Gift Membership
Dead Sea Book Club
Give the gift of a good book, every month!
Be the present giver everyone is talking about by giving the gift of Dead Sea Book Club to your friends and fam. Great books delivered monthly & an online community of fellow book lovers for them to share their thoughts with, any time of the day or night.
Three, six or twelve month options available. One-time payment with no ongoing commitment.
(Looking for St Davids Book Club? Click here!)
What’s the deal with the Book Club?
Dead Sea Book Club is a monthly book subscription where all members read the same book each month, carefully chosen by Nicola - our experienced bookseller here at Dead Sea Collective. We then share our thoughts in our online community space.Our discussion takes place in Facebook group chats so it can be accessed anytime; with no requirement to finish by a certain day/time and no fixed meetings. It's the perfect solution for busy readers who still want to connect with their bookish tribe.
Each month, they will receive:
- A paperback copy of the monthly book from our thoughtfully curated reading list (with delivery cost included)
- Access to our online discussion community (please note - they will need a Facebook account to join the monthly discussion)
- Monthly discussion prompts, posted from mid-month, to help them engage with and think around the book.
- A little extra book-related gift to warm their cockles (could be merchandise, a small craft or a little treat to eat/drink)
Delivery is included for Book Club purchases; so no additional delivery charges to pay. Hurrah!
Upon ordering, you decide what date we should send the gift notification to your recipient, informing them of their excellent gift.
Monthly book boxes are dispatched from the 1st of each month - please let us know at checkout which month you would like the first box to be sent.
What Dead Sea Book Club is NOT:
- This is not our in-person book club - but we do have one of those!
- We do not meet 'live' online, all the chat is written as comments or posts in our Facebook group.
- A flashback to GCSE English Lit - no forced contributions, no fancy literary language and absolutely no requirement to read aloud!!
- A drain on your time and energy - everything is on YOUR TERMS; you get to decide how much time you have to contribute and how much you want to engage. We are here to support you on your reading journey and cheer you on!
- A huge, scary, faceless book club machine - hi, it's me, I'm Nicola. I love to read and I hate pretentious book chat. Books are for everyone and everyone's opinion of a book is valid and magical, I cherish them all! Our club is small so you won't feel overwhelmed or lost in the crowd.
Choose from 3,6 or 12-month packages.
- Monthly book deliveries with postage included, until you cancel
- Full access to the private book club Facebook group
- Invitation to our in-person Christmas book club and book swap here in Pembrokeshire for all active members in December.
Your recipient will receive details in their first box with all the information they need to get started with book club.
Dead Sea Book Club is perfect for folks who:
- Love reading but struggle to make time for it.
- Would love to have a group of people to chat books with, on their own terms.
- Love to discover new books of all genres.
- Would love someone to take the responsibility of choosing a book away from them!
- Enjoy bookish gifts and treats.
- Need this club to give them 'permission' to read a good book, guilt-free and with a purpose.
A bit of everything! We love to nudge members gently out of their comfort zone to try something new. We mostly read fiction suitable for a general audience; everything from literary fiction and light fantasy to historical fiction, classics and thrillers, and all the things in between. We include at least two new paperback releases each year and will also feature Welsh authors. We occasionally read a memoir or other narrative non-fiction.
Here's what we read in 2026, to give you an idea:
Jan - Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood et al (Literary/Fantasy/Multiple Author)
Feb - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (Eco Thriller)
Mar - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Fantasy)
April - When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Rizden (Literary)
May - By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult (Historical Fiction)
June - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Sci-fi)
July - Dominion by Addie E Citchens (Women's Prize shortlist, Literary)
Aug - Seek Immediate Shelter by Vincent You (New Release Publisher Collaboration)
Sept - Pigeon/Pigin by Alys Conran (Welsh author, Welsh language option)
Oct - Around the World in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh (Non-fiction)
Dec - Persuasion by Jane Austen (a classic for Christmas)
Books are dispatched on the 1st of the month. Please specify at checkout which month you would like your gift subscription to begin.
We will send an email to your recipient on the date you choose (up to 90 days in the future) to inform them of their upcoming delivery.
The online discussion takes place in our private Facebook group (therefore a Facebook account will be required to access the discussion).
The discussion takes place asynchronously (i.e. it is not live) and is text-based. Prompts will be posted in the group from the 10th of the month, and members are free to respond to them in your own time. We also encourage members to introduce themselves to the group and get chatting with their new book buddies :)
The gift subscription is for the online book club ONLY and does not include attendance at an in-person book club.
We do host a monthly in-person book club in St Davids, Pembrokeshire. This is hosted at Drifter Cafe on the last Thursday of the month and spaces must be pre-booked. Online book club members are very welcome to join in if they are local, and many do! You can grab a space here.
Prior to dispatch each month, we will announce the next month's book. If they already have a copy, they can select an alternative book choice for the shipment that month. .
There will be fixed options for the alternative choices.
Please note that if an alternative is selected, the discussion will still ONLY relate to the main book for the month. Alternatives must be requested PRIOR to shipment, no exchanges can be offered once the parcel has left our premises (on the 1st of the month).
No problemo! Drop us a message on Instagram @thebookstoppembs or email us: thebookstoppembs@hotmail.com and we will sort you out.