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Lighthouse Bookshop

Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop is an award-winning activist, queer, feminist, antiracist community bookshop in Edinburgh!

Lighthouse Bookshop

About Lighthouse Bookshop

43-45 West Nicolson Street Edinburgh Scotland , Edinburgh South EH8 9DB
01316629112
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An independent general bookshop in Edinburgh – left leaning and politically engaged, a shelter for bibliophiles, an oasis for curious minds and a platform for open discourse.

Home to all sorts of books, from politics, history, fiction and travel writing to Children’s books, tattoo art and cookery.

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