Book Stop

Book Stop occupies 3 Market Street in Tavistock across two floors, stocking general fiction and non-fiction alongside a dedicated area called the Music Room selling vinyl records and CDs. The shop publishes a quarterly magazine, Booktime, with staff recommendations and reading round-ups, and also trades through Bookshop.org for customers wanting online ordering that still supports the physical shop. It opens Monday to Saturday from 9am to 5.30pm and takes phone orders directly rather than routing everything through a national chain's ordering system. Combining books and music under one roof means browsing here covers new releases, backlist titles and second-hand or specialist vinyl in the same visit, a pairing that suits a small market town better than two separate specialist shops competing for the same footfall.