Independent Bookshop Week

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