Sandon and Cable depart PRH, Butterfield and Telfer step up

Cornerstone m.d. Susan Sandon and Vintage m.d. Richard Cable are to step down from their positions and leave Penguin Random House at the end of this year. Read more

Osman is fastest out of the gate in books' bumper week

Richard Osman's first fiction title has risen to the top of last week's jam-packed publication schedule to become by far the fastest selling debut crime novel since BookScan records began... Read more

Amazon corporation tax nudges up 3% as profits soar

Amazon UK Services paid £14.5m in corporation tax last year, up around 3% from £14m the year before, as profits rocketed. Read more

Women's Prize scooped by O'Farrell for 'exceptional' Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell has won the Women's Prize for Fiction with her “exceptional” novel Hamnet (Tinder Press), inspired by the life and death of Shakespeare’s only son.... Read more
Hyder and Odedina win Branford Boase Award

Liz Hyder has won this year's Branford Boase Award for her "outstanding" children's debut novel, Bearmouth, sharing the prize with her editor Sarah Odedina, who is editor-at-large at... Read more
Faber to release special editions of Ishiguro's latest novel for indies and Waterstones

Faber is to release two special editions of Kazuo Ishiguro's lastest novel, Klara and the Sun, which will be published next spring, tailored for Waterstones and for independent bookshops.... Read more
Springer Nature to expand content-sharing partnership with ResearchGate

http://ttps://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/landing/discoverability-visibility-accessArticles from all Springer Nature-owned journals will now be syndicated to academic-networking site ResearchGate, following "positive" feedback from the pilot phases, the publisher has announced.... Read more
Harvill Secker scoops 'addictive' debut in five-way auction

Harvill Secker has triumphed in a five-way auction for agent Rachel Yoder’s debut Nightbitch, billed as a “transgressive” novel on modern motherhood.... Read more
Egmont gets quadruple helping of books from Matt Lucas

Egmont Books has landed four more books from Matt Lucas, including his first joke book to be published on 1st October 2020. Read more

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Opinion

Libraries need change from the top

Tim Coates Library campaigner

Autumn brings cheerful news of good footfall in bookshops, but we do not hear the same bells ringing for public libraries. Last week Libraries Connected, the government-funded... Read more
The art of the normal

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What do we actually know about British readers?

Jared Shurin at M&C Saatchi’s Social Impact Practice

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Author Interviews

Stevie Davis | 'I’ve drawn on every place and era that I have inhabited for my fiction'

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Sasha Swire | 'I just want it to stand as a portrait of a political decade'

The hilarious and insightful diaries of Sasha Swire provide a laser-sharp view of British politics over the past decade Read more
Jasbinder Bilan | 'There’s so much inequality in this country for children; magical stories can give them real hope and open up possibilities'

Costa Children’s Book of the Year winner Jasbinder Bilan follows up her spectacular début with a novel about identity, tinged with the magical.... Read more
Richard Ovenden | 'I wanted to get across why [libraries] are so important for society'

The 25th Bodley’s Librarian, Richard Ovenden, makes the case for libraries as vital arbiters of history and guardians of rights in his stirring first book... Read more

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The Official UK CHART

1.
The Thursday Murder Club

by Richard Osman
2.
Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed.

by Chris Ramsey & Rosie Ramsey
3.
Once Upon A Tyne

by Anthony McPartlin & Declan Donnelly
4.
7 Ways

by Jamie Oliver
5.
Pinch of Nom Food Planner: Everyday Light

by Kay Featherstone, Catherine Allinson & Laura Davies
6.
The Testaments

by Margaret Atwood
7.
Zero Negativity

by Ant Middleton
8.
Those Who Are Loved

by Victoria Hislop
9.
Ottolenghi FLAVOUR

by Yotam Ottolenghi & Ixta Belfrage
10.
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse

by Charlie Mackesy