Express Book Service

A Camp bookshop from the days when Pune was Poona: local accounts put the trade back to the 1940s, with the present East Street premises dated to the early 1960s. Its guestbook of browsers includes Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel, and the service is still the old-school kind, where someone walks you to the shelf. The stock is broad general-interest rather than specialist. After Manney's closed, this is one of the last survivors of Camp's colonial bookshop row - easy to fold into an East Street walk with Kayani Bakery.

Camp's surviving colonial-era bookshop, where Nehru once browsed