Bijou Books

09/02/2026

Thank you for sharing our lovely books The Pumping Station especially our new arrivals 💕 adding new stock always brings us so much joy.

25/01/2026

Oidhche Burns Shona Dhuit to all our Scottish and Scot followers 💙 and to honour the man himself, we have this gorgeous early 1900s set. The green boards are, as you can see, pretty immaculate and the inside is exactly the same. It might not be on our website, but if you want to know more, drop us a DM.

14/12/2025

Are you brave enough to enter the new world created by Aldous Huxley? We've been looking to add this back to our stock for a while and a lovely version is now waiting to wing its way to a new shelf!

Head to our website for all the details. Link in bio.

07/12/2025

Something bunny like is coming... can you guess what it is? The perfect present for Christmas. Watch this space or hop onto the website on Wednesday.

30/11/2025

It's beginning to look a lot like on our stand. We have a selection of stunning books that would like to find new shelves to reside and there's no greater gift than a book 😉

18/10/2025

With it being we thought it'd be the perfect excuse to celebrate the beauty of a vinyl record cover and the effort that went in so that the music and artwork drew you in.

We love ❤️ our vintage vinyl stock. There's something for most music tastes and everything is professionally cleaned, as well as test played before we add them to stock.

These albums are all in as we don't see them online. Looking for a particular album? Drop us a DM and we can check what we have. Happy to ship where we need to.

09/10/2025

"The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike." Christopher Marlowe and his Doctor Faustus are a classic that we sometimes forget about... but we're so pleased to have this lush copy going into this weekend, as well as up on our website.

20/09/2025

Do you agree with this list of the 100 best British books? Drop us your opinion in the comments below 👇🏻

These are 100 of the best British books, according to critics outside of the UK: https://bbc.in/4lfajOt

07/09/2025

This rare and stunningly illustrated Tolkien classic will be dropping 🫳 onto our website tonight. If you're ready for your own unexpected journey into middle earth, then this could be for you.

Can't wait? It's already on display at our stand in 😉

13/07/2025

Think of a wonderful thought... any happy little thought of owning a beautiful book at a price that actually doesn't make your bank balance weep.

This gorgeous Peter Pan and Wendy edition might not be overly old or rare, it's not on our website, but we just love looking at the illustrations 😍

Out on display, where it belongs, on our stand The Pumping Station, we can't guarantee that this book will hang around for long. However, if you'd love to own it, we can organise postage and get it wrapped up for you (or someone else). Drop us a DM and we can go from there!

20/06/2025

We ❤ getting our hands on limited edition Folio Society books and this absolutely gorgeous copy of The Aeneid is definitely something special.

This is copy number 1065 out of 1750. These don't come on the market that often, so if you're looking for an extra special tome for your shelf, then what an investment.

03/06/2025

Northanger Abbey is actually my favourite Austen novel. If I had to leave one behind in a fire, it'd be Emma; her character arc is minimal and she's insufferable all the way through. As we celebrate 250 years since Jane Austen's birth, do you agree with The New Yorker and which is your least favourite Austen? 🙃

“Northanger Abbey” is the least beloved of Jane Austen’s six novels. It is also one of the most frequently assigned in university-level literature classes. These two things are related. For one thing, it is very much a novel about novels, deriving much of its energy and humor from mocking the tropes of the sentimental novel of the 18th century—particularly the convention of endowing protagonists with extraordinary personal qualities and heartrending histories. The novel’s heroine, Catherine Morland, is an ordinary middle-class English girl whose love for books is one of her most striking qualities. The ones she prefers are “all story and no reflection,” from which “nothing like useful knowledge can be gained.” Despite its somewhat broad satire of the effect of novel-reading on a mind like Catherine’s, “Northanger” is no churlish attack on the novel. It’s not even an attack on the gothic novel. “It is rather a rebuttal to such critiques, albeit one so elegant, and so conversant in the various arguments against the novel and its readers, that its radicalness has often passed unnoticed,” Adelle Waldman writes.

With so much in the book’s favor—a style that is trademark Austen, an appealing and ingenuous heroine, an equally appealing love interest, and an abundance of sly commentary on “the Novel” that ought to appeal to the kind of people who love Austen, i.e., to novel readers—why is “Northanger” not more appreciated? Read why Waldman finds the book “irresistible": https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/eWIy2Z