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In round two of the battle of autumn 2024 fiction heavyweights, Richard Osman's We Solve Murders regained its number one spot after being knocked to the mat in the previous [...]

With sales surging thanks to the film adaptation of It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover chalked up the gold, silver and bronze positions in the charts, the first time an [...]

A striking thing about the interviews we conducted with the last few Rising Stars tranches, and particularly with the Class of 2024--the 14th edition of our annual list which recognises [...]

The just over 55,000 units Richard Osman's The Last Devil to Die shifted through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market (TCM) is his best-ever week in paperback (and the first time [...]

A mixed bag of a week for famous British Moyes-es. West Ham boss David Moyes found out he was being let go at the end of the season, despite bringing [...]

Awards and grant schemes for unpublished and early-career writers are, by their very nature, something of a crap shoot. Even if a fledgling author is supported by a generous wodge [...]

Sarah J Maas earned her second Official UK Top 50 number one with the eagerly awaited House of Flame and Shadow, as the romantasy's launch-week units of nearly 45,000 made [...]

'Is this real life? Is this just fantasy?' The late great, Freddie Mercury's opener on 'Bohemian Rhapsody' has been applicable to the charts of late, as a huge injection has [...]

Nathan Anthony ended 2023 as the year's bestselling cookery author, and has made a roaring start to 2024 as his Bored of Lunch Healthy Slow Cooker: Even Easier shifted nearly [...]

The starting gun for the 'New Year, New You' race has sounded even before January has begun. Eight new titles in the health and wellbeing sector hit last week's Top [...]

Looking at the publication schedule last week you might have pondered on Hachette Children's releasing Alice Oseman's newest in December. The Heartstopper creator is, after all, HCG's biggest author over [...]

Sales for Paul Lynch's Prophet Song shot up 1,630% in the week after his Booker Prize win, till-point wonder Murdle continued its charge up the charts, while Guinness World Records [...]

Guinness World Records 2024 nearly doubled its unit sales week-on-week to easily capture its second consecutive number one in the Official UK Top 50. The annual is something of an [...]

I had a little side bet going that the late Matthew Perry's Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing would nab Official UK Top 50 number one this week (this [...]

With all due respect to Britney Spears, Terry Hayes and rugby pals Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield, I'll admit to pulling for Rebecca Yarros' second novel in her Empyrean series, [...]

Choose your appropriate favourite song--'Oops!... I Did it Again', 'Baby One More Time' or even 'Gimme More'--because Britney Spears' The Woman in Me returns to the top of the charts [...]

The top story of this week's charts is everyone's favourite Mickey Mouse Club children's performer turned pop megastar. No, not Christina Aguilera but Britney Spears, whose 'bombshell memoir' (as the [...]

"A genting needs scale these days," Toby Mundy says. "We have to have great services for clients and a global perspective. We have to be able to justify our 15%." [...]

Led by Manga superstars Gege Akutami, Eiichiro Oda and the late, great Kentaro Miura, the UK comics market has continued its sizzling form and is on course for a third-best [...]

If there is a commonality to the members of our 13th outing of The Bookseller's Rising Stars--our annual list of the book industry's up-and-comers and leaders of the future--it is [...]

In The Bookseller's data review of 2022, we noted that Science Fiction & Fantasy was hotter than Arrakis at midday, with the category earning 46.7m [pounds sterling] through Nielsen BookScan's [...]

Driven by BookTok, the surging subscription-box model and small and big-screen adaptations, Young Adult Fiction is poised to notch its biggest year in nearly a decade and a half. Thus [...]

Boris Johnson's Unleashed, Ian Rankin's latest Rebus novel, A F Steadman's fourth Skandar middle-grade and a raft of memoirs from celebrities including Rick Astley and Alison Steadman are among more [...]

The Independent Alliance (IA) has scored a best-ever first-half performance, with its 38.9m [pounds sterling] sold through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market so far in 2024, pushing it above one [...]

The unlikely site for what ended up supercharging the Wordsworth Editions' fortunes was the airside retail sprawl of Brussels Airport in 2019. Nichola Trayler, then the marketing director at the [...]

For some time, a large part of UK education publishers' revenues has been generated from digital products. For example, one of the reasons Collins won the 2024 British Book Award [...]

The Libraries for Primaries campaign has recorded its 1,000th opening, with organisers targeting 2028 to reach the remaining 1,900 primary schools in Britain that have no library or dedicated reading [...]

Literary fiction, cult novels and prize picks have been big winners at independent bookshops' tills this year, with non-fiction barely getting a look-in. That indies shade towards the literary will [...]

David Walliams and Richard Osman swapped places week on week with Walliams and illustrator Adam Stower's SPACEBOY notching up its first number one, in a seven-day period which also saw [...]

At last year's Booksellers Association conference, the trade body's m.d. Meryl Halls noted that the event had a record number of new booksellers in attendance. This perhaps should not come [...]

Eight years ago, after having lived two decades in London and abroad (mostly France) Jenny Colgan and her family moved back to her native Scotland. She now splits her time [...]

February's hottest release House of Flame and Shadow lit up that month's Publisher E-book Ranking. The third book in Sarah J Maas' Crescent City series, the launch of which has [...]

The British print books market shrank by nearly 5% in the first quarter of 2024, mainly due to a significant drop in non-fiction sales, but the decline was cushioned by [...]

The secret to a great agency? Lizzy Kremer leans forward with an almost conspiratorial air and says: 'It's the admin.' The David Higham Associates (DHA) managing director is only half-joking. [...]

Samantha Smith is doubly looking forward to this Bologna Children's Book Fair. First, because the Macmillan Children's Books publisher for fiction, non-fiction and picture books missed London Book Fair with [...]

(01) Could you sketch out this edition of BolognaBooksPlus (BBPlus): what are the highlights? It's looking good! We have exhibitors from Italy to India, UK to Ukraine, UAE to the [...]

There are good runs, then there are good runs. Claire Wilson is having the italicised kind: she is the reigning British Book Awards (aka the Nibbies) Agent of the Year, [...]

There is a fair amount of poignancy in this week's chart. First, there is the late Deborah James' cancer memoir How to Live When You Could be Dead, which easily [...]

This is the 12th edition of The Bookseller Rising Stars, our annual list of the book industry's up-and-comers and leaders of the future. In the early years I used to [...]

It is now as much a London Book Fair tradition as the Monday night HarperCollins party, or rubbishing the public transport links to Olympia: the annual call for entries to [...]

As with the print charts, Colleen Hoover was the headline act in Bookstat. The film adaptation-fuelled It Ends with Us easily romped to number one, with its sequel It Starts [...]

Julia Donaldson is on course to claim an unprecedented fifth straight year as the UK's bestselling author, as she easily topped the writers' league table at 2024's halfway mark-and in [...]

Officially, the year just gone has been the greatest sales haul for the British book trade since records began, led by Fiction's biggest 12-month period in history. Just over 1.81bn [...]

Dr Michael Mosley's Fast 800 Keto jumped eight places week on week to claim the UK's Official Top 50 number one, giving Hachette division Octopus its first ever overall top [...]

It seems like we are going on and on to the break of Nom: Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson's Pinch of Nom Comfort Food notched up its fourth Official UK [...]

When Anthony Forbes Watson announced he would be stepping down from Pan Macmillan earlier this year to make way for Penguin General's Joanna Prior, he mentioned that the company needed [...]

After a turbulent 18 months that has challenged the bookselling sector like never before, The Bookseller pays tribute to its Bookshop Heroes of 2021: the retailers who have defied the [...]

Therese Coen moved over from Hardman & Swainson a year and a half ago to run SLA's UK office. She now has her sights set on growing the company's presence. [...]

Without a doubt the most expansionist firm in UK deal-making going into this year's London Book Fair is Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Eighteen months ago, the Hollywood powerhouse had no [...]

E-book sales for the UK's biggest trade publishers collectively rose slightly (0.8%) year on year, but the 43-6 million units sold in 2023 still represents the second-lowest total the Big [...]