Buying online

Come into the shop, or use Order for collection on any book on this site - the request form opens with the book's details already filled in, so you don't need to type everything again. There's no payment now and no account to create.

We'll check the shelves first. If we don't have the book here but it's available from our supplier, we can usually have it ready to collect the next working day. We'll confirm the price and let you know when it's ready. You're buying directly from us - and we get to say hello.

Books, ebooks and audiobooks, with independents built in. Bookshop.org is an online bookshop set up to support shops like ours. It sells new print books delivered to your door or sent straight to someone else, with gift wrapping and returns handled by them, and it now sells ebooks and audiobooks too, read and heard in its own apps. Whichever you buy, a share comes to the bookshop you've chosen.

What to know. Print orders ship from their warehouse, so they can't be collected or returned at the shop. Our links choose Hartmanns for you; for ebooks and audiobooks, or if Bookshop.org ever asks, choose Hartmanns Books as your bookshop in your account and every purchase supports us.

Books, ebooks and audiobooks, plus films and music. Hive is an online shop that sells books, ebooks and downloadable audiobooks, and also DVDs, Blu-ray, CDs and vinyl, which we don't stock, and shares its sales with independent bookshops. You can have orders delivered, or pay online and collect from a bookshop of your choice.

What to know. If you already shop with Hive, the one thing that supports us is choosing Hartmanns Books as your bookshop at checkout - every order helps once we're your chosen shop, and an order you collect from us helps most. Our Hive page shows how it works.

Audiobooks with a local conscience. Libro.fm is an independent audiobook company that shares revenue from your purchases with a bookshop of your choice. A huge catalogue of bestselling and independent audiobooks, DRM-free, in a friendly app - and membership credits never expire.

Join through our Libro.fm page and Hartmanns is selected as your bookshop automatically. When a book on our site has a matching audiobook, its Listen on Libro.fm link takes you straight to that edition while supporting Hartmanns. Already a member? Choose Hartmanns Books in your account settings and your future purchases and membership payments will support us. There's much more on our audiobooks page - memberships, gifting, and how to switch from another app.

Join with the code CHOOSEINDIE for a bonus audiobook credit; Libro.fm will confirm the current offer when you sign up.

Online orders placed through Bookshop.org, Hive or Libro.fm are transactions with that partner - they handle payment, delivery, customer service and returns. Some of the links on this site are affiliate links: they cost you nothing extra and send a share of the sale to Hartmanns, one of the quiet ways an independent bookshop stays on the High Street.

If you can visit or collect, buying directly from us supports us most. If you need delivery, online payment or an audiobook, these partners let you choose what works for you while still supporting the shop.