New guy here, just joined today and yet to fill out my whatchamacallit. Just perusing around first and seeing whats here when I came across this thread.

I'm British but live here in the US and quite often when my family and I ship stuff to each other the shipping is more expensive than the bloody gift. The trick is to send light stuff like t-shirts etc. Books are a big no no...

Odd that the buyer didn't buy your book from amazon.co.uk (assuming it's available on their UK site) and get free UK delivery.

Congratulations on the book anyway. I started writing one around two years ago and after about 10,000 words in haven't picked it up again since.