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The ballad of just enough dragons: Sarah A Parker squeezes into first place

Sarah A Parker has denied Richard Osman a third consecutive week at number one by just 230 copies, according to the latest data from NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM).

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Super-heated: Rachel Reid’s hockey romance tops the LGBTQ+ chart

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Spotify rolls out ElevenLabs audiobook tools in ‘next chapter’ of books strategy

Editor's Letter

Can we be partners with Big Tech?

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US court awards publishers $19.5m in damages against pirate site Anna’s Archive

Nibbies Watch Party

The British Book Awards 2026 Live Stream

Today's News Stories

French bookstore chains Le Furet du Nord and Decitre to file for receivership

Goalhanger’s The Book Club podcast to launch weekly newsletter

New competition for designers launched by Pan Macmillan and Paul Smith’s Foundation

RSL launches £1m Hawthornden Literature Matters Grants to support reading across the UK

Faber teams up with Shakespeare and Company on ‘landmark’ podcast

Bookbanks expands charitable mission with new locations in Leeds and Ipswich

AAP partners with Vermillio to tackle AI infringement and piracy

Book Marketing Society names Q1 2026 winners

Hachette UK’s Muslim Romance Festival returns for second year

Tim Bates and Adam Gauntlett promoted at Peters Fraser and Dunlop

Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2026 awarded to Anna Holdház

Kirsty Bradbury appointed children’s MD at Simon & Schuster

PRH UK names recipients of £150k Penguin Children’s Bookshop Grant

Six books shortlisted for the McDermid Debut Award 2026

Hay Festival launches crowd-sourced 'Pleasure List' of 39 books for National Year of Reading

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Designer Eleanor Bowmer signs multi-book deal with Bloomsbury

Wilton Square Books signs ‘powerful exploration of Britain’s mixed-race identity’

Transworld pre-empts two historical fantasies by Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Sceptre scoops Damien Wilkins’ New Zealand bestseller, Delirious

New Jonathan Coe novel Lessons in Harmony acquired by Viking

Tor UK snaps up Harrington’s ‘gorgeous’ historical fantasy Merely a Matter of Time

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Today's News Stories

French bookstore chains Le Furet du Nord and Decitre to file for receivership

Goalhanger’s The Book Club podcast to launch weekly newsletter

New competition for designers launched by Pan Macmillan and Paul Smith’s Foundation

RSL launches £1m Hawthornden Literature Matters Grants to support reading across the UK

Faber teams up with Shakespeare and Company on ‘landmark’ podcast

Bookbanks expands charitable mission with new locations in Leeds and Ipswich

AAP partners with Vermillio to tackle AI infringement and piracy

Spotify rolls out ElevenLabs audiobook tools in ‘next chapter’ of books strategy

Book Marketing Society names Q1 2026 winners

Hachette UK’s Muslim Romance Festival returns for second year

Tim Bates and Adam Gauntlett promoted at Peters Fraser and Dunlop

Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2026 awarded to Anna Holdház

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Latest Issue

22nd May 2026

In this week's issue:

Editor's Comment: Can we be partners with Big Tech?
Author Profile: Nicola Wilding
Narrator Profile: Adjoa Andoh
Children's Previews: August
LGBTQ+ Focus: features, previews and more

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

The Other Bennet Sister – the return of quiet romance?

by Bella Green

Does an upcoming spate of Jane Austen adaptations suggest a growing appetite for gentler love stories?

Authors are businesses – so where is the training?

by Betsy Tobin

We have plenty of courses on craft, but right now authors need more support post-publication.

I asked my readers how they'd like my series to end

by Jo Callaghan

I don’t just read my reviews, I actively consult my fans. And it’s brilliant.

Small presses take big swing on trans titles

by Jack Thompson

While transgender publishing seems to have taken a step backwards in recent years, small presses are keeping the flame alive.

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Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

The Other Bennet Sister – the return of quiet romance?

by Bella Green

Does an upcoming spate of Jane Austen adaptations suggest a growing appetite for gentler love stories?

Authors are businesses – so where is the training?

by Betsy Tobin

I asked my readers how they'd like my series to end

by Jo Callaghan

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Bestsellers

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

Bestsellers

The ballad of just enough dragons: Sarah A Parker squeezes into first place

Sarah A Parker has denied Richard Osman a third consecutive week at number one by just 230 copies, according to the latest data from NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM).

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The Ballad of Falling Dragons

2

The Impossible Fortune

3

Fever Dream

4

The Long Shoe

5

Storm Breaker

6

The Midnight Train

7

By Your Side

8

The Names

9

John of John

10

The Daisy Chain Flower Shop

1

Dear Debbie

2

Silent Bones

3

Beautiful Ugly

4

An Offer From a Gentleman

5

When the Cranes Fly South

6

The Housemaid

7

Missing

8

The Housemaid's Secret

9

The Daughter

10

Bridgerton: Daphne's Story

1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

2

A Parade of Horribles

3

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

4

Project Hail Mary

5

Yesteryear

6

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Full-Cast Edition)

7

London Falling

8

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

9

Dungeon Crawler Carl

10

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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Authors interviews, news and book previews

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Books on BookTok: yearning or spice, who wants more?

‘Yearning’ and ‘spice’, both euphemisms for desire and sexual content, are two sides of the same coin for romance and romantasy novels. This week, creators considered which one readers are looking for more of in their books.

Author Interviews

Bridgerton star and audiobook narrator Adjoa Andoh on the changing audio landscape

The veteran narrator and Bridgerton star tells Charlotte Heathcote about the challenges of recording an audiobook in "the olden days".

Author Interviews

Eleanor Crewes moves from memoirist to the supernatural in her new queer-coded book

Ghosts in My House, Crewes’ first adult graphic novel, is proof that publishers have realised there is breadth to the queer audience.

Author Interviews

Nicola Wilding's debut memoir spans three generations of her working-class family, from Cumbria to Northern Ireland

The TV producer and writer’s vivid and tender memoir tells the story of her working-class Cumbrian family, charting their fortunes over three generations.

Author Interviews

Nicola Wilding's debut memoir spans three generations of her working-class family, from Cumbria to Northern Ireland

Author Interviews

Eleanor Crewes moves from memoirist to the supernatural in her new queer-coded book

Author Interviews

Bridgerton star and audiobook narrator Adjoa Andoh on the changing audio landscape

Books

Books in the Media: Sally Hayden's latest is a testament to love found in disastrous situations

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Dave Eggers’ latest novel explores creativity, ambition and enduring friendship

Stacey Yu's debut novel tackles obsession, class, arrested development and cats

A group of misfit, street-smart kids with a shapeshifting secret feature in the latest from JJ Arcanjo

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

Hannah Lavery talks about the inspiration behind her new poetry collection

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Latest Previews

Paperback Previews

July’s paperback offerings include a wealth of fiction choices, rich historical works of non-fiction and a treasure trove of rediscovered classics.

by Will Smith

Great and Unfortunate Things

Jason Arday

All I Desire

Dorothy Lambert

Sky City

Jacqueline Crooks

Heartstopper Volume 6

Alice Oseman

These Wild English: A Family, a Class, a Country on Fire

Nicola Wilding

Contrapposto

Dave Eggers

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Arundhati Roy

Bone Head: Guardian of the Underworld

Jamie Gregory

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

James Marriott

Discover Previews

by Natasha Onwuemezi

Non-fiction Previews

by Caroline Sanderson

Fiction Previews

by Madeleine Feeny

Children's Previews

by Charlotte Eyre

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Features, trade interviews, and people listings

Features

Pride and prejudice: author care for LGBTQ+ writers is vital

Matt Cain highlights the significant challenges still faced by queer writers, and how this led him to set up his own independent publisher for LGBTQ+ creatives.

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