The Eagle of the Ninth
The book that sends children to the Wall — and a fair few grown-ups.
Roman Britain£25
A small bookshop, carefully kept · opening July 2026
From a Sunday stall to a shop on Newgate Street.
“Great stories reside here.”
Six years under the glass at Tynemouth Market taught the only rule worth keeping: choose well, keep it in good order, price it fair. Now there’s a room to sit in — small, freshly painted, and never crammed.
Recently in
See visit details →A rotating handful from the opening shelves — the site is a window, not a warehouse.
The Etchings of D. Y. Cameron
Northern hills and water, bitten into copper. Scarce — one of 200.
Landscape · Prints£300
Quality Street
Barrie in a lighter coat, Thomson at his most charming. A gift book.
Illustrated£80
The World of Late Antiquity
The hinge of history, told with a rare warmth. Just in.
Ancient history£45
The Water-Babies
A river runs straight through it — in a fine Jessie Willcox Smith dress.
Illustrated classic£75
The Guns of August
Two landmark works by a master historian, handsomely boxed.
Military history£45
Browse by collection
Ask about a collection →Not a database — a few shelves worth naming.
Fine bindings & Folio sets
18 on the shelf
Roman & Antiquity
Hadrian’s Wall country · 12
Natural history
Birds, fields & rivers · 9
Illustrated classics
14
Military history
11
Under £30 · gifts
Start here · 20+
Word Crafters of the County:
Our calling card
The writers this county raised
From Morpeth’s own — Turner, Morrison, Emily Davison — to Bewick, Bunting and the crime writers who turned our coast into a set. A shelf that could only be ours.
Read: Northumberland in Print →Northumberland in Print · Morpeth, coast, castle and frontier
Can’t see it? Just ask
Set a book aside for me
Title, author, or the memory of a cover — the book-finding service comes to the shop too. No charge to look, no daft prices when we find it.
Find us
38 Newgate Street
Morpeth, Northumberland · NE61 1BA
Opening
2026
From The Book Gadgie, Tynemouth Market. Sundays 9–3 until the doors open.
The paper round
An occasional email — new shelves, opening date, first-day coffee.