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Herstory: female writers dominate the History Top 10

Back in the mists of time – or at least 2024 – sales of NielsenIQ BookData’s History & Military category hit record sales of £65.9m, but there is some mixed news for 2026 with the volume figure in History & Military slipping by 7.9%.

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Education Committee sets out measures to stem decline in reading for pleasure

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Herstory: female writers dominate the History Top 10

Forward Prizes for Poetry 2026 shortlists announced

LGBTQ+ authors see school visits cancelled after 'complaints from parents'

Rachel Denwood announces first acquisition for new PRH children's imprint

Ebury makes a series of promotions in food

HarperCollins Children’s Books promotes Tom Bonnick to fiction publishing director

Edinburgh University Press appoints Graham Grant as head of sales

Good Evans! The Correspondent is number one with indies again

'No plans' to close University of Exeter's MA Publishing course despite humanities department cuts

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2026.07.17 Edition

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Editor's Comment:A federal structure is about the bond as well as the profit
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A chain of radical acts

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The barriers are holding firm

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Bringing British bookselling to Sicily

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Will an English indie approach work in a rural Italian town?

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Sarah Wynn-Williams, an author resident in the UK and published by a UK publisher, has been silenced for more than a year by a US court at the behest of a tech mega-corp, yet where is the outrage?

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A chain of radical acts

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The barriers are holding firm

by Daisy Griffiths

Bringing British bookselling to Sicily

by Mia McTigue-Rodriguez

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Herstory: female writers dominate the History Top 10

Back in the mists of time – or at least 2024 – sales of NielsenIQ BookData’s History & Military category hit record sales of £65.9m, but there is some mixed news for 2026 with the volume figure in History & Military slipping by 7.9%.

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The Secret of Secrets

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Heartstopper Volume 6

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The Winged Game

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My Husband's Wife

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The Divorce

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Dear Debbie

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Silent Bones

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Beautiful Ugly

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An Offer From a Gentleman

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When the Cranes Fly South

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The Housemaid

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Missing

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The Housemaid's Secret

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The Daughter

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It Could Have Been Her

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Project Hail Mary

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London Falling

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YA Book Prize 2026: Bea Fitzgerald discusses A Beautiful Evil

Bea Fitzgerald’s Greek myth re-imagining has been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2025.

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Books in the Media: Nicola Wilding's revealing memoir astounds

This week, family life comes under the microscope in fiction and non-fiction, while Ruthie Henshall’s memoir pulls back the curtain on her relationship with Prince Edward.

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Keep the faith: religious sales continue to ascend

At The Bookseller’s Marketing & Publicity Conference at the end of June, NielsenIQ’s Philip Stone highlighted the Bible category as being a small pocket within Non-Fiction that is experiencing something of a purple patch, and suggested that the growth of religious influencers on TikTok might be partially responsible.

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Books on BookTok: dystomance – the latest trend?

More than 27,200 videos on TikTok have used the hashtag #dystopianbooks equating to more than 150.2 million views while #dystopianbooktok has been viewed more than five million times. Will #dystomance be the new big trend?

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