I’m Jess - a book lover, lawyer, Charles Leclerc fan, and mam of three cats.

I’ve loved books for as long as I can remember and my book shelves at home have always been full - from my earliest baby books, to the literature I read as an English student, to legal textbooks.

But when I discovered BookTok a few years ago, everything changed. I fell in love with reading all over again, but I had two problems. I was spending hundreds of pounds a month on new books, and my shelves were bursting at the seams.

I also joined a few book clubs, and I absolutely loved the community angle. We’d all read the same book and discuss it, but we’d also bring books we knew our friends would love in return for one that we hadn’t come across. I was turning my shelving problem into an opportunity to find some of my books a loving new home.

We’d all complain that online marketplaces were built for buying and selling clothes, and they did not have the functionality nor the community of book lovers to make buying and selling books more mainstream.

After a little thinking, planning, and a leap of faith, Your Book Store was born.

Your Book Store is exactly what I needed when I first became obsessed with BookTok. You can buy the hot new trends, at a discount, with someone else’s love passed on through the pages. You can pass on the books you don’t have space for, and make money doing so. You can connect with other book lovers, and get inspired by buyers and sellers just like you. And you can make sure that no book goes to waste, in a new, sustainable, and circular book economy.