Anything Left-Handed
57 Brewer St, W1 tel 020/7437 3910; www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk. Tube: Piccadilly Circus.

The place to go for left-handed tools, implements and gifts.

Davenport's Magic Shop
7 Charing Cross Tube Arcade, Strand WC2 tel 020/7836 0408. Tube: Charing Cross or Embankment.

The world's oldest family-run magic business, stocking marvellous tricks for both amateurs and professionals.

Flying Duck Enterprises
320-322 Creek Rd, SE10 tel 020/8858 1964. Tube: Greenwich or train, or Cutty Sark DLR.

Kitsch aplenty, whether you're after tacky 1970s board games, Elvis soap or a 1950s polka-dotted dinner service.

Neal Street East
5 Neal St, WC2 tel 020/7240 0135. Tube: Covent Garden.

Beautiful crafts, jewellery, books, clothes, puppets and knick-knacks from a loosely defined Orient.

Radio Days
87 Lower Marsh, SE1 tel 020/7928 0800. Tube: Waterloo.

A fantastic collection of memorabilia and accessories from the 1930s to the 1970s, including shoes, shot glasses, cosmetics and vintage magazines, plus a huge stock of well-kept ladies' and menswear from the same period