Mills & Boon

What to know about shopping at Mills & Boon

Mills & Boon has published romance since 1908 and sells direct from its own store rather than only through booksellers, which matters if you buy in volume. The catalogue runs to more than 700 new titles a year from over 1,300 authors, organised into long-running series — Modern, Historical, Medical, Heroes, True Love and Desire among them — plus trope-led collections such as enemies to lovers, fake dating and marriage of convenience. Most novels appear as paperbacks around £9.99 and ebooks around £5.99, alongside a rotating 99p ebook range for trying an unfamiliar author cheaply.

Discounting here follows the publishing calendar more than the general retail one. Multi-book collections carry a standing saving of roughly a quarter against buying the same titles individually, and the sharpest reductions typically cluster around seasonal gift periods and the January weeks when publishers clear the previous year's paperbacks. A first-order code is usually the most reliable single saving for anyone new to the site.

The rewards scheme is free to join and generous by publisher standards: 30 points simply for creating an account, then further points on purchases, reviews and birthdays, redeemed at 50 points for a £5 reward or 100 points for £10. Annual spend sets a Bronze, Silver or Gold tier that resets every twelve months, though accumulated points survive the reset. Standard UK delivery is priced by weight from £3.38 for orders up to 1kg, and there is no free-delivery threshold — but subscription orders ship free to any UK address.

If you read more than a book or two a month, price the monthly subscription against buying paperbacks individually before you check out: free postage plus points on every delivery can outweigh a one-off code on a single order. Otherwise buy the collections rather than single titles, and save any code for the largest basket you will genuinely read through.

— MoneySaverCodes Team