50 best specialist bookshops in the UK

Believe it or not, there are still people who visit bookshops not for the quality of their coffee or the comfort of their sofas, but for the specially selected stock and well-informed staff. Robert Webb and his panel of experts browsed until long past closing time

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Arts
Zwemmer Photography And Cinema
Helter Skelter
RIBA Bookshop
French's Theatre Bookshop
Tate Modern Bookshop
The Cinema Bookshop
Stephen Foster Books
Soho Original Books
Offstage
Dance Books

Lifestyle and Esoteric

Watkins BooksSportspagesBooks For CooksInner BookshopMotor BooksGarden BooksThe PC BookshopBoutle & KingAtlantis BookshopHigh Stakes

Literature and Children's
Murder One
Compendium
Gay's The Word
Silver Moon Women's Bookshop
Crime In Store
Heffer's Children's Bookshop
New Worlds
Portobello Books
No Alibis Bookstore
Booth Books

Political and SciencePolitico's Bookstore And CoffeehouseKarnac BooksBookmarksThe Building Centre BookshopSkoob BooksJudd BooksIntermediate TechnologyThe Economist ShopThe Oxfam BookshopJ G Natural History Books

Travel and World
Daunt Books
New Beacon Books
Grant & Cutler
Stanfords
Africa Book Centre
Arthur Probsthain
The Travel Bookshop
Public House Books
Zeno
Al Saqi Bookshop

The panelBill GodberDavid HicksDouglas McCabeIon MillsLesley ReaderSuzie Feay