Independent bookshop in the heart of the Old Town, a stone’s throw from the sea

Fiction

The History of My Sexuality

The List of Suspicious Things

Behind You is the Sea

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

A Ballet of Lepers

She's Always Hungry

The Proof of My Innocence

Family Politics

The Pole and Other Stories

Nobody's Empire

Out There Screaming

Browse Fiction

Non-Fiction

Under the Hornbeams

The Book You Want Everyone You Love To Read

The Position of Spoons

The Serviceberry

A Year of Living Curiously

The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

Didion & Babitz

Brilliant Maps in the Wild

Trapped in History

Slow Ways Pocket Atlas

Bite Your Friends

How the World Eats

The Place of Tides

Browse Non-Fiction

Upcoming Events

BOOKSHOP BOOKCLUB CHRISTMAS SPECIAL | WEDNESDAY, 18 DECEMBER

The Bookshop Bookclub meets every last Wednesday of the month at Fort Road Bar. This month we're reading Brightly Shining by Ingvild Rishøi.

Art, Photography & Music

The Promised Party

Uncommon People

Bodies of Sound

The Position of Spoons

If Nick Drake Came to My House

The Vast Extent

I Thought I Heard You Speak

All of This Unreal Time

Every Man for Himself and God Against All

Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode

An Annual Affair

A Thousand Threads

Browse Art, Photography & Music

Shop Gifts & Cards

Margate & Seaside

The Shell Spotter’s Guide

Lost to the Sea

What to Look For by the Shore

An Opinionated Guide to Margate

Illustrated Tales of Kent

The Draw of the Sea

The Seaweed Collector's Handbook

Shell Life on the Seashore

England's South Coast

The Book of Tides

What a Shell Can Tell

Under the Sea-Wind

Turner's Apprentice

Seaside-themed highlights

Free Books for Schools

Free Books for Schools

Thanks to our customers The Margate Bookshop has raised over £5000 to buy books for local primary schools!