Michael Joseph has appointed Sam Humphreys to the role of publisher, in a move that will see Humphreys depart the post of publisher at Serpent's Tail just months after taking it up in March.

Humphreys will report to MJ m.d. Louise Moore, and will concentrate on acquiring fiction. She will take up the new post at the end of...

When Jojo Moyes began writing her ninth novel Me Before You she was out of contract with Hodder, who had published her previous eight books. "I really wrote the book not knowing if it was going to find a home because of the controversial subject matter. I wrote about 20,000 words and then I had a massive crisis of confidence....

Six hardback books released on “Super Thursday” (29th September) sold more than 10,000 copies in their three days on sale last week, helping book sales soar past the £30m mark for the first time since December last year.

In total, £32.1m was spent at UK booksellers in the seven days to 1st October, up 8.6% (...

David Nicholls' One Day (Hodder) has broken the record for the biggest ever weekly sale from an adult-readership novel in the month of August.

Across all print editions, One Day sold 92,336 copies at UK booksellers in the seven days to 27th August, beating the previous record, set by Dan Brown's The Lost...