Welcome to Castlegate Books, an independent bookshop in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.

** Our shop in Knaresborough is currently closed

due to Covid-19 **

16/05/20

We are continuing to supply books online. Note that delivery times are increased because of supply chain restrictions caused by Covid-19. Please bear with us.

Shop customers: If you want to order a book that is not on our website please email info@castlegatebooks.com with your address and we will deliver locally to you.

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£3.99 for delivery on EU orders
Over 100,000 titles available to order on this website
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Please note that not all books available on this website are available in store.

Books in our online bookshop

Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English, it has famously been said. Today, the Indian cricket team is a powerful national sym...

The fastest police cars and motorbikes. . .The most powerful trucks . . .Firefighting helicopters . . .A thrilling book packed with full-colour techni...

Scottish Highlands, 1958Britain is awash in Cold War anxiety as Mirabelle Bevan heads for the Highlands on a holiday to visit Superintendent Alan McGr...

Teenager Alison Doig disappeared from Kinloch over thirty years ago under mysterious circumstances. Her reclusive family still live in a remote part o...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEA SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEARFor most of human hi...

'He writes so engagingly that it's hard to imagine that actual foraging can be more attractive than reading his accounts of it. ...[This book] is a tr...

Ireland's answer to JK Rowling. Sunday Independent One of the best Irish books of all time. TV3AM A classic hero in the making. Parent TalkFrom t...

A DAILY MAIL 'Must Read' title Bookriot's 50 spring must-read crime novels 'One part mystery, one million parts amazing.' Cosmopolitan 'A coming-...