Summer Books is the annual consumer catalogue produced by the Booksellers Association in partnership with Gardners. The books featured in the catalogue showcase the best of summer reading and are newly published in either the spring or summer of the current year. The titles are selected by independent booksellers (from publisher submissions), for independent booksellers (who are members of the Booksellers Association) and their customers. The catalogue publishes in May, ready for the summer season..
The catalogue has a proven track record for increasing sales for both publishers and booksellers. The print run is over 90,000 copies and more than 100 bookshops stock the catalogues each year.
This year, the catalogue has been beautifully designed by author illustrator, Natalia Shaloshvili.
Booksellers have the option to customize the catalogues with their bookshop details, logos and QR codes (either to their own e-commerce platform, or to a third party such as Bookshop.org, Hive or Litalist).
Subsidies for distribution and local advertising are available to booksellers to increase the reach of the catalogues. An e-mag edition and social media assets are available to booksellers in order to reach customers online. Printed point of sale materials, including dispensers, posters and bookmarks are also available.
We work closely with partners such as Bookshop.org, Batchline, Hive, Litalist, Libro.fm and Edelweiss to ensure the catalogues are working hard as possible to drive sales.