Hardy's Bookstore

Martin H Riffel runs this bookshop from 16 Berriew Street in Welshpool, stocking new and secondhand fiction and non-fiction alongside a dedicated section on Welshpool and wider Welsh history. Beyond the shop counter, Riffel trades rarer and out-of-print titles through an AbeBooks storefront that carries a five-star seller rating built up over hundreds of transactions. The shop favours browsing over a fixed inventory system, with stock turning over as books are bought in from house clearances and private collections around Montgomeryshire. There is no dedicated website; regulars keep track of new arrivals through the shop's Facebook and Instagram pages. It remains one of the few general bookshops left trading in the town, run single-handedly rather than as part of any wider retail group.