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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…