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We're giving away £1,000 of National Book Tokens gift cards this summer!

Bookshops are the best places to find all your summer reading.

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Bookshops: your gateway to the best summer reading.

Whether you're looking for a fun beach read, or are planning on making the most of the longer days to finally read the books you've been eyeing up all year, your local bookshop is the best place to find all your summer reading. 

This summer, we're giving away £1,000 of National Book Tokens to booklovers across the UK and Ireland. 10 lucky winners will each receive a £100/€120 National Book Tokens gift card so they can enjoy the fun of choosing new books (not to mention the pleasure of reading them).  For your chance to win, enter using the form below.

National Book Tokens have inspired booklovers for more than 90 years, empowering readers to choose just the right books for them. National Book Tokens gift cards are accepted in hundreds of bookshops across the UK and Ireland, and online.

Looking for inspiration? Head to your nearest independent bookshop to pick up a copy of Summer Books, a catalogue produced exclusively for indies that's packed full of brilliant book recommendations to keep your TBR pile topped up all summer.  Enjoy some highlights from the catalogue in our list of 25 summer reads to discover in bookshops, over on National Book Tokens Discover.

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Sign up today and we'll enter you to win a £100/€120 National Book Token every month!