Spend gift cards online with UK and Irish bookshops

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Spend online with award-winning UK and Irish bookshops

Spend online with more than 400 bookshops

Spend at Bookshop.org

Buying books from Bookshop.org financially benefits local bookshops across the UK.

Simply select your local bookshop on the site and then browse the full range of books or view the bookshop's curated lists.

Find a bookshop on Bookshop.org

Spend at Bookshop.org

Buying books from Bookshop.org financially benefits local bookshops across the UK.

Simply select your local bookshop on the site and then browse the full range of books or view the bookshop's curated lists.

Find a bookshop on Bookshop.org

Spend online in the UK

Spend online at Blackwell's, the family-run bookshop which opened in Oxford in 1879 (and is still trading there now!). It has 30 branches across the UK.

Visit blackwells.co.uk

Spend online at Foyles (part of the Waterstones family), known for its expertise and passion for books and now with seven shops in London, Chelmsford, Birmingham and Bristol.

Visit foyles.co.uk

Spend online at Stanfords, established in 1853 by Edward Stanford. The UK's leading retailer of maps and travel books, they also offer general fiction and non-fiction for armchair travellers.

Visit stanfords.co.uk

Spend online in Ireland

Spend online at Dubray Books, one of Ireland's biggest booksellers with a range of 200,000 books.

Visit dubraybooks.ie

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

Visit bookstation.ie

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

Visit omahonys.ie

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

Visit blackwells.co.uk

More indies that accept online

For a specialist or curated range of books online, you can spend at a number of independent bookshops:

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
The Company of Books, Dublin, Ireland (€)
Darling Reads Horbury, West Yorkshire
Drake - The Bookshop Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham
Ebb & Flow Chorley, Lancashire
Edinburgh International Book Festival Scotland
Evangelical Book Shop, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Five Leaves Bookshop Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
High Street Books & Records High Peak, Derbyshire

The Grove Bookshop Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Gutter Bookshop Dublin, Ireland (€)
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
Rossiter Books Ross-on-Wye, Monmouth & Leominster
Storysmith Bristol
Village Books Dulwich, London
The Watermill Aberfeldy, Scotland
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

Browse, collect, or arrange a delivery!

The world has changed, but booklovers still love choosing books. A National Book Tokens gift card doesn't expire for 8 years, so you have loads of time to spend it.

Browse instore or ask your chosen bookshop about using National Book Tokens for collection or delivery. Many indies accept National Book Tokens over the phone, social media, or by email – they just need your gift card number and PIN. You can also use your gift cards for click and collect from your local Waterstones.

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