Bookstores in Hull
Bookstores reward the browsers. Hull, England has 16 mapped right now. That's 16 bookshops mapped around Hull, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide.
This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Hull (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include The Works and Driffield Bookshop, plus StarRider. If a bookshop's missing from Hull's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Hull bookstore lineup
16 mapped within about 40 km:
The Works
Bookstore
The Works — Bookstore, found on Friargate Mall in Grimsby. Also worth knowing about The Works: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 09:00-17:30; Su 10:00-16:00; Mo closed; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Friargate Mall, Grimsby, DN31 1QQ
Hours: Tu-Sa 09:00-17:30; Su 10:00-16:00; Mo closed
Phone: +44 1472 356 247
Driffield Bookshop
Bookstore
Driffield Bookshop — Bookstore, found on 21 Middle Street North in Driffield.
21 Middle Street North, Driffield, YO25 6SW
StarRider
Bookstore
StarRider — Bookstore, found on 156 Victoria Street South in Grimsby. Also worth knowing about StarRider: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
156 Victoria Street South, Grimsby, DN31 1NX
Phone: +44 1472 354 590
Waterstones
Bookstore
Waterstones — Bookstore, found on Baxtergate Mall in Grimsby. Also worth knowing about Waterstones: the map lists its hours as Sa-Su 09:00-17:30; Su 10:30-16:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Baxtergate Mall, Grimsby, DN31 1QL
Hours: Sa-Su 09:00-17:30; Su 10:30-16:30
Phone: +44 1472 353 212
The Works
Bookstore
The Works — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about The Works: it has a website with more detail.
Khromatec
Bookstore
Khromatec is Bookstore on Beel's Road, Grimsby. Khromatec also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Beel's Road, Grimsby, DN41 8DN
Phone: +44 1469 577 074
Black Cat Books
Bookstore
Black Cat Books is Bookstore.
Grimsby, DN31 1QR
Hessle Bookshop
Bookstore
Hessle Bookshop is Bookstore.
WHSmith
Bookstore
WHSmith is Bookstore on High Street, Scunthorpe. WHSmith also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
High Street, Scunthorpe, DN15 6SB
The Works
Bookstore
The Works — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about The Works: it has a website with more detail.
The Works
Bookstore
The Works — Bookstore, found on High Street in Scunthorpe. Also worth knowing about The Works: it has a website with more detail.
High Street, Scunthorpe, DN15 6HB
The Works
Bookstore
The Works — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about The Works: it has a website with more detail.
Waterstones
Bookstore
Waterstones — Bookstore, found on Jameson Street in Hull. Also worth knowing about Waterstones: it has a website with more detail.
Jameson Street, Hull, HU1 3JX
WHSmith
Bookstore
WHSmith is Bookstore on 6-8 Toll Gavel, Beverley. WHSmith also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
6-8 Toll Gavel, Beverley, HU17 9AJ
The Works
Bookstore
The Works — Bookstore, found on Butcher Row in Beverley. Also worth knowing about The Works: it has a website with more detail.
Butcher Row, Beverley, HU17 0AB
Beverley Bookshop
Bookstore
Beverley Bookshop is Bookstore on Butcher Row, Beverley.
Butcher Row, Beverley, HU17 0AA
What the map tells us about bookstores in Hull
2 of the 16 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
12 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
There's a cluster: 2 of them sit on High Street, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.
The Hull bookstore crawl
The efficient Hull bookstore crawl strings these together: The Works on Friargate Mall, Driffield Bookshop on 21 Middle Street North, StarRider on 156 Victoria Street South, Waterstones on Baxtergate Mall, The Works, Khromatec on Beel's Road, Black Cat Books, and Hessle Bookshop — 16 stops, one logical order. 8 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Hull
Browsing in Hull? A little strategy helps:
- Ask for the out-of-print hunters at The Works. Some used shops will hunt down out-of-print titles for you. It takes patience, but the find is worth it.
- Don't skip the small press section at Driffield Bookshop. The weird, wonderful stuff lives here. Small presses take the risks the big publishers won't.
- Ask the booksellers. A good bookseller lives for the question 'what should I read next?' Give them three books you loved and watch them work.
- Ask about the book club discount. Many shops discount book-club orders. If your club buys local, everyone wins.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Hull — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new bookstore in Hull can take a while to appear. The 16 above are only as current as the community map. A bookstore that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.
We don't list prices — they change constantly and vary by edition. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers, in alphabetical order with no favourites.
If you run one of the 16 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Bookstore listings for Hull: 16 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.