Let’s celebrate the role bookshops play in fostering our imaginations this Love Your Bookshop Day, Saturday 12th October 2024

Bookshops offer people much more than a book. They present limitless portals to different worlds. Visiting a bookshop provides people with an opportunity to be transported to wherever they want to go, maybe it’s climbing a multi-storey treehouse to find the marshmallow machine, a trip to the outer edges of the universe exploring Arrakis, or even back in time to watch the first pages of the Oxford dictionary come together. Wherever we want to go, we can get there via our local bookshop.

Love Your Bookshop Day 2024 (LYBD 2024) celebrates the unique role our local bookshops play in helping to expand our worlds by ‘Giving the Gift of Imagination.

This year, let’s remind everyone of the unlimited worlds and opportunities that exist in their local bookshop. Get involved by sharing your activities across social media on the day and tagging #loveyourbookshop #LYBD2024.

Please also notify us in the lead up of any events you are planning to run by emailing Robyn Huppert, Communication Manager at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Laura Sedgwick, Public Relations Consultant at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

If you have any further questions please get in contact with the BookPeople team via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

About Love Your Bookshop Day

Love Your Bookshop Day is an annual celebration of everything local bookshops do from fostering expert staff and curating fabulous ranges to creating events programs to celebrate authors, readers and the books they cherish.

The key to a successful Love Your Bookshop Day is a great party and the BookPeople supports members in running successful events by providing a comprehensive marketing and publicity campaign, FOC point of sales packs, custom promotional bags and items for purchase, a dedicated Love Your Bookshop website. and downloadable resources.

BookPeople also assists by liaising with publishers and other industry-related partners to provide authors and other exciting opportunities for in-store events.