This book shop is like a dream, situated right in the middle of Quartermile. For anyone who lives around here, I am extremely jealous of but it is very close to my gym so I still get to visit it whenever I go to the gym during the day.\n\nI was first in here for the Istanbul Review night with author Elif Shafak and I loved the feel of the place so much that I came back the next day and spent a few hours in here.\n\nTables that pair up as chessboards (not entirely sure how likely you are to have chess pieces but no board, unless you're Cressi of course but she's the CM, she's allowed to have these kind of qualities) and comfy chairs to lose yourself in whilst sitting with a coffee and read a book is, in my opinion, heaven.\n\nThe books on offer are extremely varied and eclectic so, as Cressi has said, if you are looking for something specific then you might be best going to somewhere corporate as this is the kind of bookshop that, upon entering, you know you are going to leave with something you would never expect to buy (for me it was Elif Shafak's \"The Forty Rules of Love\")\n\nThere is one negative part of coming here and that is the fact the floor is black and white tiled \"humbug\" style as opposed to chequered, which eradicated my idea that, along with the chessboard tables, this would be a superb place to host Edinburgh's first Wizard's Chess event. With less bloodshed obviously.
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