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Typewronger Books

An independent bookshop and events space on Bruntsfield Place, open every day until nine at night, with zines and a print studio of its own.

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Typewronger Books is an independent bookshop and events space at 22 Bruntsfield Place, run as a not-for-profit social enterprise.

It began in 2017 in the old police box on Leith Walk, spent some years in a basement on Haddington Place, and has now moved south to Bruntsfield.

The shelves hold new books chosen with care, from science fiction, fantasy and crime to essays, politics, nature and music, with poetry, children's books and signed copies, and the shop will order anything in print. Zines and small-press publications have a corner of their own, and some of them come off the shop's own Risograph press, Typewronger Riso.

It is open every day from eleven in the morning until nine at night, a rare late bookshop in the city, so there is time to sit and read. Ribbons for old typewriters can still be replaced by booking ahead, and workshops and author evenings run through the year.

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Before you go

Open every day, 11am to 9pm.

Typewriter ribbons can be replaced by booking ahead.

Where
22 Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh EH10 4HN.
Open
Every day, 11am to 9pm.

Opening hours

Monday
11am–9pm
Tuesday
11am–9pm
Wednesday
11am–9pm
Thursday
11am–9pm
Friday
11am–9pm
Saturday
11am–9pm
Sunday
11am–9pm

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Where it is

On Bruntsfield Place, south of the Meadows.

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