Primrose HillBooks

Jessica Graham buys the books and Marek Laskowski keeps the accounts, the rare-books sideline and the IT — a husband-and-wife division of labour that has run the shop on Regent's Park Road for some thirty years, in a Victorian terrace two minutes' walk from the hill itself. The stock is chosen the way village bookshops at their best choose: for the actual neighbours, who in this postcode include a distracting number of writers. The antiquarian trade runs quietly alongside under the same name. Primrose Hill performs villageness for London; this shop is one of the few places where the performance is simply true.