Our Indie Bookshop Appreciation Sale starts now! 🏃🏻‍♀️

Head to the link to start shopping, with plenty of bestselling audiobooks for $5 USD or less!

libro.fm/sale #IndieBookstoreDay

We are so pleased to win this year's Maldon Town Community Award for Best Business Contribution to the Community!

We love our town, Maldon is a brilliant place to be. Congratulations to all the winners and well done to our fantastic team ♥️

Big smiles all round!

Book your place for a Bookshop Social at Next Page Books with authors Chloe Savage (The Search for Carmella) and Vashti Hardy 📚 (North and the Only One). Sponsored by Bounce Sales and Marketing ❤️📗 and Batch Ltd.

Find out more: booksellerevents.org.uk

Tomorrow European Parliament votes on #LatePayment file

Bookshops rely on flexible payment terms to ensure a rich and diverse literary landscape across Europe 📚🇪🇺

The European book sector calls on MEPs to support contractual freedom & payment flexibility in tomorrow's vote 🗳️

Libraries, bookshops and sporting venues can join us for an webinar on 14 May to find out how to take part in the #BigSportingRead . Sign up now 👉 bit.ly/3UmiiOs

Calling all book lovers and sports fans!⚽️📚

In partnership with @BBCArts, we're launching the #BigSportingRead to celebrate books and a landmark summer of sport.

Keep an eye out for the official booklist, unveiling at Hay Festival on 29 May!

👉 readingagency.org.uk/the-reading-ag…

Did you know? UK independent BA members can sign up to BAseline to see how they compare to other bookshops.

BAseline is a free, confidential service that helps booksellers gain more insight into their businesses and improve their business performance.

booksellers.org.uk/Member-Service…

Marie Mitchell, author of Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen and Sharmadean Reid, author of New Methods for Women: A Manifesto for Independence will be joining us at our Bookshop Social at Afrori Books | Bookseller of the Year (@PenguinUKBooks)

Open to BA members: booksellerevents.org.uk

This #EarthDay and every day, we're committed to reducing our carbon footprint and use of plastics:

🌍 Printing gift cards on Forest Stewardship Council board
🌍 Printing in the UK
🌍 Removing plastic packaging
🌍 Using paper-based packing tape

The Booksellers Network is a place for shop floor booksellers who are members of the BA to come together; to network, to share ideas, compare notes and feel part of a wider bookselling community.

Join the Booksellers Network Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/booksel…

Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein is a mesmerising novel about violence, religion, family & class, rooted in the wild & pastoral landscape of 1940s colonial central Trinidad.

Discover Books Are My Bag fiction Book of the Month today! 👇
gardners.com/.../Hungry-Gho…

#gardners #booksellers

BAseline is a free, confidential service that helps independent booksellers gain more insight into their businesses and improve their business performance.

Sign up by 31 May: booksellers.org.uk/Member-Service…

How can BAseline help my bookshop?

Past participants have used the findings to identify key areas of growth across the sector and highlight key areas for improvement and more.

Find out more and sign up by 31 May: booksellers.org.uk/Member-Service…

Coming soon to independent bookshops... May & June Booktime! #choosebookshops #booksaremybag

We're thrilled to share Backstory!
Aimed at readers 25 years & older, this biannual magazine is unlike anything else.
With 68 pages of original features, this is a colourful & unmissable celebration of books & bookshops.

Find out more here: gardners.com/Product/Backst…

#Gardners

SO excited to announce our 2024 shortlists for
1. Jhalak Prize
and
2. Jhalak C&YA Prize

Congratulations to all our shortlistees!
#jhalakprize 24 #jhalakprize

Judge of this year's Jhalak Children's & YA Prize and author of The Haunting of Tyrese Walker, Jacqui Rose - JP Rose - a writer of sorts, has joined to share what it is about bookshops that she loves.

Discover the Jhalak Prize shortlists in bookshops near you: nationalbooktokens.com/win-the-jhalak…

#jhalakprize24

And gorgeous POS materials they are! Check them out at your local indie!
#choosebookshops

The Scottish Book Trade Conference 2024 in partnership with
Booksellers Association
is open for booking; publishers, bookshops, and others working in our brilliant industry, this day is for you! Join us in Edinburgh on 16 May. #scotbookconf tickettailor.com/events/publish…

The Bookseller BA Social is on Thursday 23 May Next Page Books in Hitchin.
Come and meet Vashti Hardy 📚
Open to all BA members. Sponsored by Bounce Sales and Marketing. Scholastic UK Booksellers Association