Sophie Kinsella’s sixth Shopaholic instalment, Mini Shopaholic (Black Swan), was comfortably the bestselling book in the UK last week, earning the novelist her ninth Official UK Top 50 number one.

The mass-market novel sold 37,523 copies in its first full week in bookshops and earns publisher Transworld its eighth...

Penguin and Sainsbury's are to jointly launch a new website to support the Sainsbury's Book Club, launching on 21st July.

The Book Club will run from 7th July 2011 to July 2012. As reported in January, the book club this year features titles exclusively from Penguin, including titles by Lesley Pearse, Charles Brokaw and Dawn...

Penguin is organising a national competition for reading groups, in association with The Reading Agency and the Booksellers Association, in which they can win an appearance from Dawn French.  

The competition will launch on 25th June, marking the first National Reading Group Day, and run until 31st August.

To enter the...

Publishers are moving away from the “Big Bang” approach for the release of this year’s key Christmas titles, despite the blaze of publicity generated by “Super Thursday” over the past two years.

The previous two Christmas trading campaigns have been kick-started by “Super Thursday”, with a glut...