Why Choose Us?

A Company You Can Trust

Did you know Brownsbfs (A T Little and Sons Ltd) has been trading in books for 34 years! Our customer focused family business is un-rivalled. Check our excellent credit rating

Free Next Day UK Delivery

Need your books quickly? No Problem! Free next day delivery service available on all stock items on orders over £50, when ordered before 2pm

Online Ordering Tool

With lots of user friendly features including List Manager, allowing you to create and share lists, with either staff members or with your School Librarians Network. Set up your account with departmental separation if required, access to your cancelled lines reports, outstanding lines reports and quotes

Resources At Your Fingertips

Lists and collections hand picked by our experienced team. From curriculum resources and topic collections to Book Banding, Accelerated Reader and best- selling fiction collections

Customer Care And Sales Team

Our staff are here year round to help you with any query, we can place orders for you, find your titles, build collections or come and see you to demonstrate any of our services on the website or our VLebooks platform

Giving You More

We are offering better discounts across the board with up to 40% on promotional titles!

Consolidated Orders

You can put together all of your orders for us to send through in one delivery, perfect for Summer Text orders

Print And Digital

We supply every UK book in print, we have the largest stock holding in the UK with 800,000 titles held in stock and 580,000+ educational eBooks. Browns Books for Students is the UK’s leading supplier of books and eBooks to schools & colleges

Our Relationships

Throughout the years we have developed great long-term relationships with many of our customers. We are humbled and honoured by this and will endeavour to create that kind of trust with each of our customers. We have also built long standing relationships with School Librarians Association (SLA), National Literacy Trust (NLT), European Council for International Schools (ECIS), chartered Institute of Library and Information professionals (CILIP) and Renaissance Learning as well as various UK & Scotland council and framework partnerships

Our Experience

Experience comes with time! our in-house and out of house teams are truly experienced in their roles,  our Customer Care team can help with any issue you have; our Sales team will give you unique support and will help guide you.  Our Marketing & IT departments are dedicated to giving our valued customers the best selections, collections and up to date content on all of our platforms

Shelf Ready Library Servicing

We can provide a full range of servicing elements tailored to meet your specification. This includes plastic jackets, laminates, date and spine labels, barcodes, security triggers, AR Labels, with Full Marc Record Response

Visit Our Northern Showroom

Browns Books for Students also has a Showroom in Preston, Lancashire.

View an extensive book range, in excess of 35,000 titles, comprising children’s, junior, teenage and adult fiction and non-fiction. Stock is profiled to meet the essential needs of our customers, in particular librarians, being conveniently and clearly laid out in library format.

Multiple copies of each title are available so you can choose to take the books away with you or have them sent on to your school or library, invoice to follow in both cases.

Our dedicated showroom staff have a wealth of book knowledge and would be delighted to offer assistance and ideas as required making your visit both enjoyable and productive.