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COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020 CATEGORY AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
The Booksellers Association has announced The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood as its first Fiction Book of the Month for 2021.
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2020 SHORTLISTS
The Booksellers Association and Gardners have today confirmed the dates for the annual BA conference and....Read More >>
The Booksellers Association has announced Toto Among the Murderers by Sally J. Morgan as its Fiction Book of the Month for November.
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The Booksellers Association has announced The Readers’ Room by Antoine Laurain as its Fiction Book of the Month for October.
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The Booksellers Association has announced The Harpy by Megan Hunter as its Fiction Book of the Month for September.
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The Booksellers Association has announced The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel as its Fiction Book of the Month for August.
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The Booksellers Association has announced The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott as its Fiction Book of the Month for July.
The Booksellers Association has announced The Diddle That Dummed by Kes Gray and Fred Blunt as its Children’s Book of the Month for July.
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The BA Group has today stepped in to support members dependent on Bertrams’ Bertline by acquiring the bookselling system.
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Guide to Social Distancing on Re-opening for Bookshops; Webinar on Re-opening
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Tune in on Friday at 4.30pm to hear from Meryl Halls, MD of The Booksellers Association.
BA, Bookselling and Coronavirus: Bookseller Hardship Fund, Advice on Employment Law
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BA, Bookselling and Coronavirus - BA Events
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The second consecutive James Patterson’sYoung Bookseller Special Achievement Award
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Booksellers Association’s Annual General Meeting
A STATEMENT FROM REED EXHIBITIONS – ORGANISERS OF THE LONDON BOOK FAIR
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The Booksellers Association has announced Orphans of the Tide by Struan Murray as its Children’s Book of the Month for March.
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The BA Children’s Bookselling Group is now welcoming entries for the Children’s Book of the Month for April to June
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BA Launches Green Manifesto
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HarperCollins reveals recipients of the Literacy Project Grants for Independent Booksellers
Claire Adam has won the 12th annual Desmond Elliott Prize
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Booksellers Association and Egmont launch UK-wide Eager Readers Project with eight independent bookshops<br />
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Booksellers Association Urges Treasury Select Committee to Reform Business Rates
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Desmond Elliott Prize shortlist announced
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The National Literacy Trust fundraising
Yehrin Tong Revealed as 2019 BAMB Limited Edition Bag Designer
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Academic Book Week Reveals Top 20 Most Influential Banned Books
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BA and Egmont UK Collaborate on Family Reading Initiative
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Nicola Sturgeon, Gina Miller and James Daunt to speak at Scottish Book Trade Conference, 26th February.
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<em>The Cut Out Girl </em>by Bart van Es, published by Fig Tree has been crowned Book of the Year 2018 at the Costa Book Awards.
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Costs Book Awards 2018 category winners announced
Making Tax Digital: Changes to Digital VAT reporting from April 2019
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Parliamentary Book Awards Shortlist Unveiled
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Independent Booksellers' Children's Book of the Month launches
World Book Day announces 13 new titles for 2019
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Irish Book Week launches October 27th – November 3rd 2018
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On the eve of Independent Bookshop Week, we're delighted to announce the winners of this year’s IBW Book Award.
<strong>Booksellers Association Petitions Government to Offer Bookshops Business Rates Relief on Par with Pubs</strong>
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We're delighted to announce the shortlist for the Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) Book Award
Meryl Halls calls on bosses and heads of department at academic and specialist publishers to join its Shopfloor Booksellers initiative.
Reni Eddo-Lodge’s <em>Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race</em> ....Read More >>
Books Are My Bag, the annual campaign celebrating bookshops in the UK & Ireland, has today unveiled its first plans for the 2018 campaign.
UK Academics Reveal Top 20 Books by Women that Changed the World
Special plans for Independent Bookshop Week and Bookshop Day announced
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Bookshops contribute €132m to Irish Economy, new report finds.
The Bookseller Nibbies nominees have been announced today, 16th March.
Academic Book Week to run in April.
Pan Macmillan launches ‘Independent Bookshop Innovation Award’.
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The winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2017 has been announced.
The BA has announced it is restructuring its senior leadership team from 10th April 2018
DK and the Booksellers Association to work together to bring booksellers and publishers closer.
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The Booksellers Association is pleased to announce the winners of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2017.
Parliamentary Book Awards 2017 shortlists announced
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Unwin Charitable Trust Booksellers Mentoring Programme
<strong>BA Children’s Bookselling Group launches Independent Booksellers Children’s Book of the Season</strong>
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The Independent Bookshop Week Book Award winners have been announced!
We’re delighted to announce the launch of the BA’s NEW app for bookshop lovers – Bookshop Search.
We're thrilled to announce the shortlists for the Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) Book Award.
HarperCollins announces the winners of its Indie Development Fund.
We're thrilled to announce the Books Are My Bag campaign plans for 2017.
Sebastian Barry last night became the first novelist to win the Costa Book of the Year award for a secon....Read More >>
Public Chooses John Maynard Keynes’ The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money as the Ac....Read More >>
The BA launched the Bookseller Network at The Clerkenwell & Social last night
The BA and Publishing Ireland will be hosting the 2017 Irish Book Trade Conference on FRIDAY 3rd MARCH at The Maldron Hotel, Dublin Airport
Costa Book Awards 2016 Category Winners Announced
Academic Book Week 2017 Events Unveiled
Parliamentarians’ Political Books of the Year Unveiled
Curated by bookshops, chosen by booklovers We are delighted to announce the winners of The Books Are My Bag Readers Awards...
Books Are My Bag and National Book Tokens sponsor Irish Book Awards 2016
We're pleased to announce the winners of the Best of the Best, as part of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award.
Books Are My Bag Readers Awards sponsored by National Book Tokens shortlists revealed.
Introducing the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards
Introducing The Booksellers Network
WORLD BOOK DAY UK SET TO GIVE AWAY 1 MILLION BOOKS TO MARK 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD'S BIGGEST CELEBRATION OF READING
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