PLEASE NOTE
We will be closed on Tuesday 30th April. We apologise for any inconvenience.
One of London’s foremost and best-loved bookshops, we offer a thoughtful and enticing selection of new books across the humanities, and a range of services that includes quarterly catalogues, mail order, subscriptions and private libraries.
John Sandoe opened his tiny Chelsea shop in 1957 with Félicité Gwynne, sister of the cookery writer Elizabeth David. We now occupy the two adjacent old shops too, with room for some 30,000 titles. Books are everywhere. An old customer, recollecting the shop’s earliest days, said that Sandoe’s had “all the books one could ever hope to find in one place”: the shop has grown but the ethos remains the same.
THE SANDOE’S EXPERIENCE
Knights’ moves and rabbit holes: we hope our website reminds you of your visits to Sandoe’s, where the unexpected and lesser-known rub shoulders with the familiar and canonical.
THE SANDOE’S EXPERIENCE
Knights’ moves and rabbit holes: we hope our website reminds you of your visits to Sandoe’s, where the unexpected and lesser known rub shoulders with the familiar and canonical.
SANDOE’S NOTIFICATIONS
John Sandoe is an integral part of my life in London. It is quite simply the best bookshop anyone could wish for.
EDNA O’BRIEN
John Sandoe is an integral part of my life in London. It is quite simply the best bookshop anyone could wish for.
EDNA O’BRIEN
