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Every month, indie bookshops select the very best adult fiction and children's books to champion, from Black Cake to Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good. We're giving you the chance to win the Indie Books of the Month so far this year AND a £60/€70 National Book Token so you can buy the rest!
The Indie Books of the Month this year so far are:ADULT FICTIONJanuary: Little Wing by Freya NorthFebruary: Black Cake by by Charmaine WilkersonMarch: Sell Us The Rope by Stephen MayApril: The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina AhmadMay: Black Butterflies by Priscilla MorrisJune: Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn BoothCHILDREN'S BOOKSJanuary: Jummy at the River School by Sabine AdeyinkaFebruary: Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good by Louie StowellMarch: It’s a Wonderful World: How to Protect the Planet and Change the Future by Jess FrenchApril: We Sang Across the Sea: The Empire Windrush and Me by Benjamin Zephaniah, illustrated by Onyinye IwuMay: Wilder than Midnight by Cerrie BurnellJune: Fight Back by A.M. Dassu
"There is no pleasure quite like emerging from an independent bookshop with a recommendation – or a discovery – that you know you would not have made elsewhere." - Jokha Alharthi, author of Bitter Orange TreeDiscover the #IndieBookoftheMonth every month in your local indie or by following @booksaremybag.
This competition ended on 21/07/2022
2 x winner will each receive either a set of children's or adult Indie Books of the Month, plus a £60/€75 National Book Tokens gift card10 x runners-up will receive a £10/€15 National Book Tokens gift card
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