Nestled unassumingly in Cecil Court—next to an equally intriguing shop selling bank notes emblazoned with world dictator’s faces—is Red Snapper Books. One of the many bookshops in the Charing Cross area, this small but well-stocked literary emporium sells secondhand and rare books.

Specialising in counter-culture and beat generation texts by anti-establishment wordsmiths such as Kerouac, Brautigan and Bukowski, Red Snapper Books provides an absorbing spectrum of modern fiction, poetry and photography books. You can also pick up prints by the likes of Peter Blake and Jamie Reid. The shop has a host of loyal fans, including regular visitor Pete Doherty, who chose the venue as the site for a book signing of his recent published words,’The Books Of Albion’.