pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone

Email: Subscribe to news & offers:

Need assistance?

Welcome to pickabook your independent bookshop!

We are an independent book supplier to schools and colleges serving libraries, finance offices, and individual departments. We supply any UK book in print and can process your books including plastic jackets, laminating and Accelerated Reader labelling. Education orders are invoiced and we offer a range of other benefits to our customers, please do get in touch for more information.

"Wisest is she who knows she does not know.” Jostein Gaarder

36% Off Oxford Best Sellers

To the Edge of the World

By: Julia Green

A beautifully written tale of courage, friendship, and survival. Jamie had thought that if he could just reach the boat then he could convince Mara to stay, but now he was onboard and along for the ride. There was no going back, they were in this together - sailing to the islands at the edge of the world.

36% off

In Stock: 229

List Price: £6.99
Our Price: £4.47

Cambridge English Lit Promotion

Romeo and Juliet

By: William Shakespeare, Robert Smith (Editor), Rex Gibson (Edit...

17.5% off

In Stock: 498
List Price: £7.25
Our Price: £5.98

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design.

Oxford Textbook Promotion

Oxford Playscripts: Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley

16% off

In Stock: 382
List Price: £10.99
Our Price: £9.23

Presents the famous story of a young man who thinks he can change the world by making better human beings. Instead he creates a living monster with a mind of its own. This book contains activities designed to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English and help students to meet the Framework objectives.

New Title

Imagine

35% off

In Stock: 184
List Price: £35.00
Our Price: £22.75

Personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono, Imagine John Yoko is the definitive inside story - told in revelatory detail - of the making of the legendary album and all that surrounded it: the locations, the creative team, the artworks and the films, in the words of John & Yoko and the people who were there. Features 80% exclusive, hitherto-unpublished archive photos and footage sequences of all the key players in situ, together with lyric sheets, Yoko's art installations, and exclusive new insights and personal testimonies from Yoko and over forty of the musicians, engineers, staff, celebrities, artists and photographers who were there - including Julian Lennon, Klaus Voormann, Alan White, Jim Keltner, David Bailey, Dick Cavett and Sir Michael Parkinson. `A lot has been written about the creation of the song, the album and the film of Imagine, mainly by people who weren't there, so I'm very pleased and grateful that now, for the first time, so many of the participants have kindly given their time to "gimme some truth" in their own words and pictures' Yoko Ono Lennon, 2018 In 1971, John Lennon & Yoko Ono conceived and recorded the critically acclaimed album Imagine at their Georgian country home, Tittenhurst Park, in Berkshire, England, in the state-of-the-art studio they built in the grounds, and at the Record Plant in New York.

Up to 35% off New Titles

The Meltdown Diary of a Wimpy Kid

By: Jeff Kinney

35% off

In Stock: 1000
List Price: £12.99
Our Price: £8.44

The 13th hilarious book in Jeff Kinney's bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. When snow shuts down Greg Heffley's middle school, his neighbourhood transforms into a wintry battlefield. Rival groups fight over territory, build massive snow forts, and stage epic snowball fights. And in the crosshairs are Greg and his trusty best friend, Rowley Jefferson. It's a fight for survival as Greg and Rowley navigate alliances, betrayals, and warring gangs in a neighbourhood meltdown. When the snow clears, will Greg and Rowley emerge as heroes? Or will they even survive to see another day?With millions of books sold around the world in 65 editions and 56 languages, Wimpy Kid has turned millions of kids into readers.

Concorde Award Shorlisted

Explorer

By: Katherine Rundell

35% off

In Stock: 789
List Price: £7.99
Our Price: £5.19

Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award, Winner of the London Book Fair Children's Travel Book of the Year From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him. As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a choice. He and the three other children may be alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed place. With no hope of rescue, the chance of getting home feels impossibly small. Except, it seems, someone has been there before them

Up to 35% off Promotional Titles

Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

35% off

In Stock: 1000
List Price: £2.50
Our Price: £1.63

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.

35% off Promotional Titles

We're going on an elf chase

By: Mumford Martha

We're going on an elf chase. Come and join the fun. Can we catch them all?YES!Run, run, run!Four bunnies set off on a jolly Christmas lift-the-flap adventure to find ten little elves hidden under the flaps. You'll have to run, run, run if you're going to catch them all! And there are lots of obstacles along the way, from clippy-cloppy reindeer to roaring polar bears and flippy-flappy penguins. Stuffed with festive frolics, this is the perfect Christmas gift. From the bestselling Laura Hughes, illustrator of We're Going on an Egg Hunt and The Birthday Invitation

35% off

In Stock: 1000
List Price: £6.99
Our Price: £4.54

New Title

WE ARE ALL LEMMINGS AND SNOWFLAKES

By: HOLLY BOURNE

Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at "normality" for Olive, a girl on the edge, and for her new friends, who are all dealing with their own battles. But as Olive settles in, she starts to wonder - maybe it's this messed up world that needs fixing, and not them. And so she comes up with a plan. Because together, snowflakes can form avalanches... A trailblazing and painfully honest novel about mental health, friendship and making this crazy world a kinder place.

35% off

In Stock: 1000

List Price: £7.99
Our Price: £5.19


War Horse	35% OFF

New Silk Roads	35% OFF

The King's War	25% OFF

Christmas Carol	35% OFF

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Hufflepuff Edition	35% OFF

Click here for more of today's special offers