Second Hand Bookshop in Old Church with Wood Stove and other Inverness, United Kingdom Off The Beaten Path Tips

I love this place!

Stand with your back to the Town Hall (note - town not city :) - Inverness). You will have the Tourist info to your left and Macdonalds to your right. Across the road are some phone boxes and beyond them a road, called Church Street. Down the far end of Church St, about 400m, is the book shop, on your left hand side.

In addition to books and maps (not so cheap I think, but worth searching for guidebooks, and special interest) there is a wonderful SPIRAL staircase upstairs to a cafe. The food choice is minimal, like soup and sandwich, tea, coffee etc, but it is one of the few places in Britain where you can read books at a cafe in a book shop. Good place to relax, meet friends, etc etc.

I am forever scared by the open wood burning stove, with all these books around, but I guess they know what they're doing!

Anyway, it costs nothing to pop in and browse. Well worth looking in! (Toilets are on ground floor at the back - beyond the stairs, and can be useful, in towns where tourists have to pay to pee, or where public toilets have a sordid, worrying feel, plus a nasty smell).

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