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Profile to print extra 108k copies of Booker Prize winner The End of Everything

Profile Books will publish a further 50,000 domestic hardback copies of M John Harrison’s The End of Everything following M John Harrison’s Booker Prize win last night (9th November), with the total print-run rising to 148,000, including export trade paperback.

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Today's News Stories

Profile to print extra 108k copies of Booker Prize winner The End of Everything

Small Press Futures hosts launch party at crowdfunded bookshop

Lena McCauley joins Macmillan Children's Books as fiction publishing director

The Booker Prize 2026 goes to M John Harrison in ‘historic win’

‘You are worth a whole book’: pupils tell Children’s Conference 2026 what they need from books

Children’s market value up 6% in 2026 as non-fiction sees biggest growth

Vick Hope supports opening of three more Bookbanks locations

Jewish and Israeli writers 'excluded from publishing', JPC event hears

Andersen Press marks 50 years with illustrators’ auction and library campaign

Elizabeth Strout powers ahead of Booker shortlistees' sales before prize announcement

Douglas Stuart becomes first two-time winner of Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year

Magic Cat partners with Candlewick Press to launch North American imprint

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6th November 2026

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Editor's Letter:Can AI predict the Booker winner? Not likely
Profiles:Ashley Hickson-Lovence & Nicola Walker
Fiction Preview:February
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Ireland Focus:Features, previews and more

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Literary events have transformed – here's what we need next

by Ted Hodgkinson

Ted Hodgkinson looks back on 11 years spent programming literary events at the Southbank Centre.

Are audio originals working?

by Jessica Barnfield

Audible is betting on exclusive content, and Spotify on new ways to access it. Who will win, asks Jessica Barnfield.

Can AI predict the Booker winner? Not likely

by Philip Jones

Believe the hype around AI if you must, but when asked to predict the future its limitations were plain to see.

AI is changing book discovery – here’s what booksellers can actually do

by Simon Young

When a reader asks ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity where to buy a book, make sure they get your answer, writes Simon Young.

Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

Literary events have transformed – here's what we need next

by Ted Hodgkinson

Ted Hodgkinson looks back on 11 years spent programming literary events at the Southbank Centre.

Are audio originals working?

by Jessica Barnfield

Can AI predict the Booker winner? Not likely

by Philip Jones

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Elizabeth Strout powers ahead of Booker shortlistees' sales before prize announcement

Former winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart may be the bookies’ favourites to win tonight’s (9th November) Booker Prize, but Elizabeth Strout is by far the shortlist’s star among British book buyers.

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