Tired of
small talk?
Beautifully designed cards featuring literary quotes and thoughtful questions, for the people who'd rather talk about ideas than the weather.
"Could quotes from literature bring us closer to better conversations?" We think so.
— Sunny With a Chance of Books, Mojácar
Forty-nine cards. Endless conversations.
Thoughtful Cards
Each card pairs a literary quote with a question designed to open up real conversation — about memory, desire, belonging, and the things we rarely say out loud.
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Printed on heavy-weight cardstock with protective varnish and rounded corners. Survives spilled wine, beach picnics, and years of late-night debate.
Conversations
Presented in a magnetic-closure rigid box. When you've finally exhausted every question, pass this on to someone else who needs it.
What our readers & talkers say
I just love these cards. I've given them as Christmas presents and also taken part in a Literary Conversation Cards event with friends, which was a lot of fun; we opened up, and ended up realising how little we really knew about each other. A perfect antidote to phubbing.
Brought these to book club and the conversation went somewhere completely unexpected. Three hours later we were still going. Extraordinary little cards.
The most thoughtful gift I've given in years. My partner and I used them on a long train journey and talked in a way we hadn't in months.
Pick a card. See what happens.
Dinner Parties
Scatter them among the wine glasses. Trade "what do you do for a living" for "what makes you feel alive." There's a chance you'll discover new things about people you've known for years.
Book Club
Use a card before diving into your next book. Turn literary critique into human connection. Book clubs are a kind of social experiment, these cards lean into that.
Date Night
Skip "how was your day." Get to the conversations that stay with you, the ones where you look up and realise two hours have passed.
Journaling
Pick a card when the house is quiet and you have time to think. Let a line from literature be the door you didn't know you needed to open.
The Perfect Gift
For the book lover who has everything. Beautifully packaged, endlessly reusable, and genuinely meaningful. Easy to give, impossible to forget.
Family Dinners
A literary quote as neutral territory, a prompt that isn't (exactly) personal. Even the quietest family member has something to say.
Born by the sea, in a small bookshop in Mojácar.
We are Sunny With a Chance of Books, an independent bookshop on the sun-drenched coast of Almería, Spain. Book clubs have always been part of what we do. They're a kind of social experiment, we think.
Over two years of watching people talk about books, we noticed how sometimes a single sentence could make someone open up. And if that sentence came from a book, it could hold even more power and lead to even better conversations.
So we made the Literary Conversation Cards with that in mind. Could literary quotes bring us closer to better conversations? We think so. Give them a try and see for yourself.
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We're a small bookshop too and we made these cards because we wanted to add something meaningful to the world, not just another product to sell.
Literary Conversation Cards belong in independent bookshops. They're thoughtful and tactile, the kind of thing your customers will pick up, feel, and want to take to their friends. We now have them here in Mojácar and in ten indie bookshops across Europe.
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Why Literary Conversation Cards belong in your shop
Customers who love books make great gift-givers. We see our customers buy these for friends, family, and often for themselves.
These cards embody why your customers come to you: the love of books, ideas, and good conversations.
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