why opt indie?Opt Indie Books is a celebration of bookshops, books and the people who read them.
We champion small press publishers from across the UK and Ireland & shine a light on the incredible work booksellers do within their communities, for their high streets & for all their readers. When you choose to support Opt Indie Books you choose to support real people with a passion for great stories. With bookseller interviews, monthly publisher features & a carefully curated list of new books each week. OPT INTO INDEPENDENT THINKING, INDIE BOOKSELLING & INDIE PUBLISHING |
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featured five
OPT INTO NEW BOOKS . . .
Take a chance with one of our Featured Five
Break out of your comfort zone and pick up something new from us.
Put you feet up, dive in and enjoy!
Take a chance with one of our Featured Five
Break out of your comfort zone and pick up something new from us.
Put you feet up, dive in and enjoy!
Choose one (or all five!) from our list above to get inspired, get lost, or get motivated this week.
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COMING SOON!
Take a look ahead at some of the biggest new titles coming from indie publishers in 2024. Featuring some of the best writers and translators from across the globe - in fiction, non-fiction & children's - brought to you by some of the very best small presses here in the U.K.
While we continue to bring you our Featured Five each week, here you can get a glimpse of the bookshop bookshelves of the future.
Get ahead of the crowd & take a virtual browse today!
While we continue to bring you our Featured Five each week, here you can get a glimpse of the bookshop bookshelves of the future.
Get ahead of the crowd & take a virtual browse today!
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spotlight
shining a light on the UK's best bookshops
CAROLYNN BAINAFRORI BOOKS, BRIGHTONAs the founder of the award winning Afrori Books and Brighton Book festival, Carolynn BAIN is a leading name in championing diversity and inclusion in the UK’s bookselling community. Having gone from launching an online shop to opening the doors of their first bookshop in 2021, expanding in 2023, and being named Individual Bookseller of the Year at last year’s Nibbies, shortlisted for Bookshop of The Year 2024, and winning Brighton’s Business of the Year 2023, there was plenty to talk about. |
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This is the part of opt indie books where we celebrate an independent bookshop from across the uk & Ireland and the amazing work they're doing; highlighting the vital role indie bookshops play in their communities and on their high streets.
Booksellers are on the front line of the industry. Faced with an endless range of choice, each & every bookshop has their own unique selection of books and their own unique way of representing & presenting them. You won't find two bookshops alike, just like you won't find two booksellers who share the same experiences or backgrounds.
A bookshop is only ever as good as its workforce, and a bookseller's knowledge & passion for books is what brings readers back to their shop time & time again.
Each month we showcase a different bookshop & interview one of the booksellers who calls that shop home...
sometimes both literally & figuratively!
Go take a browse through all our past bookshop features here.
Booksellers are on the front line of the industry. Faced with an endless range of choice, each & every bookshop has their own unique selection of books and their own unique way of representing & presenting them. You won't find two bookshops alike, just like you won't find two booksellers who share the same experiences or backgrounds.
A bookshop is only ever as good as its workforce, and a bookseller's knowledge & passion for books is what brings readers back to their shop time & time again.
Each month we showcase a different bookshop & interview one of the booksellers who calls that shop home...
sometimes both literally & figuratively!
Go take a browse through all our past bookshop features here.
press of the month
We don't just support independent bookshops. we also love indie publishers.
Each month Opt Indie Books features an independent publisher or small press from across the UK and Ireland, helping showcase their eclectic, sometimes radical, often overlooked but always unique and carefully curated stories to a new audience.
Each month Opt Indie Books features an independent publisher or small press from across the UK and Ireland, helping showcase their eclectic, sometimes radical, often overlooked but always unique and carefully curated stories to a new audience.
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RICHARD VILLAGEFOUNDRY EDITIONS, FOUNDERFor our next Featured Press Spotlight, we spoke with publisher and translator Richard Village, founder of Mediterranean translation specialists and one of the newest small presses on the UK publishing scene, Foundry Editions.
Launched in 2023, Foundry Editions has already rolled out an eclectic catalogue of new titles this summer—from authors such as Maria Grazia Calandrone, Rosa Ribas, and Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin—with many more on the publishing horizon. Ahead of our first-ever Opt Indie Book Club, where we’ll be reading one of Foundry Editions’ lead titles, Brandy Sour by Constantia Soteriou, we were excited to sit down with Richard, who was also joined by David Sassoon, to discuss how their first season of publishing has played out, learn more about their journey into publishing, and discover what we can expect from Foundry Editions in the coming year. |
Opt Indie Book Club: BRANDY SOURWhere: THE FRENCH QUARTER, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SA
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