about

Errant Books is a creative bookselling agency, online bookstore and publisher, based in London UK and run by Simon Armstrong.

Errant Books provides promotional and editorial services to publishers, artists and authors, managing and delivering targeted and tailored creative bookselling projects and events.

About:

A life-long reader with a background in visual art, design and music, Simon has been buying and selling books daily for over 25 years, including 15 years as Head of Book Sales & Buying for Tate Modern & Tate Britain, 5 years as Head of Retail at the Design Museum and various management roles in Waterstones and independent design bookstores.

Fascinated by people, art, books and language, passion and curiosity has led Simon to specialise in contemporary culture and ideas, literature and storytelling, art, design, photography and music alongside an deep appreciation and knowledge of children’s book illustration.

The bookstore:

The shop specialises in beautiful books and unlikely guides, independently made and published, that celebrate creativity, unquenchable curiosity and the joy of contemplation, discovery and connection. Improbable, brilliant books including guides for better living, meditative photography, art to make you pause, writing to reflect upon and children’s books to spark imagination. 

Books come into being miraculously, against the odds, reminding us that we, and all life and art around us, all came into being miraculously too. 

Thank you for your support of independent bookselling, small scale publishing and all the creative geniuses whose books I adore to find, share and sell.

Read all night, dream all day.

Simon Armstrong, Errant Books.