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Barter Books
Newest Review: ... Alnwick is a great place to spend a day and the town it is just a short walk/drive from Barter Books. It is a quaint Market Town with a number of good shops, pubs and coffee shops. In addition there is the Alnwick Castle (where Harry Potter is, in part, filmed) and Gardens. I haven't been in the castle but the gardens are definitely worth a look. They are fantastic and contain Europes biggest ... more  ... tree house, some wonderful fountains and a poison garden.
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Check out the website at www.barterbooks.co.uk, they have a book ordering service and a facility which allows you to browse through...more |
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Barter Books: Easily the Best Book Shop In the Country! (1001 words)
by nickyturnill - written on 18.11.05 (Very useful, 334 readings)
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One of Northumberlands best kept secrets is Alnwick's Barter Books. This huge collection of over 350,000 books in all shapes and sizes composes one of the largest second hand collections in Europe and it is certainly worth a visit. The Shop ~~~~~~~~ Barter books is was originally opened back in 1991 by Mary Manley. It is housed in Alnwick's old Victorian railway station which gives it a quaint old feel. When we enter we are taken first to a small room in which one finds the paperbacks by there hundreds; autobiographies, fiction, crime, romance, you name it. There are also old tapes although I havn't looked at these in any detail. A ...
Second-hand Books for Everyone. (664 words)
by daseaford - written on 02.11.00 (Very useful, 588 readings)
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Barter Books is one of the largest second-hand bookshops in Britain and is located in a converted train station at Alnwick in Northumberland. Not only does this shop sell books, but also CD’s, cassettes, records, videos, maps and comics. There is a very large fiction section, sorted by Author name, and a huge selection of non-fiction books, sorted according to subject matter. The whole shop still has the feeling of a train station about it, and you are reminded about trains as there are a couple of model trains running around a train track above one section of the bookshelves near the customer service desk. Inside the entrance to the shop is a ...
