographs, it’s written with a genuine warmth and a clear love not only of the wonderful eclecticism and peaceful sanctuary of independent bookshops and booksellers across the country but also the joy of discovery and travel itself’ —Reader review

‘This GORGEOUS book is perfect for book lovers and shows some of the most beautiful and interesting bookshops across the country. It’s also the most wonderful travel guide for a staycation – castles, beaches, countryside beauty spots. I absolutely love dipping into this book with stunning photography too and using it to plan my “book vacation”!’                  —Reader review

‘An unusual travel book which left me inspired and yearning to get going!’ —Reader review

‘There is nothing I love more than a bit of armchair planning and this is the perfect companion for this. I can’t wait to be able to actually get out on the road with it and do these tours, meet the booksellers and the cute dogs!’ —Reader review