Books > greetings cards
A collection of books that cost little more than a greetings card, and can be sent in envelope. Small books, big authors, powerful ideas, and a very handy blank inside-front-cover on which to write your meaningful message.*
*Or, just ‘Saw this and thought of you.’
House Arrest
Alan Bennett
Reflections on Covid and confinement from the unparalleled pen of Alan Bennett
Recovery
Gavin Francis
A short, uplifting account of hope and healing by the author of Adventures in Human Being
Warning
Jenny Joseph
Twice-voted poem of the year, Warning is an uplifting poem about growing older.
The Uncommon Reader
Alan Bennett
What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story.
I Like You
Sandol Stoddard Warburg
A tiny book with a big heart – a favourite gift for weddings, best friends and Valentines
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
Shaun Bythell
Shaun Bythell, Scotland's grumpiest bookseller, is back, with seven witty and affectionate portraits of bookshop regulars
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Elif Shafak
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better
Women & Power
Mary Beard
Number One Sunday Times BestsellerThe gender agenda revisited by Britain's best-known classicist, Mary Beard
Queenie
Alice Munro
An unforgettable masterpiece from the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Lady in the Van
Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett is the author of Writing Home, The Madness of George III, Talking Heads, The Clothes They Stood Up In and much else besides. Miss Shepher…