Writers including Matt Haig, Malorie Blackman and Adam Kay are backing #SignForOurBookshops, autographing bookplates by Chris Riddell to boost trade
Matt Haig, Malorie Blackman and Adam Kay are among hundreds of authors who have come together in a “thunderclap of support” to encourage readers to buy from their local bookshop, as a second lockdown in England forces stores up and down the country to close.
Booksellers across the UK were already struggling after the national lockdown this spring, with some coronavirus restrictions still in place in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But they fear the additional impact of closures imposed in the run-up to Christmas, when some of the year’s most popular books are released and there is usually a surge in sales.
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