Founded in 1993 as Prague’s first English language bookstore, the Globe Bookstore is the city’s premier destination with an eclectic selection of approximately 10,000 hand picked titles from all genres that will offer something to even the most learned reader.
Globe Bookstore
Founded in 1993 as Prague’s first English language bookstore, the Globe Bookstore is the city’s premier destination for booklovers of all ages, tastes and nationalities to come to browse, read and discover.
The Globe proudly offers an eclectic selection of approximately 10,000 quality English language hand-picked titles from all genres that will impress even the most learned reader. New and used books, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, biography, history, philosophy, spirituality, music, and art books are only some of the sections we have on offer.
We also boast the largest collection of English language children’s books in Prague, including many of your childhood favorites and more contemporary bestsellers.
The Globe staff are open, well-read and always friendly and would be happy to help you find a specific title you are looking for or to suggest something special that you may not have heard of. If we don’t have the title that you are looking for, we would be happy to order it specially for you.
We are also proud founders of and hosts to Prague’s first English language book club, the Globe Reading Group/Book Club, which meets every two weeks to discuss and analyze a selection that is chosen by the members. Book club membership is free and open to the public and its members receive special discounts and other promotions. We also have a long running Creative Writing Group to workshop stories and poetry.
Special Events
A Reading and Q&A by Author John Happ – The Navigation Case
We are delighted to welcome John Happ to The Globe on October 24th 2024 for a reading and Q&A on his widely acclaimed novel “The Navigation Case”
John Happ travels the world commercially for footwear and apparel companies. He speaks five languages and has lived overseas for extended periods of time in Belgium, Spain, Germany and Switzerland. John spent a year at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid before graduating from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was named an Honorary Maine Ambassador by then-Governor (now U.S. Senator) Angus King, promoting Maine businesses in such wide-ranging places as London, Guatemala, Tokyo, Shanghai and Manila. John has many published articles and has been sought out for interviews on a variety of subjects ranging from leather tanning (Spain) to politics in Japan (ABC Television) and trade promotion in Shanghai (Radio Shanghai).
John lived 18 years under his father’s roof and never knew he was a combat pilot in WWII.
The discovery of his father’s air force navigation case led to years-long research and writing trying to understand the documents and photographs found inside. What was his father, or any American, doing in New Guinea, of all places? The answers too that question became the widely acclaimed novel, “The Navigation Case”.
