Waterstones

Waterstones Truro is a two-floor city-centre bookshop at 11 Boscawen Street, with its own Café W on the first floor. Dogs are welcome in both the bookshop and the café, so a book browse and a coffee stop can be shared with a dog along.

The ground floor covers fiction, crime, science fiction, graphic novels, children's books and a Cornish interest section, alongside cards, games, gifts and a large water sports and surfing section. History, biography, travel and academic subjects are upstairs, where Café W serves locally made cakes, organic coffee and loose-leaf teas. An escalator and a lift link the two floors.

The shop runs a long-established monthly reading group, a writing group, a young adult reading group and a craft group, and hosts author events. Regular opening hours are 9am to 5.30pm Monday to Saturday and 10.30am to 4.30pm on Sunday, which makes it a useful indoor stop in central Truro on a wet day.