STEP 1: Choose a book...
STEP 2: Add a treat...
How it works
Choose a book from our selection then add a treat to make someone smile, we will pack both in a colourful gift bag with co-ordinating tissue paper and include a Bookworm Gifts bookmark personalised with your message.
All gifts include:
STEP 1. Choose a book
Select a book to add to your gift bag and personalised bookmark gift card, we have included puzzle books, books to raise a smile and books to help pass the time.
Fun crossword puzzles all themed around the great game of cricket, making it an ideal gift idea for any cricket fan.
Put their cricketing knowledge to the test and take their mind off work and any worries by sending a cricket themed gift to make your colleague feel better.
How well do they really know their way around Britain? This puzzle book uncovers the history of Britain's roads, its highways, byways, bypasses and backwaters with map based challenges.
The perfect gift for someone who drives for a living, map addicts or to test motorists who have an amazing memory for places, road names and junctions.
The ultimate barbecue bible from one of Britain's best loved chefs. Michelin starred chef Tom Kerridge shares his huge passion for barbecue and outdoor cooking in this new book. He takes simple ideas such as burgers and creates the ultimate version with over 80 recipes that are stunningly delicious.
Remind a poorly work mate that there will be more BBQs and parties to look forward to when they are feeling better.
Fed up with Zoom meetings at work or dreading a catch up with your Team Leader on Microsoft Teams?
With 101 amusing tips explaining the dos and don’ts of virtual meetings, You’re On Mute will help you master those working from home video calls as well as virtual quiz nights and reunions with friends at the weekend.
A fun gift to make work colleagues smile.
This bumper compendium of crosswords will really test their football knowledge and makes the best gift for a football fan.
Featuring players, fun facts and trivia from Premier League clubs, plus the Champions’ League, UEFA League, World Cup, Women’s Super League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, MLS, FA Cup, international football and the Football League.
This book really is the ultimate football puzzle collection and ideal present to help pass the time when isolating at home or recovering in hospital.
The experts of hit BBC series The Repair Shop are dedicated to restoring and conserving heirlooms. They know that the true worth of these possessions lie in the memories they hold and the stories they tell.
Send this book as a feel better gift for a colleague so they can step inside the workshop to explore some of the most moving family stories from the hit BBC series.
The Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya has created the ultimate baking cookbook to help conquer cakes, biscuits, traybakes, tarts, pies, desserts, breads and savoury bakes all with her signature mouth-watering twists.
From classic baking staples to dazzling show-stoppers, discover new favourite recipes for every day and every celebration.
A gift for the baker in the office to show you are thinking of them and missing their cakes!
A Sunday Times bestseller, Noel Fitzpatrick is one of the leading veterinary surgeons in the world. The journey to that point has seen Noel treat thousands of animals - many of whom were thought to be beyond help - animals that have changed his life and the lives of those around them for the better.
In this book he reflects on the valuable lessons of integrity, care, love and hope that animals have taught him
A lovely gift for an animal lover to show you are thinking of them.
Encourage a work friend to be creative and relax by sending this art journal so they can get creative and forget their worries.
Choose this art book and some colouring pens which together make a thoughtful gift to send a colleague to show you miss them at work and are thinking of them.
Denmark has a reputation for being one of the happiest nations in the world and hygge is recognised as the magic ingredient to this happiness.
What a great book to send as a feel better gift to a friend who needs to slow down, relax and take some time to themselves to help them get back to being 100%.
A little book for grown ups to lift their spirits, funny Famous Five stories especially for adults.
A fun feel better gift with a little bit of reading to cheer up a work mate or a friend and help them get through lockdown.
A Ladybird book for grown ups, a light hearted, fun gift to send a work colleague or a friend who is stressed at the office or lonely working from home.
Learn all about the different kinds of meetings that take place at work - brainstorming, catch ups, face to face, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and most importantly how to avoid them completely!
From beans to brewing, The World Atlas of Coffees explores and explains coffees from around the world. This book is the ultimate guide to coffee contains comprehensive details on the beans and brews of more than 35 countries.
Coffee lovers can learn about everything from the development of the espresso machine, to information about strength guides on supermarket coffee packs.
A great feel good gift for the office coffee lover.
Confronted by the realities of adulthood, Romesh Ranganathan must face an uncomfortable truth: this is not quite how he imagined it. Watching his friends descend into middle age, his waist thicken with every meal and his finances dwindle to fund his family’s middle class aspirations, Romesh reflects on the demands of daily life and the challenges of adulting in the modern world.
If your resident office comic is poorly at home or just needs cheering up, show them you are thinking of them by sending a good laugh as a feel better gift.
Send someone a bit of get well cheer! The Beer Bible is the most comprehensive guide to the world of beer with everything you need to know about what to drink, where, when and why. This is the complete book for beer lovers and for anyone wanting to experience the finest beers.
Choose this book to cheer up a work colleague who misses going out for a drink with their friends at the office.
From the popular Ladybird series for grown ups, The Nerd is a funny little book, ideal to send as a gift for the IT experts in the office to make them laugh.
The ideal Secret Santa gifts to send to colleagues and friends off work to cheer them up.
This book also makes a fun gift to send staff who are out of the office to show them you are thinking of them and they aren't missing out on the chat too much.
The Lonely Planet's Ultimate Travel Quiz Book is split into three quiz sections, easy, medium and hard each featuring 20+ questions. With head scratching questions on everything from geography and culture to history, wildlife and transport, it's a fun and challenging test for both adults and children of all ages.
This fun and illustrated book makes a great feel good gift and the perfect choice to send to help entertain a friend or colleague who currently is off work.
Covering exciting topics such as shed styles, materials, foundations, hardware and finishing, The Shed Manual from Haynes provides step by step instructions and lots of advice on all aspects of planning and building the perfect shed.
Choose this book as a fun gift to send to an enthusiastic DIY fan who just loves his shed or dreams of having one!
Send The Sherlock Holmes Puzzle Book to send to cheer up a friend or colleague who is not well and off work.
This collection includes brilliant puzzles to ponder over presented within exchanges between Holmes and Watson. In this way, this puzzle book retains the same cosy Victorian charm that Holmes' tales are so loved for making it a great choice of book to gently help someone recuperate after an operation or illness.
A great book to send as a feel better gift to a friend or work colleague to help pass the time in hospital or at home.
Collected together in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are the five titles that comprise Douglas Adams' wildly popular and wholly remarkable comedy science fiction series.
This one volume paperback edition comes complete with an unhelpful introduction from the author, a bonus short story, Young Zaphod Plays It Safe and a special undeleted scene.
A great gift to cheer up a sci-fi fan.
Pit your wits against the brilliant minds of Scotland Yard, from the bestselling author of Bletchley Park Brainteasers, Sinclair McKay.
If a work colleague is stuck at home, help keep them occupied by sending this puzzle book to test their brainteaser abilities and see if they have what it takes to be a detective at the Yard.
The Scotland Yard Puzzle Book takes a look through the history of this famous institution and recreates some of the most complex puzzles its detectives have ever faced. Technology can now shine a light on some of the most difficult cases but the analytical mind needed to crack the clues remains as essential as ever.
The Secret Barrister is a junior barrister, working in the criminal justice system, specialising in criminal law and has written for the The Times, The Guardian and Huffington Post to name just a few.
This book, The Secret Barrister, provides a candid and hopefully accessible, explanation of our criminal justice system, how it works and how sometimes it doesn't.
This book is a compelling read so makes the ideal gift to send someone who is off work and staying at home to help them pass the time.
In this series of Enid Blyton for books for grown-ups, the Famous Five - George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy - confront a new challenge:
What exactly is this puzzling scrape referred to as a 'strategy away day'?
The Five go on their greatest adventure yet, booked into an exciting hotel right next to the jolly motorway services with the hope of becoming an even better team!
A great gift for a team member who is off sick to remind them of all the corporate jargon they are missing.
Remind a work mate what they're missing while off sick away from the office and make them laugh by sending this Ladybird book Red Tape. Anyone who works or has worked in an office environment will be able to relate to the funny tales in this book.
The perfect gift for a work colleague or choose this book as a leaving present to remind them of the office politics they definitely won't be missing!
Make them laugh and help a colleague or work friend to pass the time while they are out of the office off sick or recuperating in hospital after an operation by sending this The Sickie Ladybird book as a fun get well soon gift.
STEP 2. Add a treat
Choose a treat to go with your chosen book, gift bag and personalised bookmark gift card.
Dirty Cow craft boutique handmade chocolate for the post milk generation.
Their chocolate bars are all dairy free, vegan friendly and made with cocoa sourced from certified sustainable farming.
A delicious gift idea for a work mate to make them smile.
Varieties may vary.
Encourage a work colleague to take a bit of down time during the day by sending them this IQ Puzzler gift.
This is a fun game that stimulates the brain with 120 multi-level challenges in 3 different playing modes, featuring 2D and 3D puzzles to help develop logical ability, concentration, logic, planning and problem solving.
The top of the game board features a grid for 2D challenges and a grid for 3D pyramid challenges, while the bottom of the board features a completely different 2D diagonal challenge grid.
A retro styled classic ballpoint pen from Parker with a brightly coloured glossy finish.
Streamlined style and clean lines of the iconic Parker Jotter design, this pen opens with a satisfying click. Team this pen with a puzzle book or notepad to create a fun gift for a work colleague or Birthday present for a friend or relative.
Colours may vary.
A smooth and creamy Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bar will always make someone smile.
The best chunky chocolate gift to spoil a friend.
There's not a lot that's better than relaxing with a good book while devouring some delicious, crumbly, moreish biscuits.
The perfect gift to treat a work friend who is off work poorly and recovering at home to show you are thinking of them.
If you are looking for a gift to send a colleague after surgery or a present for a friend who is a little bit stressed encouraging them to try colouring is often the answer.
Choose this pack of 10 assorted Staedtler colouring pens to compliment a puzzle book or doodling book to create the perfect feel better gift.
Peppermint makes a delicious, fresh drink in the morning or it's the perfect partner as a bed time tea.
This calming herb can be taken to aid nausea, headaches or an upset stomach. It also soothes and is often used to help give relief from respiratory disorders so this adding this to your chosen book makes a thoughful get well present for a friend, relative or work colleague with a common cold, flu or if they are feeling a little under the weather.
Spoil someone special, help them unwind with a good book and some peppermint tea to put a pep in their step!
A little nutty treat, peanut M&Ms made with real milk chocolate and surrounded by a colourful thin crisp shell with a delicious roasted peanut centre.
Peanut M&M'S are the perfect chocolate gift to spoil someone special to enjoy with a good book, a film or for sharing with friends and family (or work mates!).
Jigsaws are the go to get well soon present to help someone pass the time when recovering from an accident, illness or surgery and they also make a great gift to send to any puzzle fan.
This 250 piece puzzle features the iconic London Underground tube map, first designed in 1931 by Henry C. Beck and based on circuit diagrams he drew for his day job as an engineer. The transport system has 270 stations and is made from 250 miles (400 km) of track.
The completed puzzle measures 20cm x 29cm.
Popcorn is the perfect sweet treat to send as a feel good gift. Handmade in Great Britain, each piece is air-popped and then hand coated in a unique flavour combination. Only the finest 100% natural ingredients are used to ensure consistent, award-winning taste!
Choose Joe & Steph's popcorn to go with a great read to send a friend or work colleague to help cheer them up.
The original mini Henry Desk Cleaner comes with a regular vacuum head and a crevice tool to ensure no crumbs remain behind on your keyboard and desk. This mini desk vacuum can suck up dust, crumbs and little bits of fluff, it's a fun gift for work colleagues.
Size - 9.5cm x 9.5cm x 24.5cm (hose). Battery operated - 3 x AA batteries (not included).
Send the coffee lover in the office a gift organic ground coffee from the family of Bob Marley.
Choose a favourite mug and then enjoy a delicious speciality coffee.
Send a book with a coffee as a feel better gift to help a friend or work colleague on the road to recovery.
This pack contains two easy to fit, magnetic L plates for fixing to the front and rear of a vehicle.
Choose this treat to send as a joke to a car mad colleague together with the Boring Car Trivia book this combination makes a fun feel good gift to make a friend at work smile.
Perfect for keeping your tea and coffee warm at work or these days, while working from home. This desk mug by Thermos has double wall insulation to help retain hot or cold temperatures. It also has a durable stainless steel interior and easy to clean soft touch plastic exterior with a twist lock lid and slide resistant foam base.
If your work colleague's tea or coffee is always going cold this is the ideal gift to keep it hot.
What's better than reading a good book with a lovely biscuit?
If your work colleague or friend is missing out on the biscuit tin at work or the cake round on a Friday, choose to send them these two mini packs of Border Biscuits with 2 delicious biscuits in each packet. Varieties included may vary from the picture and will be either Chocolate Chip Brownies, Chocolate Chip Shortbread, Oat Crumbles or Butterscotch Crunch.
Treat someone to a feel good gift which will encourage them to relax and take some time to themselves, all they need to do is make themselves a cup of tea!
The classic Rubik's Cube is the world's bestselling puzzle and is an incredibly addictive, multi-dimensional challenge - ideal to pass the time in hospital after an operation or when a member of staff is off work sick at home.
There are numerous Rubik's Cube combinations but only one solution which makes it great way to beat the boredom on the road to recovery.
This version of the popular Scabble word game, Scrabble Twists & Turns, is fast and easy to play. It eliminates the board and gets rid of the points and rounds to make a more lively game. The first player to get rid of all of their tiles wins.
Choose this treat to send as a gift for someone unwell in hospital or take as a get well present to pass the time when visiting someone recovering at home.
Moreish cocoa dusted luxury truffles in beautiful gift box.
This chocolate gift box contains 10+ cocoa dusted truffles so enough to share!
Send a feel better chocolate gift to encourage someone to curl up with a good book and indulge in some delicious luxurious chocolate - the perfect way to relax.
What desk doesn't need some Post-it Notes? These sticky notes are 76mm x 76mm, there are 6 pads with 90 sheets per pad.
Send a work colleague a book to help pass the time when they are staying at home or recuperating in hospital together with these Post-it Notes to subtly remind them they are missed back in the office.
A fun gift ideal for a gadget mad colleague.
This multi tool pen with 4 refills includes a spirit level, a handy ruler and screwdrivers together with a stylus for tablets and mobile phones.
Colours may vary.
Brighten a work colleague's desk and make them smile with this bright red silicone pen holder that keeps their favourite pen conveniently poised and ready for use.
A fun feel better gift to send to cheer up a work mate and turn their desk into a crime scene!
After an operation or surgery a work colleague might well be craving something sweet. Choose this smooth Swiss milk chocolate with delectable honey and almond nougat to add to a funny book and send as a get well soon present.
Unique triangles of delicious milk chocolate for a friend, work colleague or loved one to enjoy. Suitable for vegetarians.
A great way to carry a book to work, when on holiday, away from home in hospital, when staying at a friend's house or just to keep a special book safe.
This useful book bag is made from linen with a handy drawstring top.
A smart little reading light that clips on to your book and lights up the pages so you can read without disturbing anyone else.
This light is particularly good for reading in bed so makes a great treat to add to your chosen book to send as a get well gift to someone in hospital.
The colour of clip-on light we send with your gift may vary so might not be slate grey.
Need a bit of inspiration?
See our ready made get well gift ideas for work friends or there are some of our most popular feel better gifts for staff combinations below.
GET WELL GIFT
Gently remind a friend who is a bit under the weather that their friends at work are thinking about them. Together with some delicious chocolate biscuits, this Little Book of Hygge combination is a relaxing get well gift to send someone who is off work sick at home.
HOSPITAL GIFT IDEA
Being off work sick in hospital is tough and it's often difficult for patients to pass the time and keep your brain active. This hospital get well gift of a puzzle book with some delicious gourmet popcorn to add a sweet treat will show your work friend the office is thinking of them.
AT HOME GIFT IDEA
It can be isolating being off work sick at home wondering what you are missing out on in the office. Let your work colleague know you miss them by sending this gift for coffee lovers to help cheer them up until they are back on their feet.
Some more gift ideas
How about choosing one of these gift ideas to send to a friend at work?
ABOUT BOOKWORM GIFTS
At Bookworm Gifts we aim to provide gifts that will raise a smile. We select popular books for you to choose from and a range of treats to go with them to make the perfect get well soon gift, Birthday present, thank you gift or 'just because' surprise.
If you're finding it difficult to choose a gift to send, we have also selected some ready made book and treat gift ideas for you.
We regularly change the books we offer but if there is a specific title you'd like to send please let us know and we will do our best to help you.
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