Bookshop Life

  • Loyalty Cards

    You can earn loyalty points from your first purchase. A £5 purchase gives you 1 point. Once you have accumulated 20 points, we give you a £5 voucher to spend at Red Lion Books. You will be pleased to know that we have tweaked the system to round numbers up in your favour; i.e. a £9.99 […]

  • Seasonal Opening Hours

  • You will find kindness in the corners of a bookshop

    You will possibly find dust in those corners as well but that’s a different blog. There are many ways to purchase a book. Some people don’t feel the safety or the conviviality of a bookshop is for them. They may prefer the anonymity of clicking a button and that’s okay. There are different tribes of […]

  • This is your shop

    We received the following message from a young customer who was recently won the ‘Top Young Reporter of the Year’ award.  Congratulations Rosie It’s Rosie, I’m not sure if you remember me but wrote an article about the shop last Autumn. I was lucky enough to win Top Young Reporter of the Year and also received […]

  • Yale University Press, Bookshop of the month

    A Little History of Yale University Press London Yale University Press, founded in Connecticut in 1908, first established a marketing base in London in 1961, before going on to publish its own list of titles, alongside the books produced by its US head office, in 1973. Yale now has a unique position as the only […]

  • What is this ‘Under Wraps’?!

    It all started with ‘Jolaokaflod’!  This is an Icelandic term, translating to ‘Christmas book flood’ and is used to describe books that are gifted on Christmas Eve.  At Red Lion Books we gift-wrapped a book we hoped our customers would love and sold it in the run-up to Christmas.  Its purchase came with rules: It […]