10th October Love Your Bookshop Day

 

The 2026 theme: Ask a bookseller. Shake up your shelf.

Booksellers know that finding your next great read isn’t always about what’s trending or what everyone else is reading. A conversation with a bookseller can introduce you to a new author, an unexpected favourite or exactly the right book at exactly the right time.

Yes, bookshops help to create and keep readers.

Every time a customer purchases a book in a bookshop they are contributing to the survival of a shop, the availability of skilled staff and the ability to talk about books and share impressions, enriching the booksellers and the customers.

When buying online, especially through monolithic book clearing houses, or department stores there is no investment in the local literary culture. There is not the opportunity to talk about books and reading, so this Saturday visit a bookshop, explore a new genre or buy something for a booklover.

Next best thing, read about the joys of a bookshop.

At The I Wonder Bookstore, customers come in and ask the owner countless variations on its namesake question ("I wonder if you have any books about  and he is happy to fill their requests in enchanting ways.

There's a mysterious bookshop, tucked away fromthe world, with a rather unusual bookseller... Mr Leopard!

Not only does Mr Leopard sell the most exciting
books, he also has a whole team of animals creating
the very best stories for children

A loveletter to bookshops and the space they provide for discovery and delight. A little boy adores visiting the old bookshop down Lemon Tree Lane with his grandpa – its nooks and crannies, its endless stories, and even the bookshop dog at the back. That is, until the day the owners box up the books, take down the shelves and lock the doors, and the bookshop is no more. 

Astrid's family has just moved in to the mouse hole in the bookshop on Maple Street, and none of her new classmates believes the incredible adventures she has with her family. But when she invites each of them to the bookshop, they'll see that there is a big, exciting world of possibilities there, just waiting to be discovered.

Milly loves going to story time at her local bookshop. Mrs Minty is an encyclopedia of books and knows the perfect story for every occasion ... tales of mischievous children and faraway lands, magical beasts and daring adventures. But the bookshop is old and creaky, just like Mrs Minty herself. And then one day Milly arrives to find the shop gone. What has happened to Mrs Minty and her irreplaceable bookshop?

And just in time for Halloween

Books are magic! Bookshops are spectacular! Don't believe us? Join Henry as he helps Griselda Snook on the opening day of her spooky bookshop! From hunting down runaway jack-o'-lanterns to banishing dragons, Henry loves his day spent in Griselda's bookshop, and he especially likes helping booklovers to find their next read. But can Henry find the perfect book for him?