It PAYS to go GREEN!
Imagine if you could earn money and help the environment at the same time… well now you can! Join a growing community of buyers and sellers, where the more unwanted books you buy and sell, the more trees can be saved and planted - we donate 5p from every sale to the Woodland Trust.
Buying books couldn’t be easier, all our books are just £3.75 including free delivery on most items.
Turn the books you’ve read into cash! Earn at least £3.00 for every book sold.
Help us recycle and reuse books and give your paper back!
Intrigued? So how does it all work?
The Christmas Card Recycling Scheme needs your cards! If everyone recycled just one Christmas card this January, the Woodland Trust would be able to plant 15,000 trees. So imagine what the charity could achieve if every Christmas card was recycled with the Trust. Cards can be recycled in participating stores of: WHSmith, Tesco and TKMaxx.
7th January - Winner of the Costa Book Awards Announced!
The Costa Book Awards (formerly Whitbreads) recognise the very best and most outstanding books of the last year by writers based in the UK and Ireland, and books that can be enjoyed by everyone. The winners for 2008 have now been announced, with Sadie Jones’ bestselling debut novel 'The Outcast' scooping the Costa First Novel Award! Other winners included Sebastian Barry for 'The Secret Scripture' and Diana Athill for 'Somewhere Towards the End'
Meet the Author 
- each week you can see a different author introducing one of their books:
This week we're featuring an amazing true story called The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester. The first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was a farmer's son named William Smith. A man who came from nothing, invented a scientific discipline, and then had all his ideas stolen. And despite his wife going mad amazingly there is a happy ending. A wonderful book.
Our books of the day
Going It Alone by Clare Dowling
A hilarious and romantic novel about marriage, motherhood and mid-life crises.Millies biological clock has been ticking for some time, and on the eve of her fortieth birthday the alarm bell starts ringing. She needs to have a baby and fast, but after months of fruitless trying, her husband Andrew is feeling like a walking sperm bank and their marriage is in crisis.
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Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
In 1942, Anne Frank and her family fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next two years, Anne describes in her diary her frustrations at being confined, hungry, bored and the threat of discovery. Her diary ends when they are discovered in 1944.
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Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs
The skeleton is that of a young girl, no more than fourteen years old - and forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is struggling to keep her emotions in check. Coroner Yves Bradette is being evasive, insisting the bones are ancient and of no interest. But it doesn't quite add up, and Tempe is convinced that Bradette is hiding something.
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