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Bookshop Day and Books Are My Bag Readers Awards
Bookshop Day
Celebrating Bookshops Big and Small
Launched in 2016,
Bookshop Day
2022 takes place on Saturday 8 October.
Booksellers, publishers, authors, illustrators and poets work collaboratively on the campaign to encourage consumers to shop in their local bookshop and ensure their high street is thriving. Participating retailers include Waterstones, Foyles, WHSmith, Blackwell’s and numerous independent bookshops. Bookshop Day is part of
Books Are My Bag
, the consumer-facing campaign run by the Booksellers Association to celebrate and promote bookshops in the UK and Ireland.
Bookshop Day
is sponsored by
Hachette UK
,
Penguin Random House UK
,
HarperCollins Publishers
,
Pan Macmillan
,
Simon & Schuster
,
DK
,
Bloomsbury
,
Canongate
,
Usborne
,
Scholastic
,
Faber & Faber
,
KoganPage
,
Bonnier Books UK
,
Chicken House
,
Icon Books
,
Profile Books
,
Walker Books
and
National Book Tokens
. We’re grateful to
Gardners
for their help distributing the point of sale kits.
Midas PR
looks after media coverage for the campaign.
Books Are My Bag Readers Awards
The
Books Are My Bag Readers Awards
are the only book awards with a shortlist curated by booksellers and winners chosen by readers. To qualify for the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2021, books must have been published in hardback or paperback between 1 January 2021 and 7 October 2021. Breakthrough Authors are those who have achieved significant breakthrough in 2021. They don’t have to be debut writers, and their books don’t have to have been published in 2021.
Booksellers Association members are invited to nominate their books of the year for each category. A panel of booksellers then whittles the nominations down to a shortlist. The 2021 shortlist panel was made up of the following booksellers:
Nessa Urquhart, Waterstones
Elaine Stabler, Blackwell
Jude Brosnan, Stanfords
Annie Rhodes, Norfolk Children’s Book Centre:
Amanda Truman, Truman Books
James Firth, The Stripey Badger
Tony West, Alligator’s Mouth
The Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2021
winners
were announced on Tuesday 9 November.
The 2021 Books Are My Bag Readers Awards Winners, as chosen by readers:
Fiction
Still Life
by Sarah Winman (4th Estate)
Non-Fiction
I Belong Here
by Anita Sethi (Bloomsbury)
Poetry
The Hill We Climb
by Amanda Gorman (Chatto & Windus)
Young Adult Fiction
Ace of Spades
by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (Usborne)
Children’
s Fiction
When the Sky Falls
by Phil Earle (Andersen Press)
Breakthrough Author
Marcus Rashford, author of
You Are A Champion
with journalist Carl Anka (Macmillan Children’s Books)
Reader’s Choice
The Thursday Murder
Club
by Richard Osman (Viking Press)
The
Books Are My Bag Readers Awards
are sponsored by
Hachette UK
,
Penguin Random House UK
,
HarperCollins Publishers
,
Pan Macmillan
,
Simon & Schuster
,
DK
,
Bloomsbury
,
Canongate
,
Usborne
,
Scholastic
,
Faber & Faber
,
KoganPage
,
Bonnier Books UK
,
Chicken House
,
Icon Books
,
Profile Books
,
Walker Books
.
National Book Tokens
is the headline sponsor for the Readers Awards.
Booksellers Association members may opt in or out of participating in
Bookshop Day
and the
Books Are My Bag Readers Awards
at any point. Please email
emma.bradshaw@booksellers.org.uk
if you would like to check if you are registered to participate, or if you would like to change your participation.