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London bookshops reveal falling pupil numbers partly triggering 'toughest' times yet

Some independent bookshops in London have shared concerns over falling pupil numbers, with some facing their “toughest” year so far.

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Faber opens American-based publishing team, Faber US

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Love is in the air (fryer): Jamie Oliver is number one for second week running

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Government urged to 'hold big tech to account' after ex-Amazon boss appointed CMA chair

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Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop owners arrested as books on Israel-Palestine conflict confiscated

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Got it Covered: Nibbies 35th anniversary special

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Libraries Connected report says e-books should be cheaper for libraries

Ebury's Nell Warner joins Michael O'Mara Books

'Big-hearted' crime writer Amer Anwar dies aged 55

Neneh Cherry and Jenni Fagan longlisted for 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction

The Society of Authors announces winners of £30k Translation Prizes

Louisa Earls of Dublin's Books Upstairs wins The O’Brien Press Bookseller of the Year Award

Flying Eye Books moves to Abrams and Chronicle Books for sales and distribution

Valley Press revives Lendal Press with Juliette Tomlinson as managing editor

Scottish Library and Information Council urges against 'salami' style cuts to libraries

Books in the Media: critics moved by posthumous work by Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina

UCLan's Centre of Publishing Excellence launches two new agencies and workshop

Seltmann Publishers signs with GMC for distribution

HarperNonFiction completes senior editorial restructure with two new hires in commissioning

Brendan Durkin promoted to editorial director at Gollancz

Penarth’s Griffin Books to more than double in size with the launch of a children’s department

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Bedford Square Publishers snaps up Canwen Xu’s Boring Asian Female

Gollancz to publish Richard Swan's 'epic and hard-hitting' space opera

Wildfire snaps up 'genre-defining' novel from South Korean writer Gu Byeong-mo

Bonnier to publish memoir of 90s pop star Anthony Kavanagh

Puffin signs Struan Murray's new fantasy series with six-figure US deal

Chatto & Windus to publish Margaret Atwood's 'landmark' memoir in November 2025

Pan Macmillan lands redemptive tale from Kim Ho-Yeon in a two-book deal

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Today's News Stories

Libraries Connected report says e-books should be cheaper for libraries

Ebury's Nell Warner joins Michael O'Mara Books

'Big-hearted' crime writer Amer Anwar dies aged 55

Faber opens American-based publishing team, Faber US

Neneh Cherry and Jenni Fagan longlisted for 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction

The Society of Authors announces winners of £30k Translation Prizes

Louisa Earls of Dublin's Books Upstairs wins The O’Brien Press Bookseller of the Year Award

Love is in the air (fryer): Jamie Oliver is number one for second week running

Flying Eye Books moves to Abrams and Chronicle Books for sales and distribution

Government urged to 'hold big tech to account' after ex-Amazon boss appointed CMA chair

Valley Press revives Lendal Press with Juliette Tomlinson as managing editor

Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop owners arrested as books on Israel-Palestine conflict confiscated

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Latest Issue

7th February 2025

In this week's issue:

Review of the Year: A bumper year for e-books in our digital Review of the Year
Author Profile: A change of tone for the bestselling Harold Fry series author Rachel Joyce in her new novel
Author Profile: A one-night stand takes a nautical turn in Beth O’Leary’s latest novel
Previews: Fiction – New titles publishing in May

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

We need a new moral right

by Christopher Norris

AI mimicry of authors requires a whole new subsection of law.

Will medical publishers fight Trump’s war on 'woke'?

by George Cooper

The collective resolve of the medical publishing industry is being put to the test.

News for emerging authors: January

by Maame Blue

A hand-picked digest of news stories from the past month that emerging writers should know about.

A crossroads for copyright

by Baroness Beeban Kidron

The government’s consultation on AI is economically and strategically disastrous, and we must fight back.

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

We need a new moral right

by Christopher Norris

AI mimicry of authors requires a whole new subsection of law.

Will medical publishers fight Trump’s war on 'woke'?

by George Cooper

News for emerging authors: January

by Maame Blue

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Bestsellers

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Weekly print bestsellers based on data supplied by Nielsen BookScan. Other digital charts from Bookstat and Audible.

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Love is in the air (fryer): Jamie Oliver is number one for second week running

It is a static top three in Official UK Top 50 as Jamie Oliver’s Easy Air Fryer (Michael Joseph) keeps hold of the top spot for a second week in the latest data from Nielsen Bookscan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM).

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Easy Air Fryer

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The Crash

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Onyx Storm

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Poppy's Choice

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Blue Sisters

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Fourth Wing

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Then She Vanishes

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The Trading Game

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Iron Flame

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The Light Behind the Window

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Belsay

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The Crash

3

The Wrong Hands

4

The Wives

5

Onyx Storm

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The Family Remains

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Iron Flame

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The Housemaid

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The Bookshop Ladies

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Then She Vanishes

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The Let Them Theory

2

Onyx Storm

3

Fourth Wing

4

We Solve Murders

5

Atomic Habits

6

Poison Garden

7

What's Your Dream?

8

Iron Flame

9

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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The Hotel Avocado

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Books in the Media: critics moved by posthumous work by Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina

This week translated works dominated reviews led by Looking At Women, Looking At War: A War and Justice Diary (William Collins).

Author Interviews

Beth O'Leary dives into her latest romantic comedy, Swept Away

A one-night stand turns life-threatening when two people wake to find themselves adrift at sea, in O’Leary’s latest, Swept Away.

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Books on BookTok: love is in the air

With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, this week creators were asked about the most popular romance books on the platform and their most anticipated releases in the genre this year.