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Richard Flanagan becomes the first author to win both the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Booker

Richard Flanagan has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024 for Question 7 (‎Chatto & Windus).

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Into orbit: Samantha Harvey’s Orbital becomes first Booker champ to hit number one in week of its win

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Amazon Music Unlimited to offer monthly access to Audible’s catalogue of 800k audiobooks

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Books in the Media: critics spellbound by Jon Fosse novella

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Spredges effect: why books are becoming more beautiful

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Rebecca Yarros Interview

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Durnell Marketing acquires sales agency Avicenna Partnership

Conor Niland's Racket is first tennis book to win William Hill Sports Book Award in 25 year-history

Colm Tóibín’s ‘masterpiece’ named Waterstones Irish Book of the Year 2024

Jo Bennett joins edpr as associate director

Agatha Christie fans gather in Golden Age dress for HarperCollins' sold-out 'A Christie for Christmas'

Inaugural Climate Fiction Prize longlist announced

Cambridge Dictionary crowns ‘Manifest’ as 2024’s word of the year

Carcanet Press relocates to the University of Manchester library

Nielsen BookData launches new bestselling books podcast

RSPB to close five shops across its nature reserves nationwide

HarperCollins signs contract with tech company to use ‘limited’ number of titles to train AI

New writing award for authors aged 60+ to prove it’s ‘Never Too Late’

Scottish Book Trust to take part in Bookshop.org’s 2025 Read It Forward initiative

Samantha Shannon to visit bookshops in the UK and Ireland for the publication of The Dark Mirror

Barnes & Noble sells Union Square Publishing to Hachette

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Jobs in Books

Senior Designer, Cornerstone (12-month FTC)

Cornerstone are looking for a talented Senior Designer to work across all of our imprints. This is a 12-month fixed term contract to cover a period of parental leave, and we are looking for someone to start by early March 2025.

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Bloomsbury wins 'page-turning' new novel by Susannah Dickey

Barrington Stoke swoops for Lisa Thompson's new middle-grade novella

Faber to publish Lally MacBeth’s non-fiction book on 'disappearing traditions'

UCLan acquires musical theatre centric mystery from YA author Ava Eldred

Ithaka Press secures two books on warfare and peacekeeping for 2025

Welbeck lands ‘definitive’ collection of Oasis’ work from photographer Tom Sheehan

Summersdale Publishers scoops ‘timely’ memoir from animal rights activist Jill Robinson

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Today's News Stories

Durnell Marketing acquires sales agency Avicenna Partnership

Conor Niland's Racket is first tennis book to win William Hill Sports Book Award in 25 year-history

Colm Tóibín’s ‘masterpiece’ named Waterstones Irish Book of the Year 2024

Jo Bennett joins edpr as associate director

Agatha Christie fans gather in Golden Age dress for HarperCollins' sold-out 'A Christie for Christmas'

Inaugural Climate Fiction Prize longlist announced

Cambridge Dictionary crowns ‘Manifest’ as 2024’s word of the year

Richard Flanagan becomes the first author to win both the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Booker

Into orbit: Samantha Harvey’s Orbital becomes first Booker champ to hit number one in week of its win

Carcanet Press relocates to the University of Manchester library

Amazon Music Unlimited to offer monthly access to Audible’s catalogue of 800k audiobooks

Nielsen BookData launches new bestselling books podcast

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Latest Issue

15th November 2024

In this week's issue:

Redundancy survey: AI and political uncertainty cited as factors
Author Profile: Folio Prize for Fiction-winning Michelle de Kretser on blending fiction, essay and memoir in her latest novel
New Titles: Children's Previews: February 2025
Comment: Gemma Cairney on life-changing ways of sharing stories

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

Making more of microhistories

by Roly Allen

Struggling to categorise that quirky piece of non-fiction? This might just help.

Prize politics

by Bénédicte Eustache

What do this month’s award-winners tell us about the literary landscape?

Ecologies of connection

by Gemma Cairney

Most of history is told through a traditionally colonial and often patriarchal lens, but there are other ways of sharing stories.

We need to talk about redundancy

by Sam Humphreys

It’s happened to me twice. Here’s what I’ve learned.

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Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

Making more of microhistories

by Roly Allen

Struggling to categorise that quirky piece of non-fiction? This might just help.

Prize politics

by Bénédicte Eustache

Ecologies of connection

by Gemma Cairney

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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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Into orbit: Samantha Harvey’s Orbital becomes first Booker champ to hit number one in week of its win

The announcement of Orbital (Vintage) by Samantha Harvey as the Booker Prize winner for 2024 has rocketed it to the top of the charts, breaking Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid’s three-week run in first place.

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