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NEWS Bestseller charts: The sun rises once again for Suzanne Collins The latest instalment in the Hunger Games series has returned to the top of the Official UK Top 50, according to the latest data from Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM).

NEWS MPs argue that AI text and data-mining exemption lacks effective ‘opt-out’

NEWS Branford Boase Award shortlist features 'refreshingly different' stories

NEWS Isabel Allende's editor corrects 'offensive' outdated references for new YA editions

BOOKS Books on Podcasts: listen to Jack Fairweather, Xialou Guo and Abigail Dean

NEWS Jackie Kay to lead free literacy crisis conference

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UK Support Specialist As Libro FM expand our offerings and partnerships internationally, we are thrilled to add an additional Support Specialist to the team. In order to best support our growing base of customers and partners, the person in this position must be fluent in English and French. READ MORE

RIGHTS Gillian Anderson calls for ‘even more daring’ sexual fantasies in follow-up with Bloomsbury

NEWS Reading Agency’s research reveals 'growing reading crisis' with half of adults put off by distractions

RIGHTS Faber to publish Irina Dumitrescu’s 'deeply mesmerising' account of medieval lives

RIGHTS Gollancz snaps up three-book deal from 'gifted' fantasy author JT Greathouse

NEWS Whitefox collaborates with Sarah Dunant on ‘bold’ history of Marchesa Isabella d'Este

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NEWS The Bookseller launches the New Adult Book Prize to celebrate one of the fastest growing areas of fiction Today The Bookseller announces the launch of the New Adult Book Prize, an award which celebrates one of the fastest growing areas of fiction publishing that is powered by one of the most enthusiastic cohort of readers.

BOOKS Books in the Media: a new offering from Sayaka Murata makes an impact

NEWS Publishers’ Licensing Services and Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society create ‘pioneering’ AI licence

RIGHTS Doubleday wins three-way auction for Eliana Ramage’s ‘expansive coming-of-age’ debut

PODCASTS Saara El-Arifi and Hafsah Faizal | Nibbies Podcast

NEWS Publishers Association's Dan Conway condemns tech's ‘teenage demands’ ahead of government debate

Job of the Week

UK Support Specialist As Libro FM expand our offerings and partnerships internationally, we are thrilled to add an additional Support Specialist to the team. In order to best support our growing base of customers and partners, the person in this position must be fluent in English and French. READ MORE

NEWS Faber hosts annual open day for young people from the North

RIGHTS Hodder & Stoughton snaps up 'hauntingly atmospheric' contemporary Gothic horror by Daisy Stephens

RIGHTS Titan Books signs Ally Wilkes’ jungle-set historical horror

NEWS Peter Serafinowicz and Ambika Mod star in films of International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist

RIGHTS Daphne Press signs Sydney Olivia’s 'exhilarating' fantasy novel

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This week's most read stories

Books 'exempt from US tariffs' – but booksellers and distributors still anticipate 'major supply chain issues' READ MORE

Meta's 'fair use' defence for 'training AI with published books won't work' in UK, says PA READ MORE

Indie publishers enjoy full sweep of 2025 International Booker shortlist for first time ever READ MORE

Adolescence raises questions around the role of books READ MORE

OwlCrate launches indie publisher OwlCrate Press to 'fix a broken industry' READ MORE

'Publishing people are good people' READ MORE

Romantic Novel of the Year Awards shortlist announced READ MORE

Books on BookTok: are dark romance book covers misleading? READ MORE

Harvill Secker rebrands to focus on fiction READ MORE

'Get the Zuck off our books': Authors call for inquiry into Meta over 'pirated books being used to train AI' READ MORE

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NEWS BookTok, romantasy and follower counts: are future bestselling authors all going to be TikTok stars? With TikTok’s ever-growing dominance, the line between influencer and creator is becoming increasingly blurred.

OBITUARIES Award-winning author Peter Lovesey dies aged 88

NEWS World of Books launches £15k Sustainable Story Award

NEWS Jhalak Prize 2025 shortlists revealed as founder hails work ‘full of love, hope and joy'

COMMENT Liberate your canons

NEWS Paradigm Publishing Services and Princeton University Press partner on new ‘Einstein database’

RIGHTS Terry Pratchett’s Discworld to be launched as graphic-novel series by Transworld and Puffin

Job of the Week

UK Support Specialist As Libro FM expand our offerings and partnerships internationally, we are thrilled to add an additional Support Specialist to the team. In order to best support our growing base of customers and partners, the person in this position must be fluent in English and French. READ MORE

PODCASTS Spudman aka Ben Newman and Chris Haughton | Nibbies Podcast

RIGHTS 4th Estate snaps up Camille Charriere’s debut memoir in 24-hour pre-empt

RIGHTS Puffin signs two picture books by WriteNow graduate Lucy Tandon Copp

RIGHTS Cheerio Publishing, Desperate Literature and Brick Lane Bookshop collaborate on new anthology

RIGHTS Tiny Tree Books signs Mario Ambrosi’s middle-grade mystery in open submission

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