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Donaldson and Scheffler’s Gruffalo Granny flattens indie chart competition for second week
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Donaldson and Scheffler’s Gruffalo Granny flattens indie chart competition for second week

Gruffalo Granny by Julia Donaldson, with illustrations from Axel Scheffler (Macmillan Children’s), has sold more than 100,000 copies in NielsenIQ BookScan’s full Total Consumer Market (TCM) this week.
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If AI imagines before we do, what is left for illustrators?

If AI imagines before we do, what is left for illustrators?

by Daniela Frongia
Illustrator Daniela Frongia highlights the problems with publishers using AI to generate early design ideas
Are we listening to the people we're publishing for?

Are we listening to the people we're publishing for?

by Georgina Atwell
Instead of bemoaning all the reasons why children don’t read, let’s listen to all the reasons why they do, says Toppsta founder Georgina Atwell.
Stories can cross cultures, but we must help build readerships

Stories can cross cultures, but we must help build readerships

by Ekta Bajaj
Publishing has made progress with the diversity of its pipeline; now it must nurture audiences.
What publishers get wrong about working with book content creators

What publishers get wrong about working with book content creators

by Alice Blackwell
Size isn’t everything and scattergun mailouts don’t work, writes creator and comms professional Alice Blackwell.
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If AI imagines before we do, what is left for illustrators?

If AI imagines before we do, what is left for illustrators?

by Daniela Frongia
Illustrator Daniela Frongia highlights the problems with publishers using AI to generate early design ideas

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Donaldson and Scheffler’s Gruffalo Granny flattens indie chart competition for second week
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Donaldson and Scheffler’s Gruffalo Granny flattens indie chart competition for second week

Gruffalo Granny by Julia Donaldson, with illustrations from Axel Scheffler (Macmillan Children’s), has sold more than 100,000 copies in NielsenIQ BookScan’s full Total Consumer Market (TCM) this week.
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The Correspondent

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All the Wrong Moves

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Books on Podcasts: Donal Ryan’s latest strikes close to home
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Books on Podcasts: Donal Ryan’s latest strikes close to home

Incredibly personal stories inform the latest novels from both Donal Ryan and Ann Patchett, while Jon Ronson examines modern masculinity through the happenings at the ominous castle in Connecticut
Books in the Media: applause for Naomi Alderman’s ‘dazzling’ book
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Books in the Media: applause for Naomi Alderman’s ‘dazzling’ book

Strange happenings occur in the latest work from Women’s Prize-winning novelist Naomi Alderman, while AK Blakemore turns back time once more and DJ Taylor pens the biography of a titan of literature. 
Books on BookTok: 'Shift' in approach to screen-time gives rise to analogue hobbies
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Books on BookTok: 'Shift' in approach to screen-time gives rise to analogue hobbies

Analogue hobbies are trending on BookTok as people return to film cameras, knitting, gardening and scrapbooking as ways to get their dose of nostalgia.
Mona Chalabi examines the still taboo subject of how our financial status affects our whole lives
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Mona Chalabi examines the still taboo subject of how our financial status affects our whole lives

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on her data-led debut non-fiction, which examines the economic realities of 10 people and asks how financial status affects our lives.

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In a quieter month, new works from Helen Garner, Tim Winton and Edmund de Waal shine, along with novelist Tessa Hadley’s first non-fiction book.
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