White RoseBook Cafe

Sue Lake opened the shop with her father Steve Clements in October 1995, and her sister Caroline later joined the business, which spans two floors of Thirsk's Market Place plus a garden terrace. New books cover cookery, gardening, history and travel downstairs, with a large children's section and a barista-run cafe serving Yorkshire produce and food baked on site. The shop keeps signed stock from local vet-authors Julian Norton and Peter Wright, a nod to the James Herriot connections that draw visitors to the town. It opens Monday to Saturday from 9.30am to 4.30pm and closes on Sundays, and the shop marked 30 years of trading in 2025.