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Faber unveils Rooney cover designs

Faber has unveiled two cover designs for Sally Rooney's forthcoming novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, especially for indie bookshops, Waterstones and Easons.... Read more

NLT and PRH team up to review school library provision

The National Literacy Trust and Penguin Random House UK have launched a review into national primary school library provision. Read more

Fourth Estate and William Collins launch classics list

Fourth Estate and William Collins have introduced a modern classics list featuring titles from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Naomi Klein, Joan Didion and more.... Read more

Booker-winning Shuggie Bain shifts 500k copies globally

Douglas Stuart's Booker-winning novel Shuggie Bain (Picador) has now sold 500,000 copies in all formats globally, Pan Macmillan has said. Read more

Cho and Lawrence on 2021 Jhalak Prize shortlists

Literary agent Catherine Cho and poets Romalyn Ante and Rachel Long are on the shortlist for the 2021 Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer... Read more

Buster Books marks Earth Day with £50k charity donation

Buster Books, the children’s imprint of independent publisher Michael O’Mara Books, is marking Earth Day (22nd April) this year, by donating £50,000 to the Green... Read more

Doubleday Ireland wins Aldarra memoir in three-way auction

Doubleday Ireland has triumphed in a three-way auction for Suad Aldarra’s “powerful” memoir I Don’t Want To Talk About Home.... Read more

Farshore nets 'bone-chilling' YA thriller debut

Farshore has netted a “bone-chillingly atmospheric” YA thriller set in the Cajun setting of Deep South Louisiana, from debut author Ginny Myers Sain. Read more

Jeffs to tell medieval Britain's stories for riverrun

Quercus imprint riverrun will publish Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain from art historian Amy Jeffs in September 2021. Read more

Lanigan and Griffiths launch Weatherglass Books

Novelists Damian Lanigan and Neil Griffiths are launching a new small press, focusing on literary fiction. Read more

Janet Fillingham Associates rebrands to cement Weston partnership

Literary, directors' and composers' agency Janet Fillingham Associates is rebranding to Fillingham Weston Associates (FWA). Read more

Rathbones Folio loses £30k prize money to cyber scam as fraudsters target literary prizes

Publishing-related cyber scams have spiked in lockdown with the Rathbones Folio Prize losing £30,000 to an email fraudster, and at least three other awards targeted, The Bookseller can exclusively reveal. ... Read more

Booksellers ‘delighted’ with busy first day’s trading

Bookshops across the UK have said they experienced a successful first day back after lockdown, with booksellers reporting queues ahead of trading hours and consistent... Read more

Halls bags double Oscar's Book Prize nomination, as award rises to £10k

Smriti Halls has landed two nominations on the six-strong Oscar's Book Prize shortlist, which has doubled its prize money to £10,000 this year. Read more