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📣We are thrilled to announce the: ⭐️Longlist for The Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction 2025⭐️ That’s 13 books for readers aged 0-12 which centre issues of social justice with empathy, urgency and, very often, joy🩵🩷🧡 #LittleRebelsAwardLonglist2025

Our Illustrator of the Year (sponsored by Sweet Cherry Publishing) is Rob Biddulph! 🤩 With this award, we celebrate Biddulph as an illustrator and torchbearer for children’s reading #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards

“What is the use of a book without pictures or conversation?” - Jacqueline Wilson quotes Alice in Wonderland as she introduces the #BritishBookAwards Illustrator of the Year Rob Biddulph, who asks the industry to “please continue to commission human illustrators” 🏆 #Nibbies

“In the end, words are the only defence against the lies of history… We cannot be bystanders, we must use our voices and our power to turn back the tide of what is happening” says Kate Mosse accepting the inaugural #Nibbies award for Social Impact 🏆 #BritishBookAwards

Congratulations to the fabulously stylish #Nibbies Small Press of the Year winners, Sweet Cherry Publishing 🎉 #BritishBookAwards

The winner of Children's Bookseller of the Year (sponsored by Macmillan Children's Books) is Wonderland Bookshop 🤩 "A safe space for children and teens to find heroes they really identify with” #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards

The winner of Children's Publisher of the Year (sponsored by Publiship) is Nosy Crow🤩 “The amount and range of work that goes on at Nosy Crow is incredible,” said the judges #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards

“We are living in a world where sometimes I am scared to go to work to sell books,” says Afrori Books | Bookseller of the Year 2023 founder and #Nibbies Individual Bookseller of the Year Carolynn Bain, who asks the industry to use its privilege to change the world #BritishBookAwards

“I still think that the best books are published by the independents in this room” says Rachel Williams as Magic Cat Publishing is crowned joint winner of Independent Publisher of the Year at the #BritishBookAwards 🎉 #Nibbies

“There is no more important writer of our time and for our time than Margaret Atwood” says Lindsey Hilsum as she announces the winner of the #Nibbies Freedom to Publish award #BritishBookAwards

Feel Like Pure Shit Just Want Her Back x #YouNetflix #Youseason5

Day 2 at the Scottish Book Trade Conference in Edinburgh (Publishing Scotland) and we're thrilled to share that An Tìgear a Thàinig gu Dinneir has made the front page of The Bookseller. A huge moment for #Gaelic storytelling and for us at Belle Media Scotland.

'Island of strangers?': Michael Rosen performs new poem for SIr Keir Sta... youtu.be/ih0Wdvc296c?si… via YouTube

Are you interested in building a career in or around bookselling? Or keen to hear more from booksellers from across the UK? If so, our upcoming webinar in partnership with Creative Access is perfect for you. 🗓️ 21/05/25 🕐 5 - 6pm Find out more: opportunities.creativeaccess.org.uk/job/learn-more…

I have a new podcast The Working Class Library... 📚📚📚📚open.spotify.com/show/7lu7Hznio…

It was an honour to attend Peter Usborne’s memorial service last week What a life, what a legacy

'My tenure as Waterstones Children’s Laureate will have happiness at its heart, but it will be about urgency. It will be about addressing invisible privilege and inequality.' Reading Rights is Frank Cottrell-Boyce's flagship campaign. Discover more here: booktrust.org.uk/about-us/readi…

The measures taken by the government this week are grossly inadequate. Use Palestine Solidarity Campaign action to call on your MP to demand that the government introduce an immediate arms embargo to end all arms trade and military collaboration with Israel: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/armsembargonow

Interested in hearing from authors and editors of fiction/novels exploring AI; with AI as a central theme / plot point - for The Bookseller 👏📧📩