Garland Press

A career’s worth of thanks, properly bound.

Colleagues past and present each write one short piece - the projects, the kindnesses, the running jokes. More lasting than a card everyone signs in a hurry, and far better than a speech half of them will miss.

£89everything in
UKbound & printed
1 weekonce entries are in
A navy cloth-bound keepsake book titled Alison in gold foil, subtitled 'From colleagues past and present', with the Garland Press imprint below

Every voice its own page.

Each contribution is typeset as its own chapter - the text on one page, a full-page colour plate facing it. Your authors' words, authentically reproduced in a format where they can be treasured for years to come.

A kindness I never forgot

The reference he wrote


I was twenty-three and certain I’d made a mess of the interview. Peter wrote a reference so generous I almost didn’t recognise myself in it - then spent a whole lunch hour convincing me every word was true.

He never mentioned it again, not once in twenty years. That was the other half of the kindness. I found out much later he’d done the same for at least three of us, each of us quietly convinced we were the only one.

Half this department is here because he saw something in us first, and stayed to make sure we saw it too.

— Fiona, colleague of twenty years

How it works

No blank page

Colleagues tap a prompt and write what they’ve got - a project, a running joke, a thank you.

Kept on a shelf

Cloth-bound and printed - not a card everyone signs in the corridor.

Ready in a week

Once the last entry’s in, it goes straight to print.