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A crossroads for copyright

The government’s consultation on AI is economically and strategically disastrous, and we must fight back.

Editor's Letter

Is high-street stalwart WHSmith shutting shop for good?

Features

Review of the Year: Hachette retains the digital crown as all of the Big Six post gains

News

Jeanette Winterson hits out at UK government over AI plans, arguing books shouldn't be 'fodder for Big Tech'

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Jamie Oliver fries to the top of the charts

The British Book Awards

Got it Covered: Nibbies 35th anniversary special

Today's News Stories

Penarth’s Griffin Books to more than double in size with the launch of a children’s department

Indie publisher Hashtag Press launches competition for children’s book authors

Books on BookTok: love is in the air

British Book Design and Production Award Winners 2024 announced

HarperCollins opens Author Academy applications

Women’s Prize for Fiction partners with retailers and libraries to mark its 30th anniversary

School Library Association appoints Victoria Dilly as CEO

Lewis Carroll collection donated to Christ Church college

Two Rivers signs with Michael O'Mara for US distribution

Spotify to grow its Sci-Fi and Fantasy offering through new publisher partnerships

Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2025 shortlist revealed

Arnaud Nourry's Les Nouveaux Editeurs to comprise eight publishers

Little, Brown promotes Celeste Ward-Best to marketing director

DK appoints Miles Poynton as international sales director

Morategi Kale wins Bloomsbury's second annual Academic Writing Fellowship

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Jobs in Books

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in Little, Brown Book Group’s award-winning marketing team as a Head of Marketing and use your passion and expertise to get our books into the hands of readers, booksellers and influencers.

Rights Report

Yale acquires author Helen Fry’s 'untold' intelligence history

Avon Books snaps up two more from GD Wright

Faber scoops Simon Hall's 'superb' historical retelling of revolutions in Russia, China and Cuba

Robinson snaps up a phonics activity book by online educator Sophie David

Profile Books to publish a 'searing portrait of Indigenous survival' by Julian Brave NoiseCat

Cathy Cole signs a two-book deal with Orion

Faber to publish Seamus Heaney collection

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Today's News Stories

Penarth’s Griffin Books to more than double in size with the launch of a children’s department

Indie publisher Hashtag Press launches competition for children’s book authors

Books on BookTok: love is in the air

British Book Design and Production Award Winners 2024 announced

HarperCollins opens Author Academy applications

Women’s Prize for Fiction partners with retailers and libraries to mark its 30th anniversary

Two Rivers signs with Michael O'Mara for US distribution

School Library Association appoints Victoria Dilly as CEO

Lewis Carroll collection donated to Christ Church college

Spotify to grow its Sci-Fi and Fantasy offering through new publisher partnerships

Review of the Year: Hachette retains the digital crown as all of the Big Six post gains

Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2025 shortlist revealed

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Latest Issue

7th February 2025

In this week's issue:

Review of the Year: A bumper year for e-books in our digital Review of the Year
Author Profile: A change of tone for the bestselling Harold Fry series author Rachel Joyce in her new novel
Author Profile: A one-night stand takes a nautical turn in Beth O’Leary’s latest novel
Previews: Fiction – New titles publishing in May

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

A crossroads for copyright

by Baroness Beban Kidron

The government’s consultation on AI is economically and strategically disastrous, and we must fight back.

Is high-street stalwart WHSmith shutting shop for good?

by Philip Jones

With the announcement that the high-street division has been placed on the block, WHSmith may have finally run out of road.

Insider knowledge

by James Catchpole, Lucy Catchpole and Jen Campbell

Could we have curated this anthology if we weren’t disabled? No. Here’s why.

There's something about Smiths

by Roger Tagholm

The threatened high street icon deserves a reinvention.

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

A crossroads for copyright

by Baroness Beban Kidron

The government’s consultation on AI is economically and strategically disastrous, and we must fight back.

Is high-street stalwart WHSmith shutting shop for good?

by Philip Jones

Insider knowledge

by James Catchpole, Lucy Catchpole and Jen Campbell

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Bestsellers

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

Bestsellers

Graphic novels help small publishers stay level year-on-year

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Easy Air Fryer

2

The Crash

3

Onyx Storm

4

Fourth Wing

5

Poppy's Choice

6

Iron Flame

7

The List of Suspicious Things

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Spiral

9

The Trading Game

10

Orbital

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Eleven Numbers

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The Crash

3

The Killing Plains

4

Into the Fall

5

I Will Find You

6

Onyx Storm

7

The Wives

8

The Foaming Deep

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The Boyfriend

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The Bookshop Ladies

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The Let Them Theory

2

Onyx Storm

3

Fourth Wing

4

Poison Garden

5

What's Your Dream?

6

Atomic Habits

7

We Solve Murders

8

Iron Flame

9

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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Murder on the Marlow Belle

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Authors interviews, news and book previews

Author Interviews

Beth O'Leary dives into her latest romantic comedy, Swept Away

A one-night stand turns life-threatening when two people wake to find themselves adrift at sea, in O’Leary’s latest, Swept Away.

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Books on BookTok: love is in the air

With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, this week creators were asked about the most popular romance books on the platform and their most anticipated releases in the genre this year.