Verse to Ponder
38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon. 39 Zadok the priest then took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!” 40 All the people went up after him, and the people were playing on flutes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth shook at their noise.
Welcome to Marketplace Books
Now Open Tuesday- Friday 10am – 5pm & Saturday 10am-1pm
We are always open online here, or via email and telephone.
Market Place Books is situated in the centre of Kendal on the edge of the beautiful English Lake District. The shop is on the main road into Kendal, Highgate, and is located just down from the town hall between the Bed Shop and Milne Moser
What can we offer?
Our shelves are stocked with books and educational materials, as well as music, CDs, DVDs, gifts for all occasions and teaching resources. Our principle lines include Christian books, Bibles, devotional guides and study manuals, with many Christian biographies and theological works.
We can also offer Churches the opportunity to run their own bookstalls and will supply books on sale or return which can be renewed, as required, on a regular basis. Ministers & Church leaders can request a ‘Resource Box’ to review a number of books in the comfort of their own study before making a purchase.
We have many tales and stories of ups and downs and surprising Holy Spirit provision of 40+ years of Christian Bookselling. We’d love to come and tell you about at at your church or event.
Featured Books We Recommend

40 Days with Labyrinths by Fay Rowland
From: £12.99
A beautiful and unique devotional, where bible passage, response and prayer are combined with unique labyrinths to trace with pen, pencil or finger. Plus, the author visited the shop recently and she is really nice!
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Flipped by Malcom Duncan
From: £9.99
Spring Harvest kicks off soon but thankfully they don’t keep their reading materials to themselves but publish it for everyone. This year’s book tells us of Jesus radical new way of living, as set out in the Gospel of Matthew. The Upside-Down Kingdom, where the forgotten are noticed, the silent are given a voice and love is stronger than hate…
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Timothy Keller by Collin Hansen
From: £14.99
Best selling author, long time church leader and regular Lake District tourist Tim Keller is always a popular choice on our shelves. Now for the first time a biography seeks to tell us what makes him tick and why he writes, the book was written throughout Keller’s ongoing serious illness.
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I, Julian by Claire Gilbert
From: 18.99
Julian of Norwich is one of the most fascinating medieval mystics of them all, and now a new novel tells her story. Visions, grief, plague and prayer, she experienced it all whilst sealed in a church cell. Now a new author tries to peek inside and tell us what she might have been thinking as she was writing.
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