City Centre

3 independent bookshops worth the trip in City Centre.

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.