Ripping Yarns

For Adrian Mitchell book catalogue please click here. Make sure to visit his personal website too!

We are a secondhand bookshop in North London specialising in collectable children's and illustrated books.

We have boys' and girls' school and adventure stories, puffins, annuals, British comics, out-of-print modern children's fiction and a large number of 19th century moral tales.

We also have a large collection of poetry and plays, adult fiction, sci-fi and books of all kinds!

We are situated opposite Highgate underground station. Free parking for up to an hour is available within 50 yards of the shop.

Welcome to Ripping Yarns! We specialise in children's fiction, juvenilia, annuals, picture books and comics, but also have a wide-ranging stock of poetry, drama, politics and much more!

Click on pictures below to see our online store. We have hundreds more books that are not online, so please call us directly to find what you are looking for!

We have recently acquired over 200 Percy F Westerman titles. If you would like to find out more, please telephone the shop and we will be more than happy to help. Please do visit our friends over at Westerman Yarns blog, a must-read for any Westerman fan! Click here to view a selection of our Westerman titles.

For our online catalogue, click here. Click the book covers below for direct keyword searches.

Boys' Stories

Puffins

Girls' Stories

Children's Fiction

Adrian Mitchell

"In his many public performances in this country and around the world, he shifted English poetry from correctness and formality towards inclusiveness and political passion."

'Adrian Mitchell is no more naïve than Stevie Smith, but like her he has the innocence of his own experience. … real inner freedom and the courage of his own music. Among all the voices of the Court, a voice as welcome as Lear's fool….Humour that can stick deep and stay funny.' - TED HUGHES.