Throne and Heart is a specialist bookshop trading from a unit inside Market Harborough's indoor market hall, opened in early 2026 by a former reader who left an unrelated career to sell books full time after a friend's recommendation reignited her interest in fiction. The shop stocks fantasy, science fiction, horror and romance titles, including special editions with sprayed edges and signed copies, alongside stationery, bookish gifts and merchandise sourced largely from other small UK makers and independent presses. It describes itself as the only shop in the area dedicated to those genres and runs a monthly online book club that brings members together with visiting authors. The shop keeps market-hall hours, open Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm, and trades as a single unit rather than a chain outlet. As a newly opened business it has a shorter trading record than most of the market's longer-established stalls, but it fills a specific gap in genre fiction retail in the town.
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