The Small Press of the Year Award returns for a second year.
The British Book Awards, or Nibbies, have revealed the regional
shortlists for the 2020 Independent Bookshop of the Year with a record
49 bookshops from nine regions across the UK and Ireland vying to be
named the country’s best indie retailer for books.
The shops will compete to win their region first—to be announced on
20th March—with those stores battling for the top prize at the Nibbies
ceremony on 18th May. Sponsor Gardners Books will once again present the
overall winner with a cheque for £5,000 to be put towards the running
of the shop.
Three of last year’s Independent Bookshop of the Year regional
winners (Five Leaves, Book-ish, and DRAKE—the Bookshop) will attempt to
retain their crowns. Nottingham’s Five Leaves, which won the overall
gong in 2018, notched a sixth straight year as a regional shortlistee.
But there are newcomers on the list, too, including Bristol’s Storysmith
and The Margate Bookshop, which began trading in 2018 and 2019,
respectively...
The shortlists in full are below, while more information on each of the shops can be found here.
Source: The Bookseller