Love Your Local Bookshop - Independent Booksellers Book of the Year 2007

Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year 2007

Love Your Local Bookshop kicked off on October 10th 2007 with the Independent Booksellers’ Book of the Year Award. Independent booksellers created two shortlists – one adult and one children’s – for the public to vote on. The closing date for the voting was the 10th December and the winners were announced on the 17th December as Suite Franciase by Irene Nemirovsky for the Adult section, and Alone on a Wide Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo for the Chidren's category. Photographs of the Award presentations can be viewed by going into the Press Releases and Press Coverage section of this site

FREE Bookshop Point of Sale for the Independent Booksellers’ Book of the Year comprised:

400 x A6 Postcards for public votes
Counter-top Postcard Dispensers
4 x A3 Posters
210 Removable Stickers

Adult Top Ten

Amo, Amas, Amat... and All That

Mount, Harry

Short Books (Faber Alliance)

Cloudspotter's Guide,The

Pretor-Pinney, Gavin

Dangerous Book for Boys,The

Iggulden, Conn & Iggulden, Hal

God Delusion,The

Dawkins, Richard

Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid,The

Bryson, Bill

Half of a Yellow Sun

Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda

On Chesil Beach

McEwan, Ian

Restless

Boyd, William

Suite Francaise

Nemirovsky, Irene

Tenderness of Wolves,The

Penney, Stef

Children’s Top Ten

Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

Morpurgo, Michael

Book Thief, The

Zusak, Markus

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas,The

Boyne, John

Checkmate

Blackman, Malorie

Double or Die:Young Bond S.

Higson, Charlie

Eldest

Paolini, Christopher

End,The:Series of Unfortunate Events

Snicket, Lemony

I, Coriander

Gardner, Sally

Incredible Book Eating Boy,The

Jeffers, Oliver

My Wobbly Tooth Must Not Ever Never Fall Out

Child, Lauren