08 Oct Time Out ‘Love London’ Awards: Vote for bookshops and libraries
Regular visitors to this site will be well aware that the special edition of The Box of Demons is only available from independent bookshops. (If you’re not aware, then read this.) Since the book was published, I’ve visited many of the shops stocking it – and have been in touch with many more on Twitter – and have been blown away by the support they’ve shown me. So I think it’s time for me to support some of them back. (Well, the London ones, at least.)
Time Out are currently running their Love London Awards, where people can vote for their favourite London businesses. There are a number of bookshops listed, and I’ve voted for as many as I can. I’d urge you to do the same, which is why I’ve put together a list of all the indie bookshops up for awards by area. (Note: not all of them stock The Box of Demons. Some are very, very specialist.)
You can vote only once in each category for each area, but you can vote in as many areas as you like. If you, like me, love bricks-and-mortar bookshops then perhaps you won’t mind taking the time to vote for some or all of these:
Bloomsbury & Holborn: Atlantis Bookshop, Bookmarks, Persephone Books, Treadwell’s Bookshop
Covent Garden & The Strand: Natalie Galustian Rare Books
Hackney: Broadway Bookshop, Donlon Books
Holloway: Kindness Offensive Bookshop
Kentish Town & Tufnell Park: The Owl Bookshop
Kilburn & West Hampstead: West End Lane Books
Leyton: All You Read Is Love
Marylebone: Daunt Books
Muswell Hill: Muswell Hill Children’s Bookshop
Notting Hill & Westbourne Park: Luytens & Rubinstein
Shoreditch & Hoxton: Artwords Bookshop
Stoke Newington: Stoke Newington Bookshop
Wood Green: Big Green Bookshop
The following libraries are also in the running for awards, in the ‘Local Culture’ category:
Brixton Library, Camden Library, Hornsey Library, Dulwich Library, Ealing Central Library, Belsize Library (Hampstead), Lewisham Library, Peckham Library, Canada Water Library
(Also, my friends’ restaurant, Tomo Pizzeria, is nominated in the Restaurant category for Crouch End & Hornsey, if you don’t mind doing them a favour while you’re at it.)
You can vote here.Voting is free, but you do need to register. It only takes a minute, particularly if you do it through social media.
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