Bristol's Best Bookshops
We at Itchy Bristol are getting bored of reality TV and have decided that this week we wish to be a little more cultured. We're going to swap David Gest for David Copperfield, Toby Anstis for Margaret Atwood and fill you in on Bristol's best bookshops. It may be a chain-store, but despite its evil corporatism (compounded by the Starbucks inside), Borders on Queen's Road is a very lovely place to have a good browse for books. They also have massive music and magazine sections, and if you're a bit sneaky you can just go and read the books in the aforementioned Starbucks for the price of a coffee. That's one in the eye for the multinationals, eh?Borders Bristol
45-56 Queen's Road
(0117) 922 6959 If you're looking for somewhere a little more unique, get yourself to the Arnolfini bookshop, or "heaven" as it's more commonly known to bibliophiles. This gem of a bookstore has hundreds of books on art, theatre, cinema, photography, poetry, literature... we could go on. Itchy always has to be dragged kicking and screaming from this place - we promise you'll have to be too.
Arnolfini Bookshop
The Arnolfini, Waterfront
(0117) 917 2304 Durdham Down Bookshops is one of those proper pokey little bookshops that looks as if it's been in a time-warp for the past 70 years. That's not to say that their selection isn't up to date though - they stock a wide variety of contemporary fiction, classics and non-fiction books. You get that nice glowing feeling of supporting the local economy as well as improving your mind when you shop here, too. What more could you want?
Durdham Down Bookshops
39 North View, Westbury Park
(0117) 973 9095 Just outside the city is The Bookbarn, the country's largest used book store. This place is great fun - an entire warehouse devoted to books. You can visit their website to check if they have what you're looking for before you head down there.
The Bookbarn
Central Trading Estate, Bath Road
(0117) 300 5400 If you want to make your cultural advancement a charitable thing, go to the Amnesty second-hand bookshop on Gloucester Road. They have a huge selection and you'll be helping political prisoners the world over.
Amnesty Bookshop
103 Gloucester Road, Bishopston
(0117) 942 2969 So there you go, stop moaning that there's nothing on the telly and get reading - it's good for the mind, you know
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