Guide for Authors

If you're interested in having your book stocked by us, we've put together a helpful guide on how we choose titles for the shop. 

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As an independent bookshop, we have limited space to stock the incredible number of books published every year so we need to make sure that each and every book is one that we think represents our bookshop, is a title we'd be happy to recommend and would be of interest to our audience. This can mean some hard decisions have to be made!

​How to enquire about stocking your book

If you'd like to send us a stock enquiry, you can send us an email at authors@thesmallcitybookshop.co.uk.

Please include a brief description of the book, an image of the cover and details of ordering and terms.

Please note, our minimum trade discount is 40%. 

We are unable to stock any books printed via the Amazon print-on-demand service due to the lack of time to review the content in full.  Similarly, we don't accept any books with any part (text, illustration, translation or editing) from generative A.I.

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We receive a high number of enquiries each week, and although we try to respond to as many as we can, we can't respond to all emails. 

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​How to enquire about hosting your book launch

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Congratulations on the publication of your book. If you'd like to enquire about events we organise or hire the shop to host your own book launch, please email authors@thesmallcitybookshop.co.uk for more details.

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