We love a good read and can relate to the excitement of a new page-turner or the familiar joy of an old favourite. Established by a group of dedicated book lovers, over the past 10 years World of Books has grown our shelves from 1,000 books to over 3 million in stock - so you can browse through hundreds of thousands of titles today.

Our company was founded on an ethos to do good, to help charity shops and to make a positive impact. We are a circular economy, for profit company that supports charities and protects the planet by enabling more goods to be reused.

We appreciate the positive impact a used book has on the environment. We don’t believe that books should only be read once, or have a single owner. By choosing to buy a great value second hand book, you’re helping to continually recycle and share the love of literature in rereading and reusing it. This is why our prices are low and delivery is free - to help millions of used books find new homes in over 190 countries worldwide every year.

World of Books purchases significant volumes of donated books from UK charities, taking the titles they don’t want or haven’t got space for. So as well as preventing the destruction of perfectly good books, our customers are helping to support good causes too – boosting revenues for these charities and saving them waste disposal costs. Our business model has generated over £12m for UK charities in the last 5 years.