Bookshops that became institutions

Paris, Berlin and London: independents that are community fixtures as much as shops.

Les Mots à la Bouche

Saint-Ambroise, Paris.

A meeting point in Paris for decades. Pick up the week's events with your book.

Schöneberg, Berlin.

A Schöneberg fixture with a serious English-language shelf.

Bloomsbury, London.

On Marchmont Street since 1979, and still the best recommendation in Bloomsbury.