Bookish Attractions to Fuel Your Bookish Wanderlust

If you’re an avid reader, book worm, self confessed bookoholic or you just love the feeling of a good book, then you’ll want to do more than simply buy and read books, you’ll want to do those things and more in bookish locations around the country, that’ll only fuel your love of books. For this post, I have made a list of book related places I have been and bookish places I would love to go too, that might just help to fuel your own book related wanderlust. So, I’m no particular order, here they are.

Waterstones Piccadilly Circus

The biggest bookshop in Europe, this Waterstones in Piccadilly Circus, London spans five flours, overseeing London. It is packed wall to wall with over eight miles of bookshelves after bookshelves of books from all genres from non fiction to fiction, academic to fantasy and murder mysteries along with bookish related gifts such as book bags, bookmarks, notebooks and more. It’s the ideal location for a huge book haul or for a long awaited piece of book shopping.

This Waterstones is full of old favourites and classics such as Sherlock Holmes, Jane Austen and Agatha Christie to the latest releases including Sarah J Maas’ A Court of Silver Flames and Cassandra Clare’s Chain of Iron. Every reader, no matter their reading tastes or habits will find something in Europe’s largest bookshop.

The British Library

This is definitely a place to go too on my wish list, in what would be a home away from home for book worms, with reading rooms, exhibitions, take, workshops and tours along with plenty of places to read and look at books. If there was a place of origin for bookworms in Britain, it would be here.

It is also a copyright library (you’ll often see in books that a copy is available in the British Library) which means a copy of every single book that has been published in the UK can be found at the library. Including original copies and manuscripts of great works on display.

Gladstone Library

This may appear to be your ordinary library but it would be anything but ordinary. Another trip I plan to go on in the future, a library where you actually have the chance to stay overnight at a library and roam its halls after dark.

It is also the only residential library in the UK, which includes a collection of over 15,000 items, a place to study and to relax. Single and Double/Twin En Suites and Double Suites are available and students get a 20% discount with a valid student ID. A light hot breakfast is included with the options available for small supplements and dinner can be brought and is served at their Food for Thought bistro.

Elephant Cafe

The birthplace of the Harry Potter books, this is where JK Rowling would go to begin writing the first book in the Harry Potter series – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. You can find the Elephant cafe in Edinburgh, Scotland, I’ve been twice and it is often packed full of visitors from all over the world. The food and drinks are that of a coffee shop but they do the best shortbread cookies, and have a range of Elephant Cafe Birth of Harry Potter merchandise such as postcards, badges, pens, and more.

Messages showing peoples love for the books have been written all over the toilet walls and you’re welcome to add your own, so many people do it that the cafe decisive to not to remove it. If you’re a bookworm and Harry Potter place, it is definitely worth the visit.