Literary London

Where the books were written, set, sold, printed and buried: from the Globe to the graves, the bookshops to the presses.

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South Bank Book Market

Second-hand books on trestle tables under Waterloo Bridge, every day, in any weather.

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Under Waterloo Bridge, in the last of the winter sun.

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The open-air market has run under the south end of Waterloo Bridge since the 1980s, part of the Southbank Centre, with a dozen traders laying out paperbacks, prints, maps and old Penguins on long tables. The bridge keeps the rain off and the river keeps the light, and it is the book market of Four Weddings and a Funeral, where Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell walk along the tables.

Where
Riverside Walk, under Waterloo Bridge, SE1 8XT
Nearest station
Temple · 6 min walk

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