The Margin
Bookshop
A corner bookshop for slow afternoons — carefully chosen fiction, poetry, used & rare editions, and a reading room where the marginalia is half the fun.
fig. 1 — the back stacks
a note in the margin
We believe the best reading happens in the margins.
The Margin is small on purpose. Every title on our tables was read, argued over, and shelved by a person — not an algorithm. Pull a book down, find a pencilled note from a bookseller, and stay a while in the reading room.
What you’ll find
the indexFiction & Poetry
Literary fiction, translated voices, and a poetry wall curated month by month.
Used & Rare
Second-hand finds and out-of-print editions, priced to be read — not collected.
Staff Picks
Hand-written shelf-talkers from the people who actually read them.
The Reading Room
A quiet back room with armchairs, lamplight, and bottomless filter coffee.
This month, on the front table
The Lantern Year
— Mireille Okafor“A whole life told in the spaces between letters. I finished it on the train and missed my stop.”
Field Notes for the End of Summer
— J. A. Vance“Poems that feel like postcards from someone who knows you too well.”
On Keeping a Commonplace Book
— Lena Hartveldt“Made me want to underline everything. The best kind of dangerous.”
fig. 2 — thursday readings
Readings, launches & the Tuesday book club
“The kind of bookshop you walk into for ten minutes and leave an hour later, holding three things you didn’t know you needed.”— The City Review of Books
Come find your next margin.
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am till late. 14 Hawkstone Lane, by the old print works.