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Better the Devil you know: Richard Osman strikes again

The paperback edition of The Last Devil to Die continues to fly and a subscription box boosts another début author into the upper echelons of the chart first go.

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MACK to partner with film and TV production company A24 on a series of screenplay books

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Zoe Berville will not return to Transworld following parental leave

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The Works looks to achieve stable growth after year of 'considerable change'

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Comma Press and PEN International condemn Selahattin Demirtaş prison sentence

The British Book Awards

Sounded.com mixes real narrator with digital voice for hybrid first

Helena Sutcliffe joins New River Books as editorial director

David Greig and Alan Warner make Highland Book Prize shortlist

Susannah Palfrey and Russell McLean join Bonnier Books UK's children's trade team

Emma Grundy Haigh joins Avon as editorial director

Windham-Campbell Prizes announces new podcast series with Lit Hub

Queen’s Reading Room Podcast returns featuring Kate Mosse and Neil Gaiman

Labour MP Dawn Butler pulls out of Hay Festival amid Baillie Gifford controversy

Penguin Business and Penguin Life to merge with immediate effect

Niamh Murray named marketing and communities director at Thames & Hudson

Philip Contos promoted to deputy publisher of Laurence King Publishing

Maddalena Cavaciuti promoted to agent at David Higham Associates

James Pulford trades Atlantic for Hutchinson Heinemann

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Jobs in Books

Bloomsbury are looking to recruit an individual with proven account handling experience to join in our fast-paced adult sales team supporting an area of the Adult Key Accounts including specific customer responsibilities and ownership of some broader sales team tasks.

Rights Report

Legend Press scoops director Guy Jenkin’s debut novel

Canongate nabs James Canton’s guide to rewilding

Renegade signs broadcaster Charlene White’s exploration of home

Bloomsbury buys Kate Summerscale title on the Rillington Place murders

Canongate scores Neil Atkinson’s book on Jürgen Klopp and Liverpool FC

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Today's News Stories

Sounded.com mixes real narrator with digital voice for hybrid first

Better the Devil you know: Richard Osman strikes again

MACK to partner with film and TV production company A24 on a series of screenplay books

Zoe Berville will not return to Transworld following parental leave

The Works looks to achieve stable growth after year of 'considerable change'

David Greig and Alan Warner make Highland Book Prize shortlist

Comma Press and PEN International condemn Selahattin Demirtaş prison sentence

Helena Sutcliffe joins New River Books as editorial director

Susannah Palfrey and Russell McLean join Bonnier Books UK's children's trade team

Emma Grundy Haigh joins Avon as editorial director

Windham-Campbell Prizes announces new podcast series with Lit Hub

Queen’s Reading Room Podcast returns featuring Kate Mosse and Neil Gaiman

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Latest Issue

17th May 2024

In this week's issue:

Lead Story: Country Focus Scotland
Author Profile: Stuart Murdoch
Author Profile:Jenny Colgan
Children’s Previews: August
Category Spotlight:Scotland

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Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

It’s a kind of Murdle

by Philip Jones

As the Nibbies evinced, publishing – as a business and a collective – should embrace the celebratory and acknowledge that we all live within a wider cultural context.

Reverse scouting

by Christopher Norris

People in publishing should attend film and TV marketplaces. Here are nine reasons why.

Turning anger into action

by Gayle Feldman

The Association of American Publishers’ a.g.m. raised calls for urgent action on AI.

The perfect pairing

by Chris McCabe

Accessible, inspiring and original, poetry comics are a gift to readers and publishers alike.

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Comment

Opinion from The Bookseller and other columnists

It’s a kind of Murdle

by Philip Jones

As the Nibbies evinced, publishing – as a business and a collective – should embrace the celebratory and acknowledge that we all live within a wider cultural context.

Reverse scouting

by Christopher Norris

Turning anger into action

by Gayle Feldman

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Bestsellers

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Weekly print bestsellers based on data supplied by Nielsen BookScan. Other digital charts from Bookstat and Audible.

Bestsellers

Better the Devil you know: Richard Osman strikes again

The paperback edition of The Last Devil to Die continues to fly and a subscription box boosts another début author into the upper echelons of the chart first go.

PrinteBookAudio

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The Last Devil To Die

2

Yellowface

3

Someone Else’s Shoes

4

Ultra-Processed People

5

The Honey Witch

6

The Bee Sting

7

The Golden Library

8

How to Eat 30 Plants a Week

9

Stop Them Dead

10

So Good

1

His and Hers

2

The Cairn

3

Lion & Lamb

4

The Wrong Daughter

5

Every Move You Make

6

Never

7

Panic

8

Go as a River

9

All Good Things

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The Secret Beach

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2

My Favourite Mistake

3

The Vanishing of Margaret Small

4

Labyrinth

5

Atomic Habits

6

Rebel Rising

7

Ultra-Processed People

8

None of This Is True

9

Unstressable

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The Thursday Murder Club

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Books in the Media: a triumph for non-fiction

This week non-fiction triumphed as Mick Conefrey’s latest book met praise among critics while Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 (Chatto & Windus) was picked in the Spectator.