Book Clubs

Are you looking for a good book club to join? If you are, you have come to the right place to do so. Here you can find a variety of book clubs such as worldbooks, bookpeople.co.uk, Just Good Books and the Craft Club just to name a few. Read and reviews of the best book clubs in the UK. At Ciao we pay member's for the[...] more
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Book Clubs - Books for Children

Books for Children

(+) Offers a wide range of books for each age group (-) You are tied to buying 6 further books after your initial purchase (*) (On Ciao since: 04/2001)

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32 reviews
Book Clubs - Grolier.com

Grolier.com

(+) Free books when you join (-) Quite expensive (*) (On Ciao since: 01/2003)

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31 reviews
Book Clubs - bookpeople.co.uk

bookpeople.co.uk

(+) Easy to use website (-) Hasn't got every book, surcharge for some areas (*) (On Ciao since: 05/2001)

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31 reviews
Book Clubs - The Folio Society

The Folio Society

(+) Beautiful books, good service, super introductory offers. (-) Expensive books, smallish catalogue with too many books on empire. (*) (On Ciao since: 11/2003)

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4 reviews
Book Clubs - Worldbooks

Worldbooks

(+) cheap books as a come on (-) It could be expensive (*) (On Ciao since: 07/2000)

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45 reviews

Mango

(+) Good special offers (-) Postage and packing expensive on cheaper books (*) (On Ciao since: 03/2001)

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41 reviews

QPD

(+) cheap introductory offer (-) poor service, editors choice, commitment (*) (On Ciao since: 03/2001)

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18 reviews

Just Good Books

(+) THERE'S A CHANCE YOU COULD GET SOME CHEAP BOOKS (-) OR NONE AT ALL (*) (On Ciao since: 06/2001)

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16 reviews

TSP

(+) Good introductory deal (-) Bad customer service means it’s simply not worth the effort (*) (On Ciao since: 03/2001)

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28 reviews
Book Clubs - Usborne Books at Home - Usborne Activities

Usborne Books at Home - Usborne Activities

(+) Great quality and range of children's books (-) Some books are a little on the expensive side (*) (On Ciao since: 04/2003)

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8 reviews

Fantasy & SF Book Club

(+) cheap books! (-) have to order from every magazine, and I'm not fond of the club editions (*) (On Ciao since: 04/2001)

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16 reviews
Book Clubs - The Mystery & Thriller Club

The Mystery & Thriller Club

(+) Cheap books initially (-) Not much choice (*) (On Ciao since: 03/2001)

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14 reviews
Book Clubs - Books Direct

Books Direct

(+) You find out all the pros and cons of various speciality book clubs and can go directly to the "sign-up" page for each book club from ONE website. (-) All the clubs are related to BCA (Book Clubs Associates) (*) (On Ciao since: 06/2004)

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2 reviews

The Arts Guild

(+) Books, Books, Books (-) Not the right one and bad delivery service (*) (On Ciao since: 11/2003)

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2 reviews

Ancient and Medieval Book Club

(+) not many (-) small discounts/rip off postal charges/unhelpful staff (*) (On Ciao since: 02/2003)

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6 reviews

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Reviews of Book Clubs »

The worst customer customer service in the world

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Ruthless, hidden charges, deceptive, appalling customer service

...fun begins...I had 3 childrens books yes childrens....they are ruthless....a bill of £16.95 which they agreed to refund for a charge of £3. They told me after 28 days and 4 follow up calls that they could not place the returns at which point they then charge you £1.97 for a late payment..plus the £5 charge to post the books, so after you've sent the books had no response for nearly 8 weeks they want £27 for the pleasure...ignore these without fail, ...

Coshy 07.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Books for Children

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Grolier - Don't fall for it!!

Advantages: NOT ONE!!
Disadvantages: Stress, time consuming, terrible customer service, very frustrating!

About 3 months ago i purchased a magazine with a flyer in for Grolier books. It said i could get a welcome pack with 2 free bob the builder books and dvd's and in with these would come the next 2 in the series for me to look at. If i liked them and wanted to keep the books i would be charged for them and would recieve the rest of the set, 2 books at a time, every 4 weeks or so. Sounds good i though, 2 free books, nothing to pay and no commitment ...
...a month later i hadn't received the first pack with the free books but in the post came the next 2 books with a statement which charged for the 2 books that should have been in with the free ones. The ones that had never arrived. I logged onto the website, registered my details, its the only way you can email them and phoning costs money, and sent them an email. I received no reply but a few days later i did get a prepaid postage label so assumed ...

emmalouise2004 05.10.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Grolier.com

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A very good source of cheap books.

Advantages: An interesting range of books offered, with no strings attached.
Disadvantages: (Unless you're a parent) Too many childrens' books.

I can't remember how I first got introduced to The Book People, but for two or three years now I've looked forward to seeing their catalogue in the post every couple of months. The Book People don't call themselves a 'book club' as they don't ask people to join up, they don't have any minimum purchase requirements and they will never send you unsolicited book choices, as some clubs do. Books for children and young people are always at the front ...
...the pages. I don't have any children to buy for, so these pages are of peripheral interest to me; I do note, however, that they seem to contain a balanced mixture of educational books, e.g. history, and childrens' fiction. The adult books are a mixture too. About half of them are "how to" books: cookery, diets, gardening, hobbies... I've bought a couple of cookery books from them by popular authors. The other books are mainly fiction, including ...

gr1malk1n 29.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of bookpeople.co.uk

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the fantastic folio society!

Advantages: BRILLIANT QUALITY BOOKS!
Disadvantages: CAN BE A BIT EXPENSIVE

Oh how i love the folio society. i love them and yet at the same time, i hate them. Dont get me wrong, i dont hate them because they provide poor quality books and have bad service...no no no. i hate them because i cannot resist thier fantastic books! THE COSTS The cost per book can range from about £19 to anything up to/and over £100. generally most books cost about £25/£30. THE BOOK CATEGORIES ancient history Charles Dickens novels children's ...
...humour lure of the east memoirs and biographies mystery, thrillers and crime myths and legends poetry books science fiction short stories travel and exploration THE MEMBERSHIP I found a coupon clipping in a magazine to join the folio society along with my cheque for about £13 (£9.95 plus postage)eagerly awaiting my selection of five fairytale collection books worth £156.75 and my free gift of a set of two greek myths books. I was not disapionted! ...

vickymoo 02.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Folio Society

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World Books? More like World CROOKS! Beware!

Advantages: You get some mediocre books for a few pence, at first.
Disadvantages: They try every legal way possible to trick you into buying things you don't want.

World Books? More like World CROOKS! Luckily I got out of doing business with them after just less than a year. I too was tempted by the 'Get XX books for just 1p' introductory offer, so much so that I went ahead and got myself some interesting reads. Okay, it was my fault for not reading the small print and noticing the condition that you have to buy a certain number of books priced £4.99 or more from them within 12 or 18 months (I can't remember). ...

jonnybrandon 29.11.2007 · Read full review
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