Love the smell of tattered books with sepia-tinted pages? Then wander around Free School Street’s book stores while inhaling deep. Out of the 10 odd book shops lining the street, that used to stock old titles, now only a couple remain because of the advent of ebooks and online shopping. Check out Picadilly Book Shop and Modern Book House. The gate of the latter proudly showcases the entire Tintin and Asterix collection which is sold at half the price, and guess what? The books look as good as new! If you go through all the shelves and figure out the cataloging, you might find many Daphne du Mauriers (the rarer books), some great crime pulp fiction classics, and even some classic erotica hidden in some corners.
