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Second hand, new and antiquarian books. Has that "books and coffee" smell. Winner of the 2016 and the 2017 Independent Retail Awards for Book Shop of the Year!
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Established in 2002, Stirling Books is a treasure trove of strange and wonderful second hand and antiquarian books (as well as some of the old favourites). With literally thousands of books, you're sure to find something new each time you visit. We also have tea, coffee, and other drinks, and an internet and printing service. If you can't pop in, check out our stock on AbeBooks and Amazon. The Boo

k Cave (or shop...) is a bit underground, so look out for the stairs on Maxwell Place. We stock: Scottish history and literature, fiction (with a dedicated sci-fi and fantasy section), literary criticism, history, biography, children's, travel, religion and theology, science, law, business, marketing, sociology and psychology, philosophy, and foreign language books. For the more serious collectors, or the rather curious, check out our "Very Important Books" section for something a little more out of the ordinary.

11/03/2026

📚✨️Our book club is back! We’re meeting again on the first wednesday of the month, everyone’s welcome to come in for a chat.

Next month were discussing Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Synopsis:
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives—presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.

First published in 1938, this classic gothic novel is such a compelling read that it won the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century.

26/01/2026

Book club ✨️📚

*please note this is on the 4th

We’re meeting again at 6:30pm, Wednesday February 4th! Everyone’s welcome to come by, we’re going to be chatting about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Synopsis:
Victor Frankenstein is a scientist obsessed with generating life from lifeless matter. He subsequently manages to create a horrifying, sentient creature assembled from pieces of stolen body parts. Shunned by society and faced with eternal isolation, the creature becomes murderous with revenge against the one who brought him into existence, Frankenstein.

15/01/2026

Book club✨️📚

Our first meeting of the new year will be Wednesday, January 21st, 6:30pm in our Maxwell Place shop. We’re going to be talking about The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, anyone’s welcome to pop along

Synopsis:
Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by an elite valuation firm. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore.

But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his relationship with Erica shifting. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.

20/12/2025

✨ We will be closed from Tuesday 23rd December to Friday 2nd January, reopening on Saturday 3rd January ✨ 📚

We hope everyone has a wonderful festive period and wishing you all the best for 2026!

SB team 🎄

11/12/2025

Stirling books presents

✨Peering into the prism of Lyra ✨

A film by Maia Lyon Daw

✨ special screening ✨
Wednesday 17 December 2025 -Saturday January 11 2026

Peering into the Prism of Lyra is a short film portrait of a young woman who is an ordained high priestess witch and yogini. She takes us on a journey into her natural environment, the dunes of Schoorl, and performs a ritual to the elements. Further to this, she shares her secrets on manifestation magic and explains her connection to the Andromeda galaxy system, communicating with her star family there through the use of crystal skulls.
The title is derived from the cult book ‘The Prism of Lyra’ by Lyssa Royal-Holt, who explores the galactic heritage of starseeds, those incarnate on earth with origins in different star systems.

14/11/2025

✨️book club✨️

Meeting next on the 26th of November at 6.30pm, at our Maxwell Place shop - everyone’s welcome!📚

Next time we’ll be discussing Affinity by Sarah Waters:

An upper-class woman recovering from a su***de attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by an apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a séance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selina’s gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina’s freedom, and her own.

02/11/2025

📣 Announcement 📣

The bookshop will be closed to the public this week as we carry out some renovation work
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Open again on Saturday!

Thanks

25/10/2025

✨If you have visited us then you might have noticed that we have a collection jar for at the till - Today we decided it was time to count up all the donations and we are thrilled to announce that together we have raised an amazing £87.87!! The jar has now been emptied and is ready to be filled again. Huge thanks to all our wonderful customers for supporting such a great cause! 🙌✨

‘Startup Stirling provides a mobile Foodbank service throughout the Stirling Council Area to those who cannot get to a foodbank for either financial, physical or mental health reasons. Around 300 people, a third of whom are children, receive emergency food from Start Up Foodbanks each week.‘

21/10/2025

✨️📚book club📚✨️

We’ve still got a book club, every other Wednesday, everyone’s welcome to come chat about books!

On Wednesday the 29th at 6:30 at our Maxwell Place shop we’ll be discussing Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson:

The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Underground Railroad in this timely and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City at the dawn of WWII.

Amidst the whir of city life, a girl from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she’s hired to use her knives to strike fear amongst its most dangerous denizens.

But the ghosts from her past are always by her side—and history has appeared on her doorstep to threaten the people she loves most.

11/09/2025

📚 book club 📚

We will be reading My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite on Wednesday 17th September 6:30pm at our Maxwell Place location.

As always, our book club is free and open to all. Come along for friendly discussion, camaraderie and general bookish banter.

Synopsis:
When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This’ll be the third boyfriend Ayoola’s dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria, but she loves her sister and, as they say, family always comes first. Until, that is, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede’s long been in love with him, and isn’t prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other...

24/08/2025

📚 book club 📚

On Wednesday 3rd September at 6:30pm we will be discussing Amateur by Thomas Page McBee

As always our book club is free and open to everyone, come along and chat all things books with us for a few hours every two weeks.

Synopsis:
An exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity, violence, and society.

In this groundbreaking new book, the author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience boxing—learning to get hit, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body—McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes, and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a new way forward, a new kind of masculinity, inside the ring and outside of it.

In this graceful, stunning, and uncompromising exploration of living, fighting, and healing, we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man.

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18 Maxwell Place
Stirling
FK81JU

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 4pm
Tuesday	11am - 4pm
Wednesday	11am - 4pm
Thursday	11am - 4pm
Friday	11am - 3pm
Saturday	11am - 4pm
Sunday	11am - 4pm

Telephone

+441786465339

Website

http://www.stirlingbooks.co.uk/

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