• Bolingbroke Bookshop - Elegant bookshop which specialises in classic literature (so you can see the Oxford, Everyman and black Penguin lists as well as Eland) in busy Battersea street which also has the Northcote Road antiques market to browse in.
  147 Nothcote Road
  London SW11 6QB
  T 0207-223-9344
  
  
• Crockatt & Powell – brand new and elegant independent bookstore on the lively and still bohemian street market that is tucked into the south side of Waterloo station, usefully close to National Theatre, Old Vic and Festival Hall. Run by Mathew Crockatt and Adam Powell.
  119-120 Lower Marsh, London SE1
  T 020-7928-0234
• Crockatt & Powell Chelsea - having made such a fantastic success of their first shop, they are branching north, opening a second branch a:
  345 Fulham Road
  London SW10 9TW
  020 7351 3468
  
  
• Daunt Books – the most admired bookshop in London, with its oak shelves and chapel-like gallery at the back, diligent staff, well-chosen stock (arranged by country) and its own very busy calendar of book launches and public readings. The success of the shop at Marylebone High Street has been reflected by the growth of branches at Belsize Park, Hampstead and most recently in Holland Park.
  
  Daunt Books at 83/84 Marylebone High Street
  London W1U 4QW
  T: 020 7224 2295
  E: marylebone@dauntbooks.co.uk
  Open Monday to Saturday from 9am-7.30pm and Sunday 11am -6pm
  
  Daunt Books at Belsize Park
  193 Haverstock Hill
  London NW3 4QL
  T 0207-794-4006
  E belsizepark@dauntbooks.co.uk
  Open Mon-Sat 9am-9pm, Sunday 11am-7pm
  
  Daunt Books at Hampstead
  51 South End Road
  London NW3 2QB
  T 0207-794-8206
  E hampstead@dauntbooks.co.uk
  Open Mon-Sat 9am-6pm, Sun 11am-6pm
  
  Daunt Books at Holland Park
  112-114 Holland Park Avenue
  London W11 4UA
  T 0207-727-7022
  E hollandpark@dauntbooks.co.uk
  
  
• Foyles Bookshop – vast stock, central location and still the most famous bookshop in London (if not the world) and under its third generation of family management returning to a more rational and less labrythine layout.
  113-119 Charing Cross Road
  London WC2H OEB
  T 020-7440-3257
  
  
• G. Heywood Hill Ltd – one of the temples of literature in London, a gem of a shop, with highly selective stock: old, new and rare right beside Trumpers in the heart of Mayfair.
  10 Curzon street
  London W1J 5HH
  
  
• Hatchards – one of the institutions of Piccadilly life. Eland is mostly stocked in the dedicated travel department (run by Katy Drake) which is a long room at the back to your left as you enter through the hall
  187 Piccadilly
  London W1J 9LE
  T 020-7439-9921
  F 020 7494 1313
  E books@hatchards.co.uk
  
  
• The Open Book - run by Helena Richardson is a Richmond institution and the established partner of the Richmond Literary Festival.
  10, King Street
  Richmond
  Surrey, TW9 1ND
  T 020-8940-1802
  E theopenbook@caletta.fsnet.co.uk

Sussex, Surrey and Kent - with bits of South London

• Barnetts of Wadhurst
  Gordon House
  High Street, Wadhurst
  East Sussex TN5 6AA
  T 01892-783566
  
  
• Much Ado Books - Cate Olson & Nash Robbins have enthusiasm mingled with a breezy American can-do spirit. Having run a bookshop in Marblehead, Massachusets, they have now set up closer to Shelley’s birthplace and Bloomsbury’s Charleston nest. See their website for events and readings and a flavour of this remarkable shop.
  1 Steamer Cottage, High Street
  Alfriston
  East Sussex BN26 5TY
  T 01323 871222
  
  
• Boldwood Books - just opened, a small, but nicely-presented independent bookshop right by the sea in Bexhill. Specialises in local and military history, music writing, biography, travel literature, cookery, classic and contemporary fiction
  50 Sea Road
  Bexhll-On-Sea
  East Sussex TN40 1JP
  Tel: 01424 211969. e mail
  E-mail: boldwood.books@yahoo.co.uk.
  
  
• Sandwich Bookshop
  60 King Street
  Sandwich, Kent CT13 9BL
  T 01304-620404
  
  
• The Open Book - run by Helena Richardson is a Richmond institution and the established partner of the Richmond Literary Festival.
  10, King Street
  Richmond
  Surrey TW9 1ND
  T 020-8940-1802
  E theopenbook@caletta.fsnet.co.uk

Wessex and Cornwall

Orkney and Shetlands

• Stromness Books and Prints - Small but perfectly formed bookshop in Stromness high street with well-chosen stock just a stone's throw from art galleries, bars, café and house of George Mackay Brown. The perfect place in which to be educated about Scottish and Norse writing.
  1, Graham Place
  Stromness
  Orkney KW16 3BY
  T 01856-850565

East Anglia

• Browsers Bookshop
  60 The Thoroughfare
  Woodbridge
  Suffolk IP12 1AL
  T 01394 388 890
  
  
• Aldeburgh Bookshop - Literary institution in the Suffolk coast town which has possibly more writers, composers and artists living in it than even Hampstead. Recently expanded under the energetic management of Mary and Johnny James it is set opposite the towns cinema and is the driving force behind the much acclaimed Aldeburgh Book Festival usually held in the first weekend of March.
  42, The High Street
  Aldeburgh
  Suffolk IP15 5AB
  T 01728-452389
  E Aldeburgh.bookshop@btinternet.com
  
  
• Harleston Bookshop - An impressive commercial bounce back set up Stephen du Sautoy, a refugee from Bury St Edmunds where the arrival of chain bookshops destroyed the market for his previous bookshop. Early closing on Thursday afternoon.
  14 Old Market Place
  Harleston
  Norfolk IP20 9BE
  T 01379-855111
  
  
• Wivenhoe Bookshop
  23 High Street
  Essex CO7 9BE
  T 01206-824050

Mercia & The Midlands - also includes Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertforshire and Northamptonshire

• Stanfords - Stanfords has been a feature of London and travel books since Edward Stanford set up as a map shop in 1853, the business prospering enough for his heirs to buy the entire series of red-clothed Murray Handbooks in 1901. It has taken them some time to spread their wings but Manchester now has it is very own Stanfords.
  39, Spring Gardens
  Manchester M2 2BG
  T 0161-831-0250
  F 0161 831-0237
  opening hours Mon 9-6, Tues 9.30-6, Wed-Sat 9-6, closed all day Sunday. See their website www.stanfords.co.uk for author events, readings and book signings.
  
  
• Mostly Books - brand new independent start up, which opened in July 2006. The adventures and misadventures of book selling can be viewed at mostly-books.blogspot.com
  36 Stert Street
  Abdingdon
  Oxfordshire OX14 3JP
  T 01235-525880
  E mark@mostly-books.co.uk
  
  
• Wenlock Books
  12 High Street
  Much Wenlock
  Shropshire TF13 6AA
  T 01952 727877
  E info@wenlockbooks.co.uk
  
  Wenlock Books is an independent bookshop, situated in a beautiful C15th, Grade II listed building in the centre of Much Wenlock in Shropshire. They pride themselves on efficiency, utilising the latest technology, yet it's the personal service that has won them a devoted following. When the Guardian announced it was compiling a database of the finest independent bookshops in the UK, it received more recommendations for Wenlock Books than any other shop! They also have an extensive & eminently browsable second-hand selection and are happy to make tea and coffee (with cake) for browsers; on Saturdays, you'll find the weekend papers spread out on a table. Three reading groups meet in the bookshop which is the centre for a whole network of community and cultural events. Much Wenlock has a festival see www.wenlockfestival.co.uk and there is also Festival on the Edge www.festivalattheedge.org
  
  
• Chipping Campden Bookshop
  Dragon House
  High Street
  Chipping Campden
  Gloucestershire GL55 6AG
  
  
• The Bookshop Chipping Norton - Very popular local bookshop run by Polly Jaffe and Patrick Neale.
  8 West Street
  Chipping Norton
  Oxfordshire OX7 5AA
  T 01608-641033
  E thebookshop.chippingnorton@btopenworld.com
  
  
• The Woodstock Bookshop - The Woodstock Bookshop was established in May 2008 by Rachel Phipps, who has worked in several independent bookshops including Sandoe's and The Borzoi. The shop is quite small but has a general stock including a large selection of children's books, poetry and small presses. And Eland titles, of course...
  23 Oxford Street
  Woodstock OX20 1TH
  Tel: 01993 812760
  info@woodstockbookshop.co.uk
  
  
• QI Bookshop - Fascinating circular bookshop which is part of café and members club once run by Claudia Fitzherbert though we all fear for the venture since she has left.
  16 Turl Street
  Oxford OX1 3DH
  T 01865-261507
  Opening hours Mon-Sat 9am-11pm, Sun 10am-6pm