Barter Books

Shelves of secondhand books lined up under the iron-and-glass roof of the old train shed at Barter Books in Alnwick, Northumberland, England, photographed in July 2026. The shop opened in 1991 inside a Victorian station that closed in 1968, and it is one of the largest secondhand bookshops in Europe. A model train runs from room to room, there is an open fire, and the shop is where an original Keep Calm and Carry On poster turned up in a box of books bought at auction.