The Works Reviews

Most of my experience with The Works comes from my local store in Canterbury, however I have also been to the Ashford outlet store and also Chatham. Although listed as discount book store, they do much more besides! Its often a good place to browse in periodically because the stock does over turn frequently, for all their ...  Read the complete review

The Works is a discount bookstore which until recently could be found in most towns & cities in the UK. However due to recent economic climate, they have closed down a large number of their stores but they still continue to have a significant presence on the high street. As well as selling discounted books, The Works also sells a ...  Read the complete review

Present in most shopping centres, The Works stock a cheap and reasonably varied range of stationary items including pens, pencils , rubbers, folders and writing pads as well as cheap diaries and calendars, making them ideal for picking up office-related bits and bobs and a good rival to Stationary Box as well as considerably more expensive ...  Read the complete review

There seems to be a The Works store in pretty much every town now tucked away at the top of the High Street. As they always have "Final Clearance 8 Days to Go- Closing Down Sale" in the window, I was constantly under the impression the store had been closing down for about 5 years until it was pointed out to me they have the ...  Read the complete review

If I'm looking for a gift then I will usually pop into The works because I know I will find a great book at a discounted price. The shop mostly sells discounted books but there is a whole array of other stuff on offer too. This is a place where the stock changes all of the time so you can't expect to have a name of a title and find it ...  Read the complete review

I really enjoy popping into The Works as I'm never quite sure what I'll find & I've enjoyed many a happy hour browsing & usually buying both in our local branch plus a couple in Nottingham. I first found The Works when my eldest daughter was very young & was often able to pick up heavily discounted children's books, videos ...  Read the complete review

The Works is a discount bookstore which can be found on many high streets. I have browsed around a fair few discount bookstores, but have always found this store to be the best in it's class. Overall, I tend to find that a lot of discount bookstores sell a lot of uninteresting titles, & books you've never heard of. The Works does also fall ...  Read the complete review

The Works What is it ? Well, it is advertised as a discount book store, but to my mind, it is so much more than that. Why so ? Basically because, although about 70% of it's stock is books, the remaining 30% is other items. Tell me more about the books ? Some of the latest titles in both hardback and ...  Read the complete review

Discount books at their best! The Works sells a wide range of books, stationery, music and films all at reduced prices. Most of the books I have bought from The Works have been very enjoyable reads; although occasionally when they have massive sales and reduce everything to 20p I buy a load of books that I know I will never get round to ...  Read the complete review

The Works is a discount book and stationary store. I absolutly love the works for my daughter. Its a fantastic pocket money shop as it so cheap, and apart from a wide range of books, they also stock all that stationary kids love ...scented gel pens, charachter merchendise, jigsaws, 'making' toys. its a good store for presents for the parties the ...  Read the complete review

THE SHOP: The Works is a discount bookstore that specialise in selling books very cheap. Ours in Plymouth is jam packed on all available floor and wall space, with a wide variety that tends to focus mostly on childrens/music and reference. They also sell some art equipment such as canvases and paints. THE GOOD: At its best, ...  Read the complete review

I really like having a rumage through this shop and usually I do buy something. They stock lots of products mainly books and arts and craft supply items but sometimes they will have games and gifts. There is a wide range of books they have a huge range of £1.99 books and these are on offer for 3 for £5 which for buying new books is very ...  Read the complete review

The Works is a chain of discount book stores which have just been saved form administration. They are the chain which owns The Works stores, Banana Bookshops and Bookworld and has stores under these names all over the country. They never were the nicest of stores, a little trashy as discount stores often are, however there were always a few gems ...  Read the complete review