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The Probable Fortune: Richard Osman paperback tops the charts

Richard Osman has flown straight to the top of the Official UK Top 50 at the first time of asking with the paperback edition of The Impossible Fortune (Viking), according to them most recent data from NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM).

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The British Book Awards blurs Sarah Wynn-Williams book cover due to Meta legal order

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The British Book Awards 2026 Book of the Year winners include Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Michael Rosen and SenLinYu

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The British Book Award for Freedom to Publish 2026 awarded jointly to Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Sarah Wynn-Williams

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The British Book Awards 2026 trade winners include Scholastic, Waterstones and Little, Brown

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Michael Rosen's 80th birthday celebrated at Walker Books party

New indie bookshop with focus on translated literature opens

Libraries Connected names James Pearson as new president

Phoenix International Publications moves to Hachette UK Distribution

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Today's News Stories

Six writers shortlisted for Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2026

Julia Donaldson awarded RCPCH College Medal for her contribution to children's wellbeing

Bloomsbury and NLT hail Hastings reading programme as 'blueprint' for tackling reading crisis

The cosy zeitgeist – cosy colouring the latest trend for adults seeking escape

Michael Rosen's 80th birthday celebrated at Walker Books party

New indie bookshop with focus on translated literature opens

The Probable Fortune: Richard Osman paperback tops the charts

Libraries Connected names James Pearson as new president

The British Book Awards blurs Sarah Wynn-Williams book cover due to Meta legal order

Phoenix International Publications moves to Hachette UK Distribution

Emma Davies wins PMJ Undiscovered Writers’ Prize with medieval horror

The British Book Awards 2026 Book of the Year winners include Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Michael Rosen and SenLinYu

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The British Book Awards 2026: Winners

Your guide to the winners and shortlists in all categories at The British Book Awards 2026, including:

Overall Book of the Year
New categories Romance,Science Fiction & Fantasyand Graphic Novel
The British Book Award for Excellence in Romantic Fiction
The trade winners in full, from Publisher of the Yearto Retailer of the Year
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Switching perspectives has brought valuable insights.

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An adaptation of The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher reminds audiences that there is more to Dame Hilary Mantel than just Wolf Hall.

Fun is not a school subject

by Emma Whitehall

Our obsession with self-improvement is turning kids off books.

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

The Odyssey effect on poetry

by Nick Barley

Homer remains epic: Could a new wave of poetry book sales be due this summer?

Four ways becoming an author changed me as an editor

by Tig Wallace

Mantel on Maggie

by Natasha Tripney

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Weekly print bestsellers from Nielsen BookScan. Other digital charts from Bookstat and Audible.

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The Probable Fortune: Richard Osman paperback tops the charts

Richard Osman has flown straight to the top of the Official UK Top 50 at the first time of asking with the paperback edition of The Impossible Fortune (Viking), according to them most recent data from NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM).

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This week, the latest from the 2020 Booker Prize winner, Douglas Stuart, is greeted with applause while Melissa Harrison gives voice to the countryside in her polyphonic novel.

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Books on BookTok: how accurate is the BookTok bestseller list?

Creators debate whether the BookTok chart is representative of the titles trending on the platform or whether it simply pays homage to perennially popular books and authors.

Author Interviews

Hannah Lavery talks about the inspiration behind her new poetry collection

The former Edinburgh Makar and playwright talks about her year of using poetry as a means to bear witness.

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Hannah Kaner treads a new path in her latest fantasy novel that examines war, revenge and power

Inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, A Snake Among Swans examines women’s agency when confronted with war and patriarchal power.

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Books on BookTok: how accurate is the BookTok bestseller list?

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Hannah Kaner treads a new path in her latest fantasy novel that examines war, revenge and power

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Hannah Lavery talks about the inspiration behind her new poetry collection

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Michael Rosen remains a powerhouse as he celebrates his 80th birthday

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James Marriott's new book confronts the reality of the reading crisis

Andrew Sean Greer's latest comic novel takes place at an Italian villa

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Paperback Previews

This month will see the 20th annual Independent Bookshop Week, giving rise to a number of bookshop-themed paperbacks, plus a range of LGBTQ+ titles to mark Pride month

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All I Desire

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Sky City

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Mother Mary Comes to Me

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The New Dark Ages: The End of Reading and the Dawn of a Post-Literate Society

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