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Books on BookTok: BookTok's impact on book buying

A recent report from Public First, with additional research from EY, found that in 2025 TikTok helped generate £175m in consumer spending on books and concluded that one in four 18–24-year-olds on TikTok bought a book after seeing it on the platform. This week, BookTok creators assessed whether the platform has encouraged people into indie bookshops.

News

Rebecca Perry's historical novel wins 2026 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize

Author Interviews

YA Book Prize 2026: Ravena Guron discusses Mondays Are Murder

Book News

Booksellers Association Group awards £33,000 to bookshops through community grants

Books on BookTok: BookTok's impact on book buying

Waterstones to open new bookshop in Brussels

Dan Conway calls for Amazon to be given strategic market status

Springer Nature launches new imprint

Founding editor of Microsoft's imprint 8080 Books takes voluntary retirement

Video

Check out these video highlights from the inaugural British Audio Awards - aka The Speakies

More Author Interviews

Holly Bourne talks about her new YA body horror thriller

Chloe Benjamin introduces her third novel, a speculative story about the possibility of another universe

YA Book Prize 2026: Bea Fitzgerald discusses A Beautiful Evil

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

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

Video

Check out these video highlights from the inaugural British Audio Awards - aka The Speakies

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Sensitivity: vandalism or restoration?

by Anonymous writer

How do we make a call on problematic language when the author is no longer alive?

Horace Bent: It’s all so quiet, so let the FBF party begin…

by Horace Bent

With Italy as the Guest of Honour this year, Horace, usually a reflective soul, arrives in Frankfurt in search of la dolce vita.

Horace Bent: So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye

by Horace Bent

Horace discovers that there are numerous exit strategies when it comes to making your way home from publishers’ parties.

Horace Bent: Karp navigates over the pond to spread the love

by Horace Bent

Simon & Schuster chief takes to the main stage at LBF to heap praise on his UK counterpart.

Horace Bent: spread the nerd—SFF set to conquer Olympia fair

by Horace Bent

This year’s London Book Fair, brought forward to avoid a clash with the Bologna children’s equivalent, has posed a dilemma for some agency bigwigs...

Sharing science for success

by Ritu Dhand & Harsh Jegadeesan

A regime incorporating inclusive science, where negative results can play an important role, can help advance outcomes—and it could also save researchers billions.

Horace Bent: Party-hopping Horace urges Hachette u-turn

by Horace Bent

In his final diary at this year’s fair, Horace Bent sampled the hospitality at a trio of parties—only ejected from one—and issues a plea for FBF 2024…

Horace Bent: Malaviya settles in as Bent ponders Diagram

by Horace Bent

Penguin Random House’s new chief had a jovial chat at yesterday’s fair, but Horace only had the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title on his mind.

Latest Previews

Non-fiction Previews

With titles from David Byrne and Judi Dench, October’s is a starry line-up – but there is more to enjoy beneath the showbiz glow.

by Caroline Sanderson

Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up

David Byrne

Peck & Peck

Bonnie Garmus

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Cory Doctorow

And Then We Screamed

Holly Bourne

The Great Dictator: A Life of Barbara Cartland

Matthew Sweet

Stations

Louise Kennedy

Into Thin Air

SE Durrant

How to Kill a Crime Writer

Sarah Lotz

Great and Unfortunate Things

Jason Arday

Paperback Previews

by Will Smith

Discover Previews

by Natasha Onwuemezi

Fiction Previews

by Madeleine Feeny

Children's Previews

by Caroline Carpenter

Latest Issue

17th July 2026

In this week's issue:

Editor's Comment:A federal structure is about the bond as well as the profit
Author Profiles:Holly Bourne & Chloe Benjamin
Children's Preview:October

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