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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
