Village Books

The shop began life in the 1930s as the Gallery Bookshop and Lending Library, by its own account, and Hazel Broadfoot has owned it since 1996 — a bookseller respected enough that the trade elected her President of the Booksellers Association during her tenure here. From 1d Calton Avenue it does the full village-bookshop job: events, school supply, the handsold novel that turns out to be exactly right — and the 2026 British Book Awards shortlisted it for Independent Bookshop of the Year, which for a shop in its tenth decade is a pleasing form of being discovered. Open seven days; Dulwich Village without it is unthinkable, and untested.