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Editor's Letter

Bloomsbury is consciously unglobaling

The “verticalising” of the company’s business into three distinct divisions comprising Bloomsbury Global Academic & Professional, Bloomsbury USA and Bloomsbury Consumer UK will see it respond to changing tastes and customer preferences.

News

Hachette UK revenue down 4% in first quarter

Bestsellers

Thrifty 50: sales drop across the Top 50 bestsellers

News

Curtis Brown Creative undergoes senior management buyout

Books

Books on Podcasts: ES McLeod challenges and reimagines the myth of Andromeda in her adult debut

The British Book Awards

The Book of the Year shortlists have landed

Today's News Stories

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Saqi Books appoints Chip Rossetti as editor-at-large

Alice Welby named senior literary agent at YMU Books

Society of Authors announces Encore Award 2026 shortlist for best second novel

Bookouture announces promotions and new hires

Libraries Alliance launches to give sector 'single, stronger voice'

CLiPPA 2026 shortlist revealed

Shortlist for £25k Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction revealed

Helen DeWitt awarded £129k grant after turning down Windham-Campbell Prize

Independent Bookshop Week 2026 reveals 20 Bookshop Champions for 20th anniversary year

Radio 2 Book Club Award shortlist revealed

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Rights Report

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Wildfire snaps up debut thriller from Charlotte Essex in two-book deal

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Ebury wins five-way auction for Eric Idle's Provence memoir

Hutchinson Heinemann acquires ‘sweeping and profound’ novel from Sebastian Faulks

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Latest Issue

17th April 2026

In this week's issue:

Editor's Comment: Bloomsbury is consciously unglobaling
Author Profiles: Pulitzer-winning Andrew Sean Greer on his new novel, Villa Coco, and Melissa Albert on her adult debut, The Children
Non-Fiction Preview: July

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

Bloomsbury is consciously unglobaling

by Philip Jones

The “verticalising” of the company’s business into three distinct divisions comprising Bloomsbury Global Academic & Professional, Bloomsbury USA and Bloomsbury Consumer UK will see it respond to changing tastes and customer preferences.

Project Hail Mary – a picture of hope

by Katie Fraser

Our new monthly column surveys the latest book-to-screen adaptations for insights and trends.

Poetry isn't bulletproof

by Nick Barley

In times of war, poetry can document devastation – and offer grassroots resistance.

Bologna Children's Book Fair 2026: Horace Bent – Name, and passport number, of the Rosen

by Horace Bent

Airport killjoys hit the ’Super Hans’ award, while the fizz flies at Puffin

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Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

Bloomsbury is consciously unglobaling

by Philip Jones

The “verticalising” of the company’s business into three distinct divisions comprising Bloomsbury Global Academic & Professional, Bloomsbury USA and Bloomsbury Consumer UK will see it respond to changing tastes and customer preferences.

Project Hail Mary – a picture of hope

by Katie Fraser

Poetry isn't bulletproof

by Nick Barley

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Bestsellers

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

Bestsellers

Thrifty 50: sales drop across the Top 50 bestsellers

The Bookseller’s charts editor Alex Call takes a look at the Top 50 titles in the market to see how they are performing compared with 2025.

PrinteBookAudio

1

The Seriously Epic Holiday of Lottie Brooks

2

The Names

3

Exit Strategy

4

Rites of the Starling

5

We All Live Here

6

Pinch of Nom Air Fryer Light & Easy

7

The Hawk is Dead

8

The Wicked Sea

9

Release Me

10

Onyx Storm

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

Project Hail Mary

2

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

3

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

4

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

5

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Full-Cast Edition)

6

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Full-Cast Edition)

7

The Let Them Theory

8

London Falling

9

My Husband's Wife

10

The Names

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Authors interviews, news and book previews

Books

Books on BookTok: reading retreats – escape or content opportunity?

This week, BookTok creators reflected on whether reading retreats are an escape or a content opportunity.

Author Interviews

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

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer draws on his own experiences in his new novel, staging a young man’s journey of self-discovery in a remote Tuscan villa with a revolving cast of eccentrics.

Author Interviews

Melissa Albert examines a fraught sibling relationship in her adult debut

In her adult debut, The Children, Melissa Albert explores the borders between fantasy and reality and fraught family relationships.

Author Interviews

Heart-stopping: Alice Oseman on drawing Heartstopper to an end

The award-winning author-illustrator reflects on the legacy of their bestselling graphic novel series.

Author Interviews

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

Author Interviews

Melissa Albert examines a fraught sibling relationship in her adult debut

Books

Books on Podcasts: ES McLeod challenges and reimagines the myth of Andromeda in her adult debut

Author Interviews

Heart-stopping: Alice Oseman on drawing Heartstopper to an end

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Ben Willbond on how a lifetime collecting voices prepared him for narrating audiobooks

Ed Vere introduces the stars of his new picture book, Waffles and Julius

Foreign correspondent and author Sally Hayden on finding light in the dark

The latest from Costa Award winner Claire Fuller is a chilling literary horror

Jon Lock and Nich Angell speak about the myth-making of Tiny Hercules

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Latest Previews

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

by Will Smith

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

Land

Maggie O’Farrell

Waist Deep

Linea Maja Ernst, Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg (trans)

The Summer After the Night Before

Lisa Williamson

This Is Also a Love Story: Searching for Good in a Divided World

Sally Hayden

Discover Previews

by Natasha Onwuemezi

Non-fiction Previews

by Caroline Sanderson

Fiction Previews

by Madeleine Feeny

Children's Previews

by Charlotte Eyre

Spotlight

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Features, trade interviews, and people listings

Features

Breaking through: why Taiwanese kids’ authors are gaining a global reachSPONSORED ARTICLE

Three Taiwanese creators are up for this year’s Astrid Lindgren prize, reflecting a growing international footprint in the country’s children’s sector.

Features