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?We’ve got an offer today from Michael O’Mara Books for Where’s the Meerkat? Activity packs for IBW, ideal for entertaining children during IBW in-store while parents browse.

Each pack includes:

• Spreads from the Number One bestseller Where’s the Meerkat??and new title Where’s the Meerkat on Holiday? where children can search for little meerkats in each beautiful scene

• Spreads from Meerkat Mischief with dot-to-dots and colouring pages

• ‘I Found The Meerkat!’ stickers

• Learn how to draw a meerkat with our easy guide

• Child-safe coloured crayons (while stocks last)

• Showcards / display material while stocks last

To order a pack please contact:

Jess Barratt 020 7819 5917 / jessica.barratt@mombooks.com or

Ana McLaughlin 020 7819 5911 ana.mclaughlin@mombooks.com

For Sales enquiries please contact Sally Wilks on 020 7819 5916 / sally.wilks@mombooks.com

Here is the IBW Big Book Quiz ready for download – ideal if you want to run an authorless event during the Week!

IBW Big Book Quiz Questions

Booksellers who would like the answer sheets, please email meryl.halls@booksellers.org.uk

Delighted to let you all have a list of the authors supporting IBW who are on Twitter – thanks to them all!

http://tinyurl.com/bpj7k9r

You will be very well aware of the fantastic Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, a Sunday Times bestseller, and the cause of several laughing-out-loud moments in bookshops across the land…  in fact, if ever a book were made for IBW, then this could well be it…

So, we are delighted to let you know that Jen Campbell, author of the book (and poet) is available for IBW bookshop events, from 4^th to 7^th July.  Jen can come along to do a signing, meet reading groups, promote her book – she is charming and very keen to get involved in IBW.  Email Jen directly if you would like her to visit your shop jenvcampbell@gmail.com

In addition, the publisher of the book, Constable & Robinson, is offering IBW booksellers extra discount - for more information email meryl.halls@booksellers.org.uk

And, inspired by the success of the book, we are going to run an IBW Overheard in A Bookshop competition – we would love to hear from you with comments, questions and weirdnesses that you overhear (or have said to you!) in the course of a day in the shop.  Between now and the end of IBW (7^th July), please send in your overheard (or direct!) comments from customers to meryl.halls@booksellers.org.uk and/or jenvcampbell@gmail.com

We’re hopeful of getting a great range of comments in from you all, and who knows, maybe we might even create our own book!

Here is our campaign poster for this year.

In addition to this poster, bookshops will receive

• BellyBands for IBW Collectibles
• Empty Belly Posters for Events
• Bookmarks – 2 designs
• National Reading Group Empty Belly Posters
• Cut-out logos

As well as a wealth of stuff to download and print off yourself.  The POS should be with booksellers by the end of May, courtesy of Gardners Books – to them MANY THANKS!  More details shortly!

Contact meryl.halls@booksellers.org.uk or sharon.benton@booksellers.org.uk for more information.

Can’t resist sharing some of our sister campaign, IndieBound, bookshop posters we have created around summer sport in the capital… all available from www.indiebound.org.uk

Now on the site we have lots of resources to help booksellers plan their IBW events.  Please feel free to use these – they are all on the Bookseller Resources page.

• Guide to Organizing Events
• Guide to Twitter
• Guide to Facebook
• Media Lists
• IBW Quiz (to follow)

We are also able to help booksellers who have Strictly Come Bookselling ideas for IBW – tracey.jennings@midaspr.co.uk or emma.lawson@midaspr.co.uk can help with PR, especially with big-name authors.

We also need booksellers to tell us your plans for IBW.  We will build a listing of all bookshop events on the site so LET US KNOW – email sharon.benton@booksellers.org.uk or meryl.halls@booksellers.org.uk

A whole raft of HarperCollins authors are now available for IBW.

Fiona Gibson – Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland (The Great Escape)

Miranda Dickinson – Wollaston, Stourbridge, West Midlands (Welcome to My World)

Sue Welfare – Downham Market (One Night Only)

Victoria Connelly – Assington, Sudbury, Suffolk (The Runaway Actress)

Pam Weaver – Worthing (Better Days Will Come)

Syd Moore – Leigh on Sea, Essex (The Drowning Pool)

For further information or to book these authors, contact Becke Parker email: becke.parker@harpercollins.co.uk

Also available are Clara Vulliamy (Martha & The Bunny Brothers), Ivan Brett (Caspar Candlewacks) and Sarwat Chadda (Ash Mistry Chronicles).

Contact lizz.skelly@harpercollins.co.uk for further information.

From Fourth Estate, we also have Nicci Cloke (Brixton, Someday Find Me) and Anjali Joseph (Norwich, Another Country)

Contact Rebecca.mcewan@harpercollins.co.uk

We are pleased to bring booksellers information on the new Fiction Uncovered www.fictionuncovered.co.uk shortlist (embargoed until 23rd May) and also on a price offer from Hodder on some great backlist titles.

Further information on both is available from meryl.halls@booksellers.org.uk or on the Bookseller Resources page.

Keep us informed on all the bookshop events you have planned.

Macmillan are offering some great authors for bookshop events for IBW this year.  Contact meryl.halls@booksellers.org.uk if you would like contact details for the publicists for the following authors – and don’t forget to let us know your IBW plans.  Follow us on Twitter too @Indie_BoundUK

Last Days                                            Adam NEVILL

The Nameless Dead                            Brian MCGILLOWAY

The History Room                              Eliza GRAHAM

Little Ern!       Robert                         James HOGG SELLERS

Manhattan in Reverse                         Peter F. HAMILTON

The Tenderloin                                    John BUTLER

Tell the Wolves I’m Home                  Carol Rifka BRUNT

The Thieves’ Labyrinth                       James MCCREET

Summer With My Sister                     Lucy DIAMOND

Caravans and Wedding Bands           Eva PETULENGRO

Banjo                                                   Samantha WYNNE-RHYDDERCH

The Spy Who Loved                           Clare MULLEY

The Child Who                                   Simon LELIC

The Opium War                                  Julia LOVELL

If This Is Home                                   Stuart EVERS