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    Latest News Newsagent

    Latest News Newsagent

    4.0(1 review)
    2.5 miOld Town
    £

    I've reviewed a few newsagents around Edinburgh and complained there all too similar. However I…read morehave to make a special mention for Latest News and in particular its excellent selection of magazines. Latest News is a large Newsagent located at the bottom of Lothian Road. The first thing that strikes you is the window display full of tacky plastic souvenir ornaments of dogs and romantic scenes. I don't know why, but these things have become commonly sold in newsagents and cheap gift shops as of late. I can understand the niche kitsch value but how you can have an entire window display of them I don't know. This isn't a complaint, but an observed oddity. The second thing you notice, once you've stepped inside, is the very large, very impressive magazine selection. Edinburgh doesn't have many shops that sell good magazines beyond the standards. It doesn't even really have a large impressive WH Smith. But Latest News fills its shelves to the brim with specialist magazines from trout fishing to doll house collecting, thus filling a niche market. I first visited when looking for a martial arts magazine I couldn't find anywhere else, and was recommended here by a friend. Sure enough they had it in stock. So if you are stuck in Edinburgh and can't find some magazine in particular, try out Latest News. They also sells sweets and newsagents standards. At the back of the shop they offer sandwiches and snacks. I should also add that the stuff are always incredibly smiley and welcoming, making this place especially endearing.

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    Southside Books

    Southside Books

    4.0(12 reviews)
    2.3 miOld Town, Newington
    £

    Located just two doors up from the gargantuan Blackwells on South Bridge, Southside Books offers an…read morealternative through selling second hand books. People are able to come in and sell their second hand books, both fiction and non-fiction, and they also buy in large orders of books of varying condition. I have bought several books from this shop for my course and the owner is an extremely friendly and helpful man who always offers to order or reserve any books which he doesn't happen to have in stock. However, sometimes the books are in such good condition that he only sells them at the standard recommended retail price which can erradicate the point of it being a second hand book shop. Despite this, Southside Books has an excellent supply of books for a variety of reading tastes and is certainly worthy of a visit before heading to Blackwells.

    I wonder if the owner of this shop is some sort of old guard communist. For some reason every time…read moreI go into Southside books I end up flicking through many books on Trotsky or the fall of rise of the Soviet Bloc. Actually this second hand and discount book shop has a great selection. It tends toward nonfiction, with a good selection of philosophy and religion. There is also a selection of university textbooks for these and other subjects. Don't come here expecting to find every textbook you need, but you might just get lucky and find that needed book for cheaper. Southside books might stock a good selection of nonfiction but it also sells fiction, with a particularly decent range of classics. Southside ticks all the boxes for me for a second hand book shop , it has lots of books, lots of genres, the owner is friendly and happy for you to browse. The only problem I did find was the prices. I know this shop is second hand and discount but every book I checked seemed to be discount. Even then the books are often only a pound or so cheaper than its recommended retail price. Even if there is a pricing problem, Southside books still remains a good independent book shop.

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    B. McCall Barbour

    B. McCall Barbour

    3.0(6 reviews)
    2.3 miOld Town

    This is a rather strange shop in that you access it by heading up a staircase wedged between the…read moretwo adjacent shops up to an upstairs shop. The shop itself specialises in Christian Literature so if this is not your thing then this is probably not your type of shop. The books it does stock do cover a reasonable range from Bible Study books to lifestyle guides with a few more extreme books littered around warning of the coming apocalypse, but these may be forgiven for they only appear to be here because the owners are determined to cover every possible genre they could think of. Generally, you cannot fault it because it does very admirably cover the whole range with no subject too unimportant or omitted. If Christian Literature is what you are after then this is your shop, but if not it won't be. I assume more people fall into the latter category hence the 3 stars despite this shop being very good at what it does.

    I seemed to have a slightly different experience from Robert…read more When I visited Mccall Barbours book shop, I was not confronted with much variation in genre, but an overwhelming number of titles trying to convince me of impending Armageddon, that humanists are all evil, or that Jesus' oddly caucasion shiny white face will be literally returning soon. This Christian book shop seems to specialise in cheaply published evangelical books that mostly certain around the theme of the end of the world, sinners, and sinners at the end of the world. I wouldn't have a problem with a Christian book shop covering some of this unfortunate aspect of Christian culture, but do we need so much? Especially when so much of it is the same, and from what I read, badly written? This stuff is a satire of itself. Admitedly there are the usual range of Bible publications that you would expect, and if you want to choose from a wide selection this probably isn't a bad place. I didn't find many deep analyses of medieval theologians, or books on the metaphysics of religion, so there wasn't much for me. I'm not really interested in the overwhelming amount of evangelical writings that seem to only appeal to the already converted. I think the problem with this place is that it doesn't have much appeal to the non-Christian, but neither does it appeal to a range of Christian denominations either. Perhaps I went in on a day when the owner was feeling grumpy and spiteful and intentionally laid out books to try and (literally) frighten the hell out of me. Maybe next time I will find a more stimulating range.

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    The Old Town Bookshop

    The Old Town Bookshop

    3.7(11 reviews)
    2.2 miOld Town
    ££

    If you're only going to visit one antiquarian bookshop in Edinburgh, I'd recommend Old Town…read moreBookshop. Aside from being on one of the loveliest streets in Edinburgh, it's a delightful wee shop that stocks an eye-watering selection of books from the 1850s onwards. There's a treasure chest of Scottish history, architecture and topographical studies alongside special editions of literary classics from Shakespeare, Dickens and Burns. As the shop is run by a painter, they also sell some lovely prints, lithographs, etchings, paintings and maps of Edinburgh and beyond. Tourists hoping to pick up a picture of the Castle should note these are priced £30 - £300 depending on the age, quality and scarcity of the work.

    Edinburgh's Old Town Bookshop, set at the top of the winding Victoria Street, is more like a museum…read morethan it is a book store as they specialise in collecting antiquarian literature. From the books jauntily placed in the window to the many within, each is treated with tender loving care. It shows, since the books aren't falling apart at the spine, but are rather tainted with age. The majority of their books date from the 1700s onwards and are priced as such. You can gather from the pristine condition of the stock that it's not the kind of store you'd pick up a lovingly creased copy of Harry Potter from. But they do have a collection of classics (of predominantly Scottish origin), so tourists and avid fans of Burns can have a ball gandering the shelves. I wouldn't necessarily go here for a browse since it is so specialised although the staff are welcoming if you just fancy a nosey. But this store is a trove for Antiquarian collectors, who can hope to find anything from literature pre-dating the enlightenment to old prints and lithographs. It's largely a pricey venture, but for people well versed on antique auctions the Old Town Bookshop displays some lucrative books that would bring back a substantial amount of money when under the hammer. For tourists, this place is a quirky homage to Edinburgh's literary culture of old.

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