Bookshop Day occurs yearly in October and can subsequent happen on Saturday 8 October 2022. Learn on to search out out all about Bookshop Day and how one can get your fingers on
What’s Bookshop Day?
Bookshop Day is one-day nationwide celebration of all excessive road bookshops together with unbiased bookshops, Blackwells, Waterstones and Foyles. The marketing campaign goals to spotlight the cultural significance of books and bookshops, and rejoice the people who carry the 2 collectively, our great booksellers! Booksellers are what make our book-buying experiences so particular – they’re e book consultants, curators, neighborhood champions, bibliotherapists and matchmakers.
Bookshop Day first launched in 2013 and is run by the Booksellers Affiliation to encourage e book lovers, such as you and me, to buy at our native bookshop. Yearly, as a part of the marketing campaign, they create a Books Are My Bag Restricted-Version Bag. These luggage can be found to buy completely from bookshops; one other wonderful cause to go to your native bookshop on Bookshop Day! As if we wanted an excuse!
The Booksellers Affiliation are thrilled to have collaborated with certainly one of our favorite creator and illustrators, Jackie Morris on the design for the 2022 Restricted-Version Bag. Jackie’s heard-warming design encompasses a curled-up fox, impressed by the characters of Jackie’s upcoming Accordion Books, amongst which Fox, which shall be printed on 10 November (Unbound). We will’t wait to choose ours up from the Victoria Bookshop, Haverfordwest on Saturday.
About Jackie Morris
An internationally best-selling illustrator, artist and creator of over forty books, Jackie Morris has collaborated with Ted Hughes, Robin Hobb and Robert Macfarlane amongst others. In 2017 she received a Books Are My Bag Readers Award within the Lovely E book class for her illustrations of The Misplaced Phrases with Robert Macfarlane. Her upcoming titles embody Feather, Leaf Bark & Stone (Unbound), The Accordion Books (Unbound), Mrs Noah’s Track, illustrated by James Mayhew (Otter-Barry Books) and One thing A couple of Bear (Otter-Barry Books).
Jackie Morris mentioned: “As a author I owe my profession to booksellers. As a reader I like the individuality of various shops that so fantastically replicate the personalities of the employees. It’s a actual honour to be invited to design this yr’s Books Are My Bag Restricted-Version Bag, to rejoice Bookshop Day, and I hope it provides readers and lovers of books another reason to go to their favorite bookshops this autumn.”
Emma Bradshaw, Head of Campaigns on the BA, commented: “We’re so excited to group up with Jackie Morris for this yr’s Restricted-Version Bag. Jackie is among the hottest authors and illustrators amongst booksellers, and her tender, heart-warming design for this yr’s bag is simply pleasant. We will’t wait to see it stocked in bookshops on Bookshop Day!”
Books Are My Bag Restricted-Version Previous Bag designers:
– 2021: Dapo Adeola
– 2020: Charlie Mackesy
– 2019: Yehrin Tong
– 2018: Sir Peter Blake
– 2017: Orla Kiely
– 2016:Coralie Bickford-Smith; Fatti Burke (designed for Irish bookshops)
– 2015: Grayson Perry
– 2014: Tracy Emin
Why purchase books in your native bookshop?
- You like books
- It’s possible you’ll be about to make a purchase order you’ll worth for the remainder of your life
- You’ll be purchasing in your native excessive road
- You’ll be serving to create native jobs
- You may simply discover a e book you by no means knew existed
- You’ll discover nice presents for family and friends
- You’ll be able to discuss to actual individuals about books they know and love
- You’ll be a part of your native book-loving neighborhood
How can I rejoice Bookshop Day?
- Discover your native bookshop
- Store with them on Saturday 9 October 2021
- Decide up the limited-edition tote bag!
- Share your e book purchases on social media tagging @booksaremybag and #BookshopDay
- Tag your favorite bookshop on social media and inspiring your followers to do the identical (be sure to additionally tag @booksaremybag and #BookshopDay!)
- Kick-start your Christmas purchasing!
- Each bookshop may have its personal approach of celebrating Bookshop Day so be sure to discover out what your native has deliberate – whether or not it’s an in-store creator signing, a digital occasion, e book membership, particular affords and extra.
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The place’s your favorite bookshop? Will you be visiting them on Bookshop Day?
