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Get your gift delivered to you or direct to them, with designs for booklovers of all ages.

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Add your own names, words and photos at no extra cost (3-5 days delivery).

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Buy a Bookily gift card

Our innovative new gift card gives booklovers a monthly books budget; perfect for pocket money, budgeting or a special gift that lasts all year long.

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Buy a special edition gift

A special edition gift card for your favourite bibliophile, presented in a luxury magnetic gift box. Load with any value from £50 to £250.

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Buy in bookshops

Buy gift cards in hundreds of bookshops and supermarkets across the UK and Ireland, including independents, Waterstones, WHSmith, and Easons.

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Spend in high street bookshops and online

Spend gift cards in hundreds of bookshops across the UK and Ireland, including independents, Waterstones, WHSmith, Blackwell's, Easons and online.

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The easiest way to check the balance available on your National Book Tokens gift card or e-Gift card. Simply enter your gift card number and PIN.

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A gift beyond words
A gift beyond words

A gift beyond words

National Book Tokens gift cards enable booklovers to choose the books they want from the bookshops they love. When you give a National Book Token, you're not just giving a book, but the joy of discovery. 

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Christmas reading with National Book Tokens
Christmas Reading with National Book Tokens

Discover the best book gifts for 2023

Explore our gift guide, where we recommend the best book gifts available from high street bookshops this autumn and winter. Plus, enter to win one of ten £100/€120 gift cards!

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Competitions and recommendations

Hidden Books Game
Hidden Books Game

20 clues, 20 books. Can you guess them all?

Hidden Books Game is back! Guess all 20 book titles in our virtual bookshop to win a massive £500/€500 National Book Tokens gift card. 

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Competition
Win a gift card

Win a book-shopping spree for Christmas

We're giving away £100/€120 National Book Tokens gift cards to ten lucky bookworms, so they can choose the books they want to read from their favourite bookshops. 

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Competition
Record Tokens

Calling all music lovers!

We're giving away 5 of the year's best music books, a complete care vinyl cleaning kit from Legend Vinyl, and a £100 Record Token to spend in your favourite record shop.

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Reading List
Reading List

13 festive rom-coms to read this winter

If you're looking for a cosy, feel-good, heart-warming romance to buy this Christmas, we've recommended 13 books to pick up with your National Book Tokens.

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