22nd June 2025

Independent Bookshop Week, Event Round-Up: 14th-21st June 2025!

As you may know, Independent Bookshop Week (IBW for short) is a celebration of independent bookshops across the UK, highlighting the vital role indie bookshops such…

24th May 2025

International Booker Winner 

And the winner is… Congratulations to Banu Mushtaq and her translator, Deepa Bhasthi, winners of the International Booker Prize 2025 for Heart Lamp, the first collection of short stories to win…

9th April 2025

International Booker Shortlist 

Awarded annually, the International Booker Prize celebrates the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories translated into English and published in the UK and/or…

26th March 2025

The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction – Shortlist announced

The shortlist for this year’s Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction has just been announced, and it’s a great list!  “Included in our list are narratives that honour the…

4th March 2025

The Women’s Prize for Fiction

The Women’s Prize for Fiction – 2025 Longlist The longlist for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced, and it’s an exciting line-up…

12th February 2025

The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction

The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction – 2025 Longlist The longlist for this year’s Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction was announced this morning, and it’s an exciting…

12th January 2025

Gift a Book 2024

Thanks to your incredible generosity, we were able to gift a record-breaking 980 books to local charities through our ‘Gift a Book’ initiative. This year’s…

30th December 2024

Have you ever dreamed of running your own Bookshop?

If so, here’s your opportunity – Gerrards Cross Bookshop is for sale! As you know, we (Sheryl and Martin) are passionate about the value of…

14th November 2024

ORBITAL by Samantha Harvey – Winner of the Booker Prize 2024!

Huge congratulations to Samantha Harvey for winning the Booker Prize with her luminous, beautifully written novella ORBITAL! We’ve been recommending this book to our readers…