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Former Fleet publisher Ursula Doyle reaches undisclosed settlement with Hachette UK

Raymond Antrobus' first prose work for adults is a revelatory exploration of deafness

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Today's News Stories

Bernardine Evaristo receives Outstanding Contribution Award to mark 30th anniversary of Women's Prize for Fiction

Creative careers programme for young people expands thanks to £3m government boost

The Week Junior Book Awards 2025 shortlist unveiled

The trade says goodbye to Paul Bailey with memorial service at The Actors' Church

Bonnier Books UK celebrates 10-year anniversary at London's Barbican Conservatory

Society of Authors creates toolkit to 'empower' authors

Penguin Books launches eight lists to celebrate 90th birthday

WF Howes to re-release Mark Dawson’s thriller audio catalogue

National Literacy Trust becomes parent company of Centre for Literacy in Primary Education

New poetry magazine The Aftershock Review launches

Five novelists launch The Author Clinic for ‘writers at any stage of their careers’

Vintage pays tribute to ‘giant of international literature’ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Transworld creates 'industry first' virtual reality experience for Thomas R Weaver's Artificial Wisdom

Unbound authors will not receive unpaid royalty payments until new publisher Boundless 'is cash stable'

Books on BookTok: Adolescence and masculinity on BookTok

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Rights Report

Queen Camilla takes crowning role in latest novel by bestselling crime writer Peter James

Lesley-Ann Jones moves to Whitefox for publication of Freddie Mercury biography

Magic Cat are charmed by Annie Atkins’ latest book about witches

Kyle Books serves up Clodagh McKenna's 'most personal' cookbook yet

Little Island Books marks company first with two three-book deals signed with Kel Menton and Jen Wallace

Severn House scoops first 12 books in Jeffrey Siger's mystery series

Today's News Stories

Bernardine Evaristo receives Outstanding Contribution Award to mark 30th anniversary of Women's Prize for Fiction

Chloe Walsh releases Richard Osman from the top spot

Creative careers programme for young people expands thanks to £3m government boost

The Week Junior Book Awards 2025 shortlist unveiled

'Incredibly useful' or 'hallucinatory and racist': how book professionals have found using AI at work

The trade says goodbye to Paul Bailey with memorial service at The Actors' Church

Bonnier Books UK celebrates 10-year anniversary at London's Barbican Conservatory

Penguin Books launches eight lists to celebrate 90th birthday

Society of Authors creates toolkit to 'empower' authors

Books in the Media: praise for Maggie Stiefvater's 'ambitious' adult debut novel

WF Howes to re-release Mark Dawson’s thriller audio catalogue

Former Fleet publisher Ursula Doyle reaches undisclosed settlement with Hachette UK

Latest Issue

30th May 2025

In this week's issue:

Comment:The key to our children's futures lies in investment
Author Profile:Raymond Antrobus
Paperback Preview:August 2025
Back to School Focus:Hachette Learning profile, data and more

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Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

News for emerging authors: May

by Maame Blue

A hand-picked digest of news stories from the past month that emerging writers should know about.

The key to our children’s futures lies in investment

by Tom Tivnan

Keir Starmer made some welcome education policy plans when he swept to power, but so far he has yet to meet the challenges the country faces.

What did you do?

by Jamilah Ahmed

Publishing must face up to difficult conversations and events, not block them out.

The evolution of climate comms

by Oisín McGann

To engage readers with the climate crisis, publishing must get ever more creative.

Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

News for emerging authors: May

by Maame Blue

A hand-picked digest of news stories from the past month that emerging writers should know about.

The key to our children’s futures lies in investment

by Tom Tivnan

What did you do?

by Jamilah Ahmed

Bestsellers

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

Bestsellers

Chloe Walsh releases Richard Osman from the top spot

After three weeks leading the official UK Top 50, We Solve Murders (Viking) has relinquished its hold on the top spot, with Chloe Walsh’s Releasing 10 (Piatkus) – the fifth book in the Boys of Tommen series – taking the crown, selling just short of 25,000 copies according to the latest data from NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM).

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Releasing 10

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We Solve Murders

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Never Flinch

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The Hotel Avocado

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Intermezzo

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Midnight and Blue

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The Tenant

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Butter

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The World’s Worst Superheroes

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Here One Moment

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Releasing 10

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In a Thousand Different Ways

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The Tenant

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Rewind It Back

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The List of Suspicious Things

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Rock Paper Scissors

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All the Colours of the Dark

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Guilty by Definition

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One Day and Forever

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This is Why We Lied

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The Let Them Theory

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By Your Side

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Never Flinch

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The Salt Path

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The Devils

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I Love You, Byeee

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Original Sin

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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Sunrise on the Reaping

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Atomic Habits

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Books

Authors interviews, news and book previews

Books in the Media: praise for Maggie Stiefvater's 'ambitious' adult debut novel

Beguiling historical fiction, an accomplished biography and an exploration of the benefits of nuclear energy make up the highlighted books in this week’s roundup.

Raymond Antrobus' first prose work for adults is a revelatory exploration of deafness

“The subtitle of this book – An Investigation of Missing Sound – could also be the subtitle of my life’s work.” Multi award-winning poet and children’s author Raymond Antrobus is telling me about the genesis of The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound: his first prose work for adults.

Books on BookTok: Adolescence and masculinity on BookTok

This week BookTok creators reflected on the impact the Netflix show Adolescence had on the platform.

Books in the Media: critics look to Tapper and Thompson's 'devastating' portrait of Joe Biden

This week, reviews ranged from an examination of a former American president, an autobiography of a literary icon and new titles from Jeanine Cummins and Eric Puchner.

Raymond Antrobus' first prose work for adults is a revelatory exploration of deafness

Books on BookTok: Adolescence and masculinity on BookTok

Books in the Media: critics look to Tapper and Thompson's 'devastating' portrait of Joe Biden

Asli Jensen's YA debut is story of young love set on a London estate

More Author Interviews

Leigh Radford delves into her debut novel, a zombie-horror set in London

Chloe Michelle Howarth follows her lauded debut with a Gothic tale of sapphic obsession

Andy Shepherd gets back to nature with her latest children's book

Jenn Ashworth's new book combines memoir and travelogue, charting her journey across the north of England

Peter Burns on his move into children's writing with Shadow Thieves