How to get The Extra Mile in time for Christmas
Well..the quickest and easiest way is to ask for it! In terms of ‘how do you physically get hold of a copy to give as a gift now we’re so close to Christmas’, here are a few ways for you to ensure you get a copy in time. We no longer advise you buy it direct from us for a pre-Christmas delivery, due to handling/ postage timeframes, but fear not: there are plenty of ways to get your copy on time from other in-person and online sellers.
Buy or order The Extra Mile into your local bookshop
Many bookshops already stock The Extra Mile: Delicious Alternatives to Motorway Services, plus our other two books: The Coastal Café Guide and The Farm Shop Guide. Pop in or give your local high street or independent book shop a call to see if they can reserve you their in-stock copy so you have it safely in hand in time for Christmas. If not, you can ask them to order your copies in and they’ll usually arrive very quickly, with bookshops’ mixed orders from their wholesalers and distributors landing daily, especially at Christmas. Do check on the likely arrival date before ordering.
Buy from venues in The Extra Mile Guide
Most of the venues in The Extra Mile (or The Coastal Café Guide, or The Farm Shop Guide) stock the book that they feature in. People love browsing the book and buying their own copy while visiting, and many of our fabulous owners restocked their café’s bookshelves well in advance, in readiness for planned – and impromptu if you’re anything like us! – Christmas gift buying. You can check The Extra Mile’s online map here to see if a venue near you features in the book, then give them a call to see if they have any of 2023’s blue, Edition 4 book (with the bridge on the front) so you can simply pick one up there, supporting them while you’re at it.
Buy The Extra Mile from online booksellers
It’s now too close to Christmas for us to be able to guarantee that orders direct from this website will reach their intended recipient on or before 24 December, but other online book sellers and resellers have different postal arrangements and will be able to get you your books in time. So, thank you for considering buying The Extra Mile direct from us at Printslinger (the small, indie publisher behind the book), and we’re truly only thinking of you when we say so late into the Christmas swing, that you’ll likely have more luck getting things in time if you buy from someone with a next-day/ express delivery option at this point. And don’t feel bad for buying elsewhere; we rise up the rankings when you buy online, which ultimately helps more people see our books and celebrate the nation’s independent and local food networks, so, positives will still come of it!
Happy Christmas and enjoy The Extra Mile Guide
The very best of luck to those of you tracking down copies of The Extra Mile in time to wrap for Christmas. You can always risk it by going direct and simply say ‘your gift is in the post’….I’m sure your foodie friends won’t mind if their gift is a little late! It will most definitely be better late than never in the case of our three top-selling titles.
Have a wonderful Christmas and if you did want to browse our books and great value book bundles, you’ll find them all here on Printslinger’s online bookshop: simply hit the button below to browse all of our current books.
