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The Reading Room

The Reading Room is a small, independent bookshop in the beautiful town of Melrose in the Scottish Borders.

 

We stock a range of fiction and non-fiction books for all ages and have a dedicated section for books on Scotland and/or by Scottish authors.  In addition to books, we also sell maps, walking guides plus a selection of gifts.

 

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A Thousand Threads
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Courageous WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China
Raising Hare
The Story of a Heart: 'Profoundly moving and at the same time wildly inspiring' Rob Delaney
What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean
Let the Light Pour In
My Brilliant Friend: The International No. 1 Bestseller
Kala: 'The thriller of the moment'
Getting Over Your Parents: Untangling your childhood
A Boy Called Christmas
All the Ways to be Smart: the beautifully illustrated international bestseller that celebrates the talents of every child
Big Ideas from Literature: how books can change your world
Looshkin: The Maddest Cat in the World (a Phoenix Comic Book, from the million-selling Jamie Smart, Illustrator of the Year)
Boom Boom
The Glutton
In Ascension: Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2024
Family Meal: 'This novel will break your heart twice over'
Under the Tamarind Tree: A beautiful novel of friendship, hidden secrets, and loss
Yr Dead
Goodnight Tokyo: The English language debut from bestselling Japanese author
James: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
Orbital
Held: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
Creation Lake: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author
The Safekeep
Stone Yard Devotional: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
Wild Houses
Headshot
James: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
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
The Year of the Locust
Table For Two
There are Rivers in the Sky
The Bookshop Woman: The instant Japanese bestseller
Firebrand
The Coast Road: ‘A perfect book club read’ Sunday Times
Private Rites
The Ministry of Time: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter
Tom Lake: The Sunday Times bestseller - a BBC Radio 2 and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick
Blue Sisters
Absolutely and Forever
In a Place of Darkness
The Burnout
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
The House of Doors
Absolutely and Forever
In the Upper Country: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024
My Father's House
The New Life
Hungry Ghosts: Winner of the 2024 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
The Wren, The Wren: The Booker Prize-winning author
Brotherless Night: 'Blazingly brilliant' CELESTE NG
Restless Dolly Maunder
Enter Ghost
Soldier Sailor: 'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny.' DAVID NICHOLLS
River East, River West: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024
A Trace of Sun: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024
River East, River West: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024
Ordinary Human Failings
Nightbloom: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024
Western Lane
The Blue, Beautiful World: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024
Soldier Sailor: 'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny.' DAVID NICHOLLS
Enter Ghost
Restless Dolly Maunder
Brotherless Night: 'Blazingly brilliant' CELESTE NG
The Maiden
The Wren, The Wren: The Booker Prize-winning author
And Then She Fell: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2024
In Defence of the Act
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary
The Britannias: An Island Quest
Some People Need Killing: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
Intervals
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI — Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
A Flat Place
Come and Get It: One of 2024's hottest reads – chosen for Fearne Cotton's Happy Place Book Club
The Boy Who Fell From the Sky
Brutto: A (Simple) Florentine Cookbook
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
House of Flame and Shadow: The INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER and the smouldering third book in the Crescent City series, from the cre
Easy Wins: 12 Flavour Hits, 125 Delicious Recipes, 365 Days of Good Eating
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Murdle: #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: Solve 100 Devilishly Devious Murder Mystery Logic Puzzles (Book 1)
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
Impossible Creatures: INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The Bee Sting
Politics On the Edge
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
The Wager
Deliciously Ella Healthy Made Simple: Delicious, plant-based recipes, ready in 30 minutes or less
Dim Sum Palace
Superhero Animals
L is for Love: A celebration of family love for pre-schoolers learning their ABCs from the award-winning duo of B is for Baby
Can You Get Rainbows in Space?: A Colourful Compendium of Space and Science
Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good: The No. 1 bestseller
The Clockwork Conspiracy: Shortlisted for the 2024 BOOKS ARE MY BAG Readers Award
Feather
How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
Word Trouble: An uplifting book for children settling into a new environment and learning another language
Little Dinosaurs, Big Feelings
Jane Foster's Baby's First Stories: 9–12 months: Look and Listen with Baby
Bunny vs Monkey: Bunny Bonanza (a Phoenix Comic Book, from the million-selling Jamie Smart, Illustrator of the Year)
Harley Hitch Takes Flight
Love Is...: A Celebration of Love in All Its Forms
What You Need to Be Warm
Exhibit
Rosewater: the debut novel from Liv Little
All Fours
Ghost Mountain
No Small Thing: Shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Awards for Debut Fiction
Early Sobrieties
Private Rites
The Cautious Traveller's Guide to The Wastelands: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Lies and Weddings
This Is Fine
Wild Ground: 'As addictive as Normal People' - Jenna Clake
Table For Two
In Universes
The Road to the Country
The Safekeep
Strong Female Character: Nero Book Awards Winner
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
The Promised Party: Kahlo, Basquiat and Me
The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain's First Labour Government -- A Waterstones Book of the Year 2024
The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbours
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
The Underground Sea
Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication
Hermit: A memoir of finding freedom in a wild place
Namesake: Reflections on A Warrior Woman
We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body’s Electrome
Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
Alphabetical Diaries
Death of a Bookseller: Christmas edition
The Wake-Up Call: The addictive enemies-to-lovers romcom from the author of THE FLATSHARE
The Door-to-Door Bookstore: The heartwarming and uplifting book about the power of reading
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
Everything Under the Sun: a curious question for every day of the year
The Guide to the Treehouse: Who's Who and What's Where?
Clanlands in New Zealand: Kiwis, Kilts, and an Adventure Down Under
Good Material
Little Robin Red Vest
The Christmas Jigsaw Murders: The new deliciously dark Christmas cracker from the bestselling author of Murder on the Christmas
The Year of the Locust
Bookshops & Bonedust
Julia
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
Iron Flame: DISCOVER THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT EVERYONE CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT!
Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty
And So This is Christmas: 51 Seasonally Adjusted Poems
An Atlas of Es Devlin
The Fraud
The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
The Last Devil To Die: The Thursday Murder Club 4
The Iliad
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The perfect book to curl up with - for lovers of Japanese translated fiction everywhere
Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Venice: City of Pictures
Making It So: A Memoir
Sea of Tranquility: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Station Eleven
Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Strong Female Character: Nero Book Awards Winner
Pageboy: A Memoir
Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
The Cat Prince: & Other Poems
Bad Diaspora Poems: Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection
More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry
Divisible by Itself and One
Girl, Goddess, Queen: A Hades and Persephone fantasy romance from a growing TikTok superstar
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
Gwen and Art Are Not in Love: Winner of the YA Book Prize and Books Are My Bag Readers' Award for YA
Greenwild: The World Behind The Door
The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
A Spell of Good Things: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
The House of Doors
Study for Obedience: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
Pearl: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
Prophet Song: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
If I Survive You
How to Build a Boat: AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS
This Other Eden
The Bee Sting
All the Little Bird-Hearts: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
Western Lane
Protecting the Planet: The Season of Giraffes
Blobfish
Spark
A Wild Child's Book of Birds
Leila and the Blue Fox: Winner of the Wainwright Children’s Prize 2023
Grandpa and the Kingfisher
Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us
Rewilding the Sea: How to Save our Oceans
Rooted: How regenerative farming can change the world
Black Ops and Beaver Bombing: Adventures with Britain's Wild Mammals
The Lost Rainforests of Britain
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness – WINNER OF THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING
Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home
The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure: 'A rare and magical book.' Bill Bryson
Memphis: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
Fire Rush
A Year of Marvellous Ways: From the bestselling author of STILL LIFE
The Paper Palace
Elizabeth Finch: From the Booker Prize-winning author of THE SENSE OF AN ENDING
Amy and Lan: The enchanting new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Outcast
Lessons: the Sunday Times bestselling new novel from the author of Atonement
Where the Crawdads Sing
Seven Days in June
Yellowface
Trespasses: The most beautiful, devastating love story you’ll read this year
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
The Maid
Lessons in Chemistry
The Wine Runner: My Year of Hard Yards and Vineyards
Someone Else’s Shoes
Yellowface
The Rachel Incident: The international bestseller - 'Funny, nostalgic, sexy' (Monica Heisey)
Happy Place
The Garnett Girls
The Strange
White Cat, Black Dog
Ordinary Monsters: The dark and dazzling Sunday Times bestseller and first book in the Talents Trilogy
Stone Blind
The Square of Sevens
A Wild & True Relation: A gripping feminist historical fiction novel of pirates, smuggling and revenge
Act of Oblivion
Wrong Place Wrong Time: How do you stop a murder when it’s already happened?
Damascus Station: 'The Best Spy Thriller of the Year' THE TIMES from co-host of hit podcast THE REST IS CLASSIFIED
The Warlock Effect: A highly entertaining, twisty adventure filled with magic, illusions and Cold War espionage
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight
The Dos and Donuts of Love
This Summer's Secrets
Cupid's Revenge
Friends and Traitors
Greenwild: The World Behind The Door
The Case of the Lighthouse Intruder
The Thames and Tide Club: The Secret City
Art Makes People Powerful
The Lost Rainforests of Britain
Landlines
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
Send Nudes: By the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2022
Bad Actors: The Instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Notes on Grief
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief: The international, award-winning hit, and the biggest fantasy adventure series since Harry Potter
The Boy with Flowers in His Hair
Lessons in Chemistry
Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare
RHS Resilient Garden: Sustainable Gardening for a Changing Climate
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?
Trespasses: The most beautiful, devastating love story you’ll read this year
London Tube Stations 1924-1961
Small Things Like These: An Oprah Book Club Pick
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
The Romantic
Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful
The Book of Do: A Manual for Living
How to Read a Tree: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Timid
The Gecko and the Echo
Frank and Bert: The One Where Bert Learns to Ride a Bike
The Boy with Flowers in His Hair
John Agard's Windrush Child
A Hero Like Me
Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Ruling the World: The No. 1 bestselling series
The Elemental Detectives
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief: The international, award-winning hit, and the biggest fantasy adventure series since Harry Potter
Marv and the Pool of Peril: from the multi-award nominated Marv series
Hedgewitch: Book 1: The enchanting series brimming with mystery and magic
The Lost Whale
Consumed: The need for collective change; colonialism, climate change & consumerism
Notes on Grief
The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
Trespasses: The most beautiful, devastating love story you’ll read this year
Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
The Marriage Portrait: the Instant Sunday Times Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
Pod: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
Fire Rush
Black Butterflies: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2023
I Am Not Your Eve: Short listed for the world's leading literary prize for historical fiction -the £25K WALTER SCOTT PRIZE
Ancestry: Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
The Sun Walks Down: 'Steinbeckian majesty' - Sunday Times
The Chosen: who pays the price of a writer's fame?
The Geometer Lobachevsky: Shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize and the 2023 Kerry Group Novel of the Year
Homesick
The Bandit Queens: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
Pod: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
The Marriage Portrait: the Instant Sunday Times Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
Children of Paradise: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
Cursed Bread: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize
Glory
I'm a Fan
Wandering Souls
Fire Rush
Stone Blind
Memphis: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
The Dog of the North
Trespasses: The most beautiful, devastating love story you’ll read this year
I'm Not Scared
Hungry Ghosts: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
The Summer Book: A Novel
Strange Sally Diamond
Death and the Penguin: A BBC Two Between the Covers Pick
Weyward
Lullaby: A BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
The Space Between Us: This year's most life-affirming, awe-inspiring read – Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023
Burial Rites
Deliciously Ella Healthy Made Simple: Delicious, plant-based recipes, ready in 30 minutes or less
Chilli & Mint: Indian Home Cooking from A British Kitchen
Brutto: A (Simple) Florentine Cookbook
The Palestinian Table
The Modern Spice Rack: Recipes and Stories to Make the Most of Your Spices
A Splash of Soy: Everyday Food from Asia
The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen
The Flavour Thesaurus: More Flavours: Plant-led Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for Cooks
Anything You Can Cook, I Can Cook Vegan
One: Pot, Pan, Planet: A Greener Way to Cook for You, Your Family and the Planet
Persiana Everyday: Sabrina Ghayour’s long-awaited follow-up to Persiana
MEZCLA: Recipes to Excite
How to Bake Anything Gluten Free: Over 100 Recipes for Everything from Cakes to Cookies, Bread to Festive Bakes, Doughnuts to De
The Vegan Baking Bible: Over 300 Recipes for Bakes, Cakes, Treats and Sweets
Scottish Baking
The Marches: Border walks with my father
The Reivers: Raiders of the Borderlands
The Unremembered Places: Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories
Where are the Women?: A Guide to an Imagined Scotland
The Scottish World: A Journey Into the Scottish Diaspora
Scots: The Mither Tongue
The Hot Trod: A History of the Anglo-Scottish Border
Borders Witch Hunt: The Story of the 17th Century Witchcraft Trials in the Scottish Borders
Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation
The Steel Bonnets
Bizarre Scotland
Scotland the How?: The Hows and Whys of Scottish History
Scotland: A Concise History
Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots
Scotland: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happen
Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Shrines of Gaiety
Hello Beautiful
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
The Burnings
The Lincoln Highway: A New York Times Number One Bestseller
Dishoom: The first ever cookbook from the much-loved Indian restaurant
Mad Honey
A Flicker in the Dark
Memphis: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
The Panopticon
BOOTH: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
The Island of Missing Trees
Love Marriage: Don't miss this heart-warming, funny and bestselling book club pick about what love really means
The Flatshare: the utterly heartwarming debut sensation, now a major TV series
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
The Wild Places
The Lost Words: Rediscover our natural world with this spellbinding book
Findings
Surfacing
Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
The Lost Rainforests of Britain
The Nightingale: ‘The nature book of the year’
Otherlands: A World in the Making
Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland
The Horizontal Oak: A Life in Nature
Wild Fell: Fighting for nature on a Lake District hill farm
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm
Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Fairy Tale
Act of Oblivion
Marple: Twelve New Stories
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty: THE SUMMER'S HOTTEST ROMANCE
The Maid
The Wall: The pulse-pounding epic about the end times of an empire
The Perfect Golden Circle: Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2022
Trust
Bitter Orange Tree
A Heart Full of Headstones: The number one bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS
Nightcrawling: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 - the youngest ever Booker nominee
Tiny Pieces of Enid
Best of Friends: from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction