Booksellers Association
@BAbooksellers
The Booksellers Association supports, represents, promotes, and celebrates bookshops and booksellers in the UK and Ireland.
"Bookshops provide local jobs, enrich local communities and fuel local economies; they bring social cohesion and cultural capital to their towns and villages; they bring authors to schools, readers to high streets." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… #ChooseBookshops
☀️ Summer reading sorted! Whether you're heading to the beach, relaxing in the garden, or escaping on a weekend trip, the Summer Books catalogue features the books you didn’t know you needed. Pick up your free guide from your local independent bookshop. #ChooseBookshops 📚✨
What are the five essential reports every bookshop should master? Find out more in our guide, in partnership with Patrick Neale, co-owner of Jaffe & Neale Bookshop. Search 'reports' on the BA Learning Skills Hub. ipgskillshub.com/booksellers-as…

✨ As chosen by independent bookshops, here's a reminder of this month's #IndieBookoftheMonth 📚 📚 They Dream In Gold by Mai Sennaar 📷 Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin, illustrated by Louise Forshaw #ChooseBookshops @booksaremybag
ICYMI, @approx21words has been named as one of the four ambassadors for #BookshopDay in October! Stay tuned and follow @booksaremybag for more information about the campaign to champion bookshops 📚
📣 Meet our #BookshopDay Ambassadors! 📚💫 We're delighted to share this incredible line-up of bookshop champions. ✨ Hugh Bonneville ✨ Emily Zobel Marshall ✨ Simon Lamb ✨ Claire Fayers Bookshop Day takes place Saturday 11 October 2025. 🎨: @whackochacko #ChooseBookshops
In They Dream in Gold, Mai Sennaar takes us across oceans and continents as we chart their once-in-a-lifetime love. A gorgeous globe-spanning 1960s love story. Discover @booksaremybag's Fiction #IndieBookoftheMonth, No Small Thing 👉 gardners.com/Product/Diabou…
Go on a wild adventure into the animal kingdom with wildlife cameraman, Hamza Yassin. This fun, fascinating guide is packed with hundreds of clever and AMAZING facts! Discover the @booksaremybag Children's Book of the Month: ⬇️ gardners.com/Product/Hamza-… #IndieBookoftheMonth
CBNN’s Bookshop of the Month for July is Serenity Booksellers, based in Romiley with a second location in Stockport, who tell us about their Book of the Month, The Blockbusters! By Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Link in bio for full interview 📚
Are you a publisher, author, illustrator or agent? Bookshops contribute to their local community, jobs and economy. Sharing links to bookshops when you’re promoting your books online makes a huge difference. #ChooseBookshopLinks

Book your place for the Booksellers Association Conference and @Gardners Trade Show. 📆 21-22 September 2025 📍Leonardo Hotel and Conference Venue, Hinckley Island 🔗 The programme and booking information is available here: booksellerevents.org.uk/Event-Diary/BA…

The Booksellers Network is a place for shop floor booksellers who are members of the BA to come together; to network, to share ideas, compare notes and feel part of a wider bookselling community. Join the Booksellers Network Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/booksel…

🎄 Deadline Today 🎄 The catalogue, in partnership with @Gardners, offers independent booksellers an independent focused marketing and selling tool, featuring the best books to gift this festive season. 🔗 booksellers.org.uk/christmasbooks Deadline for placing orders = 21 July.

🎄 Christmas Books 2025 🎄 The catalogue, in partnership with @Gardners, offers independent booksellers an independent focused marketing and selling tool, featuring the best books to gift this festive season. 🔗 booksellers.org.uk/christmasbooks Deadline for placing orders = 21 July.

.@BAbooksellers has promoted Simon Armstrong to the role of senior communications and policy manager 👇 ebx.sh/Fb5avX
Are you a publisher, author, illustrator or agent? Bookshops contribute to their local community, jobs and economy. Sharing links to bookshops when you’re promoting your books online makes a huge difference. #ChooseBookshopLinks

✨#TradeShow Announcement! ✨ We are SO excited to be able to announce this year's guest authors throughout this week. Each morning we'll give you a clue to who it might be, and then reveal them later in the day. Look out for the first one tomorrow! 👀 #TradeShow25 #Gardners
📖 Discover our Fiction #IndieBookoftheMonth for July In this exclusive video, Mai Sennaar introduces you to They Dream in Gold and shares what it means to be chosen by independent booksellers. They Dream in Gold is available from independent bookshops now. 📚 #ChooseBookshops
As we review submissions for the 2025 #NeroBookAwards, we thought that we'd take a look down memory lane at our past two winners... Have you read Maurice and Maralyn or The Bee Sting? Let us know in the comments ⬇️
You have until the 21st July to place your order for the Christmas Books Catalogue! Order through the Bookseller's Association. As ever, Gardners will support with an accompanying promotion. We're looking forward to see which titles will be included this year! #ChooseBookshops
🎄 Christmas Books 2025 🎄 The catalogue, in partnership with @Gardners, offers independent booksellers an independent focused marketing and selling tool, featuring the best books to gift this festive season. 🔗 booksellers.org.uk/christmasbooks Deadline for placing orders = 21 July.
🎄 Christmas Books 2025 🎄 The catalogue, in partnership with @Gardners, offers independent booksellers an independent focused marketing and selling tool, featuring the best books to gift this festive season. 🔗 booksellers.org.uk/christmasbooks Deadline for placing orders = 21 July.

Book your place for the Booksellers Association Conference and @Gardners Trade Show. 📆 21-22 September 2025 📍Leonardo Hotel and Conference Venue, Hinckley Island 🔗 The programme and booking information is available here: booksellerevents.org.uk/Event-Diary/BA…
