At Flowing with Life, we encourage
people to read & write, to speak & listen,
to explore the gift of words.

Supporting independent bookshops
is a wonderful way to help maintain
a vibrant culture in Scotland or wherever you may be.

Aberdeen & Surrounds

• Books and Beans: coffee shop and bookstore

• Deeside Books, Ballater: antiquarian and out-of-print bookshop with a selection of new books as well

• The Mercat Bookshop: second-hand books, CDs, vinyls and DVDs

• The Old Aberdeen Bookshop: second-hand academic, classic, modern and Scottish books

Aberfeldy

• The Aberfeldy Watermill: bookshop, art gallery and café

Bo’ness

• Inkspot & Silverleaf Booksellers

Dundee

• The Bookhouse, Broughton Ferry

Edinburgh

• Armchair Books: second-hand and rare books

• Book Lovers Bookshop: specialising in romance books

• The Edinburgh Bookshop

• Golden Hare Books: fine books for adults and children

• Greenhouse: Records and radical books

• Lighthouse Bookshop: activism, politics, feminism, LGBTQ+ writing and more

• Rare Birds Books: Stockbridge shop selling books by women

• Transreal Fiction: sci-fi and fantasy

Glasgow

• Aye-Aye Books: contemporary art

• Category Is Books: queer literature

• Good Press: self-published and independently published books

• Hyndland Bookshop

• Voltaire & Rousseau Books: second-hand books

Highlands

• The Bookmark, Grantown-on-Spey

• Cairngorm-Books, Aviemore

• The Dornoch Bookshop, Dornoch

• The Highland Bookshop, Fort William

• Leakey’s Bookshop, Inverness: Scotland's largest secondhand bookshop in a beautiful old church

• Logie Steading Bookshop, near Forres: second hand books, children’s books, OS maps and travel books

• The Nairn Bookshop, Nairn

• Picaresque Books & Galerie Fantoosh, Dingwall: books and art

• The Ullapool Bookshop, Ullapool

• Yeadon's, Elgin & Banchory

Orkney

• Birsay Books, Birsay: Second Hand, Antiquarian and Rare Books

• The Orcadian Bookshop, Kirkwall

• Stromness Books & Prints, Stromness

Shetland

• Kergord Hatchery Bookshop, Kergord: Second Hand, Antiquarian and Rare Books

• The Shetland Times Bookshop, Lerwick

St Andrews

• J & G Innes: books, stationery, art supplies and gifts

Stirling

• Stirling Books: second-hand rare and antiquarian books and Scottish Cultural Press

Western Isles

• Carmina Gadelica, Portree, Skye: specialist bookshop stocking outdoor, natural history and Scottish books and maps

• Gilleasbuig Ferguson Books, Skye: early science, highland, Gaelic

• Tackle & Books, Tobermory

This is a revised and updated list, inspired by the one created by Emma Joniken at Ringwood Publishing, Glasgow in 2020.
If you notice any errors or missing bookshops, please let us know!