07.07.17 www.thebookseller.com


THE BOOKSELLER SOCIAL CURATED BY HORACE BENT


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(01) Beckenham Bookshop joined many other stores, publishers, authors and bloggers in celebrating Independent Bookshop Week (IBW), which ran from 24th June to 1st July 2017. (02) The Authors Assemble tour visited The Bookshop Kibworth in Leicester. From left owner Debbie James is pictured alongside authors Marianne Levy, Kieran Crowley and Claire Fayers. Also pictured (03) is the store’s IBW-themed Table of Temptation. (04) Chorleywood Bookshop and Merchant Taylors’ School welcomed politician Nick Clegg, who signed copies of his new book Politics: Between the Extremes (Bodley Head) for the 600-strong crowd. Clegg is pictured alongside Chorleywood Bookshop owner Sheryl


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Shurville. (05) Curly Tale Books in Wigtown, Scotland, celebrated IBW with a specially themed window display. (06) Chorleywood Bookshop and Gerrards Cross Bookshop arranged for illustrator and author Chloe Inkpen to visit St Mary’s School in London. (07) Richard Drake and Melanie Greenwood flew the IBW flag at Drake The Bookshop in Stockton-on-Tees. (08) The Edinburgh Bookshop held a Harry Potter party to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Bloomsbury). Guests included Quirinus Quirrell, Minerva McGonagall, Rubeus Hagrid and Hedwig. (09) Gill and Alex Edwards welcomed passers-by to The Little Ripon Bookshop.


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