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Meta wins bid to prevent Pan Macmillan author and former employee from promoting memoir

An emergency arbitrator has temporarily prohibited Meta’s former director of global public policy and author of the tell-all memoir Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams, from promoting or further distributing copies of her book.

Waterstones' Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce on the importance of books to early years development

LBF 2025: ‘Incredibly busy’ fair upbeat as US spends big, but some hit by IRC problems

The British Book Awards 2025 Library of the Year regional and county winners revealed

Unbound goes into administration as Archna Sharma and John Mitchinson launch new publisher

The British Book Awards

Got it Covered: Nibbies 35th anniversary special

Today's News Stories

Celebration of life to be held for the late Nicholas Byam Shaw, former macmillan CEO

Wiley launches AI tool for authors as new partnership is announced

History hit: Historian and podcaster Tom Holland's newest title goes to Abacus and Basic Books

Batch completes US Big Five 'grand slam' as international expansion ramps up

Actor Rosie Day's 'beautiful and confronting' debut novel goes to Serpent's Tail

Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall's debut novel to be adaptated for television

Waterstones expands Books of the Month with YA and additional non-fiction offerings

French publishers to take Meta to court over 'use of copyrighted work to train AI'

Waterstones to host midnight openings for Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games prequel

Orion Ignite: an imprint with a shared mission and purpose

SoA launches new guidelines for ‘communicating effectively during the submissions process’

The Bookseller’s Rising Stars opens for nominations in its 15th year

Canongate moves for Patrick Ness' 'genre-bending and phenomenal' love story

The British Book Awards 2025 Small Press of the Year regional and country winners unveiled

Baskerville and four others snare 'exhilarating' Gilly Macmillan thriller

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Rights Report

The Borough Press wins four-way auction for Meg Charlton’s debut novel Voyagers

Sphere to publish 'major' Gallagher brothers biography ahead of Oasis tour

Coronet signs ‘delightful’ Pride and Prejudice sequel from comedian Rachel Parris

HarperNorth signs How to Defeat the Far Right by HOPE not hate founder Nick Lowles

Kiran Millwood Hargrave's Parisian romance goes to Picador and Summit Books in 'substantial pre-empt'

Transworld acquires Ruth Newton’s high-concept thriller The Carriers

HarperNorth signs two ‘spicy’ romance novels by Bonnie Woods

Today's News Stories

Celebration of life to be held for the late Nicholas Byam Shaw, former macmillan CEO

Wiley launches AI tool for authors as new partnership is announced

Meta wins bid to prevent Pan Macmillan author and former employee from promoting memoir

LBF 2025: ‘Incredibly busy’ fair upbeat as US spends big, but some hit by IRC problems

History hit: Historian and podcaster Tom Holland's newest title goes to Abacus and Basic Books

Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall's debut novel to be adaptated for television

Actor Rosie Day's 'beautiful and confronting' debut novel goes to Serpent's Tail

The British Book Awards 2025 Library of the Year regional and county winners revealed

Batch completes US Big Five 'grand slam' as international expansion ramps up

Unbound goes into administration as Archna Sharma and John Mitchinson launch new publisher

Waterstones expands Books of the Month with YA and additional non-fiction offerings

French publishers to take Meta to court over 'use of copyrighted work to train AI'

Latest Issue

London Book Fair 2025: Day 3

The Bookseller at the London Book Fair. Day 3. March 13, 2025

News LBF Day 3 headlines
Q&A Cassie Rocks
My LBF Alex Cochran
Author Interview Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Comment Hannah Hargrave on self-publishing

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

Horace hits the tiles and girds his loins for the coming dystopia

by Horace Bent

It’s a jazz-hands goodbye to London Book Fair 2025 as the green-eyed monster stalks the aisles of Olympia…

Self-published authors can have standout publicity campaigns, too

by Hannah Hargrave

Indie authors may think that an effective publicity campaign is out of their reach. Think again.

Battle of the books

by Charlie English

The US government is banning the same authors it once used to fight Soviet censorship.

Horace walks LBF's heaving aisles after a transatlantic grilling

by Horace Bent

Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

Horace hits the tiles and girds his loins for the coming dystopia

by Horace Bent

It’s a jazz-hands goodbye to London Book Fair 2025 as the green-eyed monster stalks the aisles of Olympia…

Self-published authors can have standout publicity campaigns, too

by Hannah Hargrave

Battle of the books

by Charlie English

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

Bluey is top dog for fourth week running

In the week of World Book Day, the 12 £1 titles given out by bookshops in exchange for vouchers have seen a total of 417,957 copies pass through the tills, according to the latest data from Nielsen Book Scan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM).

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Bluey's Little Book (WBD)

2

Pokémon: The Epic Pocket Guide (WBD)

3

Adventures of Paddington: Farm Escape! (WBD)

4

Tales from Acorn Wood (WBD)

5

LEGO Our Amazing Universe (WBD)

6

The Fart That Broke World Book Day (WBD)

7

Geomancer (WBD)

8

This Story is a Lie (WBD)

9

The Soccer Diaries - Rocky Takes the Lead (WBD)

10

Barbara's Very Useful Guide to Moods (WBD)

1

Wild Side

2

The Suspect

3

The Second Sleep

4

The Locked Door

5

Belsay

6

Iron Flame

7

The House of Lost Secrets

8

The Wedding People

9

The Wives

10

Verity

1

The Let Them Theory

2

Fourth Wing

3

Belsay

4

Onyx Storm

5

Iron Flame

6

Atomic Habits

7

We All Live Here

8

The Cut

9

The Trading Game

10

Dungeon Crawler Carl

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Authors interviews, news and book previews

Waterstones' Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce on the importance of books to early years development

The Waterstones Children’s Laureate is on a mission to use his tenure to champion the importance of early years development.

Books in the Media: Natasha Brown's social satire hits a winning note

This week, medicine dominated non-fiction reviews, while novels explored wealth and class in England and the complications of love.

Joe Abercrombie talks his new novel and its cast of fantastical reprobates

Set in a ’medieval-ish [...] version of Europe’, The Devils is the first instalment in a planned series from fantasy heavyweight Abercrombie.

Books on BookTok: social media's impact on reading

This week BookTok creators reflected on how social media can build a readership for a book, the pros and cons of book-related merch and the rise of events aimed at influencers.

Books in the Media: Natasha Brown's social satire hits a winning note

Joe Abercrombie talks his new novel and its cast of fantastical reprobates

Books on BookTok: social media's impact on reading

Josh Silver’s latest YA thriller explores how society deals with mental health and trauma, with a sinister dystopian twist

More Author Interviews

Krystelle Bamford on her debut novel, a dark comedy set on a sprawling New England estate

Comic timing is necessary at a time of online confusion, says Nathanael Lessore

Hedging his best: one man's passion becomes his rural idyll

From the floorboards up: Carissa Broadbent's star in the ascendant

Indie author Rachel McLean on the steep learning curve of self-publishing

Latest Previews (Beta)

Fiction Previews

With the public’s appetite for challenging fiction undiminished, spring’s literary offer comes crammed with names old and new

by Lauren Brown

Is a River Alive?

Robert Macfarlane

A Family Matter

Clare Lynch

The Kid Who Fell Through Time

Greg James, Chris Smith

Six Conversations We’re Scared to Have

Deborah Frances-White

Idle Grounds

Krystelle Bamford

Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob

Huw Aaron

Deep Cuts

Holly Brickley

There are Rivers in the Sky

Elif Shafak

Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress & Dr Crippen

Hallie Rubenhold

Paperback Previews

by Will Smith

Discover Previews

by Natasha Onwuemezi

Non-fiction Previews

by Caroline Sanderson

Children's Previews

by Charlotte Eyre

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