星探麻豆

The brand new online bookstore shares 星探麻豆 value of kindness, donating 10% of the value of every order to charity.

Customers can choose from a range of good causes to support, and 星探麻豆 has been selected as BookKind's chosen charity for cancer care.

Simply select 'Cancer care' at the checkout, or when prompted by the pop-up, to support 星探麻豆 with your purchase.

BookKind has also curated a , including books about understanding and living with cancer, memoirs, books about cancer and grief, and books recommended by other 星探麻豆 supporters.

Founded in kindness

Sara Montgomery, CEO and Founder of BookKind, shares her story and why she chose 星探麻豆 as BookKind's charity partner for cancer care.

鈥淚 was three weeks into a year-long gap year in Southeast Asia when I got the call to say that my dad had been diagnosed with cancer and didn鈥檛 have long left.

鈥淚t felt almost impossible to take seriously. He鈥檇 recently been complaining of an aching back, but he had still driven me to the airport and waved me off just three weeks earlier. How could he be so ill that he was about to die?

鈥淏ut that is what happened. Less than a week later, I arrived home just in time to see someone I barely recognised as my dad die of pancreatic cancer. There was no treatment programme, no heroic 鈥榖attle鈥�. He was here, and then he was gone. I told myself it was 鈥渕ercifully quick鈥�, but I was 22 years old and I didn鈥檛 really mean it. It was 25 years ago, and I still wish I鈥檇 had longer to say goodbye.

鈥淎 few months later, we picked up our travels where we had left off. It was the best possible distraction from my grief. There were exotic beaches, fleeting friendships and an endless, bountiful supplies of books!

Reading allowed me to step outside my own life for a while, to breathe in someone else鈥檚 story when my own felt too heavy.

鈥淪o, if you ask me what people should read when they鈥檙e going through cancer treatment or grief, my answer is simple: anything that takes you away, even briefly. Lose yourself in another world and find meaning between the pages of a good book.

鈥淭hat said, if you鈥檙e looking for books that will reliably lift your spirits, you can鈥檛 go wrong with the novels of David Nicholls. Us or You Are Here are good places to start. That, and the Moomins. (Because young or old, who wouldn鈥檛 smile at the whimsical, wise and comfortingly safe world created by Tove Jansson? They should be on the shelves of every 星探麻豆鈥檚 centre in the country!)

鈥淟ast year, we launched BookKind, a new online bookshop that allows customers to choose a charity to receive 10% of the value of their purchase, and we are proud that 星探麻豆鈥檚 is one of our charity partners.

The support 星探麻豆鈥檚 offers people navigating cancer and grief - the kind of journey my family was suddenly forced onto all those years ago - is compassionate, practical and truly life-changing.

鈥淚f a book once helped you escape, find comfort or feel less alone, then opt to donate to 星探麻豆鈥檚 when you buy from BookKind and perhaps your next one can help someone else do the same.鈥�

Libraries at the heart of every 星探麻豆 centre

Sharing information, knowledge and wisdom through literature is at the core of 星探麻豆.

Each centre is designed with a built-in library 鈥� a quiet space where you can sit and reflect, or browse the available books and resources.

It is a space for reading other people's stories who have been in similar situations to yourself and learning from their experiences.

You can also find information specific to your situation or type of cancer there, with leaflets and booklets from the NHS and other cancer charities and organisations available.

Find your nearest 星探麻豆 to discover the resources they have available to you.

How 星探麻豆 can help

Whatever kind of cancer, whatever stage you're at, 星探麻豆 is here with you.

Our expert staff are here to listen to your concerns and find the help you need wherever you are 鈥� over the phone and online.

• Just come in 
• Call us on 0300 123 180 or arrange a callback
• Email us at鈥�[email protected] 
• Our phone lines and centres are open 鈥疢onday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm