Blaenafon - The Booktown Experiment Fails 17.03.06

Abergavenny Market
Cross Street
ABERGAVENNY  Monmouthshire  NP7 5HD
Secondhand book stalls on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday.

Books To Go Bookshop
The Victorian Arcade  The Pumping Station  Penarth Road
CARDIFF  CF11 8TT
tel: 07779 245 440  e-mail  website  map
Open: Tuesday - Sunday 10.00 - 4.30.
We have a wide selection of books for sale including vintage paperbacks, film tie-ins, contemporary fiction, kids books and Welsh interest. Find us downstairs in the Victorian Arcade (opposite the lion) next to the cafe.

Broadleaf Books
16 Monk Street
ABERGAVENNY  Gwent  NP7 5NP
tel: 01873 857127  e-mail  map
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Good selection of local history, natural history and just plain history. Photography, architecture and art along with cooking and gardening as well as much more. Always welcome to visit in this historic market town. Books are bought as well as sold.
     Broadleaf traded for over five years in Blaenafon and has now moved to Abergavenny. - TBG 23.06.09.

Browning Books
33 Broad Street
BLAENAFON  Torfaen  NP4 9NF
tel: 01495 790089  e-mail  website  map
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Stephanie and Andrew Nummerlin specialise in childrens' literature and also stock books on transport and local interest.

Capital Bookshop
27 Morgan Arcade  
CARDIFF  CF1 2AF
tel: 02920 388423  e-mail  map
    A glorious looking shop in one of Cardiff's most elegant arcades, but let down by the stock which is getting rather old and tired and needs a good clearing out and restocking. - George Marshall 26.02.09.

Fully Booked
Abergavenny Market
Cross Street
ABERGAVENNY  Monmouthshire  NP7 5HD
tel: 07772 376672  website  map
Open: Wednesday flea market and antiques fair third Sunday in every month.
Rare, antique, first edition, collectable, and interesting books.

Headwater Books
19 Broad Street
BLAENAFON  Torfaen  NP4 9ND
tel: 01495 791611
Open: Wednesday & Thursday 10.00 - 5.00, Friday & Saturday 10.00 - 3.00.
Art, poetry, history, military, spiritual and many other types of books. Also at Abergavenny Market

Oxfam Bookshop
36 St Mary Street
CARDIFF  CF10 1AD
tel: 029 20 222275  map

The Railway Shop
13a Broad Street
BLAENAFON  Torfaen  NP4 9ND
tel: 01495 792263  map
Please ring for opening times.
    Railway hobby supplies in aid of the Pontypool and Blaenafon Railway. Has some new and secondhand books - TBG.

Serendipity Books
87 Broad Street
BLAENAFON  Torfaen  NP4 9NE
tel: 01495 793111  map
Books about spiritualism, witchcraft, magic, u.f.o’s and complementary therapies.

Stella Books
Monmouth Road  
TINTERN  Monmouthshire  NP16 6SE
tel: 01291 689755  fax: 01291 689998  e-mail  website  map
Open daily 9.30 - 5.30
A large stock of 30,000 books on all subjects, specialising in children's and illustrated, UK topography, railways and natural history. Picture gallery with wide selection of antique views of local area. Free booksearch service. Catalogues issued. Stock available on web site. Featured Bookseller

Troutmark Books
39-43 Castle Arcade
CARDIFF  CF11 1BW
tel: 029 203 82814
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
     Tucked just inside an arcade opposite Cardiff Castle, this is the largest (and I think the cosiest) second hand bookshop in Cardiff. Three floors offer a good coverage of all topics. Books are in good condition, well presented and include a good proportion of recent publications, Troutmark is especially strong on modern literature and dedicates its top floor to science fiction/ pulp magazines/ephemera and comics. - George Marshall 26.02.09.

The Vale of Glenmorgan Antiques Centre
48a Eastgate
COWBRIDGE  South Glamorgan  CF71 7AB  map
tel: 01446 771190
    Rob Thomas has three rooms of general secondhand stock on the second floor. - TBG.

Whitchurch Books Ltd
67 Merthyr Road  Whitchurch  
CARDIFF  CF14 1DD
tel: 02920 521956  fax: 02920 623599  e-mail  map

Wye Books
Old Bell Chambers  Riflemans Way
CHEPSTOW  Gwent  NP16 5EJ
tel: 01291 624888  map
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 5.00, Saturday 9.00 - 5.30.
A small stock of general secondhand books.
    Chris Ward doesn't yet have have broadband, so the phone is often engaged. His mobile number is 07745 239420. - TBG.