Bearded Badger Books
@beardedbadgerbooks
Derbyshire based indie publisher | indie press champion | pop up bookshop
Well well… A nice little shout out for our little indie book shop in a shipping container on the mighty 6music Lauren Laverne show!! Cheers for the love @gigticket.bsky.social ❤️📚
Our lil’ shipping container indie bookshop is back open from 9am tomorrow for all your literary pleasures… with the (coolest!) boy at the steering wheel! 📚 #booksky #indiebookshop #books
It’s a shipping container ’village’; aside from our bookshop there are other shops, food vendors, a coffee shop and a bar!!
Just an old man reflecting and feeling content with how the first week of opening a bookshop in a shipping container has gone!! Thanks to everyone who popped by to see us… you’re a lovely bunch!!! ❤️📚 #booksky #books #indiebookshop
I had the loveliest book post at the shop this morning… a copy of @michelehowarth.com book ‘Glitterballs’!! Quite apt as our shop has several hanging outside!! I’m really looking forward to reading this… sounds fantastic!! 😊 🪩 📚 ❤️ #booksky #bookshop #books
Always a pleasure to get a visit from the LEGENDARY @drewgum.bsky.social 🦩🏩 #booksky #indiebookshop #indiepublishing
I love the way the light catches the mirrorballs outside the shop and reflect them on the books… 🪩
In case anyone wanted to visit our little bookshop… here’s the opening hours for August! #indiebookshop #booksky
Saturday! Following yesterday’s opening day I’ve now reduced the panic level status frok high to medium!!! 😎
Considering we only started moving in on Saturday… I think we’ve come a long way in a few days!! 💪🏼 Shelving all done and the first load of books have hit the shelves… (plenty more to come!!). Still a bit to do for Friday opening - but I reckon we’ll be ‘reyt mi duck’ as they say in these parts!!
Nearly there!! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 Shelving pretty much done ✅ Books en route ✅ A few little bits n bobs to sort… but feeling confident for opening on Friday!! 📚🙌🏼❤️ #indiebookshop #booksky #indiebooks
We’re getting there!! Painting done ✅ (Mrs Badger is a legend!) Shelving starting to go up!! Books due this week!! Happy Paul!! 😎📚🙌🏼 #booksky #indiebookshop
And so it begins… operation bookshop!! #booksky #indiebookshop #indiebooks
🚨NEW BOOKSHOP🚨 The cat is out of the bag… Bearded Badger v2.0 is GO!! We’re taking on a unit at the new Bustler complex in Derby city centre… can’t wait to get back bookselling!!! 😎📚🙌🏼 #books #indiebookshop #booksky
All set up for your literary pleasures at The Garage in Chilwell (near Notts). Here 10-2pm 📚😊❤️
I attended a pretty cool event this morning where 303 people came to our local park for ‘The Big Read’ to celebrate Belper 250 (recognising Belper’s role in the Industrial Revolution) and the National Year Of Reading! My book choice; Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday… superb, def recommend.
Doing a thing with the good folks @writingeastmidlands.com I’m always at my happiest when I’m rattling on about indie publishing and books - come along, why don’t you? 😊📚 #indiepublishing #indiepublisher #afaceonlyamothercouldlove
Just like the Bank of England updating the images on banknotes, we’ve decided we needed a facelift. Welcome to Bearded Beaver Publishing & Books! 🦫 📚 #checkthedate #ifitsgoodenoughforthefiver
Next pop up alert!! 🚨 We’ll be at the magnificent Derby Market Hall on Saturday 28th March with our usual delicatessen of literary delights (or bloody good books as I like to call ‘em). Come and fill yer boots!! 📚📚📚📚 #books #indiebooks #indiebookshop #derby #derbados
Happy #worldbookday 🙌🏼🙌🏼 Here’s a photo of our Ben from a few moons back as the Mad Hatter (from Alice…). He looked great - just shame we’d got the dates mixed up and sent him to school like this the day before WBD!!! 😂 Don’t worry… we did it all again the next day!! 😊
Ay up me ducks!! We’ll be kicking off our 2026 pop-ups with an appearance at the brilliant market at The Garage in Chilwell this Sunday. It’s a superb market - loads of great vendors… so if you’re in or around Notts on Sunday and at a loose end… come and pop by!! 😊📚📚📚📚📚 #books #indiebookshop
Our next ‘Beyond Borders Book Club’ pick is the marvellous ’Monstrilio’ by Gerardo Sámano Córdova, published by one of my faves @deadinkbooks.bsky.social - can’t wait to see what the group think of this one!! 🔥
Lovely day at Derby Market Hall today… made all the lovelier by a visit from @drewgum.bsky.social who swung by for a good old chinwag and to sign a few copies of 🦩🏩 #booksky
All set up Derby Book Festival with our own books and a carefully curated selection from across the indie presses and some writers I absolutely love!! @drewgum.bsky.social is popping by to sign a few copies of 🦩🏩 as well - so looking forward to catching up with him!! Here until 4pm!! #booksky
Ok… this is a BIG DEAL. Published back in 2020, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel by the unsurpassable @drewgum.bsky.social was our first novel… and as a consequence of us going to into hibernation for a while, it’s sadly been out of print. NOT ANY LONGER!!!! IT’S BACK!!!!
All set up at Bouquet in Little Eaton (Derbyshire) - come and say hello!! 📚☕️🍷🍾
Oh… some news from Badger HQ - we’ve pressed CTRL+P to get a small run of the brilliant ‘Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel’ by @drewgum.bsky.social back in print!! A book this good deserves to be available, and will hopefully serve as a springboard for new titles in 2026!! 🤞🏼
Doing our pop-up indie bookshop thing at The Garage in Chilwell next Sunday… it’s a great market in a cool space (an old bus depot!!) - come along why don’t ya!!
We had us a grand day yesterday for #bookshopday at our pop-up at Bouquet in Little Eaton (Derbyshire); loads of lovely bookish chats with lovely folks and even managed to sell a few books too!! 😊📚