The Book People are one of the nations largest (and fast becoming the nation's favourite) supplier of top quality books. There's no obligation to buy, our prices are unbeatable and our service is second to none!
Here at the Book People, our main aim is to make top quality books affordable for everyone. We don't stock thousands of titles, instead we carefully select every title we sell in order to bring you the very best in British Publishing. We are then able to offer you every one of these hand-picked titles at simply unbelievable prices.
Savings are at least 50% off the publishers recommended price and often more than 75% off!
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How do we do it?
So how can we afford to offer you such great savings? It’s simple. Every title we offer is purchased by us in huge quantities. We sell our books directly to the customer, with no retail sites, no middle men and therefore lower overheads.
Why choose the Book People?
What sets us apart from other companies offering such great savings is that we are not a book club. There is no obligation to buy further products from us – you only order what you want, when you want. So whether you'd like just one book from us for the next ten years or ten books in a single year, we'd love to welcome you to shop with us.
About the Book People
The company was started in 1988 and has been growing rapidly ever since. We would be nothing without our customers of course and are constantly trying to improve our services.
Our latest investment is the state of the art warehouse in Bangor, capable of processing more of our mail order and internet customer's orders than ever before. With business increasing every year, we're determined to continue to dispatch our orders quickly and efficiently for the years to come
We've also put a lot of effort into giving our online customers a website which provides all the functionality they would expect when shopping online. With more and more people gaining confidence in ordering over the internet and enjoying the ease and convenience, shopping online has never been so popular...
Award Winning Service and Value
The Book People is incredibly proud to hold two Bookseller Retail Awards 2007. Find out more
Our Customer Services team
We pride ourselves on taking our customer services commitments very seriously. So, whether you’ve placed your order by post, telephone or online, we will do our very best to ensure that you are completely satisfied with your order.
Four ways to shop
Not every customer likes to order in the same way, which is why we offer various different ways for you to buy our books:
The Website
Designed to make buying your books online as easy and enjoyable as possible, as well as fully secure for your peace of mind. The Book People Online gives you the convenience of placing your order at home or at work, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Mail Order
Our mail order service produces a brand new catalogue of great titles each and every month. You can either subscribe via our website or phone 0845 602 40 40 to receive the catalogue packed full of exciting books for all ages.
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Distributor Network
For the past 19 years the Book People have supplied the UK's leading network of independent book distributors, who visit thousands of individual places of work each week.
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Book Events
Book Events is our specially tailored service for a select group of larger employers. They give your staff the opportunity to enjoy incredible savings on a superb range of top quality new books.
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