Excellent book shop. Always has awesome stock. Very friendly staff and owners.

Lovely bookshop and very helpful staff. Excellent spot to check off some Christmas shopping.

Called up about a book to enquire if they had it in stock - wasn’t there at the time but was ordered in and received a few weeks later. I also went in store today to enquire about a book and they intend to get that for me ASAP. Staff both times were very helpful and receptive.

An excellent independent bookshop. It has a rare feature which most indie bookshops don't - it is both immaculately curated and stocks a very wide range of titles. I visited around a dozen indie bookshops across four cities and towns in June, and Red Lion was the only place which stocked most of the recently published fiction by indie presses which I wanted to buy. However, the bookshop really serves the community as a whole, not just literary readers with niche tastes - the A Level core texts are helpfully placed on a separate self and the shop has a wide selection of YA and children's books, as well. A model indie bookshop.

My favourite shop in Colchester, what's not to love, it's filled with books! Lovely helpful staff, and if they haven't got a book they will order it in for you and it's quite often available the next day! A million times better than 'the website that will not be named'!

Visited this lovely store today and what can I say? Plethora of books and great customer service!