{"id":27260,"date":"2022-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omio.co.uk\/window-seat\/uncategorized-en-gb\/buy-the-book-the-worlds-best-bookshops"},"modified":"2022-08-04T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T09:07:55","slug":"buy-the-book-the-worlds-best-bookshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omio.co.uk\/window-seat\/en-gb\/culture-lifestyle-en-gb\/buy-the-book-the-worlds-best-bookshops\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Best Bookshops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The stories behind some of the world\u2019s most-visited and most talked-about bookstores are often as interesting as the ones on their shelves. Despite a growing number of digital distractions and alternatives (yes, reading on your Kindle or mobile device makes things easier, especially if you\u2019re travelling), nothing quite compares to getting lost among the shelves of a bookshop. There\u2019s just something about the smell of freshly printed paper and the touch of an embossed hardcover that no amount of digital convenience can replicate. Bookshops are places to escape, to discover, to dream and to relax. Read on to find out what makes these independent bookstores worth travelling for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"cook-book-brussels-belgium\"><strong>Cook &amp; Book, Brussels, Belgium<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Combining two of our favourite things\u2014reading and eating\u2014Cook &amp; Book is a bookshop and restaurant in one, just across from the Roodebeek metro station in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omio.com\/trains\/brussels?utm=source_omio-magazine&amp;utm_medium=magazine&amp;utm_campaign=February&amp;utm_content=BestBookshops&amp;utm_term=US_trainsBrussels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brussels<\/a>. Split across two buildings, it has nine different themed areas to satisfy your every taste, from comic strips to cookbooks, travel and YA literature.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"32146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omio.co.uk\/window-seat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Romans-18-1024x686.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32146\"\/><figcaption>The Brussels hotspot boasts 800 books on the ceiling. Credit: Cook &amp; Book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"32152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omio.co.uk\/window-seat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Romans-27-685x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32152\"\/><figcaption>Cook &amp; Book lets you read and eat at the same time. Credit: Cook &amp; Book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n<div id=\"search-widget-overlay\" class=\"search-widget-overlay\">\r\n  <div class=\"search-widget-overlay__form\" data-search-widget-container>\r\n    <div class=\"search-widget-overlay__details\">\r\n      <button class=\"search-widget-overlay__close\" data-search-widget-close>\r\n        \u2715\r\n      <\/button>\r\n      <div class=\"search-widget-overlay__text\">\r\n        Brussels      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"search-widget-cta\">\r\n  <button class=\"search-widget-cta__button\" data-search-widget-cta>\r\n    Tickets to Brussels  <\/button>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Beneath the 800 books that hang from the ceiling you\u2019ll find the design as impressive as the food and reason alone to visit. Highlights include the music section where you can enjoy a glass of wine while listening to vinyl, an English section that resembles an English manor library and a dedicated travel space complete with a converted chrome Airstream trailer where you can enjoy a coffee while leafing through the latest city guides. There\u2019s also a spacious terrace where you can sample the food or read one of your new purchases in the sunshine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"livraria-lello-porto-portugal\"><strong>Livraria Lello, Porto, Portugal<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite J.K. Rowling recently confirming that Livraria Lello in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omio.com\/buses\/porto?utm=source_omio-magazine&amp;utm_medium=magazine&amp;utm_campaign=February&amp;utm_content=BestBookshops&amp;utm_term=US_busPorto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Porto<\/a> wasn\u2019t the inspiration for Hogwarts library as widely believed, you can see where the speculation came from. Opened in 1906 by brothers Jos\u00e9 and Ant\u00f3nio Lello and designed by Xavier Esteves, this self-proclaimed \u201cmost beautiful bookshop in the world\u201d has a neo-Gothic interior boasting carved wood panelling, a 26-foot stained-glass skylight and a winding crimson staircase often described as the \u201cstairway to literature heaven.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"32159\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omio.co.uk\/window-seat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Photo-by-Julio-GM-from-Pexels-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32159\"\/><figcaption>Livraria Lello in Portugal is one of the most beguiling bookstores in the world. Credit: Julia GM\/Pexels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n<div id=\"search-widget-overlay\" class=\"search-widget-overlay\">\r\n  <div class=\"search-widget-overlay__form\" data-search-widget-container>\r\n    <div class=\"search-widget-overlay__details\">\r\n      <button class=\"search-widget-overlay__close\" data-search-widget-close>\r\n        \u2715\r\n      <\/button>\r\n      <div class=\"search-widget-overlay__text\">\r\n        Porto      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"search-widget-cta\">\r\n  <button class=\"search-widget-cta__button\" data-search-widget-cta>\r\n    Tickets to Porto  <\/button>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Still a popular destination for <em>Harry Potter<\/em> fans and tourists alike, at its busiest, the bookstore can welcome around 4,000 visitors a day. With many not making a purchase, a \u20ac5 entry fee was introduced a few years back, which is redeemable against any book purchase. To accommodate the largely tourist crowd, there\u2019s a wide variety of international authors and English, Spanish, Italian and Russian books on sale alongside local Portuguese favourites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"shakespeare-and-company-paris-france\"><strong>Shakespeare and Company, Paris, France<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omio.com\/trains\/paris?utm=source_omio-magazine&amp;utm_medium=magazine&amp;utm_campaign=February&amp;utm_content=BestBookshops&amp;utm_term=US_trainsParis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paris\u2019s<\/a> world-famous Shakespeare and Company bookshop has been a meeting place for writers and readers for almost 70 years. It was given its name by American expat Sylvia Beach, who called the shop the \u201cspiritual successor\u201d to her own bookstore, which was a popular hangout in the city for F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot and James Joyce in the first half of the 20th century.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"32165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omio.co.uk\/window-seat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Photo-by-Celine-from-Pexels-min-1024x970.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32165\"\/><figcaption>Shakespeare and Company has been a popular meeting place for literature lovers for more than half a century. Credit: Deniz Demirci\/Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n<div id=\"search-widget-overlay\" class=\"search-widget-overlay\">\r\n  <div class=\"search-widget-overlay__form\" data-search-widget-container>\r\n    <div class=\"search-widget-overlay__details\">\r\n      <button class=\"search-widget-overlay__close\" data-search-widget-close>\r\n        \u2715\r\n      <\/button>\r\n      <div class=\"search-widget-overlay__text\">\r\n        Paris      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"search-widget-cta\">\r\n  <button class=\"search-widget-cta__button\" data-search-widget-cta>\r\n    Tickets to Paris  <\/button>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"32172\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omio.co.uk\/window-seat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SandCo_instagram-1007x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32172\"\/><figcaption>The Parisian landmark boasts a plethora of tomes in every genre. Credit: Shakespeare and Company<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>George Whitman opened the modern version in 1951 opposite Notre Dame Cathedral on the banks of the River Seine. It is still a haven for writers today, who are welcome to sleep for free among the shelves in exchange for helping out for a few hours, reading a book a day and writing a single-page autobiography for the archives\u2014so far more than 30,000 \u201ctumbleweeds\u201d have spent a night here. As well as a caf\u00e9 and budding publishing arm, pre-pandemic the shop also hosted free weekly events, welcoming writers such as Zadie Smith, Carol Ann Duffy, Le\u00efla Slimani and George Saunders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-strand-new-york-new-york\"><strong>The Strand, New York, New York&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Opened in 1927 by Ben Bass, The Strand bookstore in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omio.com\/trains\/new-york-city-pqbws?utm=source_omio-magazine&amp;utm_medium=magazine&amp;utm_campaign=February&amp;utm_content=BestBookshops&amp;utm_term=US_trainsNYC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York\u2019s<\/a> Greenwich Village is now the sole survivor of the city\u2019s former \u201cBook Row,\u201d which once covered six city blocks and was home to 48 bookstores. Still in the same family\u2019s hands almost a century later\u2014Bass\u2019s granddaughter Nancy Bass Wyden is the current owner and began helping in the store at age six\u2014the expansive bibliophile\u2019s mecca is home to \u201c18 miles of books\u201d (that\u2019s equivalent to more than 2.5 million used and new titles).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"32178\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omio.co.uk\/window-seat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Strand-Fisheye-Exterior-Credit-R.-Berenholtz-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32178\"\/><figcaption>The Strand is a New York City landmark that opened in 1927. Credit: R. Berenholtz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n<div id=\"search-widget-overlay\" class=\"search-widget-overlay\">\r\n  <div class=\"search-widget-overlay__form\" data-search-widget-container>\r\n    <div class=\"search-widget-overlay__details\">\r\n      <button class=\"search-widget-overlay__close\" data-search-widget-close>\r\n        \u2715\r\n      <\/button>\r\n      <div class=\"search-widget-overlay__text\">\r\n        New York      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"search-widget-cta\">\r\n  <button class=\"search-widget-cta__button\" data-search-widget-cta>\r\n    Tickets to New York  <\/button>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Within its four floors, you\u2019ll find every book imaginable including some rare out-of-print second-hand finds and a program of in-store events that has previously welcomed the likes of Lin Manuel Miranda and Patti Smith. For anything you can\u2019t find, the passionate team here will point you in the right direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-6 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"32184\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omio.co.uk\/window-seat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/UWS-The-Strand-at-Columbus-Ave-Interior-3-Credit-Strand-Book-Store-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32184\"\/><figcaption>The bookstore boasts four floors of books, a bibliophile\u2019s dream. Credit: The Strand&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"word-on-the-water-london-england\"><strong>Word on the Water, London, England<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ll discover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omio.com\/trains\/london?utm=source_omio-magazine&amp;utm_medium=magazine&amp;utm_campaign=February&amp;utm_content=BestBookshops&amp;utm_term=US_trainsLondon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">London\u2019s<\/a> most unusual bookshop, or rather book barge, floating on Regent\u2019s Canal in King\u2019s Cross after it secured a permanent mooring a few years ago. Housed in a 100-year-old Dutch barge, with every inch serving a purpose, Word on the Water is loved by everyone who stumbles across it. It\u2019s not often you can read Dickens on a 1920s barge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-7 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"32190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omio.co.uk\/window-seat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Word-on-the-Waterfreelancer_-1024x835.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32190\"\/><figcaption>Word on the Water is part barge, park bookshop. Credit: Word on the Water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n<div id=\"search-widget-overlay\" class=\"search-widget-overlay\">\r\n  <div class=\"search-widget-overlay__form\" data-search-widget-container>\r\n    <div class=\"search-widget-overlay__details\">\r\n      <button class=\"search-widget-overlay__close\" data-search-widget-close>\r\n        \u2715\r\n      <\/button>\r\n      <div class=\"search-widget-overlay__text\">\r\n        London      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"search-widget-cta\">\r\n  <button class=\"search-widget-cta__button\" data-search-widget-cta>\r\n    Tickets to London  <\/button>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Customers are welcome to browse the books displayed outside or explore its rows of new and second-hand titles inside by the cosy wood-burning stove\u2014there\u2019s a particularly good children\u2019s section to treat the little ones. On the roof stage, there\u2019s also a regular program of open mic sessions, jazz nights, poetry slams and talks on art, technology, feminism and politics. On a summer\u2019s evening, enjoy your latest purchase or watch the performance atop of the barge on the embankment above with a picnic and a drink or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-8 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"32197\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omio.co.uk\/window-seat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/WotW5freelancer_-795x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32197\"\/><figcaption>Browse through a carefully curated selection of books as you enjoy the jazz. Credit: Word on the Water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stories behind some of the world\u2019s most-visited and most talked-about bookstores are often as interesting as the ones on their shelves. Despite a growing number of digital distractions and alternatives (yes, reading on your Kindle or mobile device makes things easier, especially if you\u2019re travelling), nothing quite compares to getting lost among the shelves&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.omio.co.uk\/window-seat\/en-gb\/culture-lifestyle-en-gb\/buy-the-book-the-worlds-best-bookshops\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The World\u2019s Best Bookshops<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1986],"tags":[],"position_ids":[],"class_list":["post-27260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle-en-gb","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The World\u2019s Best Bookshops<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bookshops are places to escape, dream and relax. 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