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Since 2014, in one room

About and visit

Page & Paper is Ada Quinn’s shop: a bookshop with a stationery table, a mezzanine for evenings, and a window seat that is usually occupied by someone under seven.

Wooden reading benches between tall bookshelves in a secondhand bookshop

The team

Five people, one room

Five people look after the shelves, the events and the counter. The reviews on the home page are labelled samples, because this whole shop is a demonstration.

  1. Ada Quinn

    Owner

    Opened the shop in 2014 after a decade buying for libraries, tired of recommending books she could not put directly into someone’s hands.

    Ada’s shelves

  2. Ben Okoye

    Events and the mystery shelf

    Runs the talks, the club and story time, and the mystery shelf.

    Ben’s shelves

  3. Maeve Lin

    Poetry, nature and the window

    Looks after poetry, nature and the window.

    Maeve’s shelves

  4. Samir Patel

    Fiction, and Thursday late

    Buys fiction and keeps Thursday late.

    Samir’s shelves

  5. Tess Holloway

    Children’s and the stationery table

    Runs children’s and the stationery table.

    Tess’s shelves

Find us

Find the shop

14 Quill Court
York
YO1 7HL

01904 496 210
hello@pageandpaper.example

About ten minutes on foot from York station. We have no car park of our own. There is pay-and-display nearby, and two bicycle hoops outside the court.

Opening hours

Opening hours
MondayClosed
Tuesday10:00–18:00
Wednesday10:00–18:00
Thursday10:00–19:00
Friday10:00–18:00
Saturday09:30–17:30
Sunday11:00–16:00

Quill CourtA small yard off the street. The shop is the green door with the mustard ribbon in the window. This is a drawn card, not a live map.

Old clay-tiled roofs, a small timber-framed gable and a bare birch tree in York
Stock photograph of a York street, used as mood.

Access

Getting in and around

  • Step-free from the court into the shop.
  • Aisles are at least a metre.
  • There is an accessible loo at the back.
  • A hearing loop runs at the counter.
  • Story time keeps a quieter corner away from the door.
  • Assistance dogs are welcome.
  • If you need a seat kept, write to us.

Click and collect

How collecting works

  1. 1

    Add a book to the basket and choose a collection day.

  2. 2

    In a real shop we would hold it at the counter. Here the order is saved only in your browser, clearly marked as a demo, and nothing is paid.

  3. 3

    If we do not have a title, use order it in.