Foyles Charing Cross Road

22/05/2025

Congratulations to Yasmin Zaher for recently winning the Dylan Thomas Prize for her debut novel The Coin, about a Palestinian woman’s unravelling as she teaches at a New York City middle school. We were thrilled to have her stop by and do her Foyles Four.

Here’s what she chose:
— Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
— The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem
— Erasure by Percival Everett
— The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Thanks so much to Yasmin for stopping by! Have you read any of her choices?

28/11/2024

✨ Tonight’s the night book lovers! ✨
Joins us at 6pm in our Charing Cross Road flagship to meet your favourite authors and celebrate the start of the festive season

25/10/2024

SAVE THE DATE 🎄🍷​ We’re thrilled to announce the six-floor, shop-wide takeover, the festive extravaganza in the Charing Cross Road events programme: the Foyles Christmas Evening!

Celebrate the festive season with some of our favourite authors, get your books signed by a star, pick up the perfect Christmas gift, and have a glass of mulled w**e and a mince pie on us.

Stay tuned for the full line-up & tap for more details bit.ly/3sLAUMI

24/10/2024

Presenting our Foyles Book of the Year 2024 shortlist: whittled down from the past year of bookish excellence—a bookshelf full of essential reading, from established writers and new voices alike, defining this year in books. Behold the shortlistees… bit.ly/47yzdl6

27/08/2024

Looking for a recommendation, or help working out what the must-reads are right now? Take a look through our reading guide to September 2024, to discover the essentials, the bestsellers, the most interesting and enjoyable books to hit our shelves right now bit.ly/3yVahYO

27/08/2024

Calling all fans ♟

Our London flagship will be opening early for those who can’t wait to get their hands on the book everyone is talking about—have a coffee on us & pick up your SIGNED copy of PLUS exclusive limited-edition print!

Tap for tickets: bit.ly/46Q2NCQ

09/08/2024

Revealing the all-star line-up for this year’s ESEA Lit Fest!

After a sell-out inaugural run in 2023, the UK’s award-winning East and South East Asian literary festival returns to Charing Cross Road next month, in partnership with our friends at ESEA Publishing Network and fellow host Southbank Centre

It’s guaranteed to be a joyful, thought-provoking celebration of ESEA literature and culture that’s open to all

For day festival & individual event tickets click here: bit.ly/46E6Guy

06/08/2024

Published as part of Faber’s Editions series―spotlighting rediscovered gems from the Faber archive and beyond―Ursula Parrott's Ex-Wife is a darkly funny, gloriously bohemian portrait of divorce during the roaring twenties 💔💄

Make sure to visit us instore at Charing Cross Road to leave a note to your ex!

Tap for an extract from Chapter II of Ex-Wife bit.ly/46RrY8p

06/08/2024

A colourful TOP TEN this week for a rather grey day at Charing Cross Road! 🌈☁

1️⃣ DallerGut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee tr Sandy Joosun Lee
2️⃣ Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang
3️⃣ Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida tr Haydn Trowell
4️⃣ Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum tr Shanna Tan
5️⃣ Good Material by Dolly Alderton
6️⃣ Day by Michael Cunningham
7️⃣ Butter by Asako Yuzuki tr Polly Barton
8️⃣ Days At The Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
9️⃣ Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
🔟 La Vie by John Lewis-Stempel

02/08/2024

100 years since his birth, we're celebrating the life and work of James Baldwin

As celebrated for his essays and political writing as for his novels, Baldwin's writings on race, sexuality, love, jazz, addiction and identity are as essential now as they were during his life. An essential voice from the twentieth century, that speaks for humanity in the twenty first century and beyond

Tap for an EXCLUSIVE short story & more bit.ly/3WyDDE2

14/09/2022

Monday 19th September update: Find out about our shop closures and opening hours here: https://bit.ly/3eaowJS

15/10/2020

Customer update: our shop will re-open its doors on Thursday 22nd October. For more information, including full opening hours and safety measures, please visit our reopening page:

Welcome Back

05/10/2020

PSA: we are updating our online delivery charges from Monday 12th October. More details here:

Help and Support on Delivery | Foyles Bookstore

28/07/2020

Customer update: our Bond Street Chelmsford shop will reopen its doors from tomorrow, Wednesday 29th July, at 9am. For more information, including full opening hours and safety measures, visit our reopening page:

Welcome Back

24/07/2020

Reminder that from today, Friday 24th July, the use of face coverings is compulsory in all our shops, in line with new government regulation (barring certain exceptions). More information and details on all our safety measures on our Reopening page: foyles.co.uk/welcome-back

23/07/2020

PSA: From tomorrow, Friday 24 July, the use of face coverings will become mandatory in our shops, in line with government regulation. For full details on exceptions and all safety measures, please visit https://www.foyles.co.uk/welcome-back

29/06/2020

Update: we're changing the opening hours of our shop in Westfield Stratford City from Wednesday 1st July. More info here:

Foyles Westfield Stratford City Bookstore

24/06/2020

Customer update: our Bristol Cabot Circus shop will re-open its doors on Friday 26th June. Click here for more info on opening hours and safety measures:

Welcome Back

15/06/2020

The big day is here: our Charing Cross Road, Royal Festival Hall and Westfield Stratford shops are now open! For the time being we're operating reduced opening hours, and social distancing and safety measures are in place. Click here for more information: https://foyles.co.uk/welcome-back

11/06/2020

Customer update: we will be reopening our Charing Cross Road, Royal Festival Hall and Westfield Stratford shops on Monday 15th June. For more information–including opening times and safety measures–click here: https://www.foyles.co.uk/welcome-back