the wapping project is a humming, clinking, mesmerising space. directed by the inimitable Jules Wright, the project surpasses even the highest expectations. Jules oversees each and every aspect of the space and has transformed the historic mossy walls into one of London’s most innovative and exciting places. www.thewappingproject.com

the bookshop is the newest addition to the project and opened in the autumn of 2008. set in a tiny greenhouse surrounded by bamboo and clovers it is full of wonderful titles from limited edition art and design books to children’s tales, cookery books and a collection of contemporary magazines, all displayed in metal cages. in wintertime an antique wood-burning stove warms the shop’s park bench while come spring the bookshop spills out into the tumbledown garden allowing customers to read their newspapers while settled in the sun.