It’s not too late! If you’re shopping around in a panic, the Babes About Town Gift Guide 2024 is here to help you find the perfect present for that special person in your life. I’ve sourced ideas from a mix of mainstream, indie, Black owned and multicultural businesses. There are great gifts for kids, teens and grownups, gifts for the home, gifts for readers or writers, and gifts that give back. Have a browse.
Babes About Town Gift Guide 2024: Great Gifts for Your List
Great Gifts for Kids
- Holy Batmobile! Gift tickets for Batman Unmasked in Covent Garden. (from £12)
- 20 years on, Tamagotchi digital pets are back and as popular as ever. (from £13)
- As fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender, we love the TUBBZ First Edition Aang rubber duck. (£19.99)
- Kaloo Naomie soft doll is super sweet. (£21.50)
- The Relief Koala helps soothe anxious nights. (£39.99 on sale)
Great Gifts for Teens
- Beauty lover? You can’t go wrong with a Sephora gift card. (from £10)
- This 500 piece Gabrielle puzzle from Dorcas Creates is Black Girl Magic. (£18)
- Get them off their screens with a Pickleball starter set (from £24.99 on sale)
- The JBL Go4 portable speakers bang (or slap… insert their favourite ‘youth speak’). (£34.99)
- Trust me, he wants a chain. Snag one at Craftd. (from £39.99)
Great Gifts for GrownUps
- The gift of flavour: Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen by Marie Mitchell. (£30)
- The gift of spirits: Pedro’s Premium Ogogoro will put some hair on their chests. (£60)
- The gift of learning: A BBC Maestro all courses subscription. (from £72 on sale)
- The gift of grooming: The Lawnmower 5.0 Ultra from Manscaped. (from £100 on sale)
- The gift of gardening: A Repot gift voucher to spend on plants, pot painting or a terrarium workshop in Hackney Wick (prices via DM)
Great Gifts for the Home
- A fun Lady with the Loo Roll art print for the guest toilet. (£15)
- Cut through to their hearts with a personalised couples Pizza Cutter. (£20)
- Make a bold wall statement with a Mahin Hussain Joy Riso Print (£25)
- This pen pot from Dar Leone will brighten up any desk. (£33)
- Gift them a fun night in with the Black Norway Karaoke Speaker. (£119.95)
Great Gifts for Readers
- Literary London is a book lover’s guide to our favourite city. (£4.99)
- Personalise their books with a Custom Book Embosser. (£14.10)
- Search for 70+ characters in The World of Charles Dickens jigsaw puzzle. (£16.99)
- This Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express vase is pretty cool. (£25)
- The Milounge human dog bed is the ideal spot to curl up and read. (from £159 on sale)
Great Gifts for Writers
- Write your own story with this pencil set from The Women’s Prize Trust. (£10)
- Smells Like She’s Writing a Bestseller candle on Etsy. (on sale from £17.11)
- I’ve had my eye on this Tatty Devine typewriter necklace. (£45)
- In Writing by Hattie Cassell, inspiration and support for all scribes. (£16.99)
- Writers Tears whiskey. If you know, you know. (£45)
Great Gifts that Give Back
- Become a BookTrust friend and share the magic of reading with kids (from £5)
- Sonshine magazine subscription: Raising Boys for a More Equal World (from £11)
- Everything you buy at Choose Love in-store or online helps refugees through winter (£15)
- Plant a tree for Palestine with Zaytoun and Trees for Life (from £25)
- Buy a limited edition art print from The Big Issue shop and support people living on the margins (£39)
Don’t forget you can pick up any of my books (written by me or recommended by me) at Bookshop and support independent bookstores too!
Happy Christmas gifting!
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