Book Stores
Bookingham Palace
About Bookingham Palace
Some shop names tell you the owner has a sense of humour before you get through the door. Bookingham Palace deals in books at 1321 10 Ave in Salmon Arm, on one of the through streets that carries much of the city's everyday commercial traffic.
Bookshops in small cities usually run on more than new stock. Many take trade-ins or buy used, keep a search open for a title they do not have on hand, order in on request, and hold a shelf of regional and local-interest material that no chain would bother with. Which of those a given shop does is worth a direct question, especially if you are hunting something specific rather than browsing. Bring the author and, if you can, the edition, because the answer for a paperback still in print and the answer for an out-of-print hardcover are rarely the same.
Reading habits here follow the weather in an obvious way. The Shuswap gives over July and August almost entirely to the water, and then the shoulder seasons and the long grey stretch after Christmas send people back indoors and back to a stack of books. That makes autumn a good time to walk the shelves without hurrying. Salmon Arm draws shoppers from Canoe, from the acreages to the south and from communities scattered up the lake, so a bookshop here is serving a district rather than just a town, which tends to keep the range broader than the population on its own would suggest.
Visiting Bookingham Palace
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In the Downtown Salmon Arm neighbourhood of Salmon Arm.
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