The Edinburgh Bookshop on Bruntsfield Place operates with the convictions of an independent that has decided what it is and does not need to revise that decision. The interior has a typewriter and book-stacked counter display that is not a prop — this is the aesthetic logic of a shop that takes the object of the book seriously. The selection favours literary fiction and Scottish writing; the events programme is the kind that attracts people who would have come anyway. Bruntsfield, south of the Meadows and west of Morningside, is the neighbourhood that Edinburgh's bookshops have always migrated toward: residential, educated, unhurried.
Bruntsfield, Edinburgh, United Kingdom