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Abacus Books

Abacus Books have been booksellers at 24 Regent Rd, Altrincham Cheshire for over 40 years and are members of the Booksellers Association.We specialise in out of print and hard to find titles,especially on art and local history.

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The Bookseller's Tale
The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians: True stories of the magic of reading
Sylvia's Bookshop: The Story of Paris's Beloved Bookstore and Its Founder (As Told by the Bookstore Itself!)
Orwell on Reading: Bookshop Memories, Good Bad Books, Nonsense Poetry, Books vs. Cigarettes and Confessions of a Book Reviewer
The Bookshop on the Hill
The Lost Bookshop
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The perfect book to curl up with - for lovers of Japanese translated fiction everywhere
The Bookshop Woman: The instant Japanese bestseller
Shadow Lines: Searching For the Book Beyond the Shelf
The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted
Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home
The Bookshop Book
84 Charing Cross Road
Bookshop Tours of Britain
Confessions of a Bookseller: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Intermezzo: The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People
Shadow Lines: Searching For the Book Beyond the Shelf
Young Mungo
French Braid: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Redhead by the Side of the Road
Free Love: The exhilarating new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day
Burning Questions: The Sunday Times bestseller from Booker prize winner Margaret Atwood
Good Pop, Bad Pop: The Sunday Times bestselling hit from Jarvis Cocker
The Perfect Golden Circle: Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2022
Landlines
The Passenger
The Satsuma Complex
Treacle Walker
Pharmacopoeia: A Dungeness Notebook
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Unsettled Ground: Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2021
Cheshire Year Round Walks
Walking Cheshire's Sandstone Trail - OS Map Book
Cheshire
Drive and Stroll in Cheshire
Cheshire - a Dog Walker's Guide
In Praise of Walking: The new science of how we walk and why it’s good for us
The Joy of Walking: Selected Writings
Walking: One Step at a Time
Walks for All Ages Greater Manchester
South Pennines
The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain
Walking in the Peak District - White Peak East: 42 walks in Derbyshire including Bakewell, Matlock and Stoney Middleton
Walking Home
Wilmslow, Macclesfield and Congleton
Wilmslow, Macclesfield and Congleton
Weird Walk: Wanderings and Wonderings through the British Ritual Year
Wild Child: A Journey Through Nature
Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth
The View from the Hill
Landlines
Entangled Life (The Illustrated Edition)
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
The Screaming Sky: in pursuit of swifts
Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature
I Am An Island: The Sunday Times bestselling memoir of one woman’s search for belonging
Back to Nature: How to Love Life – and Save It
Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden
The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary
English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life
Vesper Flights: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is for Hawk
All Dogs Great and Small: What I’ve learned training dogs
Dog Friendly Pub Walks: Cheshire
Dog Friendly Pub Walks - Peak District: Great pubs that welcome dogs
Good Guide to Dog Friendly Pubs, Hotels and B&Bs: 6th Edition
Dog Friendly Pub Walks: Anglesey and Lleyn Peninsula
Derbyshire & the Peak District Dog Friendly Pub Walks
Dog Friendly Pub Walks: Cotswolds
Cheshire Dog Friendly Pub Walks: 20 Dog Walks
Total Recall: Perfect Response Training for Puppies and Adult Dogs
London For Dogs: A dog-friendly guide to the best of the city
Somerset Dog Friendly Pub Walks: 20 Dog Walks
Kent Dog Friendly Pub Walks: 20 Dog Walks
A-Z Map of Manchester
Made in Manchester: A People’s History of the City That Shaped the Modern World
The Secret Painter
Archivum: Vintage Joy Division Prints by Kevin Cummins
Telling Stories: Photographs of The Fall
Joy Division
The Simons of Manchester: How One Family Shaped a City and a Nation
Manchester Heritage Wall Calendar 2025 (Art Calendar)
Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum
The Lost Rivers of Manchester
Mancunians: Where Do We Start, Where Do I Begin?
Marr's Guitars
Alan Turing's Manchester
A -Z Manchester Hidden Walks: Discover 20 Routes in and Around the City
Manchester Musical History Tour
The Secret Painter
Hockney's Pictures
Francis Bacon: Revelations
The Quentin Blake Book
Ravilious
Grayson Perry
Bridget Riley: The Complete Prints: 1962-2020
Keith Haring
A Yorkshire Sketchbook
Lucian Freud Herbarium
Egon Schiele. The Paintings. 45th Ed.
The Art Book
The V&A Book of Colour in Design
St Ives: The art and the artists
Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time
The Quentin Blake Book
Raymond Briggs
The Illustrated Dust Jacket: 1920-1970
London Postcards
Postcards From Penguin: 100 Book Jackets in One Box
The Snooty Bookshop: Fifty Literary Postcards
Bibliophile: 50 Postcards
Quentin Blake: Pens Ink & Places
Dick Bruna
Judith Kerr
My Town: An Artist's Life in London
Mid-Century Modern Graphic Design
The Poster: A Visual History
Lucienne Day: Textile Design
Pat Albeck: Queen of the Tea Towel
East: 120 Easy and Delicious Asian-inspired Vegetarian and Vegan recipes
The Hungry Student Vegan Cookbook
One Pot Vegan: 80 quick, easy and delicious plant-based recipes from the creators of SO VEGAN
The Complete Book of Vegan Compleating: An A–Z of Zero-Waste Eating For the Mindful Vegan
Vegan (ish): 100 simple, budget recipes that don't cost the earth
Veganistan: A Vegan Tour of the Middle East
Best of Vegan
Vegan JapanEasy: Classic & Modern Vegan Japanese Recipes to Cook at Home
The Vital Vegan: More Than 100 Vibrant Plant-Based Recipes to Energize and Nourish
Rose Elliot's Complete Vegan
Happy Vegan Comfort Food: Simple and Satisfying Plant-Based Recipes for Every Day
Indian Vegan & Vegetarian: 200 traditional plant-based recipes
Eat More Vegan: 80 Delicious Recipes Everyone Will Love
Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor
Nick Drake: The Life
Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock
Manchester Unspun: How a City Got High on Music
Rememberings
Good Pop, Bad Pop: The Sunday Times bestselling hit from Jarvis Cocker
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives
The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds
Curepedia: An immersive and beautifully designed A-Z biography of The Cure
How To Be Invisible: Featuring a new introduction by Kate Bush
Hardcore: The Cinematic World of Pulp
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Sonic Life: The new memoir from the Sonic Youth founding member
Goth: A History
Lou Reed: The King of New York
Intermezzo: The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People
The Ministry of Time: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
The Women
What Will Survive of Us
Wellness: An epic story of a marriage from New York Times bestselling author of The Nix
How I Won A Nobel Prize
The Lock-Up: A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery
The Coral Bones: The breathtaking novel shortlisted for every major science fiction award in the UK!
The Sisterhood: Big Brother is watching. But they won't see her coming.
The Mountain in the Sea: Shortlisted for the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award
The Silence Project: The gripping and original BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick
Glorious Exploits
Mona of the Manor
Until August
Long Island
Strong Female Character: Nero Book Awards Winner
Cuddy: Winner of the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize
Birnam Wood: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Victory City
The New Life
The List of Suspicious Things
Wandering Souls
The Beasts of Paris
Fyneshade: A Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of 2023
Poor Things: Read the extraordinary book behind the award-winning film
Judy Moody
Artemis Fowl
Mister Monday: The Keys to the Kingdom 1
TimeRiders: Day of the Predator (Book 2)
TimeRiders (Book 1)
Point Blanc
Stormbreaker
Geek Girl
Cirque Du Freak
The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)
The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus Book 1)
5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!)
The Boy Who Grew Dragons (The Boy Who Grew Dragons 1)
Would You Rather?: Filled with Tons of Bonkers and Hilarious Football Scenarios!
The Girl of Ink & Stars
Wild Houses
Headshot
James: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
Orbital
Creation Lake: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author
My Friends
This Strange Eventful History: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
Held: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
Wandering Stars
Enlightenment
Playground
The Safekeep
Stone Yard Devotional: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
James: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
Orbital
Creation Lake: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author
Held: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
The Safekeep
Stone Yard Devotional: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024