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
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
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
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
In May 2019, Manchester-born writer and journalist Anita Sethi was on a TransPennine train from Liverpool to Newcastle when she became the victim of a... Read more
"Everything in Popisho was born with a little something-something... a little something extra. The local name was cors. Magic, but more than magic. A gift,... Read more