Aye-Aye Books is based within
CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow G2 3JD

info@aye-ayebooks.com

+44 141 266 0140

The bookshop opening hours are
Wednesday to Saturday, 12 noon to 6pm  CLOSED 24 DEC TO 9 JAN

In our small shop we have books by and for artists, activists and thinkers, we have poetry and esoteric fiction, books for children and young people dedicated to diversity, lots of magazines and journals, zines, a selection of records, CDs and cassettes.

Our aim is to think about the world we live in, how it works, what powers it, who runs it, and how we might need to respond to that.

To paraphrase Fred Moten, we don’t know if art can change the world, but we do know that without art, without music, without writing and poetry, you will never change anything.

Aye-Aye Books is a member of the Alliance of Radical Bookshops.

We aim to put everything on our website. This might take some time.

bookshop.org

In addition to the shop and this website we have a page on bookshop.org, an online bookselling service that was set up to provide a better alternative to the billionaire-owned site that dominates the market. Part of its aim is to create an eco-system in which independent bookshops can thrive. On our page you will find curated lists of books you can buy directly from the site – many of these are books we’d like to have in the shop but don’t have space for. You can also search for any currently available books and sales will support us.

History

Aye-Aye Books was originally established in 2007 at Glasgow Sculpture Studios which was at the time located in the Briggait on Bridge Street in Glasgow. Aye-Aye then set up a temporary shop in the foyer of CCA for Glasgow International in 2008, and has been here ever since.
For more about how the shop came to be, see this post.

The Aye-Aye logo was drawn by David Mackintosh.