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Topping & Company Booksellers
About Us
We opened our first bookshop in 2002, in the cathedral city of Ely. In the decades since, we've opened bookshops in Bath, St Andrews, Edinburgh, and now York.
Behind all that we do is a deep and unrelenting love for books, and an unwavering belief in bookshops with individual booksellers at the helm rather than a distant head office. We remain family-run, independent booksellers, now in our second generation.
We opened our newest bookshop in the heart of York on 5th June 2026, in a building dating from 1860.
It is the largest independent bookshop in Britain, spanning three floors and playing host to some fantastic views of the Minster. We hope we can welcome you in to share in this exciting new chapter.
Opening Times
Monday - Saturday: 9am - 9pm
Sunday: 10am - 5pm
Location
Events at Topping & Company Booksellers
Edward Shawcross on The People's Emperor: The Unl…
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We're delighted to welcome Edward Shawcross to the bookshop for The People's Emperor. Described by Simon Sebag Montefio…
Translated Fiction: Agnes Lidbeck for All My Love
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'What a writer Agnes Lidbeck is - bold, blisteringly intelligent, deliciously playful.'- Katie Kitamura, author of Audi…
Marion Gibson for Witchland
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"No historian before Marion Gibson has managed to convey so well the lived reality of British witch trials at the local…
Folklore: A Journey Through the Past and Present …
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Owen Davies is the author of numerous books, most recently Art of Grimoire and Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supe…
Alice Roberts for The Goddess Queen
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Professor Alice Roberts is an academic, author and broadcaster, specialising in human anatomy, physiology, evolution, a…
Angharad Hampshire for The Mare
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Angharad Hampshire is a lecturer in creative writing at York St John University. Previously she worked as a producer fo…
Gordon Brown for The Future Starts With Us
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Gordon Brown joins us this Autumn for the publication of his much-awaited book, The Future Starts With Us, a practical …
Cooks & Books: Sabrina Ghayour for Persiana One
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"Sabrina Ghayour's Middle-Eastern plus food is all flavour, no fuss - and makes me very, very happy." ~ Nigella Lawson …
Sebastian Barry for The Newer World
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Sebastian Barry was the 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction. His novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award,…
Roman Britain in Twenty Towns with Professor Rich…
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"Hingley has succeeded in writing a guidebook to the towns of Roman Britain that is so evocative and clear in its descr…
Christopher de Hamel for The Migrants: A Memoir w…
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In the course of a long career at Sotheby's and at Cambridge University, Christopher de Hamel has probably handled more…
Andrea Wulf for The Traveller
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"A remarkable biography of a remarkable man. Wulf's books are always horizon-expanding, but with this one she has excel…
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