General bookshops Midi-Pyrénées

It's impossible to talk about independent bookshops without mentioning Ombres Blanches, which is so widespread in the city center! A team of nearly fifty booksellers is waiting to advise you in its various nooks and crannies. The main bookshop has several entrances, so you can browse the shelves according to your mood: children's books, classic literature, detective novels, science fiction, essays... A little further on, still on rue Gambetta, the Librairie Voyage, Nature et Pratique opens up new horizons. The cinema bookshop is opposite. The foreign bookshop is on rue Mirepoix. From the rue des Gestes entrance, you can access the café Côté Cour, a delightful place to devour your latest find, while sipping a cup of tea. Numerous meetings are organized, making Ombres blanches a major cultural player in the pink city.

Spectacular! A 1,000^m2 barn housing a bookshop with over 60,000 items on the shelves! Foreign and regional literature, fine works on the Canal du Midi, viticulture, history, the occult sciences, gastronomy, history, comic strips and children's books, old editions, some of them original, and a cabinet of curiosities with old engravings and imagery... you'll find it all! Art lovers, make your way up to the mezzanine. Nelly and her team of enthusiasts will help you find what you're looking for.

Gibert's bookshop opened its doors on Place des Martyrs-de-la-Résistance in 1956, making it the oldest bookshop in the city! Far from having lost any of its dynamism, the address is still appreciated by lovers of low-priced books, with almost 135,000 references within its walls and on its website. Several departments: youth, cinema, history, fine arts, tourism... It also houses Montpellier's largest stationery shop, as well as CDs and DVDs.

The Gibert bookshop spans 7 floors in a building located at the entrance to Place du Capitole. You won't want to miss it! From travel guides to textbooks, art books to paperbacks... it's all here. An area dedicated to comics and manga will delight fans of graphic art. A few metres further up the rue du Taur, Gibert Papeterie offers a wide choice of small office equipment and postcards.

This beautiful "PETITE librairie" located in Sommières, a pretty typical Gard village, opened its doors in November 2018. Three women are behind this bold project, which gives pride of place to new adult literary releases, children's literature, thrillers and comics, not forgetting shelves dedicated to practical books and travel books. The three women also offer a children's area, where meetings are frequently organized to bring young and old together. Happy reading!

The Fnac is in what was once the great store «Les Dames de France», crowned with a beautiful dome. The Monument scored its 158 years in 2014. On two levels, Fnac offers library, multimedia, photo works, show box, etc. A multidisciplinary sign that is almost useless to present, we are sure you already know. Reception and advice are a constant at Fnac.

In Toulouse, FNAC is in several stores, two of which are located in the city center. FNAC Jeanne-d 'Arc is entirely dedicated to multimedia. The FNAC Wilson, for its part, resumes on three levels, all the rays that have made this great area of culture and entertainment: music, books, photo, high-tech, cinema, stationery, games, boxes to offer, carnage… Of course it has a ticket box for the most diverse events: concerts, festivals, sports meetings, theater… You will also find a number of terminals to print your photos. A forum of meetings allows him to organize show-boxes and dedicatory sessions.

Located in the Saint-Cyprien district, l'Autre Rive is an independent bookshop that fits in perfectly with the spirit of the place. Here you can discover, exchange, discuss and debate. It offers a generalist catalog which, along with the sound advice of passionate booksellers, enables everyone to find their new nuggets. Of course, l'Autre Rive also organizes meetings, launches, readings and screenings to bring reading to life. An address not to be missed when crossing the Garonne!

Are you in need of culture? In this store, you will find books, toys, fine arts, stationery, but also e-books, DVD, Blu-ray, video games, board games... The comics section is particularly rich in quality works, including local artists! The shop also has a ticket office for concerts and shows. Very regularly, the store welcomes authors and artists to present their works and sign autographs, but also creative workshops; ask the professional and smiling team.

Cultura is an independent brand with a dual vocation: to be a distributor concerned about diversity and to carry out the mission of a cultural animator. Take the metro to Balma to discover the richness of its offer. The shelves are organized in a circuit allowing you to discover a succession of universes: youth with albums and games, health and well-being books, French and foreign literature, video games, music with CDs and musical instruments... It should be noted that Cultura Balma organizes many events (meetings, dedications, shows, creative workshops...) and hosts a music school that brings together 300 students and seven reference teachers.

Founded in 1945, this is the emblematic address for book lovers. With 600 m² spread over two floors, the Torcatis bookshop offers customers a choice of 50,000 references. Here, everything is nooks and crannies, with shelves of books guiding you from aisle to aisle. Always up to date, the bookshop has a website where you can follow meetings, debates and book signings, as well as buy physical or digital books. The Torcatis bookshop is a guarantee of choice, competence, advice, boldness and a friendly ear.

In downtown Colomiers, book lovers have been meeting for over thirty years in this independent bookstore. Established on two floors, it offers vast, luminous spaces, very pleasant to browse through and to feed your Reading pile! A team of experienced booksellers awaits you to guide you. The biblio-diversity is perfectly assured: French, foreign and children's literature, albums, manga and comic books, thrillers, but also beautiful books, history, philosophy, psychology... A true cultural player, the Preface organizes numerous events: book signings, workshops for children, exhibitions, philosophy meetings... A land of encounters.

The Leclerc Cultural Center, located in Blagnac, is dedicated to all cultures or almost all cultures: Shelves dedicated to music, films or video games happily complement the well-supplied bookstore space in general public works. You will find both the best sellers in fashion and the latest news in terms of literature in competition (Femina, Goncourt, Renaudot…), police novels or comics. But you can also find here books on politics or news, youth literature for your children and cooking books, very practical.

Fnac Labège offers the same principles as Fnac Wilson and, of course, one of the specialties of the exhibition: literature and all the usual choice. Whether you're addicted to novels, comics, movies, video equipment, games… this address is made for you. The evening schedule with a closing at 20 am can be a plus for an urgent purchase. Many meetings and signature sessions are organized. This Fnac has the great advantage of being installed in the heart of a large shopping centre.

Barely installed in the heart of the Minimes district, this new independent bookshop has already won over its public, who are delighted to have the latest book of their devouring passion at their fingertips. When leaving school, work or on lunch break, everyone comes here to browse the well-stocked shelves, buy the latest book or album, or place an order for a particular work. Agnès' dream has come true: to bring people together to read, and to add a bookshop to the dynamic mix of local shops in this neighborhood she loves. Now in the process of retraining, Agnès shares her passion with us.

Les Beaux Jours is the last general bookstore in Tarbes and it is with insistence that we recommend it to you. The proximity trade takes all its sense here and you have the insurance to benefit from the advices of real passionate persons of the book. The bookstore organizes many signing sessions with the writers. Florence, Emeline and Cyrille will guide you through the collections of beautiful books on the region, literature, comics, books on fine arts... Enthusiastic, they will make you discover many references.

Created in 2016, the Eclectic bookshop-gallery joined forces in 2018 with the Manufacture bookshop to become a beautiful contemporary space dedicated to books.You'll discover more than 20,000 works between literature, history, regionalism, social sciences, pochothèque (more than 10,000 paperbacks), travel, science and youth on 3 floors. A large department specializing in art invites you to take an aesthetic stroll, with art books and posters, photographs and lithographs.

In the Minimes district, this bookshop opens its shelves to you with passion. It's an atypical, lively and endearing place that book lovers have quickly adopted. Don't be fooled by the tiny window visible from the street: only second-hand books are on offer here. The real action starts once you've passed the door of the building, at the very end of the corridor, like a hidden "spotlight": a place for meetings and discoveries, complete with a café and a pretty patio! Bonus: the children's section, complete with reading corner. You feel like you're visiting book-loving friends... who make you want to come back again and again!

Here is an atypical address, located in the district of Saint-Cyprien, to know absolutely! Here, you can combine the thirst for discovery with the delight of your taste buds. L'Estaminot is a bookstore-café, or a tea room-library, which offers a place to live for the curious and culture-hungry. You can have a drink, chat, browse, buy, have lunch... and read, of course! In short, we live in the middle of books! Literature, cooking, essays, comics... every wish will be fulfilled. We also appreciate the place for the many events that animate it: shows, knitting café, reading workshops, music, lectures... We're asking for more!

Béatrice Jacques and Etienne Cronier recently took over the Librairie Ancienne Rapaud, an Old Cahors institution, and renamed it La Petite Faiseuse de Livres. Here, you can smell the scent of old books, and look up along walls covered from floor to ceiling with old and second-hand books. The store has a corner for every field: literature, history, architecture, comics and the Quercy region, which the bookshop specializes in.