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Today's News Stories

Production company behind The Rest Is History to launch new books podcast

PRH recalls multiple Peppa Pig books due to ‘choking hazard’

Little Rebels Award paused due to lack of funding

Headline Eternal and Curtis Brown Creative launch new romance fiction competition

Simon & Schuster appoints Ruth Bennett publisher, children’s fiction

Viking promotes Shyam Kumar and Alex Mulholland

Bookshop.org partners with Draft2Digital to sell self-published e-books through indies

Mixed Christmas trading for bookshops as closures and rising costs persist, BA survey shows

Spotify branches into physical books through Bookshop.org partnership

Chytomo Award winners 2025 revealed

Westminster Book Awards: Jacinda Ardern and Chris Bryant among winners

Scottish indie press Haunt Publishing to close this year

Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina’s posthumously published novel awarded PEN Translates grant

Jenny Tyler passes publishing director baton to Sam Taplin after 50 years at Usborne

Huw Aaron shortlisted twice for Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2026

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Rights Report

Three romantic-fiction novelists write Amazon Original Stories

WH Allen snaps up Baroness Beeban Kidron's 'awe-inspiring' book on big tech

Faber snaps up Amit Chaudhuri's short novel about Paris

Constable snaps up three more books by crime writer Katy Watson

Fig Tree acquires Augustine Cerf’s ‘bold and compulsive’ debut in four-way auction

Val McDermid and Jo Sharp pen 'revelatory' Darkland Tale for Polygon

Today's News Stories

Production company behind The Rest Is History to launch new books podcast

Penguin Random House launches 'major new' £150,000 grant scheme for indie bookshops

PRH recalls multiple Peppa Pig books due to ‘choking hazard’

Books in the Media: Madeline Cash declared an 'energising' new voice

Little Rebels Award paused due to lack of funding

Headline Eternal and Curtis Brown Creative launch new romance fiction competition

Simon & Schuster appoints Ruth Bennett publisher, children’s fiction

Viking promotes Shyam Kumar and Alex Mulholland

Bookshop.org partners with Draft2Digital to sell self-published e-books through indies

Mixed Christmas trading for bookshops as closures and rising costs persist, BA survey shows

Spotify branches into physical books through Bookshop.org partnership

Chytomo Award winners 2025 revealed

Latest Issue

6th February 2026

In this week's issue:

Editor's Comment:The centre has shifted, but have we?
Author profile:Sophie Anderson
Fiction Preview:May
Review of the Year:Digital
Travel Focus:Features, previews and more

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Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

American Psycho back in the spotlight

by Natasha Tripney

The revived musical of Bret Easton Ellis’ iconic book feels unnervingly relevant.

Apprenticeships are for everyone

by Elinor Potts

Publishing needs to ditch old assumptions and embrace the power of apprenticeships.

What The Apprentice candidates got wrong about kids' books

by Deborah Maclaren

Writing for children is one of the most misunderstood creative challenges – as an episode of the BBC’s business reality show has now demonstrated

News for emerging authors: January

by Maame Blue

A hand-picked digest of news stories from the past month that emerging writers should know about.

Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

American Psycho back in the spotlight

by Natasha Tripney

The revived musical of Bret Easton Ellis’ iconic book feels unnervingly relevant.

Apprenticeships are for everyone

by Elinor Potts

What The Apprentice candidates got wrong about kids' books

by Deborah Maclaren

Bestsellers

Weekly print bestsellers based on data supplied by Nielsen BookScan. Other digital charts from Bookstat and Audible.

Bestsellers

A flying start: the cost of travelling is going up – as are book sales

£3m was spent on Travel books across the first four weeks of 2026 – up 4.3% compared with the first month of 2025.

PrinteBookAudio

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Dear Debbie

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King of Ravens

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The Wild Rose

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Don’t Let Him In

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Heated Rivalry

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The Housemaid

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Fearless

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Cozy Corner

9

It Should Have Been You

10

My Husband's Wife

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Dear Debbie

2

Beautiful Ugly

3

The Housemaid

4

The Housemaid's Secret

5

The Daughter

6

The Wedding People

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The Housemaid Is Watching

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Someone Else's Shoes

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His and Hers

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The House of Mystery

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Full-Cast Edition)

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Full-Cast Edition)

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Full-Cast Edition)

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The Let Them Theory

5

We Are All Guilty Here

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The Housemaid

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My Friends

8

The Names

9

My Husband's Wife

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Hamnet

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Books

Authors interviews, news and book previews

Books in the Media: Madeline Cash declared an 'energising' new voice

This week, a debut, two crime novels and a biography of a former UK prime minister made it into the critics’ top picks.

Books on BookTok: BookTok not a 'true reflection of who enjoys reading'

This week, discussion focused on the possible reasons why BookTok is more popular with female creators.

Author Interviews

Sophie Anderson returns to the world of The House with Chicken Legs with the sequel

In the sequel to the author’s beloved bestseller, the titular house starts to behave erratically, and plucky heroine Marinka must travel through magical realms to find out why.

Bestsellers

Alice Feeney's My Husband’s Wife is a hit with indies

Alice Feeney may have just missed out on taking the number one slot in the Original Fiction Top 20, but her latest thriller My Husband’s Wife (Macmillan) has swept to the top of the Independent Bookshop Top 20.

Books on BookTok: BookTok not a 'true reflection of who enjoys reading'

Author Interviews

Sophie Anderson returns to the world of The House with Chicken Legs with the sequel

Bestsellers

Alice Feeney's My Husband’s Wife is a hit with indies

Books in the Media: Ali Smith's Glyph commended for its relevance and playfulness

More Author Interviews

Gwendoline Riley’s new novel explores an enduring and unlikely friendship formed at a highbrow critical magazine

Christopher Buehlman's horror novel charts an epic journey through plague-ridden Medieval France

Librarian Lucas Maxwell draws on his own childhood growing up in Nova Scotia for his YA debut

Sabine Durrant on her latest gripping psychological thriller, a sun-drenched tale of envy and betrayal

Amal El-Mohtar’s new collection confirms her as one of the most exciting SFF authors

Latest Previews (Beta)

Non-fiction Previews

From Shakespeare to the Campaign to Protect Rural England to Eurovision, there are a number of noteworthy anniversaries in April, marked by key titles

by Caroline Sanderson

The Original

Nell Stevens

Is This a Plum?

Dan and Finn Ojari

Jan Morris: A Life

Sara Wheeler

Who Wants to Live Forever?

Hanna Thomas Uose

Lifeboat at the End of the World

Dominic Gregory

The Palm House

Gwendoline Riley

Her Hidden Fire

Clíodhna O’Sullivan

The Daffodil Days

Helen Bain

A Line You Have Traced

Roisin Dunnett

Paperback Previews

by Will Smith

Discover Previews

by Natasha Onwuemezi

Fiction Previews

by Madeleine Feeny

Children's Previews

by Charlotte Eyre

Spotlight

Features, trade interviews, and people listings

Rory MacLean: Pushing the boundaries of travel writing

Rory MacLean discusses the Sherborne Travel Writing Festival, its inaugural prize and his genre-busting book that explores humans’ ideas of spiritual destinations.