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Good Evans! The Correspondent is number one with indies again

The Independent Bookshop Top 20 is once again topped by Virginia Evans’ The Correspondent, according to the latest data from NielsenIQ BookData.

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Brown-ing glory: The Secret of Secrets climbs to the top

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Octopus makes redundancies due to 'under-performance and changing market conditions'

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

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Keep the faith: religious sales continue to ascend

The British Book Awards

Nibbies Podcast | Chris Chibnall

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

YA Book Prize 2026: Ravena Guron discusses Mondays Are Murder

The Auzou Group acquires Gulf Stream Éditeur

Charlotte Heathcote to cover maternity leave as previewer for The Bookseller's New Titles: Fiction

Arcturus promotes Emilie Harris and Sarah Clayton to senior team

Cornerstone to launch PRH UK’s first inter-faith religion and spirituality imprint

US publishers file lawsuit against Google for 'training Gemini on copyrighted books'

Alice Blacker and Holly Tonks to jointly lead HarperCollins' picture book and heritage portfolio

1,600 Hachette staff volunteer for Raising Readers Day

YA Book Prize 2026: Bea Fitzgerald discusses A Beautiful Evil

Anthony Shapland and Mererid Hopwood win Wales Book of the Year 2026

RSL reveals 22 new fellows and six honorary fellows for 2026

Emma Jones to join Simon & Schuster Children’s

German book market records sales slip in 2025 for second year running

'Disastrous' new EU tariff deals 'significant blow' to publishers and bookshops

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Head of Sales, Asia & Middle East

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John Murray Press to publish Promise Me, America by Joe Biden

Piatkus to publish new Rebecca Yarros book set in Empyrean series

Sphere acquires autobiography of actor Will Mellor

Quercus to publish Matt Willis of Busted's memoir

Zaffre acquires standalone mystery from Lynda La Plante

Summersdale acquires Matt Avery's murder mystery puzzle book

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Today's News Stories

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

YA Book Prize 2026: Ravena Guron discusses Mondays Are Murder

The Auzou Group acquires Gulf Stream Éditeur

Charlotte Heathcote to cover maternity leave as previewer for The Bookseller's New Titles: Fiction

Arcturus promotes Emilie Harris and Sarah Clayton to senior team

Cornerstone to launch PRH UK’s first inter-faith religion and spirituality imprint

US publishers file lawsuit against Google for 'training Gemini on copyrighted books'

Brown-ing glory: The Secret of Secrets climbs to the top

Octopus makes redundancies due to 'under-performance and changing market conditions'

Alice Blacker and Holly Tonks to jointly lead HarperCollins' picture book and heritage portfolio

1,600 Hachette staff volunteer for Raising Readers Day

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Latest Issue

10th July 2026

In this week's issue:

Editor's Comment:It's time to lean in for the right to be heard
Author Profiles:Louise Kennedy and Julia Gray & Imogen Russell Williams
Non-Fiction Preview:October
Trade Interviews:Patrice Lawrence & Thangam Debbonaire

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

The barriers are holding firm

by Daisy Griffiths

In 2022 I wrote an anonymous piece on whether working-class access schemes were working. Here’s my view four years on.

Bringing British bookselling to Sicily

by Mia McTigue-Rodriguez

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

It’s time to lean in for the right to be heard

by Philip Jones

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?

The evolution of indie publishing

by John Bond and James Silver

Once seen as the book trade’s consolation prize, self-publishing is now its own thriving industry.

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Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

The barriers are holding firm

by Daisy Griffiths

In 2022 I wrote an anonymous piece on whether working-class access schemes were working. Here’s my view four years on.

Bringing British bookselling to Sicily

by Mia McTigue-Rodriguez

It’s time to lean in for the right to be heard

by Philip Jones

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Weekly print bestsellers from Nielsen BookScan. Other digital charts from Bookstat and Audible.

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Good Evans! The Correspondent is number one with indies again

The Independent Bookshop Top 20 is once again topped by Virginia Evans’ The Correspondent, according to the latest data from NielsenIQ BookData.

PrinteBookAudio

1

The Secret of Secrets

2

The Family Friend

3

The Correspondent

4

Heartstopper Volume 6

5

The Lure of Wolves and Whispers

6

The Winged Game

7

My Husband's Wife

8

Boleyn Traitor

9

The Divorce

10

The Names

1

Dear Debbie

2

Silent Bones

3

Beautiful Ugly

4

An Offer From a Gentleman

5

When the Cranes Fly South

6

The Housemaid

7

Missing

8

The Housemaid's Secret

9

The Daughter

10

Bridgerton: Daphne's Story

1

It Could Have Been Her

2

Dungeon Crawler Carl

3

Project Hail Mary

4

Yesteryear

5

London Falling

6

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

7

Regime Change

8

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

9

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

10

Careless People

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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?

Author Interviews

Julia Gray and Imogen Russell Williams on their Pride and Prejudice sequel for teens

The school friends-turned-writers chat about their upcoming collaboration: a teen sequel of Pride and Prejudice focused on the forgotten Bennet sisters, Kitty and Mary.

Author Interviews

Louise Kennedy’s second novel is a piercing tale of love, friendship and loss

The much-anticipated follow-up to Trespasses, Kennedy’s multi-award-winning debut, is surely a Booker contender.

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Books on Podcasts: Alice Oseman bids a bittersweet goodbye to Heartstopper

From the conclusion of a much-beloved series, to a novel 15 years in the making and insight from one of the reigning British crime writers, this week’s book podcasts are alight with conversation.

Author Interviews