WH Smith has a massive range of magazines for all interests. If you have a hobby you are guaranteed…read moreto find a magazine dedicated to it. There are so many different types of magazines and newspapers on sale, far too many to list. A bit further back on the ground floor they have a huge book section. They have loads of different books available at excellent prices with special offers often advertised. The staff will order a book for you if it is not in stock at no extra cost. Downstairs they have a wide selection of board games, Cd's, DVD'S electronics and stationary. The staff are friendly and helpful. This is an excellent store. It can get very busy and the queue for the tills can be very long but its worth it.

A pretty good store, very large and spread over 3 floors. I usually tend to just browse on the one…read morefloor which is where you enter. They have a very good selection of products although it's not the easiest place to browse around. It can be quite hard to find what you want if you are looking for something specific. There's an excellent magazine selection including some American editions. There are lots of nice greetings cards available as well although they do tend to be quite pricey. Staff in this store are quite helpful and friendly, nothing remarkable but pretty good.

Glimpses of The Divine Gifts of The Spirit…read moreFrancis & His Brothers The History of Christian Europe The Cultural World of The Prophets The Sheep & His Hand The Catholic Priest Image of Christ The Ten Commandments & Jesus - A Short Life Incase you've missed the common thread between all the book titles above, Pauline is a spacious shop that specialises in books, DVDs, CDs and prints about devotion, religion, church, creative ministry and christian values. For the atheists amongst you, there's even a weighty tome called Why Go To Church?

It's a well stocked shop that's for sure and is the apostolic activity of the Daughters of St Paul…read more Books and books and more books including self help. Jewellery, cards and CD's. There are copies of music including Quiet My Soul, One Moment, Holy Ground and Praise and Blessings. The shop is good for teachers who can get primary and secondary religious studies materials. Pauline Books and Media are agents for the complete course of religious education published by Silver Burdett & Ginn and Pearson Education. They also have a wide range of posters, videos and resource materials for assembly or classroom use.

This is a very good bookshop. It is quite small - but they manage to get an awful lot of stock in…read more Their range is very extensive in both fiction and non fiction. If they haven't got in stock what you need - they will order it and let you know when it is in. I have used this service very successfully. The staff are really nice and helpful too. Books are standard prices - but they do have sales from time to time - when you can pick up some good bargains.

My first visit to Kernaghan Books was only fairly recently. I hadn't visited the Wayfarer's arcade…read morefor a long time, probably not since I was dragged around Broadbents' department store as a screaming child.This time I promise I did not scream. Tucked away on the second floor, Kernaghan's is easily ignored, however doing so would be a very big mistake on your part. For any bibliophile or avid reader this is a truly excellent haven of books. You really cannot beat £1 for Bret Easton Ellis' 'American Psycho', which ended up being my purchase. I would recommend Kernaghan's to anyone who enjoys a particular and maybe obscure reading matter. Divided into many different sections, as well as having a rare books room, it is perfect for someone rooting out a particularly uncommon book. The staff are friendly and extremely helpful and eager to counsel on other books you might enjoy based on your selection. On a side-note, my friend discovered and eventually bought a Spam recipe book for her father as a joke present. It was very well received.

I visited here in June 2017. I thought it was going to be only antiquarian books, but there is a…read moregood selection of fiction and non-fiction books at low prices. I met the owner and he was very friendly.

This book shop has some really great bargains, the only down side is that it rarely has new…read morereleases but I guess that's why they are bargains. Not only does it sell books but also it has a wide range of stationary and some crafty things also. Hard backs and paperbacks, I've bought many of their deals where you can get 3 paperbacks for five pounds. The shop is a bit cramped so if you're looking for something in particular you can feel as though you are getting in the way. Stick with it though and grab your self some bargains. Think it's changed it's name now to THE WORKS

This book shop is a real bargain shop.They not only stock books but crafts and dvds and games all…read moreat discount prices.It is quite small and if there are a lot of people in there it can be difficult to look at things.They also have named pens and outdoor toys for kids.I picked up a few bargains here including books for kids.

This shop has a 3 paperbacks for £5 section much like The Works but has quite a bit more choice…read morethan The Works offers. I recently managed to stock up on books by the likes of Andy McNab and Jeff Lindsey that I haven't been able to find in The Works or any other discount book retailer so it gets a thumbs up from me.

Nice little book shop, quite similar to Publisher Book Clearance outlets. Quite a variety of books…read moreon show, with the obligatory 3 for £5 section, and you can find some books for as little as one pound. Plenty of room for customers. It's worth mentioning that they stock quite a few Marvel, DC & other graphic novels and collections, so if you're a comic book fan this shop could become a favourite stop off.

WHSmith often gets very crowded, and it's one of those stores that's hard to stay in for long. That…read moresaid, they usually have a great range of products. Downstairs, there's a spacious section with DVDs, crafting supplies, art materials, and more. The service is pretty good. The items are pretty expensive in WHSmith. 64/100

My local branches of Smiths are typical of the decline of the company but I quite like the branch…read morein Chester. It's bigger, with more choice and even has an in-house Costa coffee shop and a glass sided lift to get from floor to floor if you find the stairs too much of an effort. The 'basement' floor has a clearance section where there's quite a lot of rubbish but the odd genuine bargain mixed in if you're prepared to have a dig.

This is a fab original little bookshop fighting against the likes of Waterstones and Blackwells. I…read moremean, it's not actually fighting those giants, but you know what I mean. If you've seen You've Got Mail you know what I mean. This is a proper bookshop. Books are crammed onto rickety-looking shelves and span all kinds of categories. They buy as well as sell books, so you can get yourself a good swop-shop thing going on if you're savvy enough. Obviously, you've got to have some spare time on your hands to browse through everything, but it's well worth it as this is one of the few remaining old fashioned book stores in the city centre, and you can find some real gems. Also worth a look from an academic point of view - being near the university campuses means you can get some bargains as far as uni reading goes.

It's good because it sells a lot of books cheaply but my enthusiasm for little quaint second hand…read morebookshops has worn a little thin mainly because the owners al seem to be sociopaths or misanthropes. Too harsh? Maybe, it could just be the case that put end to end and the hours sat alone with only books for company probably add up to years, either that or books give off some sort of toxic fumes that effect the central nervous system. Still there are lots of books here so if books are what you're after then why not take a few minutes to see if there's anything amongst the second hand stock - and therefore tick your little green eco box for the day to boot - and you may just come across some thing you'd never thought of picking up .