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Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey nearly 'lost her nerve' when writing Orbital

Samantha Harvey has revealed how she questioned writing her Booker Prize-winning novel Orbital (Jonathan Cape), set in space, in ’this age of authenticity’.

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DK to 'ring-fence' Canelo's 'no advance, higher royalties' for authors model

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Samantha Harvey's 'miraculous' novel Orbital wins 2024 Booker Prize

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Jeff Kinney secures third week at the top of charts with latest Wimpy Kid book

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BBC Radio 4 launches 'Take Four Books' in Scotland to replace 'Open Book'

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Eccles Institute & Hay Festival Global Writer’s Award 2025 shortlist announced

W H Smith revenue rises 7% as profit increases to £166m

Hachette UK, India, Australia & New Zealand and Yen Press partner for sales and distribution

Bookouture marks 'significant double-digit sales growth' at agent breakfast

Hachette UK's school reading programme boosts children's reading skills and confidence

Kit Nevile joins Hodder & Stoughton as senior commissioning editor

Danielle Pender promoted to publishing director at HQ non-fiction

Books are key exports for the UK, Richard Osman tells MPs in Houses of Parliament speech

Waterstones accepts National Book Tokens stored in drawer for 50 years

LitUp project boosts reading for pleasure among Hastings children

Abroad in Japan crowned winner in two categories at the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards

Hachette UK appoints Alexandra Cooper as group marketing director

GLL to offer bursary placements to children's authors as part of new literary foundation

Annabel Robinson rejoins FMcM while Ned Green steps into new role at PR agency

Quadrille unveils new logo and mission statement ahead of its 30th anniversary celebrations

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4th Estate pre-empts 'love letter to rave' from Graeme Armstrong in 'hotly contested race'

Orbit pre-empts 'bone-chilling' horror book from Megan Bontrager

Faber to publish Francesca Simon’s first novel for adults

Michael Jordan pens foreword to new book published by Profile Books

Harper NonFiction acquires Douglas Murray's book about Middle East and the West

Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon School spin-off series snagged by Hachette Children's Group

Headline scoops novel on the wellness industry from screenwriter Karla Marie Sweet

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Today's News Stories

Eccles Institute & Hay Festival Global Writer’s Award 2025 shortlist announced

Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey nearly 'lost her nerve' when writing Orbital

W H Smith revenue rises 7% as profit increases to £166m

Hachette UK's school reading programme boosts children's reading skills and confidence

Bookouture marks 'significant double-digit sales growth' at agent breakfast

DK to 'ring-fence' Canelo's 'no advance, higher royalties' for authors model

Hachette UK, India, Australia & New Zealand and Yen Press partner for sales and distribution

Danielle Pender promoted to publishing director at HQ non-fiction

Kit Nevile joins Hodder & Stoughton as senior commissioning editor

Books are key exports for the UK, Richard Osman tells MPs in Houses of Parliament speech

Waterstones accepts National Book Tokens stored in drawer for 50 years

LitUp project boosts reading for pleasure among Hastings children

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Latest Issue

8th November 2024

In this week's issue:

Profile:Interview with Dan Mucha, c.e.o., World of Books
FutureBook Awards

Author Interviews:Débuts of the Year

New Titles: Non-Fiction Preview: February 2025
Bestseller Charts:Christmas 2024

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists
Stealth literacy
by Rebekah Polding
We need to think differently if we are going to lure kids back to books.
Taylor made
by Kat McKenna
Can publishing learn some lessons from Taylor Swift’s approach to her book?
Category error
by Elspeth Wilson
Retail categories used for neurodivergent authors are limiting their scope.
Help us thrive
by Rebecca Gray
Neurodiverse employees have many talents to bring to publishing, if companies are willing to adapt.
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Comment
Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists
Stealth literacy
by Rebekah Polding
We need to think differently if we are going to lure kids back to books.

Taylor made
by Kat McKenna
Category error
by Elspeth Wilson
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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.

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Jeff Kinney secures third week at the top of charts with latest Wimpy Kid book
Jeff Kinney retains first place despite drop in sales.

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Hot Mess
2
In Too Deep
3
Guinness World Records 2025
4
We Solve Murders
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Hexed
6
Mary’s Foolproof Dinners
7
All That Matters
8
Simply Jamie
9
Our LadBaby Journey
10
Super Sleuth
1
Echoes on the Fens
2
The Spy Coast
3
The Pumpkin Spice Café
4
Never Lie
5
The Christmas Tree Farm
6
One Midnight With You
7
The Boys from Biloxi
8
Verity
9
Rivals
10
The Housemaid
1
We Solve Murders
2
I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You
3
In Too Deep
4
Lights Out
5
Odyssey
6
The Hotel Avocado
7
Sweetpea
8
Atomic Habits
9
Unleashed
10
The Exorcist

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Authors interviews, news and book previews

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Books in the Media: Chloe Dalton's debut bewitches
This week established names in non-fiction and fiction occupied reviews while Chloe Dalton’s debut captivated the Guardian critic.

Author Interviews
Debuts of 2025, Volume 1: Lucy Steeds
Lucy Steeds’ debut novel The Artist is a tense psychodrama of female subversion and liberation exploring the legacy of war.

Author Interviews
Debuts of 2025, Volume 1: Nussaibah Younis
Nussaibah Younis’ bold and hilarious debut novel Fundamentally follows academic Nadia’s attempts to set up a programme to rehabilitate ISIS brides.
Author Interviews
Debuts of 2025, Volume 1: Danielle Giles
Set in 990AD Norfolk, Mere, written by debut novelist Danielle Giles, charts the fate of a convent surrounded by marshland called the mere, an Old English term for a ’sheet of standing water’.

Author Interviews
Debuts of 2025, Volume 1: Lucy Steeds
Author Interviews
Debuts of 2025, Volume 1: Nussaibah Younis
Author Interviews
Debuts of 2025, Volume 1: Danielle Giles
Author Interviews
Debuts of 2025, Volume 1: Kate Kemp

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Layne Fargo discusses her new novel, which stages Wuthering Heights in the world of elite ice dance
Keon West begins a much-needed conversation to end discrimination with The Science of Racism
David Nicholls: ‘Books belong to the time you write them—there’s nothing you can do about that’
Q&A: Michael Rosen on the need to celebrate books and reading
'Broadchurch' writer and producer Chris Chibnall’s first book sees him revisit murder in a tight-knit Dorset community
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Latest Previews (Beta)

Non-fiction Previews
A wider selection of titles in February reach far beyond the traditonal Valentine’s and Mother’s Day market
by Caroline Sanderson

Looking at Women Looking at War
Victoria Amelina, Daisy Gibbons (trans)
Mortification
Mark Watson
The Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King
Harry Trevaldwyn

The Science of Racism: Everything You Need to Know But Probably Don’t Yet
Keon West
The Boy from the Sea
Garrett Carr
Confessions
Catherine Airey
Damn This War!: Between the Blitz and the Desert, a Story of War-Crossed Love
Julia Hankey
Hammajang Luck
Makana Yamamoto
Half-Arse Human: How to Live Better Without Burning Out
Leena Norms

Paperback Previews
by Will Smith
Discover Previews
by Natasha Onwuemezi
Fiction Previews
by Lauren Brown
Children's Previews
by Charlotte Eyre

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Features, trade interviews, and people listings

Features
Freelancers and audio take the spotlight as the 2024 FutureBook Awards celebrate the book trade at its best
The Freelancer of the Year award will make its debut at FutureBook 2024.

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The festive season: Christmas 2024 — Frontlist stutters in the race to number one
Spotlight
Horror and Ghost Stories 2024 — Stephen King retains Horror crown
Features
PRH Audio to work ‘hand-in-hand’ with authors as it trials AI recording methods
Trade Interviews
Life after bookselling: Little Toller directs full attention to publishing
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Children’s titles for 2024 — Making sure the kids are all right
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