Literature
Literary London
Bookshops, reading rooms, and literary institutions that have been shaping the city's intellectual life for centuries.
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Sign inLondon has always been a city of readers. These are the places that have sustained that tradition — not as heritage attractions, but as living parts of the city's intellectual life. Some have been here for two hundred years. Others are more recent. All of them are worth an afternoon.
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The best independent bookshop in London. The talks programme is just as good.
The reading rooms are open to anyone with a reader pass. Most people do not know this.
A specialist bookshop and lending library occupying the same Bloomsbury building for over two centuries.