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BookBar brings people together through books. We are a bookshop, events and social space, serving wine, coffee and the best book recommendations. Our Shelf Medicate Prescription and Consultation Service prescibes bespoke book recommendations for aspiring and avid readers. Welcome to BookBar an independent bookshop and social space in London BookBar brings people together through books. Come and visit our bookshop, wine bar and events space in Islington or Chelsea, join us for one of our in person events, browse and order books online or join our BookClub. Upcoming Events BookBar Presents... An Evening with Maria Semple and Nina Stibbe Mon 25 May BookBar Chelsea More info Details Sufiyaan Salam in conversation with Gurnaik Johal | BookBar is Five Festival Wed 03 Jun BookBar Islington More info Buy Tickets Claire Daverley in conversation | BookBar is Five Festival Thu 04 Jun BookBar Chelsea More info Buy Tickets Buy our Book of the Month* and get a paired glass of Invader Orange for £5 *for collection only Order your copy of Transcription Order your copy of Frida Slattery What's New? Talking Classics by Mary Beard Price £16.99 The Village on the Edge of the World by Herta Müller Price £16.99 Weimar : Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer Price £30.00 Rough Edges by Natasha Carthew Price £20.00 Up All Night: A History of Going Out by Imogen Willetts Price £25.00 Hungry : A Biography of My Body by Katriona O'Sullivan Price £18.99 Said the Dead by Doireann Ni Ghriofa Price £18.99 Selfish Girls by Abigail Bergstrom Price £9.99 Elisa's Pick Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts Price £10.99 Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler Price £9.99 The Kitchen Book by Ella Risbridger Price £26.00 Jess's Pick Tree by Aya Koda Price £11.99 Esme's Pick The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri Price £10.99 Polly's Pick Cathedrals by Claudia Pineiro Price £11.99 Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer Price £16.99 Bimbo by Ashley James Price £22.00 The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout Price £18.99 Upcoming Event! American Fantasy by Emma Straub Price £18.99 Smallie by Eden McKenzie-Goddard Price £16.99 Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller Price £18.99 Amy's Pick Solace House by Will Maclean Price £20.00 Fruit Fly by Josh Silver Price £16.99 A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz Price £22.00 Porcupines by Fran Fabriczki Price £16.99 Browse our full list of recommendations Books we can't wait to recommend in 2026 Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez Price £16.99 It Comes in Waves by Rukky Brume Price £16.99 Retro by Jessica M. Goldstein Price £16.99 Hard Place by Gab Torr Price £16.99 Mrs Dickens by Emily Howes Price £20.00 Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh Price £16.99 Uprising by Tahmima Anam Price £16.99 Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer Price £16.99 All In by Claire Powell Price £16.99 Skin Contact by Elisa Faison Price £18.99 The Devoted by Catherine Cho Price £16.99 Whistler by Ann Patchett Price £20.00 Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens Price £16.99 Amy's Pick The Children by Melissa Albert Price £18.99 Chandler's Pick Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel Price £18.99 Partita by Barbara Kingsolver Price £20.00 Land by Maggie O'Farrell Price £25.00 Chrissy's Pick Stations by Louise Kennedy Price £20.00 Chrissy's Pick John of John by Douglas Stuart Price £20.00 Chrissy's Pick I Want You To Be Happy by Jem Calder Price £14.99 Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead Price £22.00 Chrissy's Pick American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee Price £22.00 The Traveller's Library by Chandler Bray Price £16.99 Browse our full list of recommendations Signed Copies Signed MEDesque : Everyday Recipes with Mediterranean Roots by Georgina Hayden Price £26.00 Signed Go Gentle by Maria Semple Price £20.00 Chandler's Pick My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy Price £18.99 We all love! Transcription by Ben Lerner Price £14.99 Signed What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton (Author Edition) Price £16.99 Signed Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy Price £16.99 Signed Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers Price £18.99 Signed Night People : How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City by Mark Ronson Price £25.00 Signed Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors Price £9.99 You Are Here by David Nicholls Out of stock Amy's Pick A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle Price £10.99 Signed A Long Winter by Colm Toibin Price £12.99 Signed New Cemetery Price £14.99 Signed No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes Price £20.00 Signed Ferment : The Life-Changing Power of Microbes by Tim Spector Price £25.00 Signed We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad Price £16.99 Signed Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood Price £16.99 BookBar Favourite! Ungone by Hannah Patterson Price £10.99 Signed Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi Price £22.00 Amy's Pick Dusk by Robbie Arnott Price £16.99 Signed Tart by Slutty Cheff Price £16.99 Signed Picture Imperfect by Jacqueline Wilson Price £22.00 Browse our full list of recommendations bookbar bookbags Our iconic canvas BookBags are the perfect size for your daily essentials. Buy a BookBar Tote now! The BookBar loyalty card In partnership with Ambler Primary School. Buy a book and get a stamp. When you get ten stamps we'll donate a book to a child from Ambler. Visit our bookshop, wine bar, events and social space at 166 Blackstock Road to get started. Follow us on Instagram for our latest recommendations and news @bookbaruk Load More Check out our famous BookBar playlists, courtesy of BookBar's resident DJ

Visit bookbar Address and Contact 166 Blackstock Road, London, N5 1HA 020 3457 5186 | hello@bookbaruk.com Opening Hours Monday - Closed Tuesday - 10am-6pm Wednesday - 10am-9pm Thursday - 10am-9pm Friday - 10am-9pm Saturday - 10am-9pm Sunday -11am-6pm ***Please check our events programme before visiting. If there is an event happening in the shop, we will be closed to anyone who doesn't have a ticket. We also keep Google up-to-date with any opening time changes.*** Accessibility Information There is a step to enter the shop and steps throughout the space. The bathroom is down a flight of stairs in the basement level. Outdoor seating is accessed at street level. Laptop Policy We love being a space that inspires creativity. However, we are also a busy retail and social space. We therefore limit laptop use to our downstairs Book Cellar and ask that laptop users only use laptops on weekdays before 6pm. We do not allow laptop use anywhere over the weekend. We ask that customers refrain from taking video and phone calls at all times. Feel free to bring your own book, notebooks and pens any time. Address and Contact 11 Chelsea Manor Street, SW3 3TW 020 3668 3422 | chelsea@bookbaruk.com Opening Hours Monday - 10am-6pm Tuesday - 10am-6pm Wednesday - 10am-9pm Thursday - 10am-9pm Friday - 10am-9pm Saturday - 10am-9pm Sunday -11am-6pm ***Please check our events programme before visiting. If there is an event happening in the shop, we will be closed to anyone who doesn't have a ticket. We also keep Google up-to-date with any opening time changes.*** Accessibility Information Our bookshop and outdoor seating can be accessed at street level. We also have an accessible restroom available. Laptop Policy We love being a space that inspires creativity. However, we are also a busy retail and social space. We therefore limit laptop use to our bar stools and ask that laptop users only use laptops on weekdays before 6pm. We do not allow laptop use anywhere over the weekend. We ask that customers refrain from taking video and phone calls at all times. Feel free to bring your own book, notebooks and pens any time. stay in touch Follow us on Instagram @BookBarUK Book orders Order online or email the shop for collection or to arrange delivery Join our mailing list Sign up here Events enquiries events@bookbaruk.com Press enquiries hello@bookbaruk.com