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

Jeanette Winterson is the latest British author to urge the government to “protect the copyright of writers and artists” arguing that books should not be “fodder for Big Tech”.

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Jamie Oliver fries to the top of the charts

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Books in the Media: Bill Gates' memoir makes a splash

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Bored of lunch? Self Help and Healthy Eating take a smaller slice of the pie

Editor's Letter

Time for the CMA to admit that Amazon wields too much power?

The British Book Awards

Got it Covered: Nibbies 35th anniversary special

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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

Square Peg to publish book by environment and AI academic Joycelyn Longdon

Emerald Publishing signs inaugural read and publish partnerships with library trade bodies in North America

Kogan Page inks distribution deal with Wiley Australia

Big Five publishers band together in legal challenge against library 'book ban'

Lucy Beresford-Knox steps up at Penguin Random House

Unicorn Publishing's group managing director David Breuer dies aged 66

Frontiers announces three-year flat-fee model with Manchester Metropolitan University

Kevin Fitzgerald appointed secretary general at International Authors Forum

Comedy Women in Print Prize opens self-publishing category and appeals for funding

PEN Translates 2025: Yuliana Ortiz Ruano among diverse line-up of winners

MyPoolitzer launches AI writing competition with Quantifiction and Blue Denim Press

Artemis buys stake in Les Nouveaux Éditeurs

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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

Oneworld wins three-way auction for Funmi Fetto's short story collection

UCLan snags Georgia Bowers' Buffy the Vampire-inspired trilogy

Lucie McKnight Hardy moves to John Murray with new folk horror novel

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Today's News Stories

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

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

Square Peg to publish book by environment and AI academic Joycelyn Longdon

Emerald Publishing signs inaugural read and publish partnerships with library trade bodies in North America

Kogan Page inks distribution deal with Wiley Australia

Big Five publishers band together in legal challenge against library 'book ban'

Lucy Beresford-Knox steps up at Penguin Random House

Unicorn Publishing's group managing director David Breuer dies aged 66

Jamie Oliver fries to the top of the charts

Frontiers announces three-year flat-fee model with Manchester Metropolitan University

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31st January 2025

In this week's issue:

Review of the Year: Fiction soars in our genre-focused look at 2024
Author Profile: Holly Brickley explores the transformative connection between music, art and love
Author Profile: How a childhood love of Victorian literature fed into Zohra Nabi’s new children’s novel
Previews: Paperback – New titles publishing in April

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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.

Have we reached peak imprint?

by Sarah Moorhouse

Imprints are great business, but is their prestige and value getting diluted as they proliferate?

Servant or master?

by Mark Piesing

Are AI tools changing the way we write?

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

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

Have we reached peak imprint?

by Sarah Moorhouse

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Jamie Oliver fries to the top of the charts

Rebecca Yarros is replaced at the summit of the charts by the chef and author, whose Easy Air Fryer (Michael Joseph) has sold 35,784 copies

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Easy Air Fryer

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The Crash

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Onyx Storm

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Fourth Wing

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Poppy's Choice

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Iron Flame

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The List of Suspicious Things

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Spiral

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The Trading Game

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Orbital

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Eleven Numbers

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The Crash

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The Killing Plains

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Into the Fall

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I Will Find You

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Onyx Storm

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The Wives

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The Foaming Deep

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The Boyfriend

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The Bookshop Ladies

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The Let Them Theory

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Onyx Storm

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Fourth Wing

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Poison Garden

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What's Your Dream?

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Atomic Habits

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We Solve Murders

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Iron Flame

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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Murder on the Marlow Belle

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Books in the Media: Bill Gates' memoir makes a splash

This week Bill Gates’ memoir and Eimear McBride’s latest novel dominated reviews.

Author Interviews

Holly Brickley's enthralling debut explores why music is the food of love

With the Noughties music scene serving as a backdrop, Holly Brickley’s debut novel explores the connection between music, art and love.

Author Interviews

Zohra Nabi tells a tale of two cities with her new novel

With her new middle-grade novel replete with tales of child trafficking and homelessness, Nabi draws illuminating parallels between Victorian and modern-day London.