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Argonaut Books

We're Argonaut Books, a community bookshop in Leith! We hold a diverse selection of titles and we always try to find you something you might not have seen before. Want to hire our space? Want us to stock your book? Just want to chat books? Contact us: [email protected]

 

0131 259 7816

  • Open 7 Days
    • Sun-Thurs: 10:00-18:00
  • Fri-Sat: 10:00-20:00
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Shoulder to Shoulder: The Best Queer History Book You'll Read This Year: 'Enticing and nuanced' Travis Alabanza
Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line: A Hidden History of Queer Women
The Gilda Stories: The immortal cult classic
The Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic
Maurice: The Illustrated Edition
If Not, Winter: Fragments Of Sappho
Howl and Other Poems
The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life
Transgender History (Second Edition): The Roots of Today's Revolution
The Summer Book: A Novel
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide: A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020
My Tender Matador
Gay Life Stories
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
The Forager's Almanac: A year of sustainable foraging, wildcraft and recipes
A Natural History of the Hedgerow: and ditches, dykes and dry stone walls
Food For Free
Food for Free: 50th Anniversary Edition
Where the Wild Things Grow: A Forager's Guide to the Landscape
In the Garden
The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests
100 Plants That Heal: The Illustrated Herbarium of Medicinal Plants
Plants That Cure: A natural history of the world’s most important medicinal plants
Grounding: Finding Home in a Garden
A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and six centuries) of Magic
The Green Gardening Handbook: Grow, Eat and Enjoy
Handmade: Learning the Art of Chainsaw Mindfulness in a Norwegian Wood
Across a Waking Land: A 1,000-Mile Walk Through a British Spring
The Kitchen Garden: Sowing, growing and cooking for the garden enthusiast
The World After Gaza
We Are Palestinian: A Celebration of Culture and Tradition
Bethlehem: A Celebration of Palestinian Food
Forest of Noise
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba
Mornings in Jenin: Over a million copies sold - a classic of modern Palestinian writing
Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family’s Story of Home
Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?
Death of the Author: A visionary new science fiction novel from the international bestseller
There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die
Kiki's Delivery Service
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
Absolution
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
The Tartar Steppe
Private Rites
a "Working Life"
Troll: A Love Story
Monstrilio
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
The Times I Knew I Was Gay: A Graphic Memoir 'for everyone. Candid, authentic and utterly charming' Sarah Waters
Young Men in Love: A Queer Romance Anthology
The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida: a novel of modern Japan
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
This is How You Lose the Time War: The epic time-travelling love story and Twitter sensation
The Jasmine Throne: The World Fantasy Award-winning sapphic fantasy and Tiktok sensation
A Love Story for Bewildered Girls: 'Utterly gorgeous' Pandora Sykes
Sistersong
Only on the Weekends: A must-read queer love story
We Had To Remove This Post
All of You Every Single One
The City We Became
Detransition, Baby: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021 and Top Ten The Times Bestseller
Dining In
Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes Through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland
Dishoom: The first ever cookbook from the much-loved Indian restaurant
The Book of Tea: Japanese Tea Ceremonies and Culture
My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings
Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
Where the Wild Things Grow: A Forager's Guide to the Landscape
The Vegan Baking Bible: Over 300 Recipes for Bakes, Cakes, Treats and Sweets
Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking
BOSH! Meat: Delicious. Hearty. Plant-Based.
Turnips' Edible Almanac: The Week-by-week Guide to Cooking with Seasonal Ingredients
Urban Crow Oracle: A 54-Card Deck and Guidebook
The Seed and Sickle Oracle
The Wild Unknown Tarot Deck and Guidebook (Official Keepsake Box Set)
Fifth Spirit Tarot: A 78-Card Deck and Guidebook
Queer Tarot: An Inclusive Deck and Guidebook
Witchcraft. The Library of Esoterica
Spiritus Mundi: Writings Borne from the Occult
The Modern Craft: Powerful voices on witchcraft ethics
A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and six centuries) of Magic
Grimoire: A Personal—& Magical—Record of Spells, Rituals, & Divinations
The Witch's Book of Self-Care: Magical Ways to Pamper, Soothe, and Care for Your Body and Spirit
The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes and Rituals for the Wheel of the Year
Sacred Gender: Create Trans and Nonbinary Spiritual Connections
You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance
Postcolonial Astrology: A Radical Genealogy of the Planets
The Cat and The City: 'Vibrant and accomplished' David Mitchell
Mog the Forgetful Cat
Wrong!
Varjak Paw
I Am a Cat
Gracie, the Lighthouse Cat
Mort(e)
Kiki's Delivery Service
Into the Wild
Slinky Malinki
Kafka on the Shore
The Master and Margarita: New Translation
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: Illustrated by Edward Gorey
Coraline
Sabrina
Thin Air: The most chilling and compelling ghost story of the year
Manhunt
Leech
American Midnight: Tales of the Dark
Cackle
No Longer Human
The Boatman's Daughter
Meddling Kids
The Watchers: a spine-chilling Gothic horror novel
Tender Is the Flesh
HellSans
The Lottery: And Other Stories
The Green Man of Eshwood Hall
Frankenstein
The Books of Jacob
Chilean Poet
Witches
Our Lady of the Nile
Phenotypes
Invasion of the Spirit People
The Man Who Planted Trees: A novel from the Vintage Earth collection
Cursed Bunny
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
The Twilight Zone
Deceit
Tomb of Sand
The Last Children of Tokyo
Fireflies
Paper Cup
Sunset Song - Voted ‘The Best Scottish Book of All Time’
Case Study
Hex: Darkland Tales
The Young Team
Deep Wheel Orcadia
The Fair Botanists: The bewitching and fascinating Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year pick full of scandal and intrigue
Hot Stew: a riotous novel about sex and money in Soho, from the Booker-shortlisted author of Elmet
The Second Cut
Duck Feet
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Young Mungo
Daisy on the Outer Line
The Way of All Flesh
Moxyland: A gripping and thrilling novel from the winner of the Arthur C Clarke award
Snow Crash
Neuromancer: The groundbreaking cyberpunk thriller
The Last Children of Tokyo
The Drowned World
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
True Names
The Martian: The international bestseller behind the Oscar-winning blockbuster film
Future Crimes: Mysteries and Detection through Time and Space
The Candy House
Eversion
To Paradise
Station Eleven
Cloud Atlas: The epic bestseller, shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Metal from Heaven
Moon Witch, Spider King: Dark Star Trilogy 2
Stealing Thunder
A Day of Fallen Night
Dragonfall: the addictive and smouldering epic dragon fantasy with a dangerous slow-burn forbidden romance
The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD
Assassin’s Apprentice
Earthsea: The First Four Books: A Wizard of Earthsea * The Tombs of Atuan * The Farthest Shore * Tehanu
Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)
She Who Became the Sun
The Jasmine Throne: The World Fantasy Award-winning sapphic fantasy and Tiktok sensation
The Unbroken: Magic of the Lost, Book 1
Godkiller
Jade City: THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER
The Eye Of The World: Book 1 of the Wheel of Time (Now a major TV series)
Everybody: A Book About Freedom Priestdaddy: A Memoir The Feather Thief: The Natural History Heist of the Century
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Mayhem & Death Little Eyes: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE, 2020 Carmilla: The dark sapphic romance that inspired Dracula
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a "Working Life"
The Terraformers
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
X
Nettleblack
C+NTO: & Othered Poems
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Morbid Obsessions: On trans and sex worker bodies and writing fiction from the margins
She Who Became the Sun
The Arena of the Unwell
Burntcoat Elena Knows Mysteries: Classic Edition
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