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Celebrating 20 years of Independent Bookshop Week: Win this year's Indie Book Awards titles!

We're excited to celebrate this year's Independent Bookshop Week (13th-20th June) by giving away two sets of each shortlist. 

Indie Book Awards

The week-long celebration of independent bookshops across the UK and Ireland takes place from Saturday 13th to Saturday 20th June.


The Indie Book Awards are the only awards curated exclusively by independent bookshops, and showcase the best paperback reads for the summer. This year's award winners will be announced on Thursday 18th June.

National Book Token

We're giving away two sets of each of these sensational shortlists and a special £30/€40 National Book Token featuring this year's gorgeous Independent Bookshop Week artwork, ready to spend in bookshops everywhere! Just choose between the fiction, non-fiction, children's fiction or picture book shortlists when you enter.


FICTION

The Names by Florence Knapp

Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis

 
NON-FICTION

Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity
by Robin Ince

Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work
by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War by Ash Sarkar

Is a River Alive?: A Journey With Water by Robert Macfarlane

The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny by Laura Bates

 
CHILDREN'S FICTION

Finn's Epic Fails written by Phil Earle and illustrated by Al Murphy

Crow: Thief of Magic
by Fiona Dixon

Like a Brother by Nathanael Lessore

Donut Squad: Make a Mess! by Neill Cameron

Quill and the Last Generation written by C.M. Lewis and illustrated by Marina Vidal

Tiny Hercules by Jon Lock and Nich Angell

 

PICTURE BOOK

Mouse by the Sea
by Alice Melvin

Fox and the Mystery Letter by Alex G Griffiths

Hank Meets Frank written by Maudie Powell-Tuck and illustrated by Duncan Beedie

We Grew a Dragon by Emma Chinnery

Seven Babies by Forest Xiao

Frank and Bert: The One Where Bert is Scared of Frogs by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

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