Spend online with bookshops in the UK
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'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.
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.
Spend online at Foyles, known for its selection, expertise and passion for books, with seven shops in England.
Spend online at Hatchard's, London’s oldest bookshop, established in 1797 by John Hatchard.
Spend online at Waterstones, the national bookshop chain with more than 300 bookshops.
Spend online with bookshops in Ireland
Spend online at Bookstation, a leading Irish bookshop with 19 stores that has operated since 1985.
Spend online at O'Mahony's, a family business founded in 1902 in Limerick by J.P. O'Mahony.
Spend online at Blackwell's, which accepts Euros and features thousands of books.
Spend on audiobooks at xigxag in the UK and Ireland
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™
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