About Us

Books. Vinyl. Strange things worth finding.

Nightshade Books & Vinyl is an independent shop built around two things we love: good books and great records.

We're interested in the things that make you stop scrolling, pick something up and think, I've never seen this before.

From well-loved paperbacks and beautifully strange books to records you haven't heard in years, or haven't heard at all, Nightshade is about finding things with a bit of character.

Books for the curious

Our shelves lean towards the unusual.

You'll find fiction, horror, gothic literature, cult classics, strange stories, forgotten gems and books that are difficult to put neatly into a category.

Some will be familiar favourites. Others might be the book you didn't know you were looking for.

We're particularly fond of the darker, stranger and more atmospheric corners of literature, but there's plenty beyond them too.

Records worth playing

We're equally obsessed with vinyl.

Our collection spans genres and decades, with a particular love for records that have something about them. The classics, the oddities, the albums that deserve another listen and the ones that somehow ended up in your collection despite you having absolutely no idea where they came from.

Whether you're building your first collection, replacing an old favourite or just looking for something new to put on the turntable, there's always something worth digging through.

An independent shop

Nightshade is an independent business based in Ireland. We're a husband and wife team and everything you see on the store or in the shop has been carefully curated by us.

We were in the corporate world for 10 years and decided that we both needed a change of pace, a more relaxed lifestyle and opening a business seems so contrary to that! But this is something we're passionate about and enjoy.

We're building the shop ourselves, from the website and stock selection to the packaging that gets your order safely to your door.

We're not trying to be everything to everyone. That's important to us.

We'd rather have a smaller collection of interesting things than a warehouse full of things nobody particularly cares about. Plus our warehouse is currently our home. Where we live. Can you imagine the boxes?

And if you have a book, record or odd little treasure in mind that you can't find on the site, get in touch. We're always happy to hear what people are looking for and we work with great distributors so we may be able to get that gem for you.