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Hatchards
Miles Curtis

Hatchards

187 Piccadilly
London, W1J 9LE
United Kingdom

020 7439 9921; bookshatchards.co.uk

New/Used: Not set

Web site: http://www.hatchards.co.uk/

Events: http://www.hatchards.co.uk/index… (updated February 14)

Description: Founded in 1797, Hatchards is the oldest bookshop in London. It holds three Royal Warrants. Although the bookshop of Cambridge University is technically the oldest bookshop in Britain, Hatchards of Piccadilly, which has been trading since 1797, is definitely the most aristocratic. Not only does it boast three royal warrants, meaning it supplies books to Her Majesty, it has counted Disraeli, Wilde and Byron among its regulars. Today it retains the spirit of days past, with an interior described by one follower as "reminiscent of being inside a rambling old house, with six floors of small rooms all linked together curling around a central staircase."

Added by: MonkeyRobo.  Contacted: Not contacted.  Venue ID: 6400

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I had to buy a present in my lunch hour, so I went to Hatchards as the only independent bookshop I could get to... hadn't realised that these days, it's owned by Waterstones...
March 2008 by wandering_star

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Past events

Donna Leon (March 31 at 12:30pm)
Donna Leon signs The Girl of His Dreams.
Interested: tianyi Added by MonkeyRobo.
Salman Rushdie (April 14 at 12:30pm)
Salman Rushdie signs The Enchantress of Florence.
Added by MonkeyRobo.
Allan Mallinson (June 4 at 12:00pm)
Allan Mallinson signs Warrior.
Added by MonkeyRobo.
Deborah Devonshire, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Charlotte Mosley (September 4 at 12:30pm)
Deborah Devonshire signs In Tearing Haste.; Patrick Leigh Fermor signs In Tearing Haste.; Charlotte Mosley signs In Tearing Haste.
Added by MonkeyRobo.
Carol Thatcher (September 5 at 12:30pm)
Carol Thatcher signs A Swim-On Part in the Goldfish Bowl.
Added by MonkeyRobo.
Ian Rankin (September 17 at 12:30pm)
Ian Rankin signs Doors Open.
Interested: davemack, VPaladin Added by MonkeyRobo.
Julie Walters (October 2 at 1:00pm)
Julie Walters signs The Autobiography.
Added by MonkeyRobo.
Paddy Ashdown (April 23 at 12:30pm)
Paddy Ashdown signs A Fortunate Life.
Added by MonkeyRobo.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon (June 2 at 12:30pm)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon signs The Angel's Game.
Added by MonkeyRobo.
Vera Lynn (August 25 at 12:30pm)
Vera Lynn signs Some Sunny Day.
Added by MonkeyRobo.
Ian Rankin (September 4 at 12:00pm)
Ian Rankin signs The Complaints.
Added by MonkeyRobo.
Mark Ramprakash (September 8 at 1:00pm)
Mark Ramprakash signs Strictly Me: My Life Under the Spotlight.
Added by MonkeyRobo.
Michael Palin (September 17 at 12:30pm)
Michael Palin signs Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988.
Added by MonkeyRobo.

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