Better, we guess, to be shabby but wonderful, than wonderful but shabby.
This Crystal Palace shop is "shabby but wonderful," says Rebecca, with "the best range of imported American literature in London. It is also the best place to have a full-on opinionated discussion about good writing, and is a citadel of light in the community with a proper focus on local authors." Chris also recommends it.
Listed no. 6 in The 50 Best bookshops in The Independent newspaper
Shop Opening Hours
Mon - Fri 10.00 am - 7.00pm
Sat 9.30 am - 6.30 pm
Sun 11am - 5pm
Bank Holidays 11am - 5pm
Book Club.
The next meeting of the monthly Book Club will be Wednesday 6th June at 7.30.We will be reading Irma Voth by Miriam Toews.
Forthcoming Events
The Flame Alphabet Ben Marcus.
US import
Major new novel quite unlike anything that you will have ever read before.
Mark Steel's In Town
Signed copies.
Mark's brilliantly funny tour of Britain is also a celebration of how weird, daft and plain strange we all are.
Writer in residence.
Treat yourself to a signed copy of Karen's brilliant book.
The Great Leader Jim Harrison
Storage Stories. Jim Bob
The Hunger Trace Edward Hogan.
South London's very own Gentleman Jim Bob with a novel about a storage facility and the characters who inhabit it. Very good it is too.
A modern day Thomas Hardy, earthy, saucy and constantly surprising.
We liked this.
CWA Gold Dagger 2011
Crooked Letter Crooked Letter. Tom Franklin
Fabulous Mississippi set crime novel that is about much more than solving a couple of murders. A great book.
Signed copies £9.99
hardback £12.99
Answer Me This! Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann
Being Billy Phil Earle.
Like Ken Loach for 14 year olds, with all the heart, humour and compassion that that implies.
Featuring all-time favourite questions from the award winning comedy podcast.
Paperback £7.99
More books by Tom Franklin
Signed copies
Robert Coover reissues.
Wild Abandon. Joe Dunthorne
Echoes Laura Dockrill
The celebrated US novelist Robert Coover get the reissue treatment from Penguin with three titles here.
Second novel by the author of Submarine. Signed copies.
Signed copies
Await Your Reply. Dan Chaon
Machiavelli's Lawn Mark Crick
Of Mutability. Jo Shapcot
Winner of the Costa Book Award 2010
Paperback £9.99
The latest in a pitch perfect series of literary parodies that began with Kafka's Soup. The great writers gardening companion.
Loved by everybody who read it in our recent book club.
Raymond Carver Collected Stories.
The Library of America definitive edition of Raymond Carver's stories including Beginners - the never before published, original version of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
Hardback - over 1000 pages.
This is Britain.
By the incomparable
M Sasek.
Collect the set
here.
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
Read the extraordinary story of the man who built the world famous Crystal Palace Dinosaurs.
It's cotton. It has our name on it and it's pretty as a picture. It's a bag £2.50 inc postage.
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