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Books of the Year

Click the links below to see the full shortlists for the 2007 Independent Booksellers' books of the year

Adult

Children

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Welcome to the Love Your Local Bookshop micro-site.

This area of LocalBookshops.co.uk highlights events and activities within independent bookshops across the United Kingdom.

Independent Booksellers' Week

Independent Booksellers' Week, a celebration of independent bookselling, took place for the first time from 1st to 8th July 2008 and featured a wide variety of events including:

July

Strictly Come Bookselling
Authors participating in job swaps at their local bookshop
Storytelling
Events run by local booksellers, authors and teachers
Reading Groups
Local reading groups wil be coordingating their activities during the week.
Themed Promotions
Look out for special offers within your local bookshop during the week.

To view the events that took place on a particular day click on the calendar to the left. Alternately, to search for details of all forthcoming events, click here.

Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year

Love Your Local Bookshop kicked off on October 10th 2007 with the Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award. Independent booksellers created two shortlists - one adult and one children's - for the public to vote on. The closing date for the voting was the 10th December and the winners were announced on the 17th December as Suite Franciase by Irene Nemirovsky for the Adult section, and Alone on a Wide Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo for the Chidren's category.

To suggest an entry for the 2008 shortlist, click here.

Welcome

Independent booksellers provide a first class service tailored to their regular customers' requirements and work within their local community to provide a focus for literary and cultural events. Love Your Local Bookshop highlights these activities.

Omissions?

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Want to know more about how you can help support your local bookshop? Find out by clicking here.

Supporters

Local bookshops are passionately supported. Click here to view a selection of titles by authors and publishers who support local bookshops, and to access additional information about their work.