Our story
A bookshop built like a good neighbourhood market.
Folio & Fern opened in 2019 with two rooms, one very opinionated cat, and a belief that a bookshop should be the calmest room in your week. Seven years on we have eight shelves, four booksellers and the same belief.
8
Curated shelves
42k
Books rehomed
4.9
Reader rating
24h
Dispatch promise
Step inside: the front room on a quiet Saturday morning.
How we choose
Forty-two proofs walk in. Eighteen books make the shelf.
We read the first chapter standing up
If it doesn't earn a second chapter, it doesn't earn a shelf spot.
Someone must champion it
Every title needs a bookseller who will press it into a stranger's hands.
The shelf must stay balanced
Debuts beside classics, quiet books beside loud ones. Range is the whole point.
Readers first, always
No paid placement, no publisher payola on our tables. If it's face-out, a human loved it.
Wrapped like a gift
Every order leaves in kraft paper with guarded corners, a bookmark, and a handwritten note.
Rooted in Maplewood
Saturday workshops, school partnerships and a reading corner that is never, ever tidy.
Come and browse slowly.
14 Linden Row, Maplewood · Mon–Sat 9–8, Sun 10–6. The kettle is always on.