Delighted to announce our 2025 winners: 1. Jhalak Children's & Young Adult Prize: Nathanael Lessore for #KingofNothing (Hot Key Books ✨📚) 2. Jhalak Poetry Prize: Mimi Khalvati for #CollectedPoems (Carcanet Press) 3. Jhalak Prose Prize: N.S. Nuseibeh for #Namesake (Canongate (has left))

Interested in #writing or #editing? We're sharing the special #BranfordBoaseAward Q&As with this year's shortlist. First up, author Amie Jordan & editor Rachel Leyshon on working together to create ALL THE HIDDEN MONSTERS 💐 branfordboaseaward.org.uk/interview-all-…

Congratulations to David Melling and Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷. I highly recommend this hilarious and mischief-packed remix of some very well known fairy tale characters (with bears!). Picture book perfection! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/snow-w…

NEW in this year's #BranfordBoase shortlist author editor Q&As. Margaret McDonald and her editors Alice Swan and Ama Badu on the creation of GLASGOW BOYS. Tips and very special insight #writing #editing branfordboaseaward.org.uk/interview-glas…

The legend that is michael sheen 💙 - the best thing? It's a wonderful story, with a brilliantly talented illustrator (Sarah Massini) and all sales through Bookshop.org support indie bookshops (plus £1 from each hardback goes to Shelter). That's a lot of good being done ❤️

🥳Happy Independent Bookshop Week! Buy ANY book 14-15 June, and you could win a £250 Bookshop.org digital gift card! #IndieBookshopWeek Every sale supports independent bookshops😊 uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-25…

✨ Happy #IndieBookshopWeek! ✨ Independent bookshops are the beating heart of our communities. Shop local and shop independent this Independent Bookshop Week (14-21 June). What do you love most about your local independent bookshop? 📚👇 #ChooseBokshops

Chosen by independent bookshops, No Small Thing is Books Are My Bag’s #IndieBookoftheMonth & @bookshop_org_uk’s Book of the Month for June 🌟 📚 Grab a copy from your local independent bookshop or get 10% off at bookshop.org with the code SMALL. #IndieBookshopWeek

An excellent piece by my colleague Jasper at Bookshop.org - the explosive growth of the pre-order market over recent years has left many booksellers out in the cold. It's not hard to build a pre-order playbook that includes indies and the benefits are many and significant.

This feels like a slur on my good name! To be clear: cats have been ruled out because Parliament isn't safe for them, not because anyone is questioning my rodent catching abilities. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

We're delighted to announce the #IndieBookAwards winners: 🏆 Fiction – James by Percival Everett 🏆 Non-Fiction – Ingrained by Callum Robinson 🏆 Children’s Fiction – Ghostlines by Katya Balen 🏆 Picture Book – The Golden Hare by Paddy Donnelly #IndieBookshopWeek 🧡

Let's help indies finish #IndieBookshopWeek on a high 💪

Happy pub day (think was Tuesday? ) to Emily Buchanan and her book 'Send Flowers'. A bright, fresh voice in the burgeoning Climate Fiction genre. Prescient AF in that it shows a world where protest is banned, yet still funny and uplifting. Bravo! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/send-f…

One Tree Books is a Petersfield institution, a bookshop not only loved by its community, but admired and celebrated across the book trade. BookBrunch has provided this page with ways to support the shop while it establishes an alternative location to continue trading.

Hooray! It's a fabulous book 😍

Congratulations Margaret McDonald and her editors Alice Swan and Ama Badu, winners of the 2025 #branfordboaseaward for outstanding debut novel for young people with GLASGOW BOYS Faber Books branfordboaseaward.org.uk

Snap up a book for the chance to WIN a £250 gift card. Every sale supports independent bookshops across the land (rather than making one billionaire even more of a billionaire 💰) Apllies to ALL books sitewide 18-20 July uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-25…

"When American policy was organized to benefit most of us, technology meant The Jetsons. Since it’s now organized to consolidate power, it’s become Black Mirror." An absolute banger of a piece from Matt Stoller on AI and the coming jobpocalypse: thebignewsletter.com/p/why-are-we-p…

The Booker Prize 2025 longlist is HERE! Discover this year's incredible list and support independent bookshops with us 🏆 The Booker Prizes: uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-book…

The "Fatfinger AI Economy" is a) definitely a thing and b) my lived experience of having AI tools shoved into every digital touch point at every opportunity. Nice to have a phrase for it!