The Booksellers Association (BA) has announced its ambassadors for Independent Bookshop Week 2025, Lorraine Kelly, Mike Gayle and LD Lapinski, while poet and author Michael Pedersen will write the exclusive Independent Bookshop Week poem.
The annual celebration of independent bookshops across the UK and Ireland, founded in 2006, will take place Saturday 14th June to Saturday 21st June, with Hachette UK as the headline sponsor.
In 2024, approximately 700 independent bookshops participated with the Booksellers Association, via Books Are My Bag, providing each with a kit containing bunting, posters, bookmarks, postcards and shelf strips – alongside a suite of digital assets available in English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish. This year, 723 independent bookshops have already registered to participate.
Books Are My Bag also launched Independent Bookshop Week’s Big Book Club in 2024, which consisted of 20 independent bookshops bringing together over 350 readers.
Broadcaster and author of The Island Swimmer (Orion) Lorraine Kelly said: “I am so thrilled to be an ambassador for Independent Bookshop Week. Independent bookshops play a huge part in communities across the UK as they create new generations of readers, which as a book lover is incredibly close to my heart.”
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