O' come, all ye last-minute shoppers 👀 You would NEVER leave gifting until the last minute… but if, perchance, you've just missed the shops... 😱🎁 ...there’s still time to give a gift beyond words with a National Book Tokens e-gift card! 📚 Instant delivery, instant magic 🪄 buff.ly/YJtMend

Calling all Christmas Eve elves! 🎅🛍️ There's still plenty of time to pick up a gift beyond words today: available in a range of festive designs at your favourite local bookshop. Treat them to their next reading adventure with a National Book Token 📖🪄 Find your local ⬇️ buff.ly/0h9iCTG

Can’t make it to the shops before Christmas Day rolls around? 🫨 There’s still plenty of time to give a gift beyond words with a National Book Tokens e-gift card! Compatible with your mobile wallet, and brimming with unlimited bookish joy 📖❄️✨ Order yours today ⬇️ buff.ly/kGgTVrQ

We're making a quiz 📝 We're checking it thrice! 🧐 With book-tastic clues 📖 Both naughty and nice… 😇😈 Take on #HiddenBooksGame for the chance to win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop! 🎉 Play now: buff.ly/BExQ02V

Deck the halls with books and stories 📚 ✨ As the countdown to Christmas continues, there's no better place for Christmas shopping than within the vibrant shelves and fabulously festive displays of your local bookshop... Plus, they're the perfect place to pick up a National Book Token! 👀

Looking to gift sustainably this Christmas?🌲📗🎁 A National Book Token is a gift beyond words for booklovers — and the planet, too! 🌍 Our gift cards are printed on FSC-certified board rather than plastic, and with an 8-year expiry, they’re built to last ✨ buff.ly/0h9iCTG

Martin Edwards' 7 favourite festive murder mysteries 🎄 🔪 Martin Edwards, author of Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife, joins us to share his top festive crime reads. 🔍 Read now: buff.ly/N4B8ibz

The last big shopping weekend before Christmas is in full swing! 🛍️📖 Whether they're a manga mega-fan, a classic literature connoisseur, or a tiny reader discovering the magic of books for the first time... a National Book Token is a gift beyond words for all the family 🎁 buff.ly/wyOH1lA

Deck the halls with… 20 book clues? 🎄📖 Guess every title in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win £500/€500 in National Book Tokens, with 10 runners-up scooping up £150/€150. Fa-la-la-la-brilliant! 🎁 Play now: buff.ly/BExQ02V

Looking for an extra-special present for someone who loves books? 🎁 Today is your last chance to order our National Book Tokens Editions gift card in time for Christmas! This luxury boxed gift card adds a little bit of glamour to their next bookish spending spree 📚✨ buff.ly/KfGih4S

All you need for a cosy night in 🍵 Wintering is a comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for and repair ourselves. Win the ultimate cosy bundle, including a signed copy of the book, luxury pyjamas, and much more! Enter now: buff.ly/SZuncxY

Second this! Especially for those who are very particular with their reading choices 😉 😂 What's also very cool is these tokens cover indie booksellers and @bookshop.org too! 👏🏽 🙌🏽

Get an early copy for a young booklover 🐺 #DiscoverFirst gives you the chance to get early copies of books before they hit bookshop shelves. This month, get one of 100 copies of the first book in a spine-tingling new series from @robbiddulph.bsky.social before it's out 👉 buff.ly/ZLRNUfb

🪧 Signs that Christmas is coming: 🔴 Fairy lights twinkling everywhere 🟠 Gingerbread everything 🟡 Mince pies for breakfast 🟢 The return of #HiddenBooksGame Cross off your Christmas list! Play now: buff.ly/BExQ02V

🎁 Attention, booklovers! 🎁 10 lucky winners will have the chance to receive a £100/€120 National Book Tokens gift card this Christmas, so they can enjoy the fun of choosing new books within the magic of their favourite bookshop 🪄 Enter the draw ⬇️ buff.ly/BMXgM9Y

Looking for the perfect present for the young booklover in your life? 🎁 Give them a gift beyond words this Christmas with a National Book Token 🎄📚✨ Available in a range of fabulously festive designs, from the magical snowman to the mischievous grinch! Find them in your local 📖 buff.ly/wyOH1lA

Dear Santa… 🎅 This year, we're wishing for: 📚 National Book Tokens under the tree 🍫 Cosy treats for perfect reading night in 🛍️ A whole day for bookshop browsing 🔍 To solve #HiddenBooksGame on the first try 🙏😩 Give it a go 👉 buff.ly/BExQ02V

In the year 4024, Christmas is everywhere. Santa Claus rules the world and the Big Day happens EVERY DAY! 🎄 We're giving you the chance to win signed copies of SPROUTS and TINSEL by Sibéal Pounder alongside a selection of M&S Christmas sweets. What a treat! Enter now: buff.ly/Fqt1LOC

Which clues are sending you in a spin? 💫 Hint: one's totally out of this world. 👩🚀 Lend a hand in the comments (remember: hints, not spoilers!). ➡️ buff.ly/BExQ02V #HiddenBooksGame

#DiscoverFirst gives you the chance to get an early copy of a highly anticipated book before it hits bookshops. 📖 This month, we're giving 100 people the chance to get Cecile Pin's Celestial Lights before it's out next year. 🌠 Get your copy: buff.ly/uqoi5wP

It's beginning to look a lot like bookmas! 🎄 Gingerbread lattes and late-night shopping are all well and good, but nothing says Christmas is officially here like #HiddenBooksGame 📚🔍 Play now: buff.ly/BExQ02V

It's tricky, it's cheeky, it's bookish… 🔎📚 Find the clues and guess all 20 books to be entered to win a £500/€500 National Book Token (don't forget to save your progress)! Play now: buff.ly/BExQ02V #HiddenBooksGame

They planned a party game – not a murder... 🔎 We're delighted to give you the chance to win a signed copy of @nicolaupson.bsky.social's The Christmas Clue, a £50/€60 National Book Token, and some delicious seasonal treats. 🎄 🍪 Enter now: buff.ly/UQtU0dZ

Drumroll, please! 🥁 Our December Bookshop of the Month is the brilliant Bags of Books… An independent children’s bookshop tucked away in Lewes, set in a grade II listed building and home to the ginormous cat known as Winston! 🐈‍⬛ www.nationalbooktokens.com/stockist/bag... #ChooseBookshops

😴 This clue is keeping us up at night… Can you stay awake long enough to crack it? 📖🛏️ Help a fellow booklover out… but keep it to hints, not spoilers! ➡️ buff.ly/BExQ02V #HiddenBooksGame

Before Wordle, before Murdle… there was #HiddenBooksGame. 🔍📚 Find the clues and guess all 20 books to be entered to win a £500/€500 National Book Token (don't forget to save your progress)! Play now: buff.ly/BExQ02V

The @irishbookawards.bsky.social 2025 winners are here! 🎉 We're thrilled to offer a full set of all 16 winning books to one lucky reader, so you can enjoy the very best in Irish literature – as voted by readers like you! 📚 Enter the draw ⬇️ buff.ly/QBkx2AC

Sit, stay… and solve! 🐶 Will you fetch the right answer in time? ⏰ Can you give a nudge without giving it away? Drop hints (not spoilers!) in the comments! 🕵️📖 ➡️ buff.ly/BExQ02V #HiddenBooksGame

All is calm… all is bright… until you see the #HiddenBooksGame. 🌟 "This game destroys me every year" "The day is ruined." "Thanks, I hate books now." Play now: buff.ly/BExQ02V

Are you a fantasy fanatic? Or maybe you've always dreamed of stepping through the veil into another world... Whether you the crave cosy magical mishaps in Legends & Lattes or epic sagas like The Lord of the Rings, let us guide you through the realms of fantasy. ⚔️ Read now: buff.ly/P3qxAYF

#HiddenBooksGame is even more fun with friends! Bamboozled? Whether you're playing as a team or individually, beat those tricky clues together – share with friends on social media (there are lots of people on our Facebook and Instagram sharing hints!) or WhatsApp. Play now: buff.ly/BExQ02V

The answers are flowing fast…. 🌊 Can you dock at the right answer before time runs out? 🚣♀️ Hints in the comments, spoilers stay in the book! 😉📚 ➡️ buff.ly/BExQ02V #HiddenBooksGame

Every year National Book Tokens put together a lovely, devilish book guessing game, and we all enjoy playing and comparing notes in the shop. Here's this year's! No spoilers in the comments please.

Comfort food, Tuscan style 🤌 To celebrate the release of Amber Guinness' Winter in Tuscany, we're giving away a signed copy along with a Falcon Enamelware baking tray, bottle of Laudemio Frescobaldi olive oil, and £100/€100 to spend on Italian food. 🍝 Enter now: buff.ly/020SSo1

We know… the #HiddenBooksGame's only just jingled its way into the world. 🎁 But if you've already unwrapped all 20 clues, or closed the book on it (for now), we'd love to know your thoughts on this year's game, and help us to make it even better next year! Take our survey: buff.ly/KJyqSNK

Drumroll, please! 🥁 Our November Bookshop of the Month is the brilliant Afrori Books ✨ Afrori Books is a multi-award-winning bookshop in the heart of Brighton. They specialise in books by Black authors and are a part of a very vibrant community 🙌🏾 buff.ly/xYVFt5Y #ChooseBookshops

Feeling claw-strophobic because of this clue? 😼 Sharpen your wits and see if you can pounce on the answer! 🐾📖 Help a fellow booklover out… but keep it to hints, not spoilers! ➡️ buff.ly/BExQ02V #HiddenBooksGame

🚨 LAST CHANCE to vote for your favourite books of the year 🚨 ...and win €100 of National Book Tokens! 🎉 This year’s @irishbookawards.bsky.social shortlist is a true showcase of Ireland’s exceptional literary talent 📚 Cast your vote now 🗳️ buff.ly/WHmdiof

🎶 It's the most wonderful time of the year! 🎶 Our fiendishly fun #HiddenBooksGame is back to test your knowledge of books, your clue-solving skills... and perhaps even your inner zen. 😤 Can you spot all 20 books hiding in plain sight? Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR

Caffeine ☑️ Internet ☑️ Ability to forget every book ever read, seen or heard of ☑️ #HiddenBooksGame has returned to test your love of books and knack for solving clues. Ready to play? 🔍 Play now: buff.ly/BExQ02V

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

It's happening!! My favourite game of the year that routinely causes me to scream in frustration. Wish me luck! #HiddenBooksGame

🎵 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎵 (I'm stuck on so many)

It's that time of year... I'm on 10/20 and wondering how I can be such a bookworm, and yet still be reduced to tears by this ruddy game 😭

The puns, the groans, best time of the year #HiddenBooksGame

HIDDEN BOOK GAME! @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social Hidden book game klaxon, this is not a drill!!

Always a perfect pastime on dark autumnal evenings!! 📚

It’s that time again

📚 You played... we listened! We've made tweaks based on feedback to make the game even more fun (and, dare we say it, perhaps a little easier...). As always, we'll let you know when you're close – just don't forget to check your spelling! 🔍 Play now: buff.ly/BExQ02V

Currently at 15/20 on the #HiddenBooksGame which means it's the time when I start typing in the same thing over and over again and shouting "WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S NOT THAT" about book titles I've made up and clearly are wrong