A very well-organised medium-sized shop with excellent fixtures and fittings, carefully categorised stock, very reasonable prices and a nice friendly atmosphere. It also sells videos, CD's, LP's etc. Highly recommended! Steve Archer
Good, frequently changing stock at reasonable prices. Recommended. trading.ava 05.04.11
First such specialist BHF shop I've made it to. (Anyone know how many there are? Website isn't easy to search.) Spent £15 on 3 very good art history/travel books. If I still lived nearby, would be a regular. Chris K 21.05.12
Although British Heart Foundation have 100s of charity shops, as far as I can tell, only 6 are bookshops - and we have them all listed. TBG 21.05.12
Been going in this shop for years, and often find interesting & sometimes rare titles... Nice feel about the place with vinyl supplying the shop music! John 16.11.13
Second visit after 3 years - if anything an even better selection of books and maps. There's quite a few other charity shops down the long high street but go here first! Chris K 08.08.15
A nice shop on an area which is becoming trendy. Oxfam diagonally opposite also with quite a few books. BHF have a really good stock and prices reasonable. Some really good new hardbacks at about £2.00. An oasis in what must once have been a very genteel area ... It's even got a Pizza Express. Jon Morgan 23.03.16
BHF charity shops in general have better selections of books than most others. They're eccentric in their definition of "collectable" and optimistic in their pricing, but they usually have something more interesting than the blank shelves of banal pb. fiction you usually find. Wee Jim 17.06.17
Back Again, Knocked a couple off my wish list. I have to endorse Wee Jim on the collectable shelves - why a sixteenth impression of Pigeon Post in a very tattered dust jacket should be deemed collectable ... Jonathan Morgan 04.07.17
A thunderous arterial road in an unlovely quarter of London is an unlikely setting for one of the very best charity bookshops. Plenty of quality stock, immaculately ordered, with ample room for pleasurable browsing. Strong on history, military and biography, with some uncommon titles. Prices are generally keen - from the railway shelves, a Middleton Press hardback in perfect nick, £19 new, was a steal at just three quid. Worth a detour. Nicholas Sack 06.07.17
Still a good place to visit but videos etc are encroaching and the collectabilititis virus is still not cured. Stock seemed more tired and less varied than before but still well organised and cleanly laid out. Jon Morgan 20.11.17
Was a very good shop a few years ago, but although it looks the same, things have changed. Prices for some collectibles have rocketed, quite without reason. The general stock is still large, but now seems very dull. A good place to go if you're looking for a book to take on a beach holiday. I've given this shop the benefit of the doubt on my first two visits this year, but after my third visit (no purchases on each occasion) I can see that this is the new status quo. PeterM 19.07.23
Improved stock and prices on latest visit. Worth a look if you're nearby. PeterM 05.02.24
Quite a sizeable shop, with some good stock. The traffic-choked Streatham High Road is an unpleasant thoroughfare, but the quality here might make the journey worthwhile. Eight shelves of classic novels, ten of sci-fi, a dozen of crime fiction/thrillers and almost 20 of general fiction (with a high proportion of literary novels). Prices for all are £2.50 for paperbacks (£3.50 for some of the sci-fi) and £3.50 for hardbacks. The small amount of mass-market fiction (£1.50) is relegated to a carousel. The crime fiction contains a goodly quotient of works by 'Golden Age' authors such as Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham. Elsewhere in the shop is a display of other vintage crime books, including about 15 yellow-jacketed Gollancz hardbacks by the likes of Michael Innes, Julian Symons and Dorothy Sayers (all £3.50). A very good selection of graphic novels; mixed prices, but mostly not too expensive. Worthy but dull poetry and drama. The foreign-language section is quite large (four shelves) and fairly good-quality. The children's books are almost exclusively modern paperbacks (most £2.50; some £1.50). The biographies are a mixture of mass-market and better-quality volumes; low prices in the main, but some outliers. The best non-fiction sections are history (erratic pricing at both ends of the scale), art (mostly overpriced), religion, sport, food/drink, 'mind, body and spirit', photography, architecture, and 'music, stage and screen'. Quite good for politics, military, travel, psychology, philosophy, railways and gardening. The natural history section is disappointing. More than a dozen shelves of 'collectable' books; reasonable quality, but ambitious prices. Also three shelves of Folio Society volumes (£5 to £20, but mostly in the £8 to £12 range). A few shelves of recently published hardbacks, some signed and at inflated prices. The signatures of Ed Balls, Greg Dyke and Max Hastings really do not add all that much value! One final comment: the shop was stiflingly hot. Customers kept opening the door to cool the place down - in mid-December. BHF must be spending a large part of the proceeds on the fuel bill. Booker T 20.12.24
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