Welcome to our family business located in Horncastle, rural Lincolnshire.

About us

Jabberwock Books is a family-run business located in the heart of Horncastle.

Established 1985, and now in large premises occupying two buildings of great historical interest in Horncastle, Lincolnshire. Jabberwock is a general second-hand bookseller, with books on most subjects, particularly Art, Literature, Poetry, History and Travel. The shop, open Monday to Saturday, 10.30am to 4.30pm, holds a large stock, of which our internet listings on here and Biblio represent only a tiny fraction. We see internet bookselling as complementary to - and not a replacement of - good second-hand bookshops. In Horncastle we have the perfect location for a bookshop of the traditional kind. Horncastle is a small market town, in the Lincolnshire Wolds, built on the ruins of a Roman fortification, once famous for its horse-fair and now well-known for books and antiques. At Jabberwock we are fortunate, to have the biggest remaining part of the town's ancient Roman stonework forming part of our outer wall.