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Win this year's Indie Book Awards titles!

We're excited to celebrate this year's Independent Bookshop Week (14th-21st June) by giving away all four fantastic shortlists.

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The week-long celebration of independent bookshops across the UK and Ireland takes place from Saturday 14th to Saturday 21st 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 winners were announced on Thursday 19th June.

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We're giving away a set 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

WINNER: James by Percival Everett 

There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak 

The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan

The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier

Think Again by Jacqueline Wilson 

 
NON-FICTION

WINNER: Ingrained by Callum Robinson 

A Bookshop of One’s Own
by Jane Cholmeley

Dispersals by Jessica J Lee 

Reading Lessons by Carol Atherton

The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing

Welcome to the Club: The Life and Lessons of a Black Woman DJ by DJ Paulette  

 
CHILDREN'S FICTION

WINNER: Ghostlines by Katya Balen

Finding Bear
by Hannah Gold 

Murder for Two by Niyla Farook

The Falling Boy by David Almond 

Brielle and Bear: Once Upon a Time by Salomey Doku

Reek by Alastair Chisholm

 

PICTURE BOOK

WINNER: The Golden Hare by Paddy Donnelly 

Bear
by Natalia Shaloshvili 

The Dinosaur Next Door by David Litchfield

Farah Loves Mangoes by Sarthak Sinha

Invisible Dogs by Ruby Wright

Runaway Cone by Morag Hood  

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