Get your SEASONAL GIFTS from VOLUME

Three ways to get all your seasonal gift shopping done painlessly (pleasurably!) at VOLUME:

1. Ask our advice. We’ve had decades’ worth of experience helping all sorts of people to choose just the right book to give as a gift (or to keep for themselves). Just send us your gift-recipient list and we will send you some suggestions from our shelves (or we can arrange a Zoom consultation, if you like!). We can gift-wrap the books and dispatch them to you or to the recipients, or have them ready to collect from our door. >>Ask our advice now.

2. Ask us for something particular. Is there a particular book that you would like to give, or that someone has requested as a gift? If we don’t have the book on our shelves already, we will tell you how long it will take to arrive and find the best option for you. >>Tell us what you are looking for.

3. Browse our website and choose. Our shelves are full of interesting, well-written and beautiful books — all selected by us for their excellence — and our shop website is arranged to help you choose just the right thing. Find the authors or titles you love with the quick-search bar — or make discoveries! Click on our website’s categories and sub-categories bring you to ‘virtual shelves’ of books of similar interest (where relevant, you will find page-views of the insides of the books, to help you choose).
   Here are a few shortcuts to some really good books:

• Fiction (for adults):
  If you are wanting a well-written, vital novel, anything on the Booker Prize short list would be ideal.
  Or choose from the Goldsmiths Prize short list for something more innovative.
  Our curated selection of Translated fiction includes the books listed for this year’s International Booker Prize.
  It has been a strong year for Aotearoa fiction!
  We have many interesting books published by Small Presses in Aotearoa and overseas.
  And we have interesting books for those who like Historical Fiction, Crime, and Speculative or Dystopian Fiction.
  And Poetry always make a good gift!

• Books for children:
  We have excellent choices in everything from Board Books to Picture Books, to Junior Fiction, to Senior (or ‘Middle Grade’) Fiction, to Novels for Young Adults.
  Choose from our selection of children’s books from Aotearoa, or from our books in te reo Māori.
  And we have beautiful and informative books of Non-Fiction, and Graphic Novels for Children, too!

• This is the time of year in which a Cook Book, an Art Book, or a Book about Gardening would make a perfect gift!
  And we have interesting Graphic Novels, too…

• Our Culture section has books about creative and lifestyle pursuits.

• Our Society section includes books on History and Politics for those interested in how people interact — in the past or in the present. It is more important than ever to understand the history and present of Aotearoa.

• As the title suggests, our section on the Mind includes books on Philosophy and Psychology.

• And our Science section brings you fine writing and the latest information and thinking in many fields.

• We now have a Biography and Memoir section!

• For a really special gift, why not give a Volume Reading Subscription! We have a subscription menu for adults, and a subscription menu for children — but, really, we can tailor a subscription in any way to suit both the reader and the giver (just ask!).

We can gift-wrap the books* and dispatch them to you or to the recipients — or have them ready to collect from our door.
(*we do not charge for gift-wrapping)