|
 |
Bookshop: If you’re in the UK... | ||
Tags: United Kingdom (UK) | Bookshop | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Language Bookstores |  | |
| limey75 Senior Member United Kingdom germanic.eu/ Joined 4187 days ago 119 posts - 182 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Norwegian, Old English | Message 1 of 14 10 November 2012 at 6:45am | IP Logged |
|
http://www.grantandcutler.com/
"Grant & Cutler is the largest foreign-language bookseller in the UK, stocking books, DVDs, CDs, games and software packages in more than 150 languages." I've bought tonnes of stuff off them in my time. Check them out! Edited by Fasulye on 03 March 2013 at 11:10am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4466 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 2 of 14 10 November 2012 at 9:07am | IP Logged |
|
That's simply paradise! I go there around once a week, and every time I go around the whole floor (so if you're going there often, chances are we've seen each other before).
I've certainly bought too many books from them in the 1 year I've been living in London.. edit: seeing that you're studying Norwegian, the textbooks they sell have an absolutely outrageous price (100£ for a normal textbook + 60£ for the workbook). I know this is Norwegian, but the editors don't sell these books that expensively. As for Old English, they have a nice selection, and it's interesting to notice that they have more material for Old & Middle German than for Old & Middle English (actually, for Middle English, they have nothing). Edited by vermillon on 10 November 2012 at 9:12am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 4888 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 3 of 14 18 December 2012 at 7:38pm | IP Logged |
|
Thank you ever so much for the link! I'm really grateful!
1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5344 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 4 of 14 18 December 2012 at 9:10pm | IP Logged |
|
I'm feeling homesick already! Honolulu boasts only 1 large bookstore now (I'm told the other one shut down last year), and that contains absolutely no books or audiobooks in a foreign language at all. I was quite shocked considering how multicultural this island is...I wish I had a space-time portal to that floor in Grant and Cutler's right now!
1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6891 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 5 of 14 05 September 2013 at 4:45pm | IP Logged |
|
Wandering along Great Marlborough Street back in July of this year, I was gutted to
notice in passing that Grant & Cutler appeared to have shut up shop after what... 75 years or so - another casualty of the recession I thought. I've only just found out that they have "merged" (let's just whisper the word take-over) with Foyles and while I may bemoan the fact that they are now nothing more than another department in the Foyle's behemoth, that they are still around in some form or other is better than nothing I suppose. I wonder how the old compares with the new - I used to love browsing around the shop in Great Marlborough Street when I worked in London. Edited by Andy E on 05 September 2013 at 4:45pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4616 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 6 of 14 05 September 2013 at 8:50pm | IP Logged |
|
Well our friends Amazon have killed the bookshop, haven't they, but the rot set in years
ago, when the large bookshops started killing off the small independents. Amazon are merely finishing the job. And then they will kill the printed book....(ok, not single-handed). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4616 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 7 of 14 11 October 2013 at 11:32pm | IP Logged |
|
....whereas I seem to have killed off the thread ... sorry.
In an attempt to revive it, what experiences have people had with buying stuff online from Grant and Cutler? I had high hopes, since they had some stuff there that I couldn't easily see anywhere else, supposedly in stock, but they are taking a long time to dispatch it. And so far, not responding to email. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| cwcowellshah Newbie United States Joined 4167 days ago 34 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish | Message 8 of 14 11 October 2013 at 11:50pm | IP Logged |
|
This is a timely thread, as I stumbled across Grant and Cutler (as a floor of Foyle's) two weeks ago while on vacation
in London. Except for a stuffy and overly officious sales clerk, I thought it was wonderful. I certainly haven't seen anything like it in the US, as far as brick-and-mortar stores go. I concentrated on the Swedish section. They had a huge range of textbooks, though they seemed criminally overpriced. They also had maybe 200 novels (some translations from English, some Swedish originals). The novels seemed reasonably priced. And I finally found Harry Potter in Swedish, which I hadn't been able to find anywhere online or offline in the US. I would definitely go back, and would consider buying from their online section in the future, assuming they ship to the US. 1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
