A curated guide to Cambridge's bookshops
Cambridge's independent bookshops, worth the detour.
Not every shop — just the ones worth lingering in. Browse the collection, or open the map to find somewhere to lose an hour near you.
3 shops · 1 areas · hand-picked, never crowdsourced
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Shops that reward the trip.
City Centre · mixed
Bodies in the Bookshop
Cambridge's crime fiction specialist, spread over two floors of an old house on Botolph Lane. New and secondhand crime, collectibles and a regular programme of author events.
City Centre · secondhand
The Haunted Bookshop
Tucked into a narrow passage beside St Edward King and Martyr, a few steps from King's College Chapel. An 18th-century building packed with secondhand and antiquarian books, strongest on children's and illustrated titles, and said to be haunted by a lady in white.
City Centre · secondhand
G. David Bookseller
A family-run antiquarian and secondhand shop in a narrow passage off the Market Square, founded in 1896 as a market stall by Parisian Gustave David. A large antiquarian room at the back, with maps, engravings and secondhand stock.
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