Spend gift cards online with UK and Irish bookshops

Plus ask your local bookshop about collection or delivery

Spend online with award-winning UK and Irish bookshops

Spend at 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.

Find a bookshop on Bookshop.org

Spend at 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.

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Spend online in the UK

Spend online at Blackwell's, which opened in Oxford in 1879 and has 16 branches across the UK.

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Spend online at Foyles, known for its expertise and passion for books, with 7 shops in England.

Visit foyles.co.uk

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

Visit hatchards.co.uk

Spend online at Waterstones, the national bookshop chain with more than 280 bookshops.

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Spend online in Ireland

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

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

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

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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
Quokka Bookstore, Kirkaldy, Scotland
Rossiter Books Ross-on-Wye, Monmouth & Leominster
Stanfords London & Bristol
Storysmith Bristol
Tales for Tadpoles, Co. Wicklow, Ireland (€)
Village Books Dulwich, London
The Watermill Aberfeldy, Scotland
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

Browse, collect, or arrange a delivery!

National Book Tokens gift cards do not expire for 8 years after the last time they were used (including checking the gift card balance), 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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