Welcome to Abbey Secondhand Books in Paisley
21 Wellmeadow Street
Paisley
PA1 2EF
info@abbeybookspaisley.co.uk
0141 887 7303
Tue - Sat: 10:15am - 5:15pm
CLOSED MONDAYS
The shop is at 21 Wellmeadow St - near the University and Paisley Museum and Library. About 400m west of both. About 1km west of Paisley Gilmour Street station. See map.
Abbey Books has 40,000 books (who's counting?) on a wide range of topics. Almost too much history, poetry and fiction never mind art, music and drama. And then there's the children's books! Oh, and sheet music!
Most of the books on these pages should be in the shop - somewhere! But some will be sold or out-of-stock so please get in touch if you are coming specially to look at a book you have seen here.
You can see some of our books on the Instagram page.
Book Jacket
Abbey Books has collaborated with West College, Paisley, to initiate a Book Jacket Design competition. This was run as the final term project for students.
The video shows a window display of the entries.
And the two winners were. These designs will be used as the covers for forthcoming books.
Radio Interview
Brian was interviewed on Paisley Radio (26th August 2024) about Abbey Books.
Shop Views
New Book(s)
A Dish Served Cold £10.00
George Colkitto
Paperback, ISBN:9781838405274
Click on the image to enlarge the back of the book.
Robert Tannahill's Paisley (£4.00)
Paul Wandrum
Paperback, ISBN: 9781789729283
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Black is the Colour(£8.50)
Seamus Connolly
Paperback, ISBN: 9798688650365
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From Small Lochs to Great lakes(£15)
Donald MacDonald
Paperback
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Replacement Service - Collected Bus Poems (£10.00)
Chips, Paracetamol and Wine (£7.50)
Graham Fulton
Paperbacks, ISBN: 9781916214569 and 9781916312135
The Siren Awakes ISBN: 9781916214507 (£10.00)
The Cabinet - Poems ISBN: 9781913632090 (£6.50)
Linda jackson
A Man of Constant Sorrow & other Irish Writing (£2.00)
Scotland Free or a Desert!
A play loosely based on the Paisley riots of 1819 (£2.00)
Craig Burrell
Paperbacks
Local Authors
- The Stories Behind Some Paisley Memorials (£7.50)
- Paisley's Roll of Honour (£8).
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"A collection of poems remembering and celebrating the passion and resilience of the women who worked in the thread mills and in the making of the town."
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"Set in the Benderloch area of Argyll, the book tells the story of a city boy, Steve, who finds himself catapulted back in time to the Bronze Age where he must lift a curse that condemns Aiden, his father Finn, and a thief Fergus, to be murdered over and over again every midsummer."
- Fraser's Voices, Weird Tales and Viking Trails Around Largs.
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- Learning to Listen: Life and a Very Nervous Dog (£10.00)
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- The Making of The Guns of Navarone (£8.50)
- The Making of Lawrence of Arabia (£8.50)
- Darkness Visible: Hitchcock's Greatest Film (£7.50)
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We have about 12 other titles by Graham Fulton.
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"Poems inspired by Celtic art."
- 6 Referendum Stories (£2.00)
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The first collection of Rashelle's poetry.
See more at www.ponderingsfrompaisley.com
Rashelle works in the shop.
"Scotland, 1965. Seventeen-year-old Stephen McBride has a dull, grey, average life in the impoverished town of Ferguslie Park. When he sees ten pounds on the floor of the corner shop, he takes a risk and spends the money on himself at the local fairground. He doesn't know it at the time, but his one dishonest decision changes the rest of his life."
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- The Making of The Guns of Navarone (£8.50)
- The Making of Lawrence of Arabia (£8.50)
- Darkness Visible: Hitchcock's Greatest Film (£7.50)
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" As the First World War draws to an end, Petty Officer Johann Schettler is embroiled in a mutiny of German Sailors. In the midst of the Battle of George Square, Schettler meets the fiery Kate A'Herne."
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Amazon
Whether you like it or not we do sell on eBay (George) eBay (Brian) and Amazon. Most books are displayed in the shop first but are moved to Amazon after a while if it seems worth it. We have about 3000 books listed.
Postcards
We sell a few old postcards in the shop.
We also have a few new postcards, produced by one of our customers. They include four of the old Renfrew Airport which closed in 1966. These cards sell at £1 each.
Book Tokens
If you want to give a present of money but don't want the poor soul to buy what they want, why not give them an Abbey Books book token? They're nice!
The gentleman in charge of the shop is Brian Hannan, who has been renting the shop since August 2022
