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Yes, the classic way that a bookshop makes its money. IMPORTANT!! THIS WEBSITE ONLY LISTS ABOUT 50 TITLES. I CAN SOURCE OVER HALF A MILLION! SO, IF IT'S NOT ON THE WEBSITE, DON'T PANIC. (JUST FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS AND HOPEFULLY ALL YOUR BOOK RELATED DREAMS WILL COME TRUE) The best way to find out if I can get a particular book is to email me on biggreenbooks@gmail.com Or else you can tweet me (or DM me) @biggreenbooks. Let me know what you’re looking for and I’ll reply as soon as possible. I can get books posted all over the world and our suppliers usually get books out within 24 hours, so that’s pretty good, I’d say. -------------------------------------------------------------------

Ooh, that sounds good. What is it? Well, let me tell you. It’s a service where I send you a book a month (wrapped up in shiny paper), based on the kind of books you enjoy reading. You can get a 3, 6 or 12 month subscription and they make a great present for your book loving friends. There is more information HERE. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Pretty much every Wednesday, I do a thing called #BuyAStrangerABook on Twitter. Essentially people buy strangers books! It’s a lovely thing to be able to do and I love it. You can read more about it HERE. If you’re not planning on spending the day on Twitter, but still want to Buy a Stranger a Book, you can do it HERE. I’ll eventually send you a poor-quality badge for doing this too. The money you donate, I use to buy people or schools books who may not necessarily have the means to do so themselves. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

JOIN HERE! I started this, after it was suggested by a few people. I’ve run a few projects like; A Crowdfunding campaign to get Lost Words into schools. Books and money raised to help refugees in The Calais Jungle. Raising over £4,500 to buy books and toys for the homelessness charity Shelter at Christmas. The weekly #BuyAStrangerABook initiative on Twitter (see above!) Crowdfunding to supply over 8,000 kids in the UK with Greta Thunberg’s book of speeches. Obvs, these things take time and money. The Patreon is a brilliant buffer which helps me do these things. The money the Patreon raises goes towards projects like these. I have plans for more stuff next year, so keep ‘em peeled.

THANK YOU FOR READING.

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You can now #buyastrangerabook on the website!!

Nearly every Wednesday, I do this thing on Twitter called Buy A Stranger A Book. It's a thing where I buy books for strangers and then lots of other people also join in too for no other reason than because they want to and they can (and they are really lovely). It's such great fun to do, because everyone wins! HERE). (If you want to know a bit more about how it all works, The Independent did an article about it last year Quite often people offer to buy strangers a book when it's not Wednesday or they tell me they're busy on a Wednesday but want to contribute. Also, some people like to remain anonymous on Twitter when they give me money to buy books. And sometimes, there are little projects (like buying books for schools) that I like to use the money for. So, after a bit of a think, I decided that if I added the opportunity for people to #buyastrangerabook on the website, then it might make some of this easier! So, here we are!! You can now buy a stranger a book here and I will then use the money you kindly donated to help out someone who, for whatever reason, can't buy a book themselves. The Bookshop Patreon Scheme (which you are more than welcome to join, I also have a small pot of money, which I use for the bigger projects. This money comes from a mixture of donations, my own dosh and 50% of the money I make on(which you are more than welcome to join, HERE ). I can also add some of the money from the sale of these to this pot. Anyone who buys a #buyastrangerabook thingy here, will be sent a small and poorly designed (by me) #buyastrangerabook badge to wear with pride! If you want your donation to be anonymous, that's cool. If you want to be tagged on Twitter, when I offer your donation, that is equally cool (just add your twitter handle in the address and i'll give you a shoutout on Twitter. Each of these is £10, but you can buy as many as you like!!! Thanks for reading this and I hope you like the idea. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Welcome to the glorious homepage of biggreenbookshop.com.

It's terrific, isn't it?

Whilst I spend a few weeks updating it all, here's a few things you might like to know.

1. This website does not list what books I have, or what books I can get. I can get pretty much any book that's in print (and quite a lot that are out of print, and it's impossible for me to list them all on the website.

So, if you're looking for a book, the best thing to do is to email me on biggreenbooks@gmail.com or ask me on Twitter via @biggreenbooks. I will reply as soon as I can.

2. If you want to send me some money for no reason at all, my paypal address is biggreenbookshop@hotmail.com

3. If you'd like to join my Patreon scheme (where you send me some money and you get something back), you can read all about it HERE . It's fairly new, but I am working with the lovely people at Patreon to make sure that I make the most of this.

4. If you have an idea you think I might be interested in, please email me. I love new ways of getting books into peoples' hands (I like any way of getting books into peoples' hands actually), so please don't be shy.

5. If you think you can help me in any way, please get in touch. I am always very grateful for offers of help. Especially now.

6. See 2.

OK, there are still a few things to look at on the website, like information on The Big Green Book Club and stuff like that. But throughout March and April I'm going to try and dedicate a large chunk of time to improving biggreenbookshop.com, so please bear with me while I'm doing it.

Thanks,

Simon

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