Surveyed
The London Review of Books opened its own shop at 14 Bury Place, Bloomsbury, in 2003, a short walk from the British Museum. Around 20,000 titles fill two floors, weighted toward literature, history, politics and philosophy rather than bestseller tables. The magazine's cake shop next door closed in 2024 after seventeen years, and the restaurant group St John took over the space to run a cafe attached to the shop. Staff host regular evening talks tied to the magazine's contributors, and the till still rings up hand-picked stock rather than centrally dictated bestseller lists.