Imagined Things Bookshop

General information

We are a proudly independent bookshop in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Located in Harrogate town centre in the beautiful and iconic Westminster Arcade on Parliament Street. We sell an eclectic mix of books across a range of genres for adults, young adults and children. We also sell a unique range of cards, stationery and gifts to satisfy bibliophiles and non-bibliophiles alike.

We think there is nothing better than browsing for your next read in a physical bookshop, and that nothing compares to flicking through the pages of an actual book.

We care about books and reading (we wouldn’t be a very good bookshop if we didn’t after all), and more than that we care about the local area and its people. We care about being at the heart of the community and working with customers to continually improve and be the best that we can be. We look forward to working with local schools and the community to support literacy and get children excited about reading. We plan to have author events and signings to connect readers and authors, and to forge connections with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and the Harrogate History Festival. We want to add to the already strong literary roots of the town.

We will have a loyalty card scheme, discounts for book clubs, as well as various competitions and prize draws. We care about being local and support UK, and Yorkshire companies wherever possible.We care about the environment too – you’ll never see a plastic bag at Imagined Things – and we always do our best to be environmentally conscious.

Imagined Things will be thoroughly independent, and offer something very different. We will have a bookshop dragon (and a naming competition once he/she has hatched!), we will have a number of different competitions/ways of interacting with the shop such as a Where's Wally Hunt and we have a bookshop poem...

At Imagined Things we see
The world a little bit differently…
We’re proudly independent, one of a kind,
Delighted to be different with many wonders to find.
Books that never run out of charge,
Stories that stay with you forever little and large.
Books to order the very next day (everything being ok),
Plus cards, gifts and stationery to do things your way.
Always improving, honest and fair,
A local bookshop that will always care.
A world without bookshops would be so sad indeed,
So let us cater for your every reading, writing, stationery need!