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Today's News Stories

Latitude Festival launches Debut Authors programme for 20th anniversary

Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney wins Dylan Thomas Prize for ‘exuberant’ collection

Ben Lerner, Susan Choi and Douglas Stuart shortlisted for Orwell Prizes

Frank Cottrell-Boyce spotlights 'Reading Rights movement' in Laureate Lecture

Top French court rejects Amazon’s appeal over book delivery fees

Women's Prize Trust reveals sixth Discoveries shortlist for unpublished writers

New Cross Press launches with translated fiction list

Rising abuse ‘linked to perception of what bookshops represent’ BA survey finds

Klaus Flugge Prize 2026 shortlist announced

Donna Fisher wins inaugural £50k Libraro Prize for ‘remarkably assured’ novel

Anantjeet Kaur wins Batsford Prize for Book Illustration 2026

Dylan Patsanza wins Bloomsbury’s Fiction Mentorship Programme for 2025-6

Maria Prince launches literary agency focused on ‘academic voices with trade potential’

Indie chart: Bird is the word – Macfarlane and Morris soar to first place

Six writers shortlisted for Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2026

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Phoenix pre-empts debut novel Any Day Now by Bethia Hale

Serpent's Tail snaps up new Karen Joy Fowler novel

Picador acquires Hard Rain by author and broadcaster Gary Raymond

Pan Fiction clinches The Bookshop Treasure Hunt by Rebecca Powell at auction

Viking scoops Alice Loxton’s A History of Britain in 21 Paintings

Today's News Stories

Latitude Festival launches Debut Authors programme for 20th anniversary

Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney wins Dylan Thomas Prize for ‘exuberant’ collection

Ben Lerner, Susan Choi and Douglas Stuart shortlisted for Orwell Prizes

Frank Cottrell-Boyce spotlights 'Reading Rights movement' in Laureate Lecture

Top French court rejects Amazon’s appeal over book delivery fees

Women's Prize Trust reveals sixth Discoveries shortlist for unpublished writers

New Cross Press launches with translated fiction list

Rising abuse ‘linked to perception of what bookshops represent’ BA survey finds

Klaus Flugge Prize 2026 shortlist announced

Donna Fisher wins inaugural £50k Libraro Prize for ‘remarkably assured’ novel

Anantjeet Kaur wins Batsford Prize for Book Illustration 2026

Dylan Patsanza wins Bloomsbury’s Fiction Mentorship Programme for 2025-6

Latest Issue

15th May 2026

In this week's issue:

Editor's Comment: The Nibbies weaponised the book, rightly so
Author Profiles: Dave Eggers & Stacey Yu
Previews: Discover & Audio Quarterly
The British Book Awards: In Pictures

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Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

The Nibbies weaponised the book, and rightly so

by Philip Jones

A dangerous corporate overreach met with a chorus of disapproval at this year’s British Book Awards, and not a moment too soon.

What is the point of being an author?

by Sadhbh O'Sullivan

Failure – and the encroaching influence of AI – are prompting me to question why I write.

The power of books to bear witness

by Sarah Wynn-Williams

The British Book Awards’ Freedom to Publish joint winner Sarah Wynn-Williams on Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s extraordinary courage and the power of the book.

The work we must do together

by Fleur Sinclair

The latest Booksellers Association bookselling workforce survey contains good news — but we must not get distracted from our urgent mission.

Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

The Nibbies weaponised the book, and rightly so

by Philip Jones

A dangerous corporate overreach met with a chorus of disapproval at this year’s British Book Awards, and not a moment too soon.

What is the point of being an author?

by Sadhbh O'Sullivan

The power of books to bear witness

by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Bestsellers

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

Bestsellers

Indie chart: Bird is the word – Macfarlane and Morris soar to first place

The theme of NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM) this week has been one of new releases – there were 20 in the Official UK Top 50, while the Original Fiction chart saw 13 of its slots given over to titles published in the first full week of May.

PrinteBookAudio

1

The Impossible Fortune

2

The Daisy Chain Flower Shop

3

Fury Bound

4

So Good Express

5

Yesteryear

6

The Names

7

Death's Daughter

8

Sticker Dolly Dressing K-POP

9

We All Live Here

10

The Killing Stones

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 Half-Blood Prince

2

Project Hail Mary

3

Yesteryear

4

A Deadly Episode

5

London Falling

6

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

7

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

8

Dungeon Crawler Carl

9

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

10

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

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Authors interviews, news and book previews

Books on BookTok: BookTok lights the way for film and TV

On BookTok, 2026 has been “unofficially labelled the year of book-to-screen adaptations”.

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

Stacey Yu’s bold literary debut, Kitten, explores a young woman’s escalating obsession with her boyfriend’s cat.

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

With his 11th novel for adults, the Boston-born author returns to his first love, the art world, playfully skewering its pretensions.

Books in the Media: Douglas Stuart's latest 'leaves Shuggie Bain in its shadow'

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.

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

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

Books on Podcasts: The Nibbies-shortlisted authors Ruth Jones and Roisin O'Donnell take to the mics

Books in the Media: Douglas Stuart's latest 'leaves Shuggie Bain in its shadow'

More Author Interviews

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

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

Combining the everyday with the epic, Lisa Owens’ latest novel details the joys and frustrations of modern motherhood

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

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

Land

Maggie O’Farrell

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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