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Prowler

 (47 Ratings)

Business of selling sex

Soho's top gay consumer hot spot for lube, toys, porn, books, gifts etcetera, opened in 1997, now fittingly in...

Soho · 5–7 Brewer St, London


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Gay's The Word

 (35 Ratings)

"Textual orientation, since 1979"

An excellent independent LGBT bookshop — the only one in England — and one which has survived both a...

Central London · 66 Marchmont St, Bloomsbury, London


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Fopp (Covent Garden)

 (13 Ratings)

Budget-conscious haven for DVDs, CDs, LPs and more

Originally a Glasgow music shop, from 1981, Fopp expanded well beyond its Scottish borders in the years leading up...

Central London · 1 Earlham St, Covent Garden, London


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Foyles

 (12 Ratings)

Giant of the independent book-sellers trade

Towering over all its neighbours in Charing Cross Rd in both size and gravitas, Foyles bookstore dates back to 1903...

Central London · 113–119 Charing Cross Rd, London


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TASCHEN

 (11 Ratings)

London outpost of major German publisher

Cologne, Germany-based publisher Benedikt Taschen got his start in 1980 in comic books and within a few years...

Southwest London · 12 Duke of York Square, London


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Waterstones (Piccadilly)

 (7 Ratings)

London flagship outlet of major bookseller

A huge book store set in the pleasing art deco building previously home to clothing store Simpons of Piccadilly....

Central London · 203–206 Piccadilly, London


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Daunt Books

 (8 Ratings)

One of London's best-loved bookshops

Visually pleasing Edwardian bookshop specialising (though not exclusively) in travel literature, with not only...

Central London · 83 Marylebone High St, Marylebone, London


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Westfield London

 (3 Ratings)

London's gargantuan shopping mall

Europe's second largest indoor shopping development, located ever so slightly out of the way in west...

West London · Ariel Way, Shepherd's Bush, London


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Soho Original Books

 (1 Rating)

Indy erotica bookstore

A Soho institution that first opened in 1993 and still going strong, Soho Original Books features a 'respectable'...

Soho · 12 Brewer St, London


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Westfield Stratford City

 (1 Rating)

Shopping on an Olympian scale

Australian-owned Westfield Group gave itself an 11-month head start on Olympic fever with this mammoth mall perched...

East London · 2 Stratford Place, Montfichet Rd, Olympic Park, Stratford, London


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