| Avenue Books 
A Most Marvellous Place to Shop
Bell Plantation Watling Street
TOWCESTER Northants NN12 6GX map
tel: 01604 604105 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00, Sunday 11.00 - 4.00.
A selection of stock listed on our website with an emphasis on Folio editions, Africa, Aviation & Military History and sets of books. Fresh stock added weekly. In addition to our books there is 2,500+ sq feet of vintage, retro, collectables, furniture, craft, art, and clothing.
Avenue Books
A Most Marvellous Place to Shop
22-36 Kettering Road (Opposite the Jaguar Dealership)
NORTHAMPTON Northants NN1 4AH map
tel: 01604 604105 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 6.00, Sunday 11.00 - 4.00.
Specialist Northamptonshire section plus our "Bargain Bookshelves" which contain an eclectic selection of books not listed on our website all priced at £2. Fresh stock added weekly. As well as our books youll find over 9,000 sq feet of vintage, collectables, retro, art, crafts and clothing stalls.Tea-Sho
Brackley Antiques Cellar
Draymans Walk
BRACKLEY Northants NN13 6BE map
tel: 01280 841841
Open: 7 days 10.00 - 5.00.
Situated under the Waitrose supermarket. A huge area of treasures including thousands of books of a very high standard. Well worth a visit. - Chris Harte 19.05.09.
Interestting place in a lovely town, even in the rain, but the books such as they were scattered throughout numerous antiques stalls and number in the hundreds and not the thousands. Much very dead stock and the whole place smelled damp , rather surprising as under Waitrose, a relatively new building. NWAD but the Old Hall Bookshop is worth a visit. - Jon Morgan 03.03.12.
Harrowden Books
61 High Street
FINEDON Northants NN9 5JN map
tel: 01933 681522 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30.
Over 18,000 books in stock covering most subjects. We offer a friendly personal service. Browsers welcome.
There are insufficient superlatives in the English language to describe this place. Just when you begin to despair that the type and quality of second hand bookshop which existed in bygone days is in fact a thing of the past, along comes one which restores faith. You are offered a complementary cup of excellent coffee on entry by a very well dressed owner who is attentive, intelligent and well informed. The stock is extensive, varied in and between subject / genres. Price for HB and PB is excellent £2 upwards for the former and on average £1.50 for the latter. Cafe next door in this very pretty calm and quiet Northants village. AND you can park free right outside - Perfection itself. I urge, advise, exhort an early visit. If only there were more like this. - Jon Morgan 03.03.12.
That's a fantastic review Jon, and very much apreciated. Can't think who this "attentive, intelligent and well informed" chap can be though ... does he work here? - Mike Sumner 13.03.12.
Absolute agreement with Jon Morgan's comments. WWAD. - Steven Whitehead 25.08.12.
It will probably embarrass him but proprietor Mike Sumner is a hugely knowledgeable man who made my visit more interesting than I ever expected. His stock contained so much material I had never previously seen that I felt my final boxload of purchases should have been much, much more. WWAD. - Chris Harte 13.09.12.
If only every village had a place like this. A compact, tidy, and well organized general stock with highlights in most areas. I left in a really good mood. - OWC 13.09.12.
I would endorse everything good that has been said about this shop - if only there were more like it. Prices are extremely realistic and it contains a stock of quality and variety. Well worth the detour. - Nicholas Pendower 29.10.12.
Excellent shop with sensible prices. Well worth a visit and I fully endorse the other reviewers' comments. - Steve Brissle 06.03.13.
I very much appreciate everyone's very kind comments. It makes it all the more worthwhile. Many thanks. - Mike Sumner (proprietor) 19.03.13.
Northampton Ephemera World & Bookshop
26 St Michael's Road
NORTHAMPTON Northants NN1 3JU map
tel: 0758 1881310 e-mail web
Open: Wednesday - Saturday 11.00 - 4.00.
From January 1st 2013 we are changing the shop and keeping the small area still with books, mainly local, or interesting books, and loads of annuals. The long room will now be an ephemera treasure trove room - guide books, sheet music, programmes, magazines, old newspapers, comics, and lots of flyers and pamphlets.
Recently opened bookshop, shared premises with record store. Plenty of stock for those prepared to search, much on shelves and a lot of unsorted ephemera in boxes. For the adventurer, a great experience, with another floor of unsorted stock. - Anon 05.02.09.
Fairly new and looked unpromising until I found a hallway stacked with collectable titles - Chris Harte 14.04.09.
I think I may have missed this shops heyday. - OWC 13.09.12
Phoenix Comics
29 Abington Square
NORTHAMPTON Northants NN1 4AE map
tel: 01604 602311
Sherwood Antiques
59 Little Street
RUSHDEN Northants NN10 0LS map
tel: 01933 0353265 or 01234 359784
Open: Tuesday & Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 11.00 - 5.00.
Several shelves of books in the main shop and a room full of antique stock (much of it in fairly ropey condition) upstairs: viewable by request. I bought 6 or 7 books. - Richard 31.03.09.
Closed at time of visit, and although antique stock in shop looked closed full stop. No evidence thru the window of any book related activity. As for the town definitely NWAD. Even the charity shops were depressing.The ony reason for going anywhere near it is the bookshop in Finedon, which I have reviewed seperately and justified the journey all on its own.
The Courthouse Bookshop
Workshop Unit 3
Mill Road
OUNDLE Northants PE8 4BW map
tel: 01832 274754 e-mail web
Open: Thursday & Saturday 10.00 - 5.00, closed for lunch 1.00 - 2.00.
Fiction - thrillers, crime, spy & historical fiction. Sport - football, cricket, golf, boxing, motor racing, fishing, and birdwatching. Crafts, painting & photography. Reference, countryside, gardening & history. Also children's books. Secondhand bookshop located in the courtyard of the Courthouse/Museum buildings in the historic market town of Oundle. Parking close by at the Drill Hall car park.
Small but well-organised shop, only opened six weeks ago. Stock is expanding, I gather. Very broad subject areas. Prices are incredibly cheap - Charity shop cheap - and I almost felt embarrassed to walk out with some absolute bargains. Advise you go there before owner has to put them up. - Colin Peel 05.05.11.
Very very small. Little stock although very reasonable prices. Better than a charity shop (NB Good Oxfam Shop in town) and very helpful polite owner. - Jon Morgan 03.03.12.
The Old Hall Bookshop
32 Market Place
BRACKLEY Northants NN13 7DP map
tel: 01280 704146 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.30.
Large general stock of new, secondhand and antiquarian titles, located in beautiful Georgian house. Fast ordering system for books in print and full booksearch service for those that aren't! Members of ILAB, ABA, PBFA, BA. - Established 1977.
Very good quality stock. They obviously take care about what books they buy in. Military in abundance. Visit recommended so long as you ignore the upper middle-class twittering mothers in the room set aside for children's books. - Chris Harte 19.05.09.
Flourishing and well worth a visit. - Tony Laverick 25.06.09.
Excellent shop with a large stock in most areas - yes it has a room for new children's books. Sensible prices seemingly good turnover too. Pleasant browsing environment. - Norman Davies 31.10.11.
A beautiful shop in a beautiful building in a beautiful town. Stock was good new and old. Bit light on fiction but very good prices generally , excellent atmosphere. Almost everything a second hand bookshop should be! NB the antiques centre under waitrose is very poor for books but wad for antiquey stuff. - Jon Morgan 03.03.12.
Excellent secondhand section (and the new books were good too). Stronger on non-fiction but plenty of interest for readers, collectors, and dealers (and children too). - Steven Whitehead 13.09.12.
A hand-picked stock with plenty of meat on the bones which deserves quality time and serious attention. I spent a small fortune and will visit regularly. - OWC 13.09.12.
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