Spend online with bookshops in the UK

Bookshop.org

Buying books from Bookshop.org financially benefits independent bookshops across the UK. Simply select your local bookshop and view their curated book lists or browse the website's full range.

LoveReading

LoveReading's online bookstores donate 25% of each book's cover price to a school of your choice, for the school to spend on books. Even if you don't nominate a school, 10% of your spend is donated to schools in need.

Blackwell's

Spend online at Blackwell's, the largest specialist academic bookseller in the country, which opened in Oxford in 1879 and has 14 branches across the UK.

Foyles

Spend online at Foyles, known for its selection, expertise and passion for books, with seven shops in England.

Hatchard's

Spend online at Hatchard's, London’s oldest bookshop, established in 1797 by John Hatchard.

Waterstones

Spend online at Waterstones, the national bookshop chain with more than 300 bookshops.

Spend online with bookshops in Ireland

Bookstation

Spend online at Bookstation, a leading Irish bookshop with 19 stores that has operated since 1985.

O'Mahony's

Spend online at O'Mahony's, a family business founded in 1902 in Limerick by J.P. O'Mahony.

Blackwell's

Spend online at Blackwell's, which accepts Euros and features thousands of books.

Spend on audiobooks at xigxag in the UK and Ireland

Bookshop.org

xigxag is an innovative mobile audiobook app, offering audiobooks without a subscription and exclusive access to the listen-and-read x-book® (audiobook and ebook combined). They're an independent business based in Cornwall and London, and a Certified B Corp™

Independent bookshop

Spend online with independent bookshops across the UK and Ireland

Ask your local indie about using National Book Tokens for collection or delivery. Many accept National Book Tokens over the phone, social media, or by email – they just need your gift card number and PIN. You can also spend your National Book Token at the brilliant independent bookshops below.

UK independents

Bag of Books – Lewes, East Sussex (children's)

Bert's Books – Swindon, Wiltshire

Bookbugs and Dragon Tales – Norwich, Norfolk (children's)

Book-ish – Crickhowell, Wales

Bookseller Crow on the Hill – Crystal Palace, London

Bookwagon – Watford, Hertfordshire (children's)

Brick Lane Bookshop – Tower Hamlets, London

The Celtic House – Isle of Islay, Scotland

Chapter One Loftus – North Yorkshire

Darling Reads – Horbury, West Yorkshire

Drake - The Bookshop – Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham

Ebb & Flow – Chorley, Lancashire

Evangelical Book Shop – Belfast, Northern Ireland

Five Leaves Bookshop – Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

High Street Books & Records – High Peak, Derbyshire

The Grove Bookshop – Ilkley, West Yorkshire

Gwisgo Bookworm – Aberaeron, Wales

John Carpenter Bookshop – Queenhithe, London

Madhatter Bookshop – Wantage, Oxfordshire

Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights – Bath, Somerset

Mostly Books – Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Nickel Books – Sittingbourne, Kent (children's)

Outwith Books – Glasgow, Scotland

Padstow Bookseller – Padstow, Cornwall

Pages of Hackney – Hackney, London

Picaresque Books – Dingwall, Scotland

The Portobello Bookshop – Edinburgh, Scotland

Quokka Bookstore – Kirkaldy, Scotland

Rossiter Books – Ross-on-Wye, Monmouth & Leominster

Stanfords – London & Bristol

Storysmith – Bristol

Village Books – Dulwich, London

The Watermill – Aberfeldy, Scotland

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop – Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

Irish independents

The Company of Books – Dublin, Ireland

Gutter Bookshop – Dublin, Ireland

Tales for Tadpoles – Co. Wicklow, Ireland

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