Emma Chapman's Indie Bookshop Crawl comes to Woodstock

This summer author Emma Chapman is visiting as many independent bookshops as she can manage in a month, travelling from Land's End to St Andrews to promote her new book How to Be a Good Wife ('Brilliantly convincing...darkly fascinating' - Financial Times):

'I’m not ready to lose bookshops from our high streets. If we really think about it, I don’t think many of us are. It’s easy to shake our heads as yet another indie closes its doors, but are we really doing anything to prevent it? We continue to buy from online retailers, despite the fact that many indies offer next-day delivery. Amazon is able to discount books, often taking a loss which it makes up on other products. So perhaps we are saving one or two pounds on our book purchases—is that saving worth the loss of our local indies?

'I’m calling it #IndieBookCrawl. I’ll be tweeting (@emmajchapman) and “Facebooking” the journey and I’d love it if readers came along for the ride. You can pop down to a bookshop in person, or tweet your indie purchases during the month using the hashtag #indieBookCrawl. I’ll also be asking booksellers for their messages to readers.

'We make the purchasing decisions and hold the power to do something. Let’s make a stand and help out indies before it’s too late'

Emma will be calling in on The Woodstock Bookshop on Saturday 12 July - if you'd like to follow her progress, have a look at her blog here .