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September Indie Book of the Month titles announced
01/09/2021
The Booksellers Association has today announced
The Cat Who Saved Books
by Sosuke Natsukawa as its
Fiction Book of the Month
for September, while
Julia and the Shark
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave with Tom de Freston is named
Children’s Book of the Month
.
The Cat Who Saved Books
, by award-winning Japanese novelist Sosuke Natsukawa, is the story of student Rintaro and talking cat Tiger, who join together on a mission to save books that have been imprisoned, destroyed and unloved. On their travels, the pair meet those who treat books poorly in an enthralling tale of love, fantasy, and friendship.
The Cat Who Saved Books
is published by Picador and is available to buy in bookshops now.
Author
Sosuke Natsukawa
said: “
As far as I am concerned, books are my friends and bookstores are my schools.
Between large bookshelves, I met many people and learned a great deal from them.
Romain Rolland taught me courage.
Samuel Johnson taught me wisdom and humour.
Spinoza taught me poverty and spirit of inquiry.
Fromm taught me how to love.
Other books from around the world taught me to keep cowardice at bay and live with integrity.
”
Julia and The Shark
, written by
The Girl of Ink & Stars
author Kiran Millwood Hargreaves and illustrated by Tom De Freston, follows Julia who is living on a remote Scottish island for the summer while her dad works and her mum tries to find the elusive Greenland shark. When her mother’s obsessions threaten to submerge them all, Julia embarks on an adventure with dark depths and a lighthouse full of hope.
Julia and The Shark
is published by Hachette Children’s and is available in bookshops now.
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
and
Tom De Freston
said of their book’s selection,
“We never dared dream that our story would be selected as Indie Children's Book of the Month, but we couldn't be more delighted.
Julia and The Shark
is not only made for people who love stories: it's also a celebration of books - full of colour and texture and depth and movement, it's made to be held. We are so honoured that those champions of the book world - independent booksellers - will be putting it into the hands of the readers who need it most.”
Independent bookshops around the UK and Ireland will be promoting
The Cat Who Saved Books
and
Julia and The Shark
throughout September on social media and instore.
The Booksellers Association will be supporting the promotion of the
Indie Books of the Month
through social media and promotional material.
#IndieBookoftheMonth
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facebook.com/booksaremybag
instagram.com/booksaremybag
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