Claire Rouen Books

Tucked away up a narrow flight of stairs above the Soho bookshop on Charing Cross road is a little designer bookshop specialising in fashion and art books, many of which are hard to find. It is also home to a vast collection of the kinds of glossy magazines that no one ever reads as they are little more than a collection of pretentious out of focus photographs by wannabe photographers, sorry had to get that off my chest, (I still find the time to flick through, well, nearly all of them though). For such a tiny space I have never seen such a vast collection, none of which have unsightly 20% off stickers on them, they are all full price and therefore displayed adoringly yey! The owner’s camp little pug is a fixture not to be missed either.