Gift Books

All books are beautiful… but some are really beautiful. Whether you’re looking for the perfect present or want to treat yourself to a deluxe edition of a classic book, take a look through our recommended gift books: collectable and special editions, gorgeous production, little treasures and more.

Bestselling Gift Books

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Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
£30.00
Cats of Japan
Jocelyn Boquillard
£18.99
Back to the Local
Maurice Gorham
£10.00
London, Block by Block
Cierra Block
£12.99
The Hacienda: Threads
Rebecca Hook
£40.00
The Poetry Pharmacy
William Sieghart
£14.99
Reading Lessons
Carol Atherton
£18.99
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
£9.99
The Flavour Thesaurus
Niki Segnit
£20.00
Shakespeare's First Folio: All The Plays
William Shakespeare
£30.00
The Cat Who Couldn't Be Bothered
Jack Kurland
£7.99
The Greek and Roman Myths
Philip Matyszak
£14.99
Wild Service
Nick Hayes
£20.00
Kokoro
Beth Kempton
£16.99
Taylor Swift
Tracey Emin Paintings
David Dawson
£79.95
The Book-Makers
Adam Smyth
£25.00
The Art of My Neighbor Totoro
Hayao Miyazaki
£27.99
Cloudspotting For Beginners
Gavin Pretor-Pinney
£20.00
Mind Games
John Lennon
£45.00

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Signed Editions

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The Position of Spoons
Deborah Levy
£20.00
The Proof of My Innocence
Jonathan Coe
£20.00
A Short History of the Apocalypse
Frankie Boyle
£22.00
The Party
Tessa Hadley
£12.99
Boy From the Valleys
Luke Evans
£22.00
Three Wise Men
Carol Ann Duffy
£12.99
Marcus’s France
Marcus Wareing
£26.00
The Wood at Midwinter
Susanna Clarke
£9.99
Leading From The Back
Steph Houghton
£25.00
Meetings With Remarkable Animals
Martin Clunes
£22.00
Last Boy of ’66
Sir Geoff Hurst
£22.00
Our Evenings
Alan Hollinghurst
£22.00
The Genetic Book of the Dead
Richard Dawkins
£25.00
Barrowbeck
Andrew Michael Hurley
£16.99
The Money-Saving Garden Year
Anya Lautenbach
£16.99
The Blue Hour
Paula Hawkins
£22.00
Believe
Oleksandr Zinchenko
£22.00
Unleashed
Boris Johnson
£30.00
Where to Hide a Star
Oliver Jeffers
£14.99
The World to Come
Robert Macfarlane
£12.99

There's been a Murdle

  • Murdle
    Murdle
    G. T. Karber
    £14.99
    Prepare to become utterly obsessed with these addictive logic puzzles with a murder mystery spin, as you join Deductive ... See more
    Prepare to become utterly obsessed with these addictive logic puzzles with a murder mystery spin, as you join Deductive Logico for one hundred brain-bending whodunits. See more
  • Murdle: More Killer Puzzles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES
    Murdle: More Killer Puzzles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES
    G. T. Karber
    £14.99
    As a great treat for all Murdle fans, G.T Karber delivers another hundred superb logic puzzles, this time with cases of ... See more
    As a great treat for all Murdle fans, G.T Karber delivers another hundred superb logic puzzles, this time with cases of especially foul quality. See more
  • Murdle: Even More Killer Puzzles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES
    Murdle: Even More Killer Puzzles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES
    G. T. Karber
    £14.99
    Brimming with terrifically cunning cases, this thrilling instalment of the hugely popular Murdle will put all amateur sl... See more
    Brimming with terrifically cunning cases, this thrilling instalment of the hugely popular Murdle will put all amateur sleuths' deductive powers to a veritable test. See more
  • Murdle: The School of Mystery
    Murdle: The School of Mystery
    G. T. Karber
    £10.99
    Return to the beginning of Deductive Logico's illustrious crimesolving career with these fifty fiendish murder mystery p... See more
    Return to the beginning of Deductive Logico's illustrious crimesolving career with these fifty fiendish murder mystery puzzles set during his studies at Deduction College. See more

Clothbound Classics

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The Outsider
Albert Camus
£14.99
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
£16.99
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
£16.99
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
£16.99
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
£16.99
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Sir John Tenniel
£16.99
Dracula
Bram Stoker
£16.99
The Little Prince
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
£16.99£14.99
The Odyssey
Homer
£16.99
Emma
Jane Austen
£16.99
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
£16.99
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
£18.99£16.99
Ulysses
James Joyce
£25.00
Persuasion
Jane Austen
£16.99£14.99
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
£24.00£18.99
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
£16.99£14.99
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
£16.99
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
£16.99£14.99
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
£20.00£17.99

Little Clothbounds

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The Queen Of Spades
The Prophet
Passing
Of Ghosts and Goblins
Metamorphosis
The Masque of the Red Death
The Lottery
Lolly Willowes
Lady Susan
Hell Screen
Cosmicomics
The Ballad of the Sad Café
Street Haunting
The Star-Child
Snow Country
Reginald's Christmas Revel
The Nutcracker
Ice
The Gift of the Magi
The Cossacks

Beautiful Gift Edition Fiction

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The Vegetarian
Han Kang
£16.99
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
£25.00
The Poppy War Collector’s Edition
R.F. Kuang
£30.00
Butter
Asako Yuzuki
£20.00
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
£20.00
House Of Leaves
Mark Z Danielewski
£40.00
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
£20.00
Carrie
Stephen King
£20.00
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
£22.00
It Ends With Us
Colleen Hoover
£20.00
Fire and Blood Collector’s Edition
George R.R. Martin
£30.00
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
£12.99
One Day
David Nicholls
£25.00
The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks
£16.99
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
£20.00
Call Me By Your Name
Andre Aciman
£14.99
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
£100.00
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
£14.99
H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness Deluxe Edition
Gou Tanabe
£44.99
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
£25.00

Small is beautiful

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The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care
Maybell Eequay
£8.99
What Writers Read
Pandora Sykes
£12.99
Cat Poems
Elizabeth Bishop
£9.99
Banned Books
DK
£12.99
Classic Dog Stories
Ned Halley
£10.99
Marvel Meow
Nao Fuji
£10.99
The Japanese Myths
Joshua Frydman
£14.99
Pocket Nature: Cloud-Spotting
Casey Schreiner
£9.99
The Little Book of House Plants and Other Greenery
Emma Sibley
£12.99
Little Book of Hermès
Karen Homer
£13.99
The Trespasser's Companion
Nick Hayes
£14.99
Pocket Nature: Leaf-Peeping
Erin Riley
£9.99
Hugh Johnson Pocket Wine 2024
Hugh Johnson
£14.99
How to Fish
Christopher Yates
£14.99
Garden Stories
Diana Secker-Tesdell
£12.99
The Philosophy of Tea
Tony Gebely
£10.00
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
£12.99
Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists
Henry Eliot
£12.99
The Joy of Walking
Suzy Cripps
£10.99
Tika the Iggy
Thomas Shapiro
£12.99

Poetry Pharmacy

  • The Poetry Pharmacy Forever
    The Poetry Pharmacy Forever
    William Sieghart
    £14.99
    Drawing on lockdown correspondence with the public and his own specialist advice, this final volume in the bestselling P... See more
    Drawing on lockdown correspondence with the public and his own specialist advice, this final volume in the bestselling Poetry Pharmacy series contains more soothing lyrical balm for the most... See more
  • The Poetry Pharmacy
    The Poetry Pharmacy
    William Sieghart
    £14.99
    Universal, inspirational, delightful: William Sieghart’s The Poetry Pharmacy is less a collection of verse than a compan... See more
    Universal, inspirational, delightful: William Sieghart’s The Poetry Pharmacy is less a collection of verse than a companion for life. There are words here for everyone, for every moment in o... See more
  • The Poetry Pharmacy Returns
    The Poetry Pharmacy Returns
    William Sieghart
    £14.99
    The founder of National Poetry Day is back, dispensing poetic prescriptions with aplomb in this inspiring new collection... See more
    The founder of National Poetry Day is back, dispensing poetic prescriptions with aplomb in this inspiring new collection of verse. With over fifty ‘conditions’ addressed and numerous suggest... See more

Super Deluxe

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Hallyu!
Rosalie Kim
£30.00
Apollo Remastered
Andy Saunders
£60.00
Great Women Artists
Phaidon Editors
£49.95
Videogame Atlas
Luke Caspar Pearson
£40.00
Science Fiction
Glyn Morgan
£30.00
Liberty: The History
Marie-Therese Rieber
£25.00
Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939–1954 – A Times Best Art Book of 2022
David Dawson
£65.00
Magnum Streetwise
Stephen McLaren
£30.00
1000 Design Classics
Phaidon Editors
£69.95
Vogue: The Covers (updated edition)
Dodie Kazanjian
£50.00
Japanese Interiors
Mihoko Iida
£59.95
Bowie at 75
Martin Popoff
£60.00
Inside
Phaidon Editors
£39.95
The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars – A Times Best Art Book of 2022
Frances Spalding
£35.00
Another Country
Gerry Badger
£50.00
The Lyrics
Paul McCartney
£75.00
Great Women Painters
Phaidon Editors
£49.95
Africa Fashion
Christine Checinska
£30.00
The Fashion Book
Jane Ace
£39.95
Living by the Ocean
Phaidon Editors
£29.95

Art, Design & Fashion

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Candy, Andy & The Bearandas
Alan Dein
£15.00
Yevonde
Clare Freestone
£40.00
An Atlas of Es Devlin
Es Devlin
£85.00
Art Is Magic
Jeremy Deller
£30.00
Museum Bums
Jack Shoulder
£14.99
Taylor Swift
Terry Newman
£22.00
Bring No Clothes
Charlie Porter
£20.00
Internet_Art
Omar Kholeif
£29.95
60 Remarkable Buildings of the National Trust
Elizabeth Green
£10.00
The Little Book of London Style
Karen Homer
£12.99
Art Against Despair
The School of Life
£22.00
About Architecture
Hugh Pearman
£30.00
The Art of Drag
Jake Hall
£20.00
The Style Thesaurus
Hannah Kane
£30.00
Style and Substance
Bay Garnett
£20.00
A Handheld History
Lost in Cult
£35.00
FuturLiberty
Ester Coen
£45.00
Upgrade
Silke Langenberg
£44.00
The Story of Art without Men
Katy Hessel
£30.00
Tiny Tattoos
Rebecca Vincent
£15.99

Film, TV & Music

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Behind the Seams
Dolly Parton
£39.99
LL COOL J Presents The Streets Win
LL Cool J
£42.50
Doctor Who: Whotopia
Jonathan Morris
£35.00
The Queer Film Guide
Kyle Turner
£16.99
GHOSTS: The Button House Archives
Mat Baynton
£20.00
Marr's Guitars
Johnny Marr
£45.00
Archive
Sofia Coppola
£55.00
1964: Eyes of the Storm
Paul McCartney
£60.00
Curepedia
Simon Price
£35.00
Listen
Michel Faber
£20.00
Paused in Cosmic Reflection
The Chemical Brothers
£30.00
Amy Winehouse – In Her Words
Amy Winehouse
£30.00
Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki
£44.00
Studio Ghibli: 100 Collectiblepostcards
Studio Ghibli
£21.99
Official ABBA Photobook
ABBA
£30.00
Beyond the Story
BTS
£40.00
Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine
Mark Davidson
£80.00
David Bowie Mixing Memory & Desire
Kevin Cummins
£35.00
Marvel Studios The Marvel Cinematic Universe An Official Timeline
Anthony Breznican
£35.00
Bowie at the BBC
David Bowie
£25.00

Edward Brooke-Hitching

  • Love; A Curious History
    Love; A Curious History
    Edward Brooke-Hitching
    £30.00
    From the French pirate queen avenging her murdered husband to the love spells found in medieval manuscripts, the author ... See more
    From the French pirate queen avenging her murdered husband to the love spells found in medieval manuscripts, the author of The Madman's Library delivers another spellbinding work of narrativ... See more
  • The Madman's Library
    The Madman's Library
    Edward Brooke-Hitching
    £25.00
    Truly irresistible for all bibliophiles, this gorgeously realised work details the strangest books in history, from a Qu... See more
    Truly irresistible for all bibliophiles, this gorgeously realised work details the strangest books in history, from a Qu’ran written in blood to volumes worn into battle. See more
  • The Madman's Gallery
    The Madman's Gallery
    Edward Brooke-Hitching
    £30.00
    Enter The Madman's Gallery - the perfect gift book for any art lover. Discover an eccentric exploration through the curi... See more
    Enter The Madman's Gallery - the perfect gift book for any art lover. Discover an eccentric exploration through the curious history of art, to find the strangest paintings, sculptures, drawi... See more
  • The Phantom Atlas
    The Phantom Atlas
    Edward Brooke-Hitching
    £25.00
    The astonishing story of the maps and atlases throughout history that got it completely wrong See more
    The astonishing story of the maps and atlases throughout history that got it completely wrong See more
  • The Sky Atlas
    The Sky Atlas
    Edward Brooke-Hitching
    £25.00
    A visual history of how mankind has studied the sky throughout history, featuring some of the most stunning images ever ... See more
    A visual history of how mankind has studied the sky throughout history, featuring some of the most stunning images ever created.  See more
  • The Devil's Atlas
    The Devil's Atlas
    Edward Brooke-Hitching
    £25.00
    The author of The Madman's Library presents a consistently surprising, immersive and visually stunning atlas of the worl... See more
    The author of The Madman's Library presents a consistently surprising, immersive and visually stunning atlas of the worlds of gods, monsters, myth and the afterlife from different cultures t... See more
  • The Golden Atlas
    The Golden Atlas
    Edward Brooke-Hitching
    £25.00
    A spectacular visual history of exploration and cartography, stunningly illustrated throughout with some of the most bea... See more
    A spectacular visual history of exploration and cartography, stunningly illustrated throughout with some of the most beautiful maps ever created See more

Science & Nature

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Entangled Life (The Illustrated Edition)
Merlin Sheldrake
£30.00
Treasures of the Natural History Museum
White Holes
Carlo Rovelli
£14.99
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Hana Videen
£15.99
The Sky at Night: The Art of Stargazing
Weird Walk
Weird Walk
£19.99
Apollo Remastered
Andy Saunders
£60.00
The Sexual Life of Flowers
Simon Klein
£25.00
Weather Almanac 2024
Storm Dunlop
£9.99
The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals
Rosamund Young
£14.99
Planet Earth III
Matt Brandon
£30.00
Dinosaurs
Dean Lomax
£10.99
The Hidden Universe
Alexandre Antonelli
£16.99
The Almanac
Lia Leendertz
£12.99
The Gardening Book
Monty Don
£30.00
Nature's Calendar
Kiera Chapman
£14.99
The Book of Wilding
Isabella Tree
£35.00

Food & Drink

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The Dinner Table
Kate Young
£25.00
The Complete Bordeaux Vintage Guide
Neal Martin
£35.00
Rintaro
Brutto
Russell Norman
£32.00
The Cheese Wheel
Emma Young
£14.99
Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery
Madhur Jaffrey
£20.00
Harry Potter: Official Christmas Cookbook
Elena P. Craig
£26.00£25.00
Roast Figs, Sugar Snow
Diana Henry
£22.00
The Secret of Cooking
Bee Wilson
£30.00
Bitter
Alexina Anatole
£27.00
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Samin Nosrat
£36.00
Made in Bangladesh
Dina Begum
£28.00
Mamushka
Olia Hercules
£26.00
Dishoom
Shamil Thakrar
£27.00
How to Make Coffee
Lani Kingston
£10.99
Vegan JapanEasy
Tim Anderson
£25.00
Coconut & Sambal
Lara Lee
£26.00
MEZCLA
Ixta Belfrage
£28.00
La Vita è Dolce
Letitia Clark
£28.00

Bookish Gifts

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Jane Austen Library Two Wick Candle Tin
 
£9.99
Romeow And Juliet Ceramic Mug
 
£12.99
Agatha Christie Death on the Cards Card Game
 
£14.99
Books Tote Bag
 
£19.99
Bodleian Library: High Jinks Bookshelves (Foiled Journal)
Flame Tree
£10.99
The World of Jane Austen 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle
 
£16.99
The World of Shakespeare
Adam Simpson
£16.99
Jane Austen Playing Cards
John Mullan
£12.99
Pride And Purrjudice Ceramic Mug
 
£12.99
William Shakespeare Library Two Wick Candle Tin
 
£9.99
Matchmaking: The Jane Austen Memory Game
John Mullan
£14.99
Jane-a-Day
Potter Gift
£14.99
Ready Set Novel! A Workbook
Tavia Stewart-Streit
£16.99
The Shakespeare Game
Adam Simpson
£25.00
Pride And Purrjudice Cloth Bag
 
£14.99
Bodleian Libraries Set of 3 Mini Notebooks
Flame Tree Studio
£5.99
The Great Catsby Cloth Bag
 
£14.99
Romeow And Juliet Cloth Bag
 
£14.99
The World of Agatha Christie 1000 Piece Jigsaw
Agatha Christie Ltd
£16.99
Library Book Pouch
 
£14.99

Keepsakes for Kids

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National Trust: Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year (Poetry Collections)
Britta Teckentrup
£25.00
His Dark Materials Wormell slipcase
Philip Pullman
£26.97
Winnie-the-Pooh: The Complete Collection of Stories and Poems
A. A. Milne
£40.00
The Tintin Collection
Herge
£135.92
The Complete Alice
Lewis Carroll
£30.00
The Chronicles of Narnia box set
C.S. Lewis
£105.00
Thomas the Tank Engine: Complete Collection
The Complete Adventures of Paddington
Michael Bond
£40.00
Charlotte's Web
E. B. White
£14.99
Winnie-the-Pooh Classic Collection
A. A. Milne
£35.00
Joyful, Joyful
Dapo Adeola
£20.00
The World of Peter Rabbit 1-12 Gift Box
Beatrix Potter
£75.00
Disney: 365 Stories
Walt Disney
£24.99
Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales
Beatrix Potter
£45.00
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Interactive (MinaLima Edition)
L. Frank Baum
£25.00
Fantastically Great Women Boxed Set
Kate Pankhurst
£24.00
A Poem for Every Night of the Year
Allie Esiri
£19.99
Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (Children’s Hardback)
J. K. Rowling
£140.00
Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls from the Greek Myths
Rosie Dickins
£12.99
The Roald Dahl Centenary Boxed Set
Roald Dahl
£100.00

Children's Classics

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Michael Morpurgo’s Tales from Shakespeare
Michael Morpurgo
£20.00
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£14.99
The Little Prince
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
£9.99
Watership Down: The Graphic Novel
James Sturm
£25.00
The Snow Queen
Tales of the Greek Heroes
Roger Lancelyn Green
£14.99
The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
£14.99
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
£14.99
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
Beauty and the Beast (Disney Animated Classics)
Sally Morgan
£14.99
Peter Pan
J M Barrie
£14.99
Treasure Island
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
£13.99
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
£9.99
The Iron Man
Ted Hughes
£20.00
Alice in Wonderland (Disney Animated Classics)
Sally Morgan
£14.99
Anne of Green Gables (Seasons Edition -- Fall)
L. M. Montgomery
£18.99
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Disney Animated Classics)
Lily Murray
£14.99
Emma
Jane Austen
£8.99

Beautiful Children's Gifts

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A Whale of a Time
Lou Peacock
£25.00
Where Magic Grows
Onjali Q Rauf
£20.00
Moomin Mail
Amanda Li
£14.99
Winnie-the-Pooh at the Palace
Jeanne Willis
£12.99
There are Mammals Everywhere
Full of Life
Isabel Thomas
£17.95
Big Ideas for Curious Minds
The School of Life
£20.00
The Last Stardog
E.K. Mosley
£15.99
Britannica All New Children's Encyclopedia
Christopher Lloyd
£27.00
Baboo the Unusual Bee
Lliana Bird
£12.99
Black Artists Shaping the World
Sharna Jackson
£14.99
The Squirrel and the Lost Treasure
The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories
Various
£20.00
Fairy Tale Land
Kate Davies
£20.00
Evolution
Sarah Darwin
£16.99