2 weeks, 9 hardworking staff members, 350+ boxes, 20,000 books, 250 shelves, 1 litre of blue paint, 1 million trips to Waitrose (for snacks) and WE ARE OPEN! 7 days a week, 12 - 6pm 📚 Masks are compulsory, hand sanitiser provided. For more info visit: skoob.com

We are thrilled to present the second edition of our online fair series. Firsts Online will take place from 10-14 September and exhibitor applications are now open. We have been working hard to improve the website’s user experience and capacity. We hope you join us!

We’re offering 15% off our entire shop’s stock this bank holiday weekend! Simply place an order at kibworthbooks.com and enter code AUGBH15 at the checkout. You’re welcome! 📚🛍📕🛍📒

Lovely morning for a stroll in #WestHampstead today! We’re open for browsing 11-5 so hope to see you for a socially distanced spot of book serendipity very soon! Happy Sunday everyone ❤️

A belated congratulations to #mariekelucasrijneveld for winning the #InternationalBooker2020⚡️

We have just launched our new website! Please have a look at quintobookshop.co.uk

The future is very uncertain and books can be very comforting This bookshop’s future will be more certain and more comforting if you buy some (many) books from us. #nopressure

New acquisitions; all available from our brand new website! #shusakuendo #claesoldenburg #cockneyrejects #proofcopies #firsteditions #eecummings #williamboyd

Read our latest blog, about Shusaku Endo's novel Silence. A more or a less forgotten novel until Scorsese turned it into a film a few years ago. quintobookshop.co.uk/featured-book-…

Portraits of #jamesbaldwin #eltonjohn #christopherisherwood and #paulbowles Can anyone guess who the artist is?

We've been adding some fabulous new stock to our shelves, including rare books about #andywarhol and #robertmapplethorpe - all available through our website. New stock added daily!

Our lovely neighbours are moving - but thankfully only a couple of doors away. Charing Cross Road still has two secondhand bookshops. (Both owned & managed by women booksellers.)

Is a ghostwritten autobiography still an autobiography? Read our new blog on our website: quinto-bookshop.co.uk/gostwritten-th…

This is how Marc Bolan remembers Charing Cross Road, in a short story written in 1964 when he had his 'nose pressed against a bookshop window' while 'farting in the wind'. The good old days indeed!

Stock update: many new music books! Please see our latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/c33234d9dc4e/s…. You can subscribe through the link as well, just in case you'd like to receive stock updates from our shop by email...

It's Bowie week at Quinto Bookshop! #DavidBowie

Such a joy to pick up a book by writer you've never heard off and then not being able to put it down again. This book (from 1973) is brilliant. Three long stories set in sunny Greece. It's right up there with #johnupdike or #richardford. Has anyone read #rachelingalls?

Proud to get a mention in Dutch writer Arie Storm’s latest book! The narrator steps into the wonderful world of Quinto Bookshop, recognises the charming young man behind the counter, and together they go on an adventure, involving #alanhollinghurst and #keats. Really! @ariestorm

If ever a book could be judged by its cover, it would be 'Johnny Angelo' by Nik Cohn. The dust jacket by Alan Aldridge perfectly catches the content. Apparently it inspired Bowie's Ziggy Stardust. #AlanAldridge #DavidBowie #NikCohn

Some books are so scarce you could almost think that they didn’t actually exist. That’s the case with most books by Phyllis Paul (1903-73). As far as we're aware, our copy of her 1949 novel Camilla is the first to be available in many years. #phyllispaul