Online Bookshop help page

Please login to MyGSL using the email address and password used to access your member record or to renew your membership. The relevant member price will be visible after login.

If you are member of more than one membership organisation that receives discounts from us then please let us know by email. We can add the additional member type(s) to your login.

Friends of the Geological Society receive a 40% discount off the List Price of books in the Geological Society of London Special Publications series. This discount does not apply to sale titles.

Corporate Patrons do not receive discounts on publications or subscriptions.

To receive member discount please register on the site and then email us with the details of your membership(s) and memberships number(s). We will add the relevant discount entitlements to your login and inform you when the discounts are live.

Mineralogical Society of America and Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland members receive discounts on the Geological Society Rock-Forming Minerals series only.

Members of the membership organisations listed below receive up to 40% discount off the List Price of selected Geological Society of London print titles (Special Publications, Memoirs, Engineering Geology Special Publications)

AAPG

SEPM

IAVCEI

GESGB

Micropalaeontological Society

Royal Astronomical Society

Yorkshire Geological Society

Edinburgh Geological Society

Geological Society of Glasgow

European Federation of Geologists

Geological Society of America

Geological Society of Japan

Geological Association of Canada

We accept Visa, MasterCard or American Express online. Cards are debited as soon as the order is placed. Payments are debited in GBP (pounds sterling) and converted to local currency by the card company/bank. A confirmation email will be sent as soon as the order is completed. Card payments are processed securely via Stripe.

Please note: No further items can be added to the order and the delivery method cannot be changed after checkout has been completed.

We accept GBP account transfers for offline payments. Please complete the order form on the catalogues page.

(Please note that Sale titles must be ordered and paid for on the online bookshop within the sale dates). 

• UK delivery: +7% of order total (minimum £4.99)

• *EU, Europe and Rest of World: +20% of order total (minimum £15.00).

Standard overseas postage is by surface mail. 

Airparcel or DHL delivery rates are available at checkout step 2 (up to 30 kilos). If the order is over 30 kilos please contact us for delivery rates.

Our warehouse is open 3 days a week. The majority of orders are dispatched within 10 days, however please allow up to 3 weeks for your order to be dispatched during busy periods (e.g. a bookshop sale).

*The delivery charge for orders dispatched outside Great Britain does not include any applicable import duties, customs fees and taxes due in the recipient country. Please check your country's postal service website for potential import taxes, duties and fees. Please see VAT (Value Added Tax) or import fees / duties.

EU VAT registered companies and institutions: please enter your VAT number in the relevant field during checkout. Please also include your EORI number in the delivery address if you have one.

Customers in Brazil: Please include your CPF (individual) or CNPJ (business) tax ID in the delivery address of your order.

VAT in the UK is 0% on books. The standard UK rate of VAT (20%) will be added automatically to UK orders on stationery (Rite in the Rain products) and rolled maps and charts. Once your delivery address is confirmed at checkout the appropriate VAT will be charged. 

The delivery charge for orders dispatched outside Great Britain does not include any applicable import duties, customs fees and taxes due in the recipient country. Please check your country's postal service website for potential import taxes, duties and fees. 

If you order items from our site for delivery outside of the UK, you may be subject to import duties, fees and other taxes which are levied when the delivery reaches the specified destination. Whoever your order is addressed to is responsible for all costs associated with the import of the products, and will be required to pay any additional charges for international delivery. (If you are ordering products to be delivered to someone else, please make sure that they are aware of this before you order.)

Please note that we have no control over these charges and cannot predict their amount. We recommend that you check with the local customs officials or post office for more information regarding importation taxes/duties that may be applicable to your order. If your order gets held-up in customs, you or the recipient will need to contact your local customs office and pay any necessary additional charges or taxes to release the goods. Unfortunately, we cannot do this on your behalf. Orders are returned to us if the fees are not paid within the required period.

EU VAT registered companies and institutions: please enter your VAT number in the relevant field during checkout. Please also include your EORI number in the delivery address if you have one.

Customers in Brazil: Please include your CPF (individual) or CNPJ (business) tax ID in the delivery address of your order.

The Society VAT number is GB 877 0147 09. 

Our warehouse is open 3 days a week. The majority of orders are dispatched within 10 days, however please allow up to 3 weeks for your order to be dispatched during busy periods (e.g. a bookshop sale).

Orders are dispatched in the order that they are received. A notification email will be sent as soon as the order is dispatched from our warehouse.

UK delivery is by Royal Mail. Please allow 2 to 7 working days from receipt of the notification of dispatch email. If you require delivery by a specific date please call us to place your order.

Overseas parcels are collected from us by Royal Mail and then go into your local mail service (unless Airparcel or DHL has been selected at checkout). During checkout select the options and prices for your parcel. 

Delivery times (from the date of the notification of dispatch email): 

Standard surface mail can take 4 to 14 weeks for delivery. Standard surface mail is not trackable.

Airparcel can take up to 21 working days and DHL up to 10 working days. 

Delivery times can be affected by customs clearance. Please see "VAT (Value Added Tax) or import fees / duties" above.

A receipt will be sent with your order – it will be inside the parcel or in a “Documents Enclosed” envelope on the outside of the parcel.

What should I do if my order does not arrive after the specified time?

Please contact us with your order details and we will investigate further. Please claim within 6 months of placing your order.

Please see the website terms and conditions for more information.

From January 2025, Geological Society published books are GPSR compliant. 

We have appointed an authorised representative in the EU Authorised Rep Compliance (ARC) to act on our behalf in the event of any communication with regulatory authorities.

We have also sourced compliance certificates from our printers and completed risk assessments to ensure that our supply chain is safe and compliant.

For print books published and manufactured by The Geological Society of London contact details are:
The Geological Society Publishing House, Unit 7 Brassmill Enterprise Centre, Brassmill Lane, Bath, BA1 3JN, UK. Website: www.geolsoc.org.uk Email: sales@geolsoc.org.uk 

For product safety concerns and information please contact our EU representative:
Authorised Rep Compliance Ltd, Ground Floor, 71 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin D02 P593, Ireland
www.arccompliance.com

The quantity on the product is linked to our stock system.

For example, if we have 1 copy of a product in stock you will not be able to increase the quantity to 2 copies.

If your payment is by Visa, MasterCard or AmEx please check that all the card details on the payment screen are correct. Cards can be refused authorisation for several reasons - insufficient funds, a block on foreign or charity transactions or recent suspicious activity on the account. Please contact the card issuer to check if there is a problem. 

Please contact us before placing your order again to ensure it is not duplicated.

First, please check your spam/junk mail folder in case the message has been diverted. If it is not there please email us with the order details to clarify. 

The purchase of a print version of a book does not include access to the online content. All items listed on the online bookshop are physical products (e.g. hardback or paperback books, rolled or folded maps and DVDs) that will be dispatched from our Bath warehouse. 

Pay-per-view content purchased on the Lyell Collection site does not include a printed copy of the book/journal issue/article.

Please email your order to us as it cannot be processed through the online bookshop. The trade discount is 10%* and normal postage rates apply. If you pay online the full amount will be charged as payment is immediate (the difference will not be refunded).

*Trade discount does not apply to Sale titles or titles distributed by GSL for other publishers. Please order Mineralogical Society, Wiley-Blackwell, Dunedin Academic Press, British Geological Survey, Collins Press, Worple Press, Granta, Cambridge University Press, EAGE, ICE, Rite in the Rain or Whittles publications direct from the relevant publisher. 

Online sales are run throughout the year and items can be viewed in the online bookshop during the sale.

Sale titles must be ordered and paid for online within the sale dates to obtain the reduced price.

You do not have to be a GSL member or register on the site to purchase items at the sale rate.

Sign up to our bookshop newsletter to be kept informed of upcoming sales.

Products with no ‘Add to Cart’ button are unavailable for one of the following reasons which will be visible in the product listing:

• Not Yet Published – The title will be available to buy as soon as we receive stocks into our warehouse. Please note that the Publication Date on the listing is an estimate.

• Out of Stock – The title is on order from the publisher or reprinting. If you require an out of stock item please email the sales department with the details and we will try to provide a date for availability.

• Out of Print – The title is no longer available. If an alternative edition is available there will be a link in the product description. We do not hold stocks of out of print titles - please try a second-hand bookseller for a print copy. For GSL titles you may be able to view content of the title electronically via the Lyell Collection.

• We no longer distribute this title – please contact the publisher direct to place an order.

Supplementary material may include large data sets, bibliographic data or image files that could not be published within the book or journal issue.

Selected eBooks are available for purchase in ePub format from the Lyell Collection website. The purchased eBook (ePub should be saved locally within 10 days of purchase.

Pay-per-view content purchased on the Lyell Collection site does not include a printed copy of the book/journal issue/article.

More information on the pay-per-view page.

Events and conference office email: conferences@geolsoc.org.uk

Membership office email: membership@geolsoc.org.uk