Book cafe ideas

Coffee and literature are an age-old pairing — Syraat Al Mustaqeem on where to enjoy them both at their best

From a Canadian bookshop opened by Alice Munro in the 1960s to one in the island of Santorini started by drunk Oxford students, some of the world’s most exotic booksellers feature in The Bookshop Book, published as part of a UK-wide Books are My Bag campaign to support the bookselling industry in the run-up to Christmas. Its author Jen Campbell introduces some of the finest

Image 12 of 24 from gallery of El Péndulo Library / Aizenman-Arquitectura. Photograph by Eduardo Aizenman

RESTAURANT PHILOSOFIA BOOK CAFE Jaime said about this project: “ -We’ve had to buy some 4,000 volumes to emphasise the Book-Café concept”