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 and services to publishers, artists and authors and manages and delivers 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 Book Buyer for Tate Modern & Tate Britain, 5 years at the Design Museum and various management roles in Waterstones and independent bookstores.
Fascinated by people and culture, Simon’s passion and curiousity has led him to specialise in contemporary culture, radical ideas, classic literature, art, design, photography and music alongside an deep appreciation and knowledge of children’s book illustration and stories.
The bookstore:
The shop specialises in beautiful books and unlikely guides, independently made and published, that celebrate creativity, unquenchable curiosity and the joy of discovery and connection. These improbable yet brilliant books include guides for better living, meditative photography, art to give 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, also came into being miraculously too.
If we’re not quite ready to follow our instinctive desire to simply melt into cosmic union with the forests and the universe, then we might be able to spend a bit of the fleeting time we have exploring and reading, following loose threads of ideas, looking slowly, dwelling for a while in someone else's thoughts or art: I reckon all of this helps us move toward finding purpose and wholeness.
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.