Booksellers on Church Street since 2008
Every book has a shelf. This one is yours.
Novels, classics, poetry and every prescribed school book, chosen by people who read them first. Delivered across India, wrapped in paper.
Fresh off the van
New this month
Unpacked on Monday, read by Thursday, on your doorstep next week.
Tea for the Tax Collector
Sameer Kulkarni
The Quiet Hour
Leela Krishnan
The Pine Road
Dev Malik
The Last Leaf
Nandini Rao
The Partition Letters
Kabir Sethi
Deep Mornings
Ananya Desai
Biryani at Midnight
Rehan Qureshi
The Great Sports Day Swap
Tara Menon
The Hostel Year
Vikram Joshi
The Printer's Daughter
Meera Iyer
Monsoon at Malleswaram
Meera Iyer
The Kite Season
Sameer Kulkarni
The shelves
Pull a spine. Start a habit.
Eleven shelves, about four thousand titles in the shop, and a bookseller behind every one of them.
Indian Writing
Novels and stories from every corner of the subcontinent: Bengaluru flats, Kolkata courtyards, Kerala backwaters.
Literary Fiction
Quiet, lasting novels to read slowly and lend carefully.
Pagewise Classics
Our own cloth-bound editions of the books that never date, with new introductions.
Mystery & Thriller
Locked rooms, monsoon murders and page-turners for one more chapter.
Fantasy & Sci-Fi
Other worlds, near futures and the maps at the front of the book.
Non-Fiction
History, science, food and the essays that change your mind.
Business & Self-Help
Work, money and habits, without the hype.
Poetry
Slim books you will carry in a coat pocket for years.
Children
Picture books and first chapter books for ages 3 to 9.
Young Adult
Coming of age, first love and big questions for ages 12 and up.
School Books
Board textbooks, workbooks and complete class sets for the school year.
School book set by class
The whole list, in one click.
Pick a board and a class. We bring every prescribed textbook, the notebooks schools ask for, and optional covers and name labels. Untick what you already have.
Jump straight to a CBSE class:
Open the school set builder
2026-27 sets ship from 1 MarchShelf-talkers
What the booksellers can't stop pressing on people.
Handwritten cards, the old way. Each one is a real recommendation from someone who works the counter.
“Our best-loved Bengaluru novel. Start here.”
Anusha, Church Street recommends · The Printer's Daughter“Slim, funny and wise. I've given it to my mother and my daughter.”
Farah, Indiranagar recommends · The Quiet Hour“My favourite fantasy in years. The library is a character.”
Rohit, Jayanagar recommends · The Banyan Library“The bedtime book every Bengaluru family needs.”
Anusha, Church Street recommends · Goodnight, BengaluruHow a book finds you
Chosen. Wrapped. Sent. Read.
Keep scrolling to turn the pages.
- 01Chosen by a reader
- 02Wrapped by hand
- 03Sent the same day
- 04Read, and returned to
Author in the shop
Meera Iyer
“I wrote most of The Printer's Daughter at the corner table here, under the poetry shelf. It felt right to launch it where it was written.”
Writes from Bengaluru.
EventReading and signing, Friday 7 November, 6:30 pm, Church Street
Read them in order
Series, shelved properly.
Start at book one. We list every series in reading order, and box sets cost less than the books bought one by one.
The Ashvattha Cycle
A fantasy trilogy about a library that grows inside a banyan tree, and the girl who has to keep its last book from burning.
3 books in reading order →Inspector Meera Rao Mysteries
Kolkata crime novels following a quiet, stubborn detective and the city's oldest secrets.
4 books in reading order →Tiffin Box Detectives
Funny illustrated mysteries for ages 6-9. Three friends, one missing lunch box at a time.
3 books in reading order →Sherlock Holmes (Pagewise Classics)
The first three Holmes books in matching cloth-bound editions.
3 books in reading order →Coming soon
Reserve it now. Read it first.
Pre-order and we ship the morning it is released. You pay today's price even if it goes up.
The Pagewise book club
A book a month, chosen by a person.
Pick a shelf, choose three, six or twelve months, and we post one book, a bookmark and a note on the 5th of every month.
Fiction First
One new literary or Indian novel every month, chosen by our booksellers.₹599 a monthThriller Night
One gripping mystery or thriller a month.₹549 a monthLittle Readers
Two picture or early chapter books a month, for ages 3-8.₹499 a monthBig Ideas
One essential non-fiction book every month: history, science, food or ideas.₹699 a month
The stationery desk
Good paper changes how you write.
Our own notebooks, fountain pens, pencils and everything on the school list.
Pagewise Long Notebook, 172 pages
The school long book, with 70 gsm paper that does not bleed.
Pagewise A5 Notebook, 160 pages
Lay-flat, thread-sewn, 90 gsm ivory paper.
The Reading Journal
Log every book you read this year.
Pagewise Fountain Pen
A steel-nib piston pen made in Rajahmundry.
Since 2008
A small shop with a long memory.
For schools, libraries and offices
Buying fifty copies? Talk to us.
Class sets, library stock, book fairs and corporate gifting. Tell us what you need and we send a written quote within one working day.
- Institution pricing from 20 copies
- Invoices with GST for purchase orders
- Delivery to the school gate
- Library processing on request
Gift a book
Wrapped in kraft. Signed in ink.
Choose a book, pick a wrap, write the message. We copy it by hand onto a card and tuck it inside the cover.
Readers write back
Notes left on the counter.
I grew up two roads from where this is set. Meera Iyer gets the light, the sounds and the aunties exactly right. Cried at the ledger chapter.Ananya Rao, Bengaluru · on The Printer's Daughter
Three generations and it never feels long. Bought the hardcover for my mother after finishing the paperback.Farhan Siddiqui, Hyderabad · on The Printer's Daughter
Every door in this house hides a different decade. I read it on a train and missed my station.Rohan Mehta, Pune · on The House of Many Doors
Cloth spine, ribbon marker, lovely paper. Worth the extra.Sneha Kulkarni, Mumbai · on The House of Many Doors
A library inside a banyan tree. My twelve-year-old and I are reading it together and fighting over the bookmark.Aditya Sharma, Delhi · on The Banyan Library
Inspector Meera Rao is the best new detective I have read in years. The bookstalls of College Street are a character.Sourav Ghosh, Kolkata · on Death on College Street
The Pagewise journal
Reading lists, author notes and shop gossip.
Ten books for a long train journey
Bengaluru to Delhi is thirty-four hours. Here is what we would pack, in the order we would read it.
How we check a school list before it ships
Every set is checked twice against the school's own list. This is what that looks like in March.
Meera Iyer on writing in a bookshop
The Printer's Daughter was written at the corner table, under the poetry shelf. We asked her why.
Visit the shop
41 Church Street, Bengaluru.
Two floors, a poetry corner, a children's room with a rug and a counter that will order anything in print. Open every day.
Open daily, 10 am to 9 pm
Church Street, off MG Road, Bengaluru 560001
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