Kesley's Bookshop sits on Market Street in Haddington, stocking fiction and non-fiction titles alongside maps, cards, gift wrap, toys and jigsaw puzzles from Gibson's and House of Puzzles. A small coffee shop runs through the back of the premises, serving soup, sandwiches, cakes and traybakes to customers browsing the shelves or passing through on market days. The shop favours a general stock over a specialist one, aiming at browsers rather than collectors, with staff able to order in titles not held on the shelf. Puzzles and games make up a sizeable share of the floor space, reflecting steady local demand alongside book sales. Bike parking sits outside the door, useful given the shop's position just off Haddington's town centre. It remains one of the few bookshops left in this part of East Lothian.
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