Donaldson defies 2020's 17-week data hole to breach eight figures once again

Who needs full-year book sales data? Not Julia Donaldson pictured, that’s for sure, as The Gruffalo co-creator earned almost £11m through Nielsen BookScan’s truncated 36 weeks of Total Consumer... Read more

World Book Day forges ahead in lockdown

World Book Day (WBD) celebrations will continue to go ahead on Thursday 4th March despite lockdown restrictions. Read more

Curtis Brown to hold digital spring fair

Curtis Brown will hold its own digital book fair for adult and children's rights in March... Read more

Kapil wins T S Eliot Prize

Bhanu Kapil has won the 2020 T S Eliot Prize for her “radical and arresting” collection How to Wash a Heart (Pavilion Poetry), her first to be... Read more
BookScan estimates 2020 full-year print market up 5.5%

Nielsen BookScan has estimated the full-year print market for 2020 at 202 million books sold for £1.76bn, a 5.2% rise in volume and a 5.5%... Read more
Sphere triumphs at auction for 'joyous' Simon debut

Sphere will publish Christine Simon's debut novel The Patron Saint of Second Chances in 2022. Read more
W&N acquires 'wildly inventive' novel from Cherie Dimaline

Weidenfeld & Nicolson will publish Empire of Wild by Canadian indigenous writer Cherie Dimaline on 1st April 2021. Read more
Onwe acquires books from Ferguson and Herd

Indie publisher Onwe has acquired Rab Ferguson’s middle-grade novel, The Late Crew, and a contemporary debut novel, See My Smile, by Mike Herd (pictured). ... Read more
Walker Books acquires non-fiction from Rolle and Owusu

Walker Books has acquired a non-fiction title from Rudimental band member Leon “Locksmith” Rolle and author Derek Owusu. Read more

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Opinion

The understory

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

Last week we noted that 2020 had not been such a bad year for début authors after all. Read more
Taking back control

Angela Hughes Author
Body conscious

Dallas Athent Author
From the outside to the centre

Oliver Lansley Screenwriter and artistic director at Les Enfants Terribles
What could possibly go wrong?

Nigel and Claire Jones Owners of The East Gate Bookshop