With an unparalleled selection of vinyl and DJ toys, Seismic has grown to become one of the best…read morerecord shops in the whole country - even the Observer says so! Situated sneakily above Kong, a lovely fashion store in its own right, staff are always friendly and extremely knowledgeable. As it is mail order too there is an almost exhaustive selection of DnB, Breaks, House, Hip Hop etc vinyl with loads of rareties and white labels to discover! The shop itself is bright, comfortable and the perfect way to waste away an afternoon. Unmissable for DJ's

Fantastic selection of records, the owner is extremely friendly and helpful. If there is a record…read moreyou want that isn't in stock, he will order it in for you. Pricing is also very competitive.

Lovely book shop with good wide range in a not too large space. Well run with diverse stock and a…read morewillingness to provide customer service. a good newsletter is e.mailed out with reviews and events. We attended a really good evening with wine and deli nibbles with a reading from Giles Milton's Edward Trenchcom's Nose.a brilliant cheese based novel!....hope they arrange more just like it! Essentially a great shop - go there and buy books.

Lovely independent bookstore in small tourist town. Great selection on a range of subjects,…read moreenthusiastic owner eager to share suggestions & even special order books! This sort of place is an increasingly rare treat for book lovers! Do yourself a favor and stop in!

A pretty cute bookstore in the center of Shakespeareland. I love the shakespeare comicbooks!read more

I had been a regular customer of Presto since childhood. From the age of 6 or 7, this is where my…read moremother would take me to by my sheet music, my reeds, all of my musical accessories and instruments. Through my teens, I would visit to try and buy new instruments, buy jazz CD's, classical music, staff paper, really anything I needed. I've since stopped visiting Presto, having noticed a strange shift in the behaviour of the staff towards me, especially by one particular person. I have been treated horrendously, once having been told by this staff member that they were 'surprised' that I was able to competently play one of their instruments (which I was intending to buy before that point). On another occasion, I visited to enquire about instrument rental / hire services (which I later learned was not a service offered by Presto). Rather than receiving a polite response, I was instead told that, if I were to rent an instrument from them, it would probably be returned 'wrecked' , if at all. Needless today, this was incredibly strange and hurtful at the time and I left feeling both embarrassed and confused. Sadly, these are not the only negative customer experiences I've had there in recent times, and I do not intend to return again. I've been followed around the shop while browsing, told off for testing instruments (while other customers were doing the same), having the instrument in question snatched out of my hands. The staff (particularly the one i have mentioned) had no valid or apparent reason to make these assumptions or to treat me way. I am a relatively simple, quiet, and polite person. I dread to assume why this has happened; I would certainly hate to think this was racist or discriminatory behaviour on account of my dark complexion. I am not a person typically taken to posting public reviews of any kind; however, in the absence of any other clear avenues to do so, I felt it important to express how upset and disappointed I am to have felt excluded arbitrarily from one of very few retailers I can honestly say is part of my identity and history as a musician and as a person, all due to the baffling, rude, and possibly discriminatory behaviour of the staff ( I say this tentatively and regretfull).

From the owner: We're an award-winning independent music shop, with a great selection of sheet music and musical…read moreinstruments - including pianos, guitars, violins, brass and woodwind. We also stock classical and jazz recordings, and a wide range of accessories from music stands to strings, reeds and great musical gifts. Run by a team of musicians and music-lovers, we'll be happy to help with any enquiry.

This is a great little newsagents. Like many convenience stores, they seem to sell just about…read moreanything you can urgently need at 6am - and they are open at that time too. OK, it's not somewhere you are going to specifically go out to, but if you are in the area and need something at a strange time of day they can probably help. The service is not exactly 'with a smile' and they don't run endless BOGOF type promotions, but they do have a good range of stuff and have been handy many a time when I needed to grab something on the way into work and nowhere else was open.