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Bored of lunch? Self Help and Healthy Eating take a smaller slice of the pie

January may be a time of making lifestyle changes, but one thing that never changes is that those resolutions lead to big sales in certain categories at the beginning of each year.

Editor's Letter

Time for the CMA to admit that Amazon wields too much power?

Features

Review of the Year, Non-Fiction – Nonplussed: market charts leanest period in almost a decade

Features

Review of the Year – A certain romance: Fiction soars, with romantasy and love stories leading the way

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Translation adjacent

The British Book Awards

Got it Covered: Nibbies 35th anniversary special

Today's News Stories

US Authors Guild launches 'human authored' certification in battle against AI-generated books

Storytel Group acquires majority stake in the Swedish publisher Bokfabriken

Sweet Cherry Publishing moves to Gardners for distribution

Creative Scotland to provide £200m in funding after government boost

Orion's Jennifer Wilson becomes managing director of Hodder & Stoughton

Sam Birmingham appointed director of international rights at Trident Media Group

Authors and literary agents 'angry and frustrated' by Facebook impersonations

Musical based on Neil Gaiman's Coraline cancelled following sexual misconduct allegations

Casemate UK rebrands to Script Publisher Services and bolsters board

Eye Books partners with BookSource for distribution

WH Smith Travel revenue rises as high street flags

Fiona Robertson's departure from Watkins sparks restructure

Judges for The British Book Awards 2025 to include Bonnie Garmus, Mary Portas and Reeta Chakrabarti

Campaigns for You Are Here and Intermezzo shortlisted for the 2024 PPC Annual Awards

The Emma Press appoints James Trevelyan as director

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Rights Report

Bookouture to publish latest Robert Gold novel in the US

Jonathan Cape snaps up Edward St Aubyn's 'exhilarating and wondrous' new novel

Canelo picks up romance series from Lulu Morris in three-book deal

Charco Press acquires Marcelo Rubens Paiva's memoir as film adaptation lands Oscar noms

Magic Cat snares first children's book by BBC Gardener's World presenter Frances Tophill

Headline secures book on British and Irish ancient sites by Peter Ross

Fig Tree acquires Angela Tomaski's 'dancingly witty and beguiling' debut at auction

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Today's News Stories

US Authors Guild launches 'human authored' certification in battle against AI-generated books

Storytel Group acquires majority stake in the Swedish publisher Bokfabriken

Review of the Year, Non-Fiction – Nonplussed: market charts leanest period in almost a decade

Review of the Year – A certain romance: Fiction soars, with romantasy and love stories leading the way

Sweet Cherry Publishing moves to Gardners for distribution

Creative Scotland to provide £200m in funding after government boost

Orion's Jennifer Wilson becomes managing director of Hodder & Stoughton

Sam Birmingham appointed director of international rights at Trident Media Group

Authors and literary agents 'angry and frustrated' by Facebook impersonations

Musical based on Neil Gaiman's Coraline cancelled following sexual misconduct allegations

Casemate UK rebrands to Script Publisher Services and bolsters board

Eye Books partners with BookSource for distribution

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Latest Issue

31st January 2025

In this week's issue:

Review of the Year: Fiction soars in our genre-focused look at 2024
Author Profile: Holly Brickley explores the transformative connection between music, art and love
Author Profile: How a childhood love of Victorian literature fed into Zohra Nabi’s new children’s novel
Previews: Paperback – New titles publishing in April

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

Lessons from an AI author

by Helena Gustafsson

We’ve released our first AI-authored audiobook. Here’s what we learned.

Time for the CMA to admit that Amazon wields too much power?

by Philip Jones

Translation adjacent

by Kotryna Garanasvili

Translators do so much more than translation – and we need the industry’s help.

A call to AI action

by Clementine Collett

The government’s consultation on AI and copyright must inspire action from everyone in publishing.

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Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

Lessons from an AI author

by Helena Gustafsson

We’ve released our first AI-authored audiobook. Here’s what we learned.

Time for the CMA to admit that Amazon wields too much power?

by Philip Jones

Translation adjacent

by Kotryna Garanasvili

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Weekly print bestsellers based on data supplied by Nielsen BookScan. Other digital charts from Bookstat and Audible.

Bestsellers

Bored of lunch? Self Help and Healthy Eating take a smaller slice of the pie

January may be a time of making lifestyle changes, but one thing that never changes is that those resolutions lead to big sales in certain categories at the beginning of each year.

PrinteBookAudio

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Onyx Storm

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Cruel is the Light

3

Fourth Wing

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Iron Flame

5

The List of Suspicious Things

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What's Your Dream?

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The Wrong Hands

8

Orbital

9

I Will Ruin You

10

Atomic Habits

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Onyx Storm

2

I Will Find You

3

In Plain Sight

4

The Wives

5

The Boyfriend

6

Fourth Wing

7

The Lake

8

The Locked Door

9

Iron Flame

10

The Bookshop Ladies

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Onyx Storm

2

What's Your Dream?

3

Atomic Habits

4

We Solve Murders

5

Murder on the Marlow Belle

6

Poison Garden

7

Make Change That Lasts

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The Hotel Avocado

9

Ready Player One

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I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

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Authors interviews, news and book previews

Author Interviews

Holly Brickley's enthralling debut explores why music is the food of love

With the Noughties music scene serving as a backdrop, Holly Brickley’s debut novel explores the connection between music, art and love.

Author Interviews

Zohra Nabi tells a tale of two cities with her new novel

With her new middle-grade novel replete with tales of child trafficking and homelessness, Nabi draws illuminating parallels between Victorian and modern-day London.

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Books on BookTok: 2025 genre predictions

This week, creators predicted the genres they believe will be most popular on BookTok in 2025.

Author Interviews

Anthony Cheetham on the books that shaped him

The veteran publishing fire-starter is back in the world of books, and believes there is still much to be achieved in the business, both by looking back and forwards.

Author Interviews