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Nathan Anthony’s Slow Cooker leads a strong start to 2025

Nathan Anthony leads a slimmed-down Top 10 as he returns to the top spot with Bored of Lunch: Six Ingredient Slow Cooker (Ebury Press).

Books in the Media: a tale of a hedgehog and a biography of the Grimm brothers

Royal Society of Literature director Molly Rosenberg leaves after 15 years to pursue new opportunities

Predictions: what lies ahead for the book trade in 2025?

BA warns of 'harsher winds to come' for bookshops despite positive Christmas trading

The British Book Awards

Got it Covered: Nibbies 35th anniversary special

Today's News Stories

Will Atkinson and Kevin Campbell join BookSource

Theresa Park, Celeste Fine and Kimberly Brower launch Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management

Christmas fails to save 2024 trading, according to British Retail Consortium report

Publishing sales director Martin Palmer dies aged 68

Springer Nature reveals AI-driven tool to 'automate some editorial quality checks'

xigxag to attend Top Drawer retail trade show to bring audiobooks into physical retail spaces

Formara joins print and paper advocacy group Two Sides

Jack Butler leaves Wildfire to replace Ed Wood as Sphere Fiction publishing director

Sweet Cherry launches new campaign in support of independent bookshops and libraries

Creative Access and David Tebbutt Trust honour former Faber director with new internship

AI, collectible editions and reading for pleasure dominate 2025 book trade predictions

France's Editis acquires graphic novel publisher Delcourt

Novelist and academic David Lodge dies at 89

What do you earn? Take The Bookseller's publishing professionals' salary survey

Asako Yuzuki's Butter tops the chart in the last week of the year

Jobs in Books

Commissioning Editor, Second Sky

Second Sky, the SFF imprint of the UK’s biggest digital publisher Bookouture, is looking for a commissioning editor

Rights Report

Hutchinson Heinemann wins seven-way auction for Ito Ogawa's Tsubaki Stationery Store

Viking pre-empts 'creativity-boosting compendium' by Jillian Hess

Cassava Republic snaps up 'incredible debut' set in 60s Bradford from Marcia Hutchinson

Transworld acquires story of six surrenders that ended Second World War by James Holland and Al Murray

Ebury signs Marcie Shaoul's 'much-needed' book on co-parenting

Jonathan Cape snaps up Mitford sisters graphic biography from Mimi Pond

Hamlyn to publish Hong Kong 'culinary adventure' from Jeremy Pang

Today's News Stories

Will Atkinson and Kevin Campbell join BookSource

Theresa Park, Celeste Fine and Kimberly Brower launch Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management

Christmas fails to save 2024 trading, according to British Retail Consortium report

Publishing sales director Martin Palmer dies aged 68

Springer Nature reveals AI-driven tool to 'automate some editorial quality checks'

Nathan Anthony’s Slow Cooker leads a strong start to 2025

xigxag to attend Top Drawer retail trade show to bring audiobooks into physical retail spaces

Formara joins print and paper advocacy group Two Sides

Jack Butler leaves Wildfire to replace Ed Wood as Sphere Fiction publishing director

Sweet Cherry launches new campaign in support of independent bookshops and libraries

Creative Access and David Tebbutt Trust honour former Faber director with new internship

Royal Society of Literature director Molly Rosenberg leaves after 15 years to pursue new opportunities

Latest Issue

13th December 2024

In this week's issue:

Editors of the Year: The Bookseller’s inaugural ranking of acquiring editors
Books in the Media: Review of the Year
Author Profile: Natasha Brown discusses her second novel Universality
Previews: Paperback and Children's – New titles publishing in March
Spotlight: Wellbeing – Publishers look to man
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Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

News for emerging authors: December

by Maame Blue

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

Books open doors to new worlds - we must unite to tackle the reading challenge

by Perminder Mann

There are many challenges for book businesses to tackle in 2025 - but tackling the reading crisis must be our priority.

We can all enable change

by Penny Batchelor

Some 2025 resolutions that I hope the book trade will embrace.

New Years

by Natasha Tripney

A new production of Annie Ernaux’s influential novel couldn’t be more timely.

Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

News for emerging authors: December

by Maame Blue

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

Books open doors to new worlds - we must unite to tackle the reading challenge

by Perminder Mann

We can all enable change

by Penny Batchelor

Bestsellers

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

Romantic Fiction tops the Christmas wish-list

When it comes to Christmas, there are only two types of fiction: festive-themed romance and murder under the mistletoe.

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Bored of Lunch Six Ingredient Slow Cooker

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A Language of Dragons

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Make Change That Lasts

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Orbital

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Butter

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Atomic Habits

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The List of Suspicious Things

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Pinch of Nom: All in One

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Iron Flame

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Big Jim Begins

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Close Your Eyes

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Yellowface

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The Wives

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I Will Find You

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The Housemaid

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All Fours

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The Life Impossible

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The Boyfriend

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The Housemaid Is Watching

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Atomic Habits

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Make Change That Lasts

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The Day of the Jackal

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We Solve Murders

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I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

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Shakespeare: The Complete Works

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The Hotel Avocado

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The Midnight Hour

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Unruly

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The Four Thoughts That F*ck You Up ... and How to Fix Them

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Authors interviews, news and book previews

Books in the Media: a tale of a hedgehog and a biography of the Grimm brothers

This week the story of an anxious hedgehog and a biography of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm captured critics’ attention.

Books on BookTok: what's next for 2025?

This week BookTok creators offered their predictions for the books and authors they believe will be popular in 2025.

Books in the Media: critics pick the books to look out for in 2025

The Sunday Times, Guardian and Financial Times all published round-ups of the books to look out for in 2025.

Books in the Media: Jeremy Strong's 'enchanting' children's book strikes a chord

This week critics turned to Jeremy Strong’s last children’s book, a history of the British railway and a short story by Kevin Barry was published in the Observer.