Heywood Hill

Heywood Hill Tailored bookselling for readers and collectors worldwide. First and foremost our shop is about the enjoyment of books.

The Shop

Situated on two floors of a Georgian townhouse, Heywood Hill sells new, old and antiquarian books as well as producing catalogues on numerous themes. The emphasis remains literature, history, architecture, biography and travel as well as keeping a children's department well-stocked with the best new and classic titles. We are always interested in which books or writers an individual cust

omer has most enjoyed. The more we get to know someone and their reading tastes the more tailored our service then becomes, and the more we can help customers discover something unexpected or perfectly suited to them. Our stock is a mix of old, new and antiquarian books. As our premises are small every title must justify its place on our shelves. Generations of writers, readers and collectors have trusted our booksellers who offer instant, knowledgeable advice on what to read, what to give and just as importantly what to avoid. We treat all our customers as friends of our shop and we are continually looking to find new ways to be of use to them, whether readers or collectors. Our literary adventures and library building services have been designed with the friends of Heywood Hill in mind. Find us on Twitter:
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10/06/2026

Did you know that we assemble libraries, for a variety of clients all over the world?

Feel free to email [email protected] to find out more.

What would your dream library consist of?

Here are some of our top choices for Children on the shelf this week. Is there anything you reckon should be added for n...
09/06/2026

Here are some of our top choices for Children on the shelf this week.

Is there anything you reckon should be added for next time? Comment below!

The team in the shop have all put forward their top recommendations for this week. Let us know if you’ve read any of the...
03/06/2026

The team in the shop have all put forward their top recommendations for this week.

Let us know if you’ve read any of them, and what your thoughts were!

29/05/2026

If you’d like to know more about this first edition Oliver Twist, or any of the other remarkable books in the Rare Department, please email [email protected]
We would be delighted to help.

22/05/2026

An absolute pleasure and delight to welcome into the shop to sign copies of her new page turner ‘Running on Air’.

They’re selling fast in the shop so please, lace up your trainers and stop by if you want to snap up a copy before they’re gone!

19/05/2026

At the Truth Tellers Summit with Tina Brown, journalist and editor András Pethő spoke to us about the book that continues to inspire him: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - a work of reflection and discipline that has shaped readers for centuries.

As co-founder of Direkt36, the Hungarian investigative journalism centre, András has spent years reporting on corruption and political power with remarkable courage and rigour. A thoughtful conversation on truth-telling, resilience, and the books we return to when the world feels uncertain.

For more books inspired by some of the great journalists of our time, have a look at our new Refuse To Be Scared subscription service.

Heywoodhill.com/subscriptions

14/05/2026

An absolute joy and a pleasure to have in the shop signing copies of her new book ‘The Renoir Girls’.

Fantastically well researched, and beautifully written, it’s definitely a book worth adding to your shelves.

Click the link in our bio to purchase via our website, or, as always, we would love to welcome you into the shop!

12/05/2026

We asked the great ’Which book has inspired you and why?’

Sophia Loren’s Recipes and Memories was the answer, ‘This is my most empowering book at this precise time! It peeks out from my kitchen bookshelf and allows me to bask in an altogether better time and place’.

Our Refuse To Be Scared Subscription is now live, and we’ll be sending out books chosen by speakers at the 2026 Truth Tellers summit, books designed to inspire and sustain independent thinking.

(Recipes and Memories is sadly no longer in print so won’t be included)

Click the link in our bio to find out more, or email us at [email protected]

08/05/2026

One of our books of the year so far is Centrists of the World Unite by Adrian Wooldridge (Allen Lane, £25).

Nicky Dunne writes: “Centrists of the World Unite is an enthralling primer on the current malaise of elites in the West, the history of liberalism in the broadest sense, and how dynamism and optimism can be revived.

Mr Wooldridge is a superbly cogent and persuasive writer, ‘a muscular Whig’ and ‘the Bagehot of our day’. As well as a stimulating call to action, this is a synthesis of his impressive learning, and above all a refreshing antidote to siren voices on all sides. It should be read by anyone who has felt lashed to the mast of late and who cares about where we find ourselves.”

07/05/2026

Refuse To Be Scared is Heywood Hill’s latest global book subscription: twelve inspirational titles chosen by some of the world’s leading journalists.

In our opinion, well-chosen physical books are an essential antidote to the excessive manipulation of our minds that takes place online.

We urge you to bolster the independent critical faculties of someone in your life and give them a Refuse To Be Scared subscription (£195 plus postage). Link in our bio.

As well as 12 books throughout the year, subscribers will also receive extra material including a full reading list, with titles selected by 30 speakers at 2026 Truth Tellers, the Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism Summit, inter alia Leopoldo Lopez, Walter Isaacson, Mishal Husain, Anne Applebaum, Michael Gove, Andras Petho, Patrick Radden Keefe, and of course Tina Brown, with whom we are thrilled to have collaborated on this.

Thanks to all of them and also to the many others who kindly dropped in to our pop-up shop to be filmed – from Joanna Scanlon to David Olusoga – and the mighty double Dons, Lemon and McCullin...

Address

10 Curzon Street
London
W1J5

Opening Hours

Monday 9:30am - 6pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 6pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 6pm
Thursday 9:30am - 6pm
Friday 9:30am - 6pm

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+442076290647

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