Situated in Newcastle's city centre (right beside Grey's Monument) is Waterstones, which has two bookshops situated in two of Newcastle's most beautiful classical Georgian buildings. On Northumberland street, WH Smith is a two minute walk from Grey's Monument.

The BALTIC Bookshop (Gateshead Quays) contains a huge array of books relating to the arts. The largest independent bookshop in North East England can be found at Seven Stories, The Centre For Children‘s Books (Lime Street, Ouseburn). Here you can browse for hours in the welcoming and comfortable surroundings through an extensive range of the very best books for children of all ages (note: there is no fee to access this bookshop).

As well as these there are plenty of smaller retailers worth seeking out.  

Blackwell's (Percy Street) is situated near Newcastle's two universities and stocks all academic and professional disciplines, as well as being geared towards the professional community.

Forbidden Planet (Grainger Street) stocks a vast range of graphic novels, science fiction books as well as comic and other related products.

Robert D. Steadman: Fine and Rare Books (Grey Street) is the place to head for those hard to find, or valuable books.

Aficionados of second-hand books should pop into Books For Amnesty (Westgate Road) and Oxfam Books (St Mary's Place), both of which have an ever-changing stock.

Sports fans should hot-foot it along to The Back Page (St Andrew's Street), a specialist shop which holds a fantastic array of books catering for all manner of sport, as well as a huge range of football programmes, fanzines, and sporting memorabilia.