The Edinburgh Bookshop - new space

Aim

We’re moving to a new space in Bruntsfield and need your help to turn the old Oddbins into a bigger, better bookshop for our community.

The Edinburgh Bookshop is a small, energetic local bookshop that is open 7 days-a-week, all year round and has been at the heart of its Bruntsfield community for the last 14 years.  In an average year the Bookshop runs 104 story times for the under-5’s, has over 50 author events, hosts four different monthly book clubs, takes authors to multiple local schools and supports fundraisers for over 40 charities.

The Edinburgh Bookshop has been named “Scottish Independent Bookshop of the Year” five times in the last ten years and “UK Children’s Bookshop of the Year“ in 2014 at the British Book Awards.

We have outgrown our physical space both in terms of the busyness of the shop and in terms of having no admin or stockroom space from which to run it!  We are delighted to be taking over the long neglected Oddbins site, but we don’t want to just add more bookshelves. We are determined to create something magical where adults and children alike can immerse themselves in the wonder of  books.

Moving to this site will allow us to simply do more. We will stock a greater range of titles, gain a separate children’s fiction room, have places to sit and read, and be able to hold most book events and book clubs in the heart of the shop.

Restoring the building to its former glory is going to be a huge task and, unfortunately, costs more than we have saved in the Bookshop Piggy Bank! For this reason, we are launching a Crowdfunder campaign to help make this next chapter a reality. If you would like to see some of our ideas for the shop, we've included some photos down below so that you can see the ideas your donations will help bring to life!

This project successfully funded on 15th July 2024