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EU Council and Parliament reach 'provisional agreement' on EUDR delay

The EU Council and Parliament have reached a "provisional agreement" on the proposed changes to the EU Deforestation Regulation.

Editor's Letter

Overwhelm must not get in the way of change

Bestsellers

Shall I compare thee to 2024? Poetry sales start to slip, but still sing

Bestsellers

Remember, remember the end of November: Charlie Mackesy jumps up to indie number one

News

Bloomsbury to collaborate with Google Cloud on ‘AI-powered learning’

Discover why bookshops matter

Waterstones would stock AI books if 'clearly labelled and customers wanted them'

Books on BookTok: negative reviews, to post or not to post?

Emily Henry, SenLinYu and more win Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

Royal Society of Literature names Elif Shafak as new president

Eoin Purcell and Blathnaid Healy launch new non-fiction publishing house

Beyond Lunar New Year: why riding the global ESEA wave is a must

French government considering AI bill 'to protect copyright and reward creators'

Google reveals the top trending books of 2025 in search

Sarah Wynn-Williams wins whistleblowing prize for ‘extraordinary courage’

Adam Kay and Laura Ellen Anderson among Lollies 2025 winners

Trans and non-binary authors spotlit at cross-publisher Pride event

Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award winner revealed

Arts Council England and Inpress offer small publishers LBF place

Rebecca F Kuang pulls out of Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature as BDS calls for UAE boycott

National Literacy Trust’s research reveals ‘worrying skills gap’ in young workforce

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Jobs in Books

Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK’s second largest book publishing group. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity. Hachette are recruiting for a Fonts Manager on a fixed term contract, to act as a subject matter expert on fonts for the Group, providing knowledge and advice to all business functions.

Rights Report

Oprah Winfrey and Dr Ania Jastreboff pair up for ‘transformational’ book on obesity

The Borough Press acquires Blake Morrison’s An A-Z of Life Writing

4th Estate acquires The Polyester Book of (Bad) Taste

Constable snaps up Dan Higgins' book on the world of wrestling

Rough Trade Books signs Palestinian-American author Sama’an Ashrawi's music memoir

Aster signs Dr Liz Murray’s ‘groundbreaking’ book on menstrual health

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Today's News Stories

Waterstones would stock AI books if 'clearly labelled and customers wanted them'

Books on BookTok: negative reviews, to post or not to post?

Emily Henry, SenLinYu and more win Goodreads Choice Awards 2025

EU Council and Parliament reach 'provisional agreement' on EUDR delay

Royal Society of Literature names Elif Shafak as new president

Eoin Purcell and Blathnaid Healy launch new non-fiction publishing house

Beyond Lunar New Year: why riding the global ESEA wave is a must

French government considering AI bill 'to protect copyright and reward creators'

Google reveals the top trending books of 2025 in search

Sarah Wynn-Williams wins whistleblowing prize for ‘extraordinary courage’

Shall I compare thee to 2024? Poetry sales start to slip, but still sing

Adam Kay and Laura Ellen Anderson among Lollies 2025 winners

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Latest Issue

5th December 2025

In this week's issue:

Editor's Comment:Overwhelm must not get in the way of change
Author profiles:Saara El-Arifi & Huw Aaron
Fiction & Non-Fiction Previews:March
Discover:January
ESEA Focus:Profiles, previews and more

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

News for emerging authors: November

by Maame Blue

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

StoryFeast is proving its value as a publishing industry showcase

by Eva Wong Nava

Overwhelm must not get in the way of change

by Philip Jones

Leadership was under the spotlight at the FutureBook Conference held this week in London, with the first keynote speaker Elke Edwards urging us to gain an insight into our leadership abilities at a time of overwhelm.

Autism is not a genre

by Chloe Johnson

The book trade needs to approach autism in much deeper and more nuanced ways.

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Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

News for emerging authors: November

by Maame Blue

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

StoryFeast is proving its value as a publishing industry showcase

by Eva Wong Nava

Overwhelm must not get in the way of change

by Philip Jones

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Bestsellers

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

Bestsellers

Shall I compare thee to 2024? Poetry sales start to slip, but still sing

For the 47 weeks of 2025, so far, the Poetry Texts and Poetry Anthologies have sold more than a million copies, according to NielsenIQ’s Total Consumer Market (TCM) figures.

PrinteBookAudio

1

Guinness World Records 2026

2

Always Remember

3

The Impossible Fortune

4

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper

5

Big Jim Believes

6

Mary 90

7

Exit Strategy

8

The Secret of Secrets

9

The 1% Club Book 2

10

Santa & Son

1

Lies He Told Me

2

Beautiful Ugly

3

One Snowy Day

4

The Life She Could Have Lived

5

The Christmas Tree Farm

6

Waiting For Death

7

Strangers in Time

8

All the Colours of the Dark

9

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

10

Brimstone

1

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

2

The Let Them Theory

3

The Long Shoe

4

Brimstone

5

A Mind of My Own

6

The Impossible Fortune

7

Nobody's Girl

8

The Names

9

Exit Strategy

10

Quicksilver

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Books on BookTok: negative reviews, to post or not to post?

This week, BookTok creators reflected on whether negative reviews about books should be posted on the platform.

Author Interviews

Lui Sit returns to the literary fray with a debut children's novel

The author’s debut children’s novel, Land of the Last Wildcat, is a breathtaking action adventure series with important representation of mixed-race heritage.

Author Interviews

Welsh children’s author Huw Aaron on prioritising story over a message

Welsh author Huw Aaron’s latest offering, Monkeypig, is packed with his trademark silliness, humour and visual comedy.

Author Interviews

Paper Literary founder Catherine Cho releases her first novel in the wake of her critically successful memoir

Catherine Cho has stood on both sides of the submission desk, as agent and author. In 2026, she is trying her hand at being a novelist.

Author Interviews

Lui Sit returns to the literary fray with a debut children's novel

Author Interviews

Paper Literary founder Catherine Cho releases her first novel in the wake of her critically successful memoir

Author Interviews

Welsh children’s author Huw Aaron on prioritising story over a message

Author Interviews

Nibbies Pageturner winner Saara El-Arifi sets out to connect Cleopatra to modern womanhood

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SF Williamson's A War of Wyverns takes its cue from the Bletchley Park code breakers

Ece Temelkuran's most personal work yet seeks to redefine what we mean by home

Brooke Vandermolen on busting taboos and combating misinformation

Debuts of 2026, Volume 1: Heba Al-Wasity

Debuts of 2026, Volume 1: Madeleine Dunnigan

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Latest Previews (Beta)

Non-fiction Previews

While romantic gift options are missing in action this February, there are thoughtful titles on nurturing relationships alongside a strong memoir offering

by Caroline Sanderson