London: Daunt Books
Wheelchair Accessibility:
Yes
Operating Hours:Monday - Saturday: 09:00 - 19:30. Sunday: 11:00 - 18:00
The Vibe:The world's most beautiful travel bookshop
The Marylebone High Street flagship occupies a 1912 Edwardian bookshop with long oak galleries and stained-glass skylights. Books are arranged by country rather than genre — fiction, history, cookery and travel for each nation sit together. A genuinely original organising principle.
Sunlight filters through stained glass onto oak panelling; browsers drift along narrow galleries. Books for Greece, India or Peru stand together on their own shelves — fiction beside travel memoir beside recipe book.
- • The original Marylebone shop occupies a 1912 Edwardian building
- • Country-based arrangement system is genuinely unique
- • Regularly features in world's most beautiful bookshop lists
Fit For
- ✈️ Travellers: Country-based arrangement is unmatched for trip reading
- 📸 Photographers: One of London's most photographed interiors
- 📚 Literary travellers: Fiction and travel woven together
- 🎁 Gift shoppers: Memorable bookshop buys
Highlights
- Edwardian oak-galleried main room
- Stained-glass skylights
- Country-based arrangement — novel globally
- Six London branches across the city
- Daunt's own-brand canvas tote — iconic London accessory — Hidden Gem
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