October Books

October Books is Southampton's main independent bookshop, with radical roots. We are a community benefit society and we have been serving our community since 1977. We pride ourselves in a selection of books that challenge the status quo and that promote social, environmental and financial equity and justice. Some of our selections appear in our lists below. We have a busy and eclectic events programme where we host author talks and book launches, do practical hands on activities and have conversations with our local communities. A full events listing can be found on our webpage here.

As well as books we also sell a range of vegetarian, vegan, organic and Fairtrade food products and personal and household cleaning products. There's also an amazing range of cards, diaries and notebooks, pins, stickers and other gifts so do pop by if you can.

We also have a community space used for our meetings and which we hire out to a wide range of community groups and organisations, from pop-up vegan cafes to yoga classes. Our community helped us to purchase this and our shop space and helped us to raise the £500,000 needed for the purchase and renovations. They also helped us move premises with our intenationally famous Human Chain. We are extremely lucky to be supported by our local community in all that we do and we hope that this online platform helps us to reach a wider audience

Many thanks for supporting October Books in your purchase today

Warmest regards 

The October Books team