Koenig books houses a collection of wanky art books with beautiful covers and a selection of artistically out of focus photographs. It does have a huge selection though so if you do have £50 to burn on a book you will look through once then leave around to use as a coaster you will no [...]

I have a routine where each month at some point I go to borders and gather as many magazines off the racks as I can carry, all the while avoiding the irritated glare of the store assistants who know fine well that I have no intention of either a) buying any of them b) putting [...]

Magma is one of those lovely bookshops which sells all those wanky graphics books and expensive documentary dvd’s about fashion designers, plus every arty magazine in circulation, literally floor to ceiling, with guys who dress like members of Blur standing around with an open book looking into space, mouth slightly open as they’ve just found [...]

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 [...]

Art books, graphic design books and magazines which are hard to find is what you get here. It’s a tiny shop packed floor to ceiling with “flick-through-once-and-leave-around-to-look-cool-books” with the same being said for magazines which are 75% adverts, 15% ‘artistic’ photoshoots and 5% boring articles on people who don’t matter. I am by the way [...]

All the people who work here are idiots. I don’t think they mean to be but they have that mindset that people who work in second had book/record stores have is that they are superior and know far more on the subject than you ever will. They always have industrial jazz or worse Nick Cave [...]

Found whilst escaping the thundering rain and looking for a travel guide on Amsterdam, I overhear an American asking “Is this the bookshop from the movie Notting Hill?” (it is) I wonder how many times they get asked that. No wonder the guy working there said no and that it was all filmed on a [...]