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#IndieBookAwards | Fiction Shortlist 2025 • James by Percival Everett • There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak • The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry • Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan • The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier • Think Again by Jacqueline Wilson

#IndieBookAwards | Picture Book Shortlist 2025 • Bear by Natalia Shaloshvili • The Dinosaur Next Door by David Litchfield • Farah Loves Mangoes by Sarthak Sinha • The Golden Hare by Paddy Donnlley • Invisible Dogs by Ruby Wright • Runaway Cone by Morag Hood

Discover our #IndieBookoftheMonth picks for May at your local independent bookshop. 🌟 The Coast Road by Alan Murrin (Bloomsbury Books UK) 🌟 Amelia Cheeseheart Investigates: Mummy Mayhem by Cat Weldon, illustrated by Nene Lonergan (Guppy Books) #ChooseBookshops

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I may be on my honeymoon but that hasn’t stopped me from doing my usual ‘busman’s holiday’ antics, visiting some iconic bookstores in Manhattan and Brooklyn 😍 more to come I hope! 📚 #choosebookshops

Don’t miss this epic final adventure in the number 1 bestselling SKANDAR series by A.F. Steadman ⚡️ Pre-order your signed indie exclusive edition with a beautiful ribbon and exclusive map endpapers ⬇️: quokkabookstore.com/product/978139… Simon & Schuster Children's Books #choosebookshops

Meet Amelia Cheeseheart! She’s an intrepid investigator and the most courageous mouse in the museum, alongside sidekick, banana-loving spider, Webster. Discover our Children's Book of the Month at your local bookshop. #IndieBookoftheMonth Guppy Books

#IndieBookAwards | Children's Fiction Shortlist 2025 • Finding Bear by Hannah Gold • Ghostlines by Katya Balen • Murder for Two by Niyla Farook • The Falling Boy by David Almond • Brielle and Bear: Once Upon a Time by Salomey Doku • Reek by Alastair Chisholm

📚 Discover your next favourite read in Booktime. The May & June edition is in independent bookshops now and packed with unmissable reads, exclusive interviews, and jaw-dropping stories. Or read it online via the 🔗 in our bio. #ChooseBookshops ✨

✨ Two weeks to go! ✨ #IndieBookshopWeek is back from 14–21 June 2025! 📚 Celebrate your love for books by supporting the brilliant independent bookshops that bring our communities to life. 📍 Find your nearest participating shop: booksaremybag.com/bookshopsearch #ChooseBookshops

✨ Supa Nova by Chanté Timothy is our Children’s #IndieBookoftheMonth for June! A brand new, bright and bold full colour graphic novel series – fizzing with fun and invention. Perfect for every graphic novel fan. 🔍 Find it at your local independent bookshop Nosy Crow

📚 No Small Thing by Orlaine McDonald is our Fiction #IndieBookoftheMonth for June! Burning with hope and desire, it evokes the power and pain of mothering, and the damage we can do to the people we should love the most. 📍 Available in independent bookshops now Serpent's Tail

Hello #Milngavie and #Glasgow – join me and celebrate #IndieBookshopWeek at #Daydreams books on 16th June! I'll be chatting about #REEK, being an author, and ideas that changed the world… Click below to find out more! Barrington Stoke #KidLitUK alastairc.com/events/2025061…

In the new issue of Booktime, we talk to Jessica Stanley about her inspirations behind Consider Yourself Kissed – a funny, heart-warming and engaging portrait of love and family. A perfect summer read and available from bookshops now. 📖☀️ #ChooseBookshops Hutchinson Heinemann

Will it rain? Will the sun come back? Who knows! What we do know is that books are what you need no matter the weather! Luckily for you, we've got plenty - and there's something for everyone! So come on down and have a browse, we'll be here until 5pm! #ChooseBookshops

What are you reading this week?

In the May & June issue of Booktime, we interview Matthew Sweet about The New Forest Murders. Set in a small village during the summer of 1944, this debut novel is full of mystery, intrigue and romance. Available in bookshops now. #ChooseBookshops Simon & Schuster UK

📚 Discover your next favourite read in Booktime. The May & June edition is in independent bookshops now and packed with unmissable reads, exclusive interviews, and jaw-dropping stories. Or read it online via the 🔗 in our bio. #ChooseBookshops ✨

"I've always loved books and used to sit in the window of my local bookshop as a child reading." We're delighted to feature Heather Slater from Forum Books + the bound + The Accidental Bookshop and #IndieBookAwards 2025 judge on #BooksellerStories 📚✨ 🔗 in our bio.

✨ Be the first to hear this year’s #IndieBookshopWeek poem by Michael Pedersen, filmed at The Portobello Bookshop! 📚💫 A love letter to independent bookshops ❤️ 📅 Tue 17 June, 🕕 6pm 📍 Watch here Books Are My Bag Hachette UK Little, Brown UK Corsair Books #ChooseBookshops