We have over 50 shops in the UK, including one of the oldest in the world.

Voted Winner of the Retail Chain of the Year at the 2007 Retail Bookseller Awards, Blackwell has an enviable reputation as a bookseller specialising in academic titles.

Our flagship shops in Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, Charing Cross and Edinburgh offer some of widest selection of titles available on the High Street. Many of our shops are based on University campuses which means that our booksellers gain specialist knowledge to support the subjects covered within the institution.

We offer a Reserve Online Collect Instore option from our website to enable you to pick up an order where available on the same day.

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Justin Pollard


Thursday 11th February

Phoenix Artists Club (Members Bar), 1 Phoenix Street, off Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0DT.

QI Elf Justin Pollard talks about the interesting bits of Love & History. Stories of courtship, marriage and lust throughout History will abound in this engaging and entertaining pre-Valentine's Event... More

Anthony Julius


Thursday 11th March

Blackwell Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford.

Anthony Julius will be appearing to talk about his new book, Trials of the Diaspora. "This is an essential history and it's fortunate it has been written by a man with the extraordinary fluency, staggering erudition, scholarly integrity, intellectual acumen and moral discernment of Anthony Julius." - Philip Roth... More

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