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Gifts for book lovers

Bookish gifts for readers who have already been given every scented candle and novelty bookmark going: 65 lines from Wilde, Austen, Dickens, Shakespeare, Dickinson and Marcus Aurelius, set in plain type on t-shirts, hoodies, totes and mugs. Printed to order in the UK, from £16.

No illustration, no scroll borders, no gilt. Just the line, big enough to read across a room — which is the point of wearing one.

William Shakespeare

Charles Dickens

Oscar Wilde

Mark Twain

Marcus Aurelius

Emily Dickinson

Jane Austen

Louisa May Alcott

Henry David Thoreau

William Blake

Alfred Tennyson

Arthur Conan Doyle

Aesop

Herman Melville

Charlotte Brontë

Lewis Carroll

Rudyard Kipling

W. E. Henley

Sun Tzu

Walt Whitman

Emily Brontë

Virginia Woolf

Franz Kafka

Edgar Allan Poe

Leo Tolstoy

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Friedrich Nietzsche

Seneca

Lao Tzu

W. B. Yeats

John Keats

Robert Louis Stevenson

Clement Clarke Moore

Walter Scott

Or by mood

Buying for a reader

Pick the writer before you pick the thing. Somebody who quotes Wilde and somebody who quotes Marcus Aurelius are not the same present, and getting that right matters more than whether it turns up as a shirt or a mug.

After that, the mug at £16 is the safe one — no size to get wrong, and it gets used every morning. The tote at £27 is the other safe one, for obvious reasons. A t-shirt in a mid size is next, and there are 14 days to change your mind either way.