All the people who work here are idiots*. I don’t think they mean to be but they have the mindset that people who work in second had book/record stores have – ie. that they are superior and know far more on the subject than you ever will. They always have industrial jazz or worse, Bob Dylan or the Velvet Underground (totally safe music that no one would ever admit to not liking) playing too loud in the background and over which they make loud in-jokes about comics or whatever that you are meant to be impressed by as I catch them giving me a stealthy side glance. The NHBE is I think the best secondhand bookshop particularly if you are looking for anything on or related to music, film, art, and photography. My favourite section is the part titled ‘Cult books’, I always make a few good finds in there. It’s cramped as the comics take up too much space but I never leave without a few good finds or spending more than a tenner.
*I used to work in a similar shop selling vintage magazines and I used to be an an idiot too. So were all my friends who worked there. Moronic customers just bring that out of you. Just for the record.
Notting Hill Book Exchange, 14 Pembridge Road, London, W11
020 7229 8420
Monday-Sunday 10am-8pm
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You are right. The people who work in that shop are idiots. I think they do mean to be. It’s like a bad sit-com in there. And the customers are even worse. This is the worst bookshop in London. I hAVE HEARD PEOPLE SHOUT THAT in there many times. Bag og wank.