Just your normal big book superstore filled with bestsellers neatly (shudder) categorized. Then you…read morego upstairs and find a café, an improvement but it'll take more than that to impress the likes of me. So you turn to your left and find a philosophy section, so what? Every decent shop has one of these. What's that? A CHAIR! Not only that but a comfy chair. I could stay here for hours!

There is a very small Hughes and Hughes Booksellers in Nutgrove Shopping Centre. It is the very…read moresame as all the other Hughes and Hughes around the city but this one has no comfy chairs, and it is too small for lounging and relaxing, but as it is so small and out of the city centre they usually have some really good deals and offers on so well worth a look if you are in Nutgrove!

This is a tiny store with a ton of books, great for finding stuff to burn the midnight oil without…read morebreaking the bank. I once called in with a bunch of books I was going to throw out and Eamon took them off my hands, for nothing!

I was very unimpressed with a recent visit to this little shop, despite having big hopes. While it…read moreis well organised, the prices are ridiculous for second hand copies of widely available books, often in poor condition. I love nothing more than a browse of a book shop, but won't be returning here any time soon.

School book specialists, if it's on the syllabus they'll have it. Simple as…read more To be honest, since I finished school, I've stayed as far away from the place as possible. Schoolbooks are evil.

Yes they sell the school books both new and used - and they cover which is important also you can…read moreget the books on line. Also sell ordinary books and stationary and it is a great place to pick up presents for the kiddies and biggies.

Great for books, stationary, cigarettes and bits and pieces.read more

Grand for getting last minute schoolbooks, stationery, copies and all the rest. I like the fact…read morethat there is a coffee shop upstairs so you can read your new book while sipping on a latte and they do cards and magazines and much much more

Y'know all those magazines you see advertised in tv like "build your own lawnmower/castle" which…read moredominate the hungover part of your day for about a week and then disappear forever? You can buy them all in Alex's. In fact, you can even buy the ones that aren't advertised. And probably some of the ones off "Have I got news for you" like "Garden Gnome Weekly" or "Trainspotters Monthly". Essentially, if it's been published it's probably here.

The shop is ok, it used to be open much later every day of the week, but I think shuts up shop at…read moreabout 11 or midnight these days. (The corner shop across the road stays open much later and is run by the old owner of Alexs) What it DOES have is an impressove selection of magazines and newspapers, you will find pretty much every magazine you could ever want there. What it DOES NOT have is much in the way of food/other stuff, dedicating an entire wall to papers etc means that they dont have much room for anything else.

Probably my favorite place to browse books in DL. It is quiet. I mean like really quiet, which is…read morehow I love my bookstores. While the selection isn't the best, the staff are always super helpful in offering solutions to help me out. Plus there is Mary, Mary the lovely cashier. Mary the lovely cashier who talks with me about cooking/baking, the beauty of cheese and jokes with the boyfriend she will bar me from the cooking section if he doesn't behave. Really, for a local bookstore chain it is pretty wonderful.

Great place to browse and buy. Staff are really friendly and helpful if you need advice on a book…read moreyou might be looking for and are happy to order as needed.

This is one of those newsagents that tortures parents everywhere. It's the eye-popping pick 'n' mix…read morecounters, the immanently desirable cuddly toys and all those peculiar magazine versions of cartoons that makes this place a siren for little kiddies. They get sucked in by their own odious childlike greed and have to be surgically remove them from a larger-than-life stuffed Garfield twenty minutes later. The proximity of Tuthills, which I think used to be a Bus Stop, to the cinema is what made Saturday matinees a tense experience for me and my family. I still pine after those bloody Garfields today. There really must be something genetic or magical about the allure of a stuffed Garfield because I never even found that cartoon strip amusing. So I suggest if you're going to a matinee in Dun Laoghaire that you sneak up on Little Billy and throw a sack over his head then run past Tuthill's like a child snatching Santa Claus. It'll be easier for everyone, otherwise, and take it from me, you'll never hear the end of his wailing and moaning about Garfield.