This is a great bookshop for you to just go through the shelves row-by-row in hopes that you’ll find something that strikes your fancy. As everything is so organized, it’s quite easy to go through everything. There’s an excellent fiction section, and other sections dedicated to travel, poetry, art, theology, philosophy, psychology, and others that I’m sure I’m missing. And the staff is knowledgeable about what they have in stock, so if you can’t find something you’re looking for and are just curious as to whether they carry a particular title, they’ll look into it for you.
Sam R.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 Brighton, United Kingdom
This place is a pretty nice experience, in the days of amazon its still nice to have a snoop around the shelves, its probably a bit cheaper sometimes too. They have a good selection of big art books here, and for the second hand bookshops in this area an less than OK philosophy section(none around here are great by any means). Fiction and art books are your best bet.
Tessla
Évaluation du lieu : 3 Brighton, United Kingdom
Brighton’s Laines second hand book emporium is spread over two meticulously organised floors, with that lovely familiar old-old book smell that welcomes you as you peruse the shelves. Organised into sections, fill your mind with religion, geography, travel, history, fiction, children’s stories and fairytales but don’t expect the bargain bucket prices of high street retailers, the hardback beauties in this place don’t come cheap. If you delve a little deeper though and can spare the best part of an hour, you’re sure to leave happy. It’s been compared elsewhere on the web to the bookshop out of Notting Hill, with posh, well educated bumbling staff fussing over shelves floor to ceiling packed with books, and I’ll have to agree that there is a certain English charm about the place, the kind that makes you proud to be in there.
Jessica W.
Évaluation du lieu : 5 Burnaby, Canada
Brighton Books was instantly my favourite second hand book shop in the area. It’s so quiet and the hardwood is everywhere… floors, shelves, desk… Lovely. I was so thankful for the organisation — by section and then alphabetically. Not many used book shops are so helpful. Two floors were separated into fiction(hardcover and paperback), poetry, arts, history, and travel, amongst others… I settled on a copy of Sarah Schulman’s first novel for £3. A fair price, I say. The shopkeeper’s quiet demeanour was well-suited to the atmosphere, and the tiny, brown paper bag was a nice touch.
Sarah-Jane B.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 Brighton, United Kingdom
Remember the bookshop Hugh Grant worked at in the film Notting Hill? Well, Brighton Books is a little like that. Housed at the end of The Lanes jam-packed Kensington Gardens, it’s a warm and old fashioned bookshop with floor to ceiling wooden shelves and literally thousands of well thumbed paperbacks and hardbacks. There’s books on art, art history, film, travel, food, geography, religion and probably every other subject you can think of. The prices are steeper than other local bookshops but then a lot of the books are probably better quality too. In keeping with the Notting Hill reference, the staff are a little posh and vague. Get them talking about a particular book or author however, and I’m sure they warm up.
Emma J.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 Brighton, United Kingdom
This bookshop looks so right– it has the high wooden bookshelves and the huge glass window at the front showcasing all of these beautiful hardback books that you can drool over. The selection is brilliant in fact, only I can’t score it higher because the prices are a bit higher than perhaps they should be– particularly for hardbacks, the paperbacks are more reasonable. And occasionally the staff are a bit snooty.