To celebrate #IndependentBookshopWeek 2025, our Marketing Coordinator, @richardmskemp.bsky.social spent a day working at Bristol’s radical indie bookshop, @bookhaus.bsky.social, an experience that revealed the heart, care, and community behind the counter: buff.ly/bgQ3AxA
A small brown wicker basket is on a black worktop. In the basket, from left to right, are Naitonal Book Tokens vouchers that say Claim a free 5 National Book Token. In the middle are read with Pride booksmarks. At the right is a handwritten sign that says Free Stickers. On top of that are some stickers that say I love my local bookshop. There's a heart image in place of the word love.
The best place to find your next LGBTQIA+ favourite book is at your local, independent bookshop! Celebrate even more by picking up a High Five voucher for a free €5 National Book Token. Have a safe, happy, inclusive, empowered Pride! #nationalbooktokens
#independentbookshopweek #ReadwithPride
📖When was the last time you spent money in an independent bookshop?
Meet the booksellers thriving despite or maybe precisely because of their rural locations, in my feature for National Independent Bookshop Week 👇
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Congratulations, @rinammc.bsky.social ! You have been picked, at random, from everyone who took part in the #IndependentBookshopWeek Book Challenge! Dm your address, and I'll get your prizes off to you! Thanks to everyone who shared their choices each day. I love seeing what everyone picks!
#IndependentBookshopWeek is over. Thanks to everyone who popped in, shopped online, who came to silent book club and who joined in with challenges & competitions. Here are the #TopTenBestsellingTitles in both adult + kids/YA.
Indie bookshops are for life, not just for a week 😉
Spent a lovely morning in Bridgnorth being a guest bookseller for Booka, was a wonderful way to round off #independentbookshopweek #booksky
#IndependentBookshopWeek #BBBookChallenge 📚💙
#BookSky
#Day8: a book that is most precious to me.
#DoctorWho : Death to the Daleks. One of the books from my childhood that I've never let go. It's precious to me because this was my first ever autographed book.
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
#IndependentBookshopWeek #BBBookChallenge 📚💙
#BookSky
#Day7: A Book From A Genre I Rarely Read
Poyums by @lenniesaurus.bsky.social
Other than a few Seamus Heaneys and a single WBYeats, I don't have a lot of poetry in the house. I picked this up recently though.
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
It's #independentbookshopweek If you are anywhere near #wirral I shall be guest-bookseller at the incomparable Linghams Books in Heswall tomorrow (Saturday) from 1pm to big-up 'The Wager and the Bear.' Do call in to say, 'hi.' I'd love to see you. And here's to indie bookshops!
Sending our love and support to all the amazing indie bookshops across #Bristol!
We’re lucky to have so many bold, welcoming spaces that do so much more than sell books.
This #IndependentBookshopWeek, why not visit a few?
#BristolBookshops #SupportIndies @bristoluni.bsky.social
Sharing this again now the SUN is VERY MUCH OUT! and my own summer beach visit is almost within reach...🐚🌊☀️ From Blue Jelly and Strawberries, out now with @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social and available via any #indiebookshop - all you have to do is ask! 💙🍓 #independentbookshopweek #KidLitUK
Wanted to say a big thank you to the indie bookshops that are stocking my debut novel RUNNING MY OWN RACE, some already selling the book before its release date on 3rd July. The work you do and your enthusiasm is much appreciated❤️.
#runningmyownracebook
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#IndependentBookshopWeek #BBBookChallenge 📚💙 #BookSky
#Day6: A Book That Became A Movie / TV Show
#TheLordOfTheRings #JRRTolkien #PeterJackson #11Oscars #Epic #HighFantasy #OneDoesNotSimplyWalkIntoMordor
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
This book is out today! 'Space: The Royal Observatory Greenwich Poetry Book' features poems selected by Gaby Morgan.
It's published by Macmillan, targeted at ages 8-11. And as it's #IndependentBookshopWeek, support your local indie or buy it from @bookshop.org 📚
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/spac...
#BBBookChallenge 💙📚
Day 6️⃣
👉🏻 A book that became a movie or TV show
📗 Small Things Like These (2021)
🖊️ Claire Keegan
Novel and film both v rewarding. Cillian Murphy’s masterly, restrained performance. In so many ways, less is more.
#FilmSky #MovieSky
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#IndependentBookshopWeek #BBBookChallenge 📚💙 #BookSky
#Day5: A Book with a One-Word Title
#Whit, by #IainBanks. One of my favourite books from one of my all time favouite authors.
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
#IndependentBookshopWeek #BBBookChallenge 📚💙 #BookSky
#Day4: A book you chose based solely on its cover
Night Watch by pTerry Pratchett. I bought it in hardback, back when it first came out, but I wasn't going to pass up the Penguin Modern Classics edition.
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
Pile of books sitting on table. From bottom to top A Good House For Children by Kate Collins Balham and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Grief is The Thing with Feathers by Max Porter Brian by Jeremy Coopet Too cloud A Solitue by Bohumil Hrabal
Pile of books in table from bottom to top The Question Mark by Muriel Jarger The Paper Chase by Marcel Theroux Jimmy Hendrix Live in zlviv by Andrey Kurkov McGlue by Otessa Moshfegh Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride Britt-Marie was Here by Fredrik Backman
So 7 bookshops visited, 11 books bought. Happy Independent Bookshop Week #Booksky #IndependentBookshopWeek #books
Sad to read that Jarrolds in Norwich
Is closing its book department, especially as it’s #independentbookshopweek
Commercially I get it, but it has just always had a book department and the business has such a proud history in print and books.
#norwich #books
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#IndependentBookshopWeek is happening from June 14-21!
To celebrate, Bookhaus is hosting a special launch event for 'Basic Income', a book exploring the much-debated concept of #UniversalBasicIncome.
🎟️ Friday, June 20, 19:00 - 21:00: buff.ly/q86fSos
#IndependentBookshopWeek is happening from June 14-21!
To celebrate, Bookhaus is hosting a special launch event for 'Basic Income', a book exploring the much-debated concept of #UniversalBasicIncome.
🎟️ Friday, June 20, 19:00 - 21:00: buff.ly/OsfXHZb
Upcoming event for #IndependentBookshopWeek! 🌟
Basic income can no longer be dismissed as a utopian idea — it’s being tested worldwide. But can it truly transform economies and societies?
📅Friday 20 June, 7:00 PM: buff.ly/a3s3RMb
Upcoming event for #IndependentBookshopWeek! 🌟
Basic income can no longer be dismissed as a utopian idea — it’s being tested worldwide. But can it truly transform economies and societies?
📅Friday 20 June, 7:00 PM: buff.ly/hJcvPU6
happy #independentbookshopweek to #poetrypharmacy where we spent a happy sunday morning launching #Afonydd in #BishopsCastle our only non-Wales event (so far). We had a lovely time in their new performance/workshop space The Lab, with lots of poets reading their own and other peoples poems.
It's #independentbookshopweek! I have a couple of t-shirts which come out at this time of year, and here is one :)
If you live near an independent bookshop, please pop in and give them some business - it's tough. Any purchase at all will be much appreciated!
#IndieBookshopWeek #BooksAreMyBag
#BBBookChallenge
Day 5️⃣
👉🏻 A book with a one-word title
I recently enjoyed John Boyne’s Air, published in 2025 and the last in his classical elements series 🇮🇪
One of our fav authors, John is pictured alongside my wife at a literary festival last year 💙📚
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#IndieBookshopWeek
On #IndependentBookshopWeek, this is a good idea.
Maybe make @allgoodbookshop.co.uk one of your crawl-stops?
It’s #IndependentBookshopWeek and we’re thrilled to be spotlighting some of our favourites indies📚 Have you been to any of these?👇
The Bookseller Crow, Crystal Palace
Harbour Books, Whitstable
Gays the Word, Camden
Bookshop on the Hill, St Albans
Rye Books, East Dulwich
Imagined Things, Harrogate
An image of the book Awakened featuring a raven with a blue eye bearing the Tower of London on its back, and above it a ripped page and the text: ‘Awakened is a raw and unflinching dystopian horror story. Laura Elliott has crafted a deft fever dream and a deeply brilliant meditation on the very real terrors of capitalism, productivity, exploitation and healthcare. Fuelled by nightmares, this book is sure to leave you just as sleepless as me’ - Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb
An image of the book Awakened featuring a raven with a blue eye bearing the Tower of London on its back, and above it a ripped page and the text: ‘hugely imaginative. Haunting and compelling, Awakened is a genuinely plausible apocalyptic tale’ - Lucie McKnight hardy, author of Water Shall Refuse Them
An image of the book Awakened featuring a raven with a blue eye bearing the Tower of London on its back, and above it a ripped page and the text: ‘stunning, surreal, and genre-defying, this is a tale of both survival against the odds and of letting go - gripping, eerie, and beautifully told. A dystopian classic in the making’ - lyndsey croal, author of Limelight and other stories and Dark Crescent
An image of the book Awakened featuring a raven with a blue eye bearing the Tower of London on its back, and above it a ripped page and the text: ‘dreamlike from page one, Awakened is a speculative meditation on what it is to be human and what it means to be an animal. This is the quintessential soul of new horror, in which it is our bodies and our humanities that become the uncanny force to be reckoned with’ - Caroline Hardaker, author of Composite Creatures, and Mothtown
it’s #IndependentBookshopWeek and a week since Awakened was released into the world! it feels only right that I should encourage you to order Awakened in at your favourite local indie, and if you need convincing, here are some very nice things people have been saying about it 🥹
It's #IndependentBookshopWeek.
Is there any interest in a short piece about HWA-ers' favourite indies for Friday's members' newsletter?
If you think so, email me two sentences about what makes the shop you love special, plus a link to the website, and I'll include it.
Thanks!
