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Guinness World Records tops the chart as market sales jump more than a quarter

In a week of mixed fortunes, the Guinness World Records 2025 has jumped to the top of the Official UK Top 50 according to data from Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM) – the 47th time the annual collection has topped the overall charts since records began.

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Not just for Christmas?

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Royal Literary Fund sees applications for writer hardship grants soar 400%

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Ed Wood leaves Sphere editorial to become agent at The Blair Partnership

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Jasmine Richards on launching micro-indie press Storymix Books

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Rebecca Yarros Interview

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Tributes pour in at Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE's funeral in New York

SE London BookFest crowdfunds for 2025 return

Human Kinetics buys Lotus Publishing for undisclosed sum

Jane Coneybeer wins 2024 Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize

Books by Ferdia Lennon and Suzannah Dunn among the 16-strong Nero Book Awards shortlist

Faber to reissue Samuel Beckett’s three seminal novels

Susannah Dickey’s true crime-inspired collection wins inaugural PEN Heaney Prize with 'sheer brio'

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2024 goes to Ferdia Lennon

Historian Joya Chatterji wins £50k Wolfson History Prize

MUBI to open first publishing imprint, MUBI Editions, for April 2025

Booksellers Association urges Scottish Government to provide retailers' rates relief in Budget

SoA announces shortlists for eight translation prizes worth £30,000

Oxford University Press names 'brain rot' as its word of the year

Jon Ransom wins second Polari Prize

Lindsay Straube's self-published monster romance pre-empted by Quercus

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Jobs in Books

Senior Commissioning Editor or Publisher, Classical Studies - Academic & Professional

Bloomsbury are seeking an experienced academic Senior Commissioning Editor/Publisher to cover a maternity leave and to continue the consistent growth enjoyed in recent years. Working with the support of an assistant editor, you will expand our publishing in some of the aforementioned areas across a range of product lines (textbooks, monographs and reference).

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Farshore marks decade of Katherine Woodfine’s The Sinclair’s Mysteries with special edition

Bloomsbury Wildlife to publish 'thrilling' exploration of nature by Sophie Pavelle

Granta acquires Lynsey Hanley's book on poverty and social mobility

Sphere to publish four books with Angela Harding in 2025

Ithaka Press secures 'scorching' feminist horror from C J Leede

Sceptre wins five-way auction for queer Italian classic Separate Rooms

Tor UK scoops 'thrilling' finale to Edinburgh Nights series plus two more novels

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Today's News Stories

Guinness World Records tops the chart as market sales jump more than a quarter

Tributes pour in at Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE's funeral in New York

SE London BookFest crowdfunds for 2025 return

Human Kinetics buys Lotus Publishing for undisclosed sum

Jane Coneybeer wins 2024 Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize

Books by Ferdia Lennon and Suzannah Dunn among the 16-strong Nero Book Awards shortlist

Faber to reissue Samuel Beckett’s three seminal novels

Susannah Dickey’s true crime-inspired collection wins inaugural PEN Heaney Prize with 'sheer brio'

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2024 goes to Ferdia Lennon

Historian Joya Chatterji wins £50k Wolfson History Prize

MUBI to open first publishing imprint, MUBI Editions, for April 2025

Booksellers Association urges Scottish Government to provide retailers' rates relief in Budget

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Latest Issue

29th November 2024

In this week's issue:
CLPE Report: Discover the stark findings from the new CLPE report into diversity in children’s publishing
Author Profile: Lauren Steven on the intertwined and recurring lives in her new YA fantasy novel
Author Profile: Nnedi Okorafor on how her 19th novel is her most personal yet
New Titles: Health & Diet Spotlight 2025
Previews: Discover—A preview of new titles published in January

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

Not just for Christmas?

by Natasha Tripney

The National is throwing everything at its blockbuster adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes.

Do we need an indie kitemark?

by Eleanor Anstruther

Self-publishing is flourishing, but how do we help build readers’ confidence and trust?

Author economics

by Emma Gannon

It is harder than ever for writers to make a living in this economy. Can musicians lend us some ideas?

CLPE Reflecting Realities 2024 | How change happens

by Darren Chetty & Karen Sands-O’Connor

Despite some progress, publishers are yet to show consistent support for children’s books featuring minoritised characters, or for their creators

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

Not just for Christmas?

by Natasha Tripney

The National is throwing everything at its blockbuster adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes.

Do we need an indie kitemark?

by Eleanor Anstruther

Author economics

by Emma Gannon

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

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In a Pinch: Kay and Kate Allinson take the top spot in the charts

Food blogger superstars Kay and Kate Allinson have pinched the top spot of the UK Top 50 with their latest offering Pinch of Nom All in One (Bluebird), according to data from Nielsen Bookscan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM).

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