Lethal Galbraith strikes Fear from the top spot

Robert Galbraith’s fourth Cormoran Strike title Lethal White has proved deadly to Bob Woodward’s Fear, striking the UK Official Top 50 number one spot in its first three days on sale. Read more

Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh moves to Jonathan Cape for latest title

Jonathan Cape has acquired a third book from writer and neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, author of the hugely successful Do No Harm and its follow-up Admissions, both published with Weidenfeld &... Read more

Three Pulitzer winners on the Cundill History shortlist

Three Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, Anne Applebaum, Ron Chernow and David I Kertzer, are vying for the Cundill History Prize, worth $75,000 (£57,000). Read more

Poole: 'We should be outraged at assault on libraries'

Nick Poole, c.e.o. of library and information association CILIP, has condemned recent library cuts as "a wholesale assault on a vital civic institution", in a... Read more
Parkin wins 'The Beekeeper of Aleppo' for Zaffre

Bonnier Books UK has won a six-publisher auction to publish The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a book by Christy Lefteri that Bonnier Books' m.d. of adult... Read more
FutureBook shortlists to be unveiled at Frankfurt event

The shortlists for this year’s FutureBook Awards are to be announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with Pan Macmillan managing director Anthony Forbes Watson to... Read more
Ridley's innovation investigation goes to 4th Estate

HarperCollins imprint 4th Estate will publish an investigation into innovation by science writer Matt Ridley. Read more
'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' to be translated into Scots

Itchy Coo, the Scots language imprint for children at Black & White Publishing, is translating Jeff Kinney’s bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid into Scots.... Read more
Stripes signs LGBTQ+ thriller by debut writer Darren Charlton

Little Tiger imprint Stripes Publishing has bought an LGBTQ+ YA thriller by debut author Darren Charlton. Read more

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Opinion

Finding the good place

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

Philip Jones asks whether Brexit could be beneficial for the book trade. Read more
Opening doors

Catherine Murphy Author at Stinging Fly
Levelling the field

Claire Malcolm Chief executive at New Writing North
Life after Waterstones

Philip Jones Editor at The Bookseller
The perfect Foyle?

Julia Kingsford Director at Kingsford Campbell & The Good Literary Agency