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Mick Herron, Mark Billingham and Lisa Jewell shortlisted for Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel

Two hundred people celebrate SlaughterFest

Catherine Sleeman and Alisha Riley shortlisted for The Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers

Hannah Gold’s The Last Bear to be adapted for film

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Made to last: Richard Osman's fifth straight number one eclipses Taylor Swift

Susie Dent, Jamie Oliver and Adam Rutherford shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Awards 2024

Literary festivals look at uncertain future after 'massive' Baillie Gifford loss

Martin Amis' memorial service features tributes from Zadie Smith and Bill Nighy

Boldwood announces 16 more authors as Victoria Britton is appointed editorial director

Hachette UK’s Pride Network launches new round of Grow Your Story initiative

Anne Enright’s The Wren, The Wren tops the Women’s Prize shortlist for sales

Ese Erheriene short story wins Future Worlds Prize in competition first

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Trade pays tribute to 'unique' Michael Mosley

Bologna Children's Book Fair to host the biennial Conference of International Book Fair Directors

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Fourth Estate clinches 11-way auction for Caro Claire Burke's 'electrifying' debut

Quadrille signs Indian cookbook by chef Romy Gill

Walker Books snaps up Katie Clapham and Nadia Shireen's 'laugh-out-loud' picture book

Zaffre commissions ‘heart-racing thriller’ based on true story from Victor Manibo

Penguin Michael Joseph scoops Emma MacDonald's 'spellbinding sapphic fantasy' series

Allen & Unwin UK pre-empts a new book by the author of The Art of Thinking Clearly

Mantle to publish Jennifer Trevelyan’s A Beautiful Family

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Today's News Stories

Mick Herron, Mark Billingham and Lisa Jewell shortlisted for Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel

Former Hachette Livre head launches 'free-standing' group of publishing houses and S&S partnership

Two hundred people celebrate SlaughterFest

Catherine Sleeman and Alisha Riley shortlisted for The Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers

Strong turnout at Stoke Newington Literary Festival, as founder warns over tough year ahead

Publishers Association welcomes manifesto commitments on AI and creativity

George the Poet and Sarah Waters to mark IBW as Hachette UK reveals new plans

Hannah Gold’s The Last Bear to be adapted for film

Made to last: Richard Osman's fifth straight number one eclipses Taylor Swift

Susie Dent, Jamie Oliver and Adam Rutherford shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Awards 2024

Literary festivals look at uncertain future after 'massive' Baillie Gifford loss

Martin Amis' memorial service features tributes from Zadie Smith and Bill Nighy

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Latest Issue

7th June 2024

In this week's issue:

Lead Story: Hewson Books
Bookshop Spotlight: Gulp Fiction
Author Profile:Moira Buffini
Charts: Focus on Popular Science
New Titles Fiction:

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists
Love lyrics
by Chris McCabe
Collections of song lyrics could become a boom business in books.
How can we talk about sex and race?
by Amita Murray
Race needs to become a regular feature in commercial fiction, from historical to romance.
Once we're gone, we're gone
by Fiona Razvi
It is time to reflect on the role and value of book festivals in the publishing ecosystem.
Unmaking Hay
by Philip Jones
History suggests that the protests against Baillie Gifford’s sponsorship of literary events will impact festivals far more than it will the investment group.
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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists
Love lyrics
by Chris McCabe
Collections of song lyrics could become a boom business in books.

How can we talk about sex and race?
by Amita Murray
Once we're gone, we're gone
by Fiona Razvi
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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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Made to last: Richard Osman's fifth straight number one eclipses Taylor Swift
While The Last Devil to Die tacks on another number one, the Queen of Gluten Free hits second, just above Taylor Swift becoming the newest subject of the Little People, Big Dreams series.

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The Last Devil To Die
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Gluten Free Air Fryer
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Politics On the Edge
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Taylor Swift: Little People, Big Dreams
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Yellowface
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Loyalty
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Someone Else’s Shoes
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Astrochimp
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Just Another Missing Person
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Murder at the Monastery
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Seven Summers
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From The Ashes
3
Everyone Here is Lying
4
Strange Sally Diamond
5
Resurrection Walk
6
Way Back
7
His and Hers
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The Bee Sting
9
The Wrong Daughter
10
To Sir Phillip, With Love
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Daisy Darker
2
Atomic Habits
3
Lessons in Chemistry
4
Unruly
5
Death Rocks
6
My Favourite Mistake
7
Ultra-Processed People
8
None of This Is True
9
Lucky
10
Dirty Laundry

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Books in the Media: Torsten Bell's plan to save Britain
This week political and timely books dominated reviews while Clare Pollard’s latest novel charms the Times

Author Interviews
Début novelist Moira Buffini discusses the challenges of world building and the joys of prose
Moira Buffini’s dystopian coming-of-age novel explores the social and environmental challenges facing today’s young people

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Books on BookTok: festivals & content creators
With book festivals dominating The Bookseller’s headlines this week, creators considered the relationship between festivals and BookTok.
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Books on Podcasts: Carissa Broadbent on self-publishing and romantasy
On the "A Pair of Bookends" podcast, host Hannah MacDonald spoke to Carissa Broadbent, author of the originally self-published romantasy The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Tor).

Author Interviews
Début novelist Moira Buffini discusses the challenges of world building and the joys of prose
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Books on BookTok: festivals & content creators
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Books on Podcasts: Carissa Broadbent on self-publishing and romantasy
Author Interviews
Black Focus Q&A: Nadine Matheson

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Black Focus Q&A: William Rayfet Hunter
Black Focus Q&A — Jason Reynolds
Jason Okundaye on his début book, Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain
Black Focus Q&A: Marvellous Michael Anson
Aamna Mohdin explores personal and national histories in her book, Scattered: The Making and Unmaking of a Refugee
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Latest Previews (Beta)

Paperback Previews
August promises beach reads aplenty with its page-turning selection of literary titles, crime thrillers and classic reissues
by Will Smith

How I Won A Nobel Prize
Julius Taranto
Songlight
Moira Buffini
The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life
Nathalie A Cabrol

They Dream in Gold
Mai Sennaar
The Memory of Animals
Claire Fuller
Delta and the Lost City
Anna Fargher, David Dean (illus)
A Ride Across America: a 4,000 Mile Adventure Through the Small Towns and Big Issues of the USA
Simon Parker
Whoever You Are, Honey
Olivia Gatwood
But the Girl
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu

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Non-fiction Previews
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Children's Previews
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Bookshop Spotlight: Gulp Fiction
Oliver Mason’s bookselling dreams were put on hold during lockdown—until he entered a life-changing competition that allowed him to open his own bookshop

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2024 Popular Science — Where laboratory meets literature
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Hewson Books aims to make its mark in Brentford’s redevelopment project
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Allison & Busby marks 55th anniversary of Sam Greenlee’s groundbreaking début
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The rise of Black nature writers comes as a welcome change in publishing
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2024 World & General History — A record-breaking year
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