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is a long way from the smug hills of Stroud, so TheBookGuide don't often get the
opportunity to inspect the bookshops. Accordingly, your help in keeping me up-to-date
will be more than usually appreciated. Many
thanks to Mark Sutcliffe for his recent updates.
Wigtown
In the public imagination at least, secondhand bookshops and Hay
on Wye have become as synonymous as vacuum cleaners and Hoover.
A neat
trick if you can do it and one that Wigtown, 'Scotland's National
Book Town', has been trying its best to emulate since 1998. In
2003 Harry Bell's
Wigtown Trip (a tongue in cheek account of a visit by
three book collectors) certainly ruffled a few feathers. And you
can also read the Wigtown
booksellers response to it here.
The number of shops in the town seems to have stabalised at ten,
with the biggest and best being The Bookshop.
Edinburgh
With the reopening
of Southside Books the number of independent and charity bookshops
has recently grown to twenty-seven, so Edinburgh must be the place
to visit if you are serious about book fondling in Scotland.
Glasgow
Thanks to Jeremy Briggs we
now have nine shops listed for Glasgow, together with reviews of most of them.
Apparently, there are also three or four bookstalls at the London Road Market
on Saturday and Sunday. Aberdeen
Aberdeen still has a page of
its own, even though there are now only four bookshops, Bon Accord having recently
closed. There are also three bookshops with Aberdeenshire addresses which can
be found in "The Highlands". I have also included in "The Highlands"
an antiques shop on Deeside, which according to Pierce Roche, has interesting
books. The
Lowlands
From
the borders up to and including Argyll, Perthshire and Angus. Lots of space, not
many shops. The
Highlands and Islands
All
the remaining lumpy bits. I't seems rude to say nothing about the Highlands but
that's the extent of my knowlege. If
you run a bookshop in Scotland, just complete a simple online
form and you will start to attract new customers. Trade entries in the bookshop
directory are free (although we reserve the right to charge a small administration
fee in the future).
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