Red Lion Books is Colchester’s friendly local independent bookshop. Welcome to our new improved online presence. We’ll try to make this website as useful as possible to help you find out what’s happening at the shop. We have thousands of books in—all handpicked to represent the best of the new titles each week backed up with a wide range of core stock titles

ART IN THE ARCHES 

Is our dedicated gallery space downstairs featuring regularly changing exhibitions of art from local  artists. Latest exhibition for December/January is Pocket Edition 2 - a fantastic mix of paintings, photography, ceramics and pottery from Harwich’s own ‘Fantastic Four’ - Daphne Sandham, Claudia Singer, Bob Mowles and Mel King. Drop in and have a peep at some lovely art.