About Us

Books shouldn’t cost the earth - and we mean that literally!

We offer an affordable, sustainable alternative for bookworms who want to save money and save the planet!

So how do we do it?

We buy books back from customers through Ziffit and Sell Back Your Book and buy bulk excess stock from charities (stock they're unable to sell) through Shopiago. We then sell this to customers through World of Books and Second Sale meaning less waste, and more rehomed books!

Our Story

Our Story began in 2002, when a group of book-loving entrepreneurs stumbled upon a bag of books in a charity shop bin, detined for landfill. They rescued them on the spot, determined to give them a second life and World of Books Group was born.

Award Winning

We've been a proud B Corp since 2019. This means we meet the highest environmental and social impact standards, so you know you're buying from a business that does good! | Find out more about B corp Score here.
Learn more about B Corp
We're now officially carbon neutral! This means we offset all of the carbon we create. Now we're working towards being Net Zero by 2050.

Read about our Carbon Neutrality
We won not one, but two Queen's Awards for Sustainable Development and International Trade and was one of only seven companies to achieve two Queens Awards for Enterprise from a total of over 200 winners.
Read about Our Queen's Awards