The Lighthouse - Booksellers of Edinburgh

43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH8 9DB

Accepts Gift Cards

Accepts Paper Vouchers

E-Gift Vouchers not accepted

Local parking - pay & display

Book clubs / reading groups

Bookshop Description

We are an independent community bookshop in Edinburgh – left leaning and politically engaged. Our shelves are home to all sorts of books, from politics, history, fiction and travel writing to Children’s books, tattoo art and cookery. We are particularly passionate about radical, left wing and Scottish politics, revolutionary history, environmentalism, LGBTQ+ writing, poetry and translated fiction.

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