Keats &Chapman

Keats & Chapman is a second-hand and antiquarian bookshop on North Street, a short walk from Belfast City Hall, and is among the last independent bookshops left in the city centre. The shop previously traded as The Bookstore from a stall in the nearby North Street Arcade before a fire destroyed the arcade, after which it relocated and was renamed after a joke reference in a Flann O'Brien novel. It now holds tens of thousands of used and out-of-print titles across close-packed shelves, covering fiction, local history, poetry and specialist subjects, with staff able to source specific titles on request. It is open six days a week, closed Sundays, and remains a fixture for browsers and collectors rather than a fast-turnover retail operation.