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Bradford Literature Festival sees record number of visitors

Bradford Literature Festival hit a record-high number of attendees this year with more than 200,000 visitors across the 10-day event.

Editor's Letter

A federal structure is about the bond as well as the profit

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

Bestsellers

Herstory: female writers dominate the History Top 10

Features

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

The British Book Awards

Nibbies Podcast | Chris Chibnall

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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

Penguin Random House staff volunteer for National Year of Reading

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

Matt Haig to open bookshop in Brighton

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

Margaret MacMillan wins PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for Peacemakers

Forward Prizes for Poetry 2026 shortlists announced

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

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Head of Sales, Asia & Middle East

An exciting opportunity has become available in Pan Macmillan’s sales team! We are looking for a Head of Sales to drive the growth, commercial strategy, and reach of Pan Macmillan’s outstanding publishing list across these dynamic international markets.

Rights Report

Jacaranda acquires Jackson King's debut

Chatto & Windus to publish Edmund de Waal’s new book

Pavilion to publish new interactive mystery puzzle book

Rock the Boat to publish OO Sangoyomi's YA debut

Little Island to publish Deirde Sullivan’s picture book

PMJ reveals latest reissued novels for Mermaid Collection

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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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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

A sovereign state of mind

by David Cairns

Why even a queen should reconsider science fiction.

A federal structure is about the bond as well as the profit

by Philip Jones

As the headwinds that swirl around book publishing remain strong, portfolio publishing does not always work as recent redundancies at Hachette division, Octopus, evince.

A chain of radical acts

by Elizabeth Day

Why I’m launching Big Day Books, and why marketers matter so much.

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.

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Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

A sovereign state of mind

by David Cairns

Why even a queen should reconsider science fiction.

A federal structure is about the bond as well as the profit

by Philip Jones

A chain of radical acts

by Elizabeth Day

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Bestsellers

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

Bestsellers

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%.

PrinteBookAudio

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The Secret of Secrets

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The Family Friend

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The Correspondent

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Heartstopper Volume 6

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The Lure of Wolves and Whispers

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The Winged Game

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My Husband's Wife

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Boleyn Traitor

9

The Divorce

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The Names

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Dear Debbie

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Silent Bones

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Beautiful Ugly

4

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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Bridgerton: Daphne's Story

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It Could Have Been Her

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Dungeon Crawler Carl

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Project Hail Mary

4

Yesteryear

5

London Falling

6

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

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Regime Change

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Careless People

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Authors interviews, news and book previews

Author Interviews

Holly Bourne talks about her new YA body horror thriller

Taking inspiration from real-life reports, Holly Bourne changes direction in her latest YA novel, And Then We Screamed, which confronts the horrors facing teenage girls.