Independent Bookshop Week kicks off today. BAMB are running competitions and hashtags all week:
- the Bookshop Crawl next Saturday – are you taking part? You should! It’s so much fun! If you’re a blogger or youtuber, make a post about your day and you could win prizes, including the IBW Book Award shortlist, and book tokens
- bundles for selfies during the Bookshop Crawl (I take bookshop crawl selfies very seriously)
- #indiebookaday, with opportunities to win book bundles
- #giveabook, where we can discuss what we’ve bought, who for, and why
- IBW Book Award 2015 (more below)
Get involved and love your bookshops!
Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2015
The IBW Book Award has three categories: Adult, Children’s Fiction and Children’s Picture Book. I have read precisely one of them but I look forward to picking up more of them soon and seeing why people are so excited about them.
ADULT CATEGORY
- H is for Hawk – Helen Macdonald
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Richard Flanagan
- Elizabeth is Missing – Emma Healey
- The Paying Guests – Sarah Waters
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
- Nora Webster – Colm Toibin
- The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
- Please, Mister Postman – Alan Johnson
- The Children Act – Ian McEwan
- The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories – Hilary Mantel
CHILDREN’S FICTION
- Five Children on the Western Front – Kate Saunders
- Apple and Rain – Sarah Crossan
- The 13-Storey Treehouse – Andy Griffiths
- A Song for Ella Grey – David Almond
- Opal Plumstead – Jacqueline Wilson
- The Lie Tree – Frances Hardinge
- An Island of Our Own – Sally Nicholls
- Running Girl – Simon Mason
- Itchcraft – Simon Mayo
- The Parent Agency – David Baddiel
- The Farm Beneath the Water – Helen Peters
- The Apple Tart of Hope – Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK
- Shh! We Have a Plan – Chris Haughton
- Bears Don’t Read – Emma Chichester Clark
- Wanted: Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar – Emily Mackenzie
- A Walk in Paris – Salvatore Rubbino
- Use Your Imagination – Nicola O’Byrne
- Blown Away – Rob Biddulph
- The Something – Rebecca Cobb
- Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion – Alex T Smith
- Never Tickle a Tiger – Pamela Butchart & Marc Boutavantd
- The Way to the Zoo – John Burningham
- The Mouse Who Ate the Moon – Petr Horaceled
- Monsters Love Underpants – Claire Freeeman & Ben Cort
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