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Happy Independent Bookshop Week to all who celebrate 🎉 Get to a bookshop for... 📚 Curated recommendations 📚 Signed editions 📚 Author events 📚 Tote bags, bookmarks and more. 📚 Keep bookshops Indie! 📷 @thenairnbookshop

Zadie Smith at @pagesofhackney 🔥 Tons of bookshops are holding author events, signings and more this Independent Bookshop Week. GO!

Get to your local polling station and VOTE today, and don't forget to take ID! Discover a list of @thebookerprizes nominated titles with a political slant, live on our homepage now. If knowledge is power, then reading is a good place to start.

From a land versed in the literary tradition and at the forefront of exciting and genre-hopping modern fiction, Japanese fiction is the UK’s most popular form of translated literature. Here’s our list of some of the best places to begin with the genre... 📚 What You Are Looking for is in the Library, Michiko Aoyama (@penguinukbooks ) 📚 Butter, Asako Yuzuki (@4thestatebooks ) 📚 Lonely Castle in the Mirror, Mizuki Tsujimura (@penguinukbooks ) 📚 Before the Coffee Gets Cold, @kawaguchi.coffee (@picadorbooks ) 📚 Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (@faberbooks ) 📚 Sweet Bean Paste, @durian_sukegawa (@oneworldpublications ) 📚 Convenience Store Woman, @sayaka_murata_ (@grantabooks ) 📚 Breasts and Eggs, @kawakami_mieko (@picadorbooks ) #bookstagram #translatedfiction #japanesefiction

We are excited to reveal the UK trailer for the multi-award-winning KENSUKE’S KINGDOM - coming to UK & Irish cinemas on 2 August! Based on the much-loved, best-selling children’s novel by Michael Morpurgo. A new, special edition of the book, featuring the film’s artwork on the cover, is published by @farshorebooks this Summer. Featuring the voices of Cillian Murphy, Sally Hawkins, Raffey Cassidy, Aaron MacGregor and Ken Watanabe as Kensuke, the film has been adapted for screen by @frank_cottrellboyce , directed by filmmakers Neil Boyle & Kirk Hendry and is released by @modernfilmsent

From cycling to cloudspotting, via fever-dream fiction and finding your feet - explore our pick of the new releases and support indie bookshops 🏆

🥁 Our July Book of the Month is @wmarybeard_ !!re!!_039;s Emperor of Rome. What was it really like to rule and be ruled in the Ancient Roman world? Take a deep dive into this fascinating history of power and support independent bookshops.

Pre-election reading from James O'Brien. Pick up your copy and support independent bookshops. Link in bio

Screaming, crying, throwing up over these books. 💕📚 These are just some of the 5 star reads that have stuck with me, got me out of a reading slump, brought me to tears, and made me gush to anyone who’d listen about why these books are magical. You can shop my 5 star must-reads through the link in my bio and online through @bookshop_org_uk . They’ve created a fabulous way to shop for books and support independent bookshops at the same time! Every sale supports indie bookshops - up to 30% of the cover price if you choose a specific shop to support! Girl math meet bookshop.org math. 🤝🟰 As I mainly read literary, historical, contemporary fiction and thrillers and prioritize underrepresented voices, that’s most of what you will find on this list. But do check it out, there are a few surprises 🙊. I spy some romance, who am I!?

What's new on the shelves? From creative acts of resistance, to first loves and found loves, via powerful memoirs and manifestos for change. Explore our pick of the new releases and support indie bookshops.

'Oranges are not the only fruit' window @harbourbooks , Whitstable. Get a closer look at what's in the window with their curated list of reading recommendations on our homepage now 🍊

Independent Bookshop Week is over for another year, and we hope you have been able to get to some brilliant bookshops. You can also support indie bookshops with us, and get free shipping until midnight tonight. 📷 @hollytucker