John Sandoe Books first started out as three planks laid on bricks, carrying “all the books one could ever hope to find in one place”. Almost 50 years and a full shop front later, Sandoe’s offering still lives up to that original ethos. Spanning categories like fiction, history, biography, poetry, art, architecture, decorative arts, music, theatre, cinema, photography, fashion, natural history, gardening, travel, cookery, science, reference, and an excellent children’s department (try saying that in one breath), it’s easy to see how it fills three floors. And when we say fill, we mean crammed into every possible space, piled on stables and even balancing on the stairs. A glorious throwback, the eighteenth-century emporium is the perfect tonic in a modern age.
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