Please be upstanding for the winner of our #IndieBookshopWeek competition!

We hope you enjoyed Independent Bookshop Week as much as we did!

The love for independent bookshops such as ours here in Portswood, never fails to delight and amaze. We’ve been feeling the love from all angles!

To give something back, we held a competition asking you to share on Twitter the reason why you love supporting your favourite local radical bookshop (that’s us @OctoberBooks) using the hashtag #indiebookshopweek. And the results were just gorgeous!

We’re very proud to announce the winner…

Andrew Halliday @AndrewDHalliday

@octoberbooks is the most exciting and invigorating book buying experience for myself as one who loves to feel informed and nourished in their soul re: global issues, social change, activism - dangerously well stocked and energetic atmosphere in there... #indiebookshopweek

Thank you so much Andrew for your kind words, we’re so happy you enjoy the shop - we hope you spend the £20 OB vouchers wisely you lucky person! And keep on supporting your indies - we rely on people like you :)