Pass the Bookplate
Tamsin Rosewell and SF Said have been working behind the scenes for a while now organising ‘Pass the Bookplate’. With a lot of UK bookshops […]
Category: News
Mailing List
Recently I’ve been able to forward quite a few offers for signed bookplates and other things for indie bookshops through the twitter account and this […]
Rising to the Challenge
I had been watching the Covid-19 crisis unfold from the comfort of self-isolation. Watching bookshops, publishers and others rising to the challenge and offering other/extra […]
Where do we go from here?
In the first twelve months of this blog I’ve added 1100+ bookshops to the bookshop list, made three Twitter lists for bookshops/publishers/events, written 186 blog […]
The Harm Tree POS
UCLAN Publishing have contacted me and thought I could give a shout out for their POS pack for their upcoming Young Adult book, The Harm […]
Independent Book Shop Week 15th to 22nd June
Another year comes around and the Booksellers Association is running another Independent Bookshop Week. IBW is part of the Books Are My Bag campaign and […]
Catch Up Post
I’ve had nine days off from my main job and have been able to get on with a lot of the little jobs I’ve had […]
Plans for 2019
Now that the Christmas retail and boozing rush is over I can get on with the plans for 2019 to grow the blog. There is […]
Adventures in Podcasting
As part of expanding the scope of the Independent Bookshop project I want to begin podcasting and exploring the story behind Independent Bookshops and their […]
What A Response!
That was totally unexpected, we thought this would be a nice little project. Sleepy like, pootling along gathering information slowly and steadily. Post the map […]
Bookshops Map
The initial populating of the Google Map for Independent Bookshops has been done. We will continue to fine tune this, adding more details, information and […]
An Introduction
We are aiming to build a resource highlighting the brilliant work that Independent Bookshops do, the hard graft that goes into these shops, the love […]
