The BA Children’s Booksellers Group Committee is very active and represents the interests of those selling within this sector, especially in relations with publishers, suppliers and other key organisations. There are over 500 members signed up to the Children's Bookselling Group and its committee meets regularly throughout the year.
To search for a children’s bookshop, please click here.
Executive Committee 2025/2026
- Kirsty Woods (Chair), Kibworth Books
- Jenny Eagles (Vice Chair), Owl & Pyramid
- Gill Edwards, The Little Ripon Bookshop
- Vanessa Lewis, The Book Nook, Hove
- Nicola Lee, Children's Bookshop (Huddersfield)
- Sarah Skelton, The Book Nook, Stewarton
- Thomas Owen, Gay on Wye
- Sian Wadey, Booka Bookshop
- Polly Jaffé, Jaffé and Neale Bookshop and Café
- Annie Rhodes, Norfolk Children's Book Centre
- Sanchita Basu De Sarkar, Children’s Bookshop (Muswell Hill)
- Tony West, The Alligator’s Mouth
- Will Smith, Sam Read Books
- Liz Tye, Next Page Books
- Helen Tamblyn-Saville, Wonderland Bookshop
- Deborah Texeira, Kenilworth Books
The Booksellers Association's Christian Booksellers Group Committee represents the views and concerns of Christian booksellers to publishers, suppliers and others and holds a watching brief on the trade.
It recognises that Christian bookselling is of a very specialist nature and differs considerably from the rest of the trade.
As a Christian bookseller you are serving God and financial reward may not be uppermost in your mind.
The Group’s committee meets four times a year, including for an AGM, which all BA members are welcome to attend.
To search for a Christian bookshop, please click here.
Executive Committee 2025/2026
- Chair: David Lock – Oasis Christian Bookshop, Wallington
- Vice Chair: Sarah Shewring – Cornerstone Christian Centre
- Andi Bray – St Andrew’s Bookshop
- Andrew Lacey – GLO Bookshop
- Angie Nelson – Oasis Christian Centre
- Barry Mockford – Canaan Christian Ministries, Staines
- Devon Cowan, Perivale Christian Bookshop
- Gillian Cairnie – John Ritchie Ltd
- Helen Cockburn – Green Pastures Dereham
- Melanie Carroll – Unicorn Tree Books
- Paul Taylor – The Triangle, Farnborough Christian Outreach
The BA School Suppliers Group includes all members with an interest in school supply, whether they are solely School Suppliers or Bookshops with school supply business.
The group meet throughout the year with a strong emphasis on publisher-liaison.
The group aims to keep abreast of changes within the sector; in publishing, retail, delivery, schools’ strategy and buying practices, and government and LEA policy.
We also seek to actively represent the Academic Bookselling sector, working with the main academic booksellers through the BA Advisory Council and its agenda. If you have any queries about aspects of Academic Bookselling or wish an issue to be raised at the BA Advisory Council, please contact [email protected]
Booksellers Network to Support Young and New Booksellers
A group for shop floor booksellers: the Booksellers Network, in partnership with HarperCollins and NetGalley.
Providing an ideas-sharing, professional development and networking opportunity for BA members, the Booksellers Network has been born out of feedback from shop floor booksellers and will help bring booksellers together from across the UK and Ireland.
Anyone interested in joining the Booksellers Network should contact Emma Bradshaw.
Keep up to date with the Network on Twitter @Booksellers_Nwk and Facebook