Rainy Day
Get Lost in Munro's Books
A 1909 bank vault of a bookshop on Government Street, on every world's-best-bookshop list, and it costs nothing to wander.
1108 Government St, Old Town
More infoRainy Day
A 1909 bank vault of a bookshop on Government Street, on every world's-best-bookshop list, and it costs nothing to wander.
1108 Government St, Old Town
More infoPeel off the rain into Munro's, which occupies a soaring 1909 former bank and lands on every world's-best-bookshop list the moment you look up at the cathedral ceilings and custom textile banners. Split up, pick a book you think the other secretly needs, and meet in poetry to defend your choices. The blind-date-with-a-book shelf hands you a wrapped mystery title to commit to sight unseen. Free to browse, open daily.
Peel off Government Street into the soaring old-bank space and just stay, split up, each pick a book you think the other secretly needs, and reconvene in the poetry corner to defend your picks. Bonus points for raiding the 'blind date with a book' shelf and committing to whatever you draw. It costs nothing and runs about an hour. When you're ready to surface, there's a coffee two doors down.
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